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  • abbreviation flavin adenine dinucleotide

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Examples

  • [1] Cofactors/prosthetic groups FAD < 1, 2 > (contains 2 mol of FAD+ per mol one FAD per subunit, FMN or riboflavin do not replace FAD as coenzyme [2]) [1, 2]

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  • A FAD is a Fedora Activity Day, which I usually describe as a hackathon, or "a bunch of folks from our usually-distributed community all fly into one place and spend a couple days working to Make A Cool Thing."

    Fedora People Mel 2010

  • These photolyases in turn require cofactor FAD aka vitamin B2 to accomplish this function.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • Ventas reaffirmed that it expects its 2010 normalized FFO to range between $2.69 and $2.75 per diluted common share and normalized Funds Available for Distribution ( "FAD") to be between

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Funds available for distribution ( "FAD") is a non-GAAP financial measure.

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  • Proud to say commercialization have thus never really gotten to us and we never really follow the trend of anything "FAD".

    The Livin La Vida Low-Carb Show 2009

  • Among the largest underlying components of FAD, in morning trading today Abercrombie & Fitch Company

    FAS, FAD: Big ETF Inflows 2011

  • ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and ADP (adenosine diphosphate), the main energy carriers in living cells, and he determined the structure of vitamin B12 (cf. Section 3.5) and of FAD

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

  • "We are not giving special treatment to those FAD watersheds or deciding that it is unsafe to drill there -- rather we are pulling them out and recognizing that there are a distinct set of issues."

    ProPublica: NY State: No Drilling in Watershed, Yes Drilling Upstate 2010

  • "Clearly there will be less analysis required to finish the job now that we are going to be focusing on the environmental safety of the process and not getting into the unique components of the FAD watersheds," said New York State Department of Environmental Conservation assistant commissioner Stuart Gruskin, referring to the Filtration Avoidance Determination, the federal permit that allows New York City's water to be delivered untreated.

    ProPublica: NY State: No Drilling in Watershed, Yes Drilling Upstate 2010

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    December 1, 2013