NationMaster - Encyclopedia: USP

USP can be an abbreviation for one of several universities:

In Cebu City, Philippines, see University of Southern Philippines;
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, see University of the Sciences in Philadelphia;
In São Paulo, Brazil, see University of São Paulo;
In Shiga prefecture, Japan, see University of Shiga Prefecture; or
In Suva, Fiji, Port Vila, Vanuatu, or Apia, Samoa, see University of the South Pacific.

USP can also refer to: Cebu City is the capital of the province of Cebu in the Philippines and is the second most important metropolitan center in the country. ... Independence Hall Philadelphia (sometimes referred to as Philly or the City of Brotherly Love) is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States and the most populous city in the state of Pennsylvania, occupying all of Philadelphia County. ... The University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in a variety of health-related disciplines, including pharmacy, pharmacology, biology, chemistry, toxicology, cell biology, and biochemistry. ... Sao Paulo and São Paulo (city) redirect here. ... The University of São Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is one of the three public universities funded by the State of São Paulo. ... Shiga Prefecture (滋賀県 Shiga-ken) is part of the Kinki region on Honshu island, Japan. ... Alternate use: see Suva (insurer). ... Port Vila (population 29,356) is the capital city of Vanuatu. ... Apia Apia, population 38,800 (2001), is the capital of Samoa. ... The University of the South Pacific (USP) is the premier provider of tertiary education in the Pacific Region, and an international centre of excellence for teaching and research on all aspects of Pacific culture and environment. ...

In marketing, Unique selling proposition (or point);
In pharmocology, United States Pharmacopoeia;
In computers, a universal serial port;
In reference to intellectual property, a U.S. patent;
The USS Saint Paul;
At National University of Singapore, a University Scholars Programme
In weapons, the Universale Selbstladepistole (Universal Selfloading Pistol), a semi-automatic pistol from Heckler und Koch.
The Central African Republics secret police, but noone knows what it's real name is so we can create a page on its FULL NAME, and not just a disambig page

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Categories: Disambiguation | TLAs The Unique Selling Proposition was proposed as a theory to explain a pattern among successful advertising campaigns of the early 1940s. ... The United States Pharmacopoeia is a compendium of drugs published every five years by the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention. ... A male DE-9 serial port on the rear panel of a PC. In computing, a serial port is an interface on a computer system with which information is transferred in or out one bit at a time (contrast parallel port). ... In law, particularly in common law jurisdictions, intellectual property or IP refers to a legal entitlement which sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea or of other intangible subject matter. ... The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent and trademark protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions and corporate and product identification. ... There have been two ships of the United States Navy named for St. ... The National University of Singapores (Abbreviated NUS; Chinese: 新加坡国立大学; Abbreviated 国大) flagship campus is located in the southwest of the Republic of Singapore at Kent Ridge, bounded by the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE), Clementi Road, Buona Vista Road and Kent Ridge Park, with an area of approximately 1. ... The University Scholars Programme or USP is an initiative by the National University of Singapore to encourage its undergraduate students to develop a more creative, intellectually-challenged, and interdisciplinary frame of mind. ... USP family The Heckler und Koch USP (German universelle selbstladende Pistole, universal self-loading pistol) is a pistol designed by the German arms manufacturer Heckler und Koch. ... A semi-automatic handgun is one which fires a single round every time that the trigger is pulled until its ammunition is exhausted. ... A pistol or handgun is a usually small, projectile weapon, normally fired with one hand. ... Heckler und Koch GmbH (H&K) is a German weapons manufacturing company famous for various series of small firearms, notably the MP5 submachine gun, the MP7 personal defense weapon and the G3 and G36 assault rifles. ... A secret police (sometimes political police) force is a police organization that operates in secret to enforce state security. ...

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	USP is influential in the area of higher education in the South-American continent, having educated countless professors with masters' and doctors' degrees now teaching at private colleges and universities in Brazil.
	USP was founded with the purpose of fostering research, advancing science, and transmitting the knowledge that enlivens and develops the human spirit and promotes human life.
	USP's teaching units are distributed among its six campuses: one in the City of São Paulo and five in the interior of the state, in the cities of Bauru, Piracicaba, Pirassununga, Ribeirão Preto and São Carlos.

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	The aim of the 100 hour internship requirement spanning USP 186 and USP 187 is to give students work experience in a professional setting of their choice, and collect data for their research project.
	The lecture component of USP 186 and USP 187 is designed to provide students with a framework in which they may critically examine theoretical as well as practical aspects of their internship experience.
	Prerequisites for enrolling in USP 190 are a minimum 3.5 GPA in the major, senior standing, USP 186 and USP 187, and consent of the instructor.

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