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AST

abbr.
1. Alaska Standard Time
2. Sports assist
3. Atlantic Standard Time
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AST

abbreviation for
1. (Units) Atlantic Standard Time
2. (Stock Exchange) automated screen trading (in securities)
3. (Education) education Brit advanced skills teacher
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AST

or A.S.T.,

Atlantic Standard Time.

-ast

var. of -ist after -i-: symposiast.
[< Greek -astēs]
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"Well, den, I'se come to ast yo' whut I'd bettah take wif me.
Now I want to ast you: what's de use er dat half a bill?
A witch enchanted Bruno d'Ast; he had her burned, and was cured.
"I thought that I should be cured like Bruno d'Ast. I also had a confused idea that a trial would deliver you into my hands; that, as a prisoner I should hold you, I should have you; that there you could not escape from me; that you had already possessed me a sufficiently long time to give me the right to possess you in my turn.
The l ast hours of her life in that house were at hand.
Actually, the 2 invoked hypotheses on the nature of ASTs deserve to be accurately examined, because they open 2 very different scenarios.
During the transpetrosal-presigmoid approach, accurate determination of the surface projection of the anterosuperior point of the transverse-sigmoid sinus junction (ASTS) is particularly important when trying to expose sigmoid sinus safely.[sup][1],[2],[3] Traditionally, neurosurgeons have regarded the squamosal-parietomastoid suture junction (SP) as the classic landmark to determine the ASTS.[sup][4],[5],[6] However, the cranial sutures of some patients, especially the elderly, have been reported to be not obviously recognizable and palpable in craniotomy.[sup][7],[8] These variations make it difficult to confirm the SP during operations.
Tilney participated in the ASTS Chimera Chronicles video project, and his interview will be available on www.asts.org later this year.
However, USTs are considered safer than ASTs. In fact, the STI reports that fire officials are almost unanimous in their opinion that the safest place to store fuel--from a fire safety standpoint--is underground.
The transplant community was supportive of the goal of developing new guidelines and ASTS, AST, AOPO and NATCO each had an official representative on the Review Committee that provided his/her time and expertise toward this effort.
He is a member of both the AST and the ASTS and has participated in both organizations throughout his career and currently serves on the AST Board and the AST/ASTS Joint Council.