Significations et usages de ISA

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Isa may refer to:

Places:

• Isa, Nigeria, a local government area in Sokoto State
• Mount Isa, Queensland, a city in northwest Queensland, Australia
• Isa, Kagoshima, a planned city in Japan
• Isa District, Kagoshima, a district in Japan scheduled to dissolve when the City of Isa opens

Other:

• Isa Miranda, Italian actress
• Isa Moskowitz, Host of The Post Punk Kitchen, Vegan Cookbook Author and Activist
• īśa upaniṣad, A Hindu religious text
• Isa (album), a 2004 album by Enslaved
• Isa (dance), a local variation of a Jota
• Isa (moth), a moth genus
• Isa (name), a common Muslim name and also a shortened form of the Montenegrins name Isailo
• Isa, a prophet in the Quran who is generally taken as an expression for Jesus in Islam
• Isa the iguana, a character in Dora the Explorer

ISA is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:

Computing:

• Industry Standard Architecture, an I/O bus standard for IBM-compatible PC motherboards
• Instruction set architecture, the complete specification of the interface between computer programs that have been written and the underlying computer hardware that carries out the actual work
• Information Security Architecture, a buzzword variant for information security
• ISA platform ("NOS"), an operating system software for Nokia mobile telephones
• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, a Microsoft server product
• International Society of Automation, formerly the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society, a professional organization for instrument engineers
• Isa (computer science), a relationship between objects; for instance, an apple tree "is a" tree

Engineering:

• Instrument Society of America, now called the International Society of Automation, is a non-profit technical society for engineers, technicians, businessmen, educators and students, who work, study or are interested in industrial automation and pursuits related to it

Chemistry:

• Internal sulfate attack, a endogenous process degrading concrete, by contrast to External sulfate attack
• Isosaccharinic acid, a product of degradation of cellulose at high pH, strongly complexing some actinides in radioactive waste conditioned in cement

Health - Pharmacology:

• Intrinsic sympathomimetic activity (also called Intrinsic sympatheticomimetic activity), a relative descriptive term relating the activity of a partial agonist

Politics:

• International Seabed Authority, an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica established to organize and control all mineral-related activities in international seabed areas
• International Searching Authority, a patent office performing prior art searches during the prosecution of international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
• Internal Security Act (disambiguation), laws that enable the executive government of a jurisdiction to preserve the internal security of the nation
• Ideological State Apparatus, a term used by Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser for how society reshapes the individual in its own image

Aviation and Space exploration:

• International Standard Atmosphere, a tabulation with altitude of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, viscosity, etc., appropriate to mid latitudes, released by the ICAO
• Iranian Space Agency, Iran's governmental space agency
• Israel Space Agency, Israel's governmental space agency
• Italian Space Agency, Italy's governmental space agency

Education:

• Independent Schools Association (Australia), a grouping of schools primarily based in Sydney, Australia, for the purposes of sporting competitions
• Independent Schools Association (UK), one of the oldest of the independent schools’ organisations in the UK. The association is a constituent association of the Independent Schools Council
• Iniciativa de Salud de las Americas, the Spanish name of the immigration advocacy group at UC Berkeley, Health Initiative of the Americas
• Institute for the Study of the Americas, a research institute associated with the University of London's School of Advanced Study
• Instituto Superior de Agronomia, an agronomy faculty in Lisbon, Portugal
• Instituto Superior de Arte an art school in Havana, Cuba
• Intensive Support Amount a component of education funding in Ontario 1998-2005, worth $12,000 (level 2) or $27,000 (Level 3) per year, per claimed pupil supposedly to fund one-on-one support; claims doubled to about C$1 billion between 2002 and 2004
• International School Amsterdam, an international school in the Netherlands
• International School of Aleppo, the only international school in Syria and it's located in Aleppo city
• International School of Arizona, a not-for-profit school located in Scottsdale, Arizona
• International School of Athens International Baccalaureate educational school in Athens, Greece
• International School of the Americas, a magnet school located in San Antonio, Texas
• International Studies Association, an association of political science and international relations scholars
• Investigative Skills Assessment, part of some GCSE Science Syllabii
• Investigative Skills Assignments, an exam in an AQA GCSE Science course

Finance:

• International Standards on Auditing, professional standards for the performance of audits of financial information
• Individual Savings Account, a financial account for investment in the UK with special tax rules
• Israel Securities Authority, the Israeli regulator of financial and stock market

Other:

• Independent Safety Assessor
• Intelligent speed adaptation
• Information System Audit
• Intelligence Support Activity, a special operations unit of the U.S. Army
• Infectious salmon anemia, a viral disease of salmon
• Institut de Sélection Animale, a poultry breeding company based in Saint–Brieuc, France
• ISA (Days of our Lives), a fictional spy agency on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives
• International Shakespeare Association, an international academic association based in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
• International Sign Association, a trade-organization of sign producers
• International Society of Arboriculture, a non-profit botanical organization
• International Sociological Association, a non-profit organization in the fields of sociology and the social sciences
• International Standard Atmosphere, a definition of pressure, temperature, humidity and so forth, under the SI convention
• Interplanetary Strategic Alliance, an alliance in the video games Killzone, Killzone: Liberation, and Killzone 2
• International Symbol of Access, an image of a stylized person in a wheelchair against a blue background, meant to designate handicap accessibility at a glance
• Interstellar Alliance, an alliance in Babylon 5 to fight the Shadows
• Irish Sailing Association, the governing body for sailing in Ireland
• Independent safety assessment, a type of safety audit
• Independent Safeguarding Authority, a body created in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to help prevent those who pose a known risk from working with children and vulnerable adults
• Grupo ISA, a Colombian utility
• ISA (company), a Portuguese company specialized in telemetry and M2M (Machine to Machine) communications

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