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Begun in 1984, the BRFSS is run by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and conducted by participating individual state health departments. The survey is administered by telephone and is the world's largest such survey. In 2009, the BRFSS began conducting surveys by cellular phone in addition to traditional “landline” telephones.
ringer equivalency number SMS: Short Message Service (i.e. text messages) SF: Single Frequency supervision tone : US SIP: Session Initiation Protocol: US SP Lock: Unlocking: UK SS7: Signaling System 7 STD: Subscriber trunk dialling: UK and India T-CXR: T-carrier (e.g. T-1) US TAPI: Telephony Application Programming Interface TR: Tip and ring ...
Block the number: Use your phone's built-in blocking features to prevent further contact. For iPhone: Open the message , tap the sender's name or number , select "Info ," then " Block Caller ."
Texting "HELP" to a short code causes the short code service to return a message with terms and conditions, support information — consisting of either a toll-free phone number or email address at a minimum — and other information from the leaseholder of the short code.
BRFSS – (p) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ("burf-us", a CDC health survey covering the U.S. and its territories) BRI (i) Bathroom Readers Institute (publishers of series of "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers" books) Belt and Road Initiative (China-led Asian transport initiative) BRIC – (a) Brazil, Russia, India and China
Here’s a roundup of the texting abbreviations that confused Floridians the most in this study and a list of what some popular TikTok slang words mean. What does NSFW mean on social media?
pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words). (a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome (i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
The official toll-free hotline for the California Department of Transportation's Adopt-a-Highway program is 1-866-236-7824, but signs advertise the number as 1-866-ADOPTAHWY, with two extra digits, for memorability. The letters have also been used, mainly in the United States, as a technique for remembering telephone numbers easily.