Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
- Services
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Unique, specific and limited function performed at the procurement of another and for the benefit of or on behalf of a specific party, usually the other…
 - SF
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Standard Form
 - SF424
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Standard Form 424 (used with Federal applications)
 - SFI
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Significant Financial Interest
 - SFR
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School of Forest Resources
 - SHMC
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Swedish Hospital and Medical Center
 - short form consent process
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This is an alternative method of obtaining and documenting consent, when a researcher occasionally and unexpectedly encounters a non-English-speaking subject in a study for which no…
 - SIBCR
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Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research
 - significant financial interest
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Refers to financial interests related to the institutional responsibilities of an investigator that meet certain criteria, as defined in GIM 10. Financial interest means anything of…
 - Significant Military Equipment SME
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22 CFR 120.7; 22 USC 2794(9) Articles for which special export controls are warranted because of their capacity for substantial military utility or capability.