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APC
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APC
(1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. Although created to develop solar electricity, the company introduced its first UPS system three years later as government funding for solar energy dissipated.

(2) (Application Performance Characterization) A graphics benchmark that tests actual application performance. See GPC.
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APC
On drawings, abbr. for “acoustical plaster ceiling.”

APC - Association for Progressive Communications


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Mutations in the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) gene are the critical initiating step in most cases of FAP and sporadic cancers.
Using Indivumed's highly standardized biobank, the researchers found elevated levels of mutated adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene in the plasma of patients with advanced stage colorectal cancers.
4) It is proposed that the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene is lost or mutated early in this process in normal epithelium, leading to hyperproliferative epithehum in the intestine.
 
 
 
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