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Acronym	Definition
DIF	Droit Individuel à la Formation (French: Individual Right to Training)
DIF	Difference
DIF	Deposit Insurance Fund (US FDIC)
DIF	Differential Item Functioning
DIF	Desarrollo Integral de La Familia (Mexico)
DIF	Directory Interchange Format
DIF	Danmarks Idræts-Forbund (Denmark)
DIF	Deutsches Filminstitut (German Film Institute)
DIF	Die in Fire
DIF	Data Integrity Field
DIF	Data Interchange Format
DIF	Decimation in Frequency (algorithm)
DIF	Data Interface Facility
DIF	Digital Interface
DIF	Differential Item
DIF	Device Input Format
DIF	Dublin Irish Festival (Dublin, OH)
DIF	Direct Immunofluorescence
DIF	Document Interchange Format
DIF	Display Interface
DIF	Destroy in Field (retail)
DIF	Development Impact Fee (public finance)
DIF	District Improvement Financing
DIF	Dorsal-Related Immunity Factor (genetics)
DIF	Directory Interoperability Forum (IBM, Lotus, Novell, Oracle, et al)
DIF	Data Integration Framework (information management)
DIF	Delaware Innovation Fund (est. 1995)
DIF	Death in Family
DIF	Discriminant Index Function
DIF	Drug Information Fulltext (database)
DIF	Djurgårdens Idrottsförening (Swedish soccer and ice hockey club)
DIF	Djurgårdens Idrottsförening (Swedish sport team)
DIF	Difficulty, Importance, Frequency (performance assessment)
DIF	Discovery Informatics Framework
DIF	Diabetes Institutes Foundation (Norfolk, VA)
DIF	Drill-In Fluids
DIF	Display Information Facility (IBM, S/38)
DIF	Digital Interface Frame
DIF	Differential White Blood Cell Count
DIF	Data Interface Format
DIF	Discriminant Inventory Function (IRS)
DIF	Dear Little Friend (fictional, Prince Caspian -Trumpkin the dwarf)
DIF	Data Interchange Facility
DIF	Direct Immune Fluorescence
DIF	Deterministic, Irreducible Finite-State (transition diagram)
DIF	Developmental Integration Facility
DIF	Diagnostic Importance Factor
DIF	DMERC (Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier) Information Form (Medicare billing)

References in periodicals archive

Chapter 1, "Knowing Work Through the Communication of Difference: A Revised Agenda for Difference Studies" by Karen Lee Ashcraft begins with an alternative conceptualization of difference.

Mumby, Dennis K. (Ed.): Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies: Re-search, Pedagogy, Practice

[less than or equal to] 1 in 20, P [less than or equal to] 0.05), the null hypothesis is rejected, which supports the complementary hypothesis that there is a true difference between the groups.

Errors in the interpretation of 'no statistically significant difference'

Difference qualifies as one of the most important fundamental undefined terms in the non-aristotelian worldview that Alfred Korzybski delineated.

A difference that makes a difference

This question is at the core of the distinction between traditional Managing Diversity and the new Leveraging Difference. Table 1 offers a more refined picture of what distinguishes the two ways of looking at diversity.

The end of diversity as we know it: why diversity efforts fail and how leveraging difference can succeed

Take part in the Community Service Volunteers' Make a Difference Day this year and make where you live a happier, more welcoming place.

You can make a real difference; Views of the North

Neuroscientists who do the research know that one study with 20-odd participants that finds some small region of difference between males and females is not the final word on the issue, but these often subtle, questionable differences are readily seized on by popular writers, Fine said.

Sex differences in the brain 'exaggerated, forcing gender stereotypes'

where a voluntary/community group has made a real difference for young people

Chance to nominate a local hero

"It's seeing both equality and difference, and seeing that difference as positive," says Laura Garcia.

Redesigning women: is the church's 'new feminism' a good fit?

McGlone, working with Joshua Aronson of New York University, set out to test whether the gender difference in spatial reasoning can be eliminated or reduced.

Encouraging science

There was also a statistically significant difference between the likelihood that high-achievers would fulfill their self-regulated goals in the face of a challenging assignment and the rate of follow-through among students who failed to score at the 75th percentile of the class on course examinations.

Epistemology, self-regulation and challenge

In his October 11 speech about the economy and the budget, Bush boasted that "the difference is because we have a growing economy, and the difference is because we've been wise about spending your money."

Demopublicans vs. Republicrats: despite the notion that an ideological chasm separates the national Republican and Democratic parties, the record shows that there is little difference between the two

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