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AMS

1 American  
  1. Agricultural Marketing Service.


A.M.S. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Army Medical Staff.


AMS British  

abbreviation

  1. Additional Member System: a voting system in which some candidates are elected for geographic constituencies and others are elected by proportional representation using party lists. The voter has two votes: one for a party and the other for a candidate in a constituency

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The chapter has also received support from various scientific societies including the American Meteorological Society, which defended the chapter as “consistent with all other comprehensive, robust, and rigorous assessments of the science” with which AMS is familiar.

From The Wall Street Journal

Every other professor was happy with their yes, sirs and no, ma’ams, but Green had never been impressed with me.

From Literature

At least one of their former AMs is hoping to become a Reform MS - Caroline Jones.

From BBC

They live in the lung's alveoli, the tiny air sacs where oxygen passes into the bloodstream -- but, as Rothchild has shown in a previous paper, AMs don't mount a robust immune response when they're initially infected by Mtb.

From Science Daily

"What if the AMs responded more effectively to Mtb? How could we change the body's innate immune response? Studies over the last 10 years or so have demonstrated that the innate immune system is capable of undergoing long-term changes, but we are only beginning to understand the underlying mechanisms behind them."

From Science Daily