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The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is a United States-based nonprofit that seeks to educate the public about diabetes and to help those affected by it through funding research to manage, cure and prevent diabetes, including type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes. It is a network of 565,000 volunteers which ...
The American Dental Association (ADA) is an American professional association established in 1859 which has more than 159,000 members. Based in the American Dental Association Building in the Near North Side of Chicago, [8] the ADA is the world's largest and oldest national dental association. The organization lobbies on behalf of the American ...
Ada Sophia Dennison McKinley (June 26, 1868 – August 25, 1952) [1] was an American educator, settlement house worker, and activist in Chicago, Illinois.She founded the South Side Settlement House, later renamed in her honor as Ada S. McKinley Community Services.
Under Title III of the ADA, all new construction (construction, modification or alterations) after the effective date of the ADA (approximately July 1992) must be fully compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) [13] found in the Code of Federal Regulations at 28 C.F.R., Part 36, Appendix A.
The daughter of Dr. Sidney Sawyer and the former Elizabeth Butterfield, Ada was a popular society debutante. She married T. Mauro Garrett, a railroad official. She and her mother subdivided 80 acres (320,000 m 2 ) of land on the Northwest Side of Chicago that had been purchased by Ada's grandfather, attorney Justin Butterfield , to create Logan ...
Ada Programming Support Environment or APSE, was a specification for a programming environment to support software development in the Ada programming language.This represented the second stage of the U.S. military Ada project; once the language was implemented, it was felt necessary to specify and implement a standard set of tools, hence the APSE.
Ida Noyes Hall is a three-story, Neo-Gothic building located on the University of Chicago campus in Chicago, Illinois. Designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and completed in 1916, the building features fireplaces, a limestone exterior, intricately plastered ceilings, and elaborate wood paneling.
Ada Charlotte Mackenzie (October 30, 1891 – January 25, 1973) was a Canadian golfer who founded the Ladies Golf Club of Toronto in 1924. In 1933, Mackenzie was the second athlete chosen as The Canadian Press outstanding female athlete of the year . [ 1 ]