]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. regulatory agency The collection of all government agencies whose purpose is regulating some facet of business or life. It does not include law enforcement organizations, although an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rWLJYpHqBQdeMI4Jyzqf5kA" class="cyc_term">RegulatoryAgency</a> may have one or more law enforcement organizations as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi_v5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subOrganizations</a>. RegulatoryAgency regulatory agencies investment related thing that is also a regulatory agency (CollectionIntersection2Fn InvestmentRelatedThing RegulatoryAgency) Rural Housing Service RuralHousingService FinancialServicesAuthority-UK An independent organization that regulates the financial services industry in the UK. fsa SecuritiesAndExchangeCommission Securities and Exchange Commission United States Board on Geographic Names USBoardOnGeographicNames The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is the interagency board established by public law to standardize geographic name spellings for use in U.S. Government publications. USPublicHealthService US Public Health Service The US Public Health Service. Federal Housing Administration The U.S. government agency that provides an insurance program for single and multifamily mortgages. FederalHousingAdministration United States Forest Service UnitedStatesForestService This constant denotes the United States Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture which manages the U.S. National Forests and performs other forestry- and timber-related functions. OfficeOfThriftSupervision Office of Thrift Supervision U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service USImmigrationAndNaturalizationService This constant denotes the United States Bureau of Land Management (B.L.M.), a Federal agency that manages land belonging to the U.S. government. USBureauOfLandManagement the Bureau of Land Management FederalAviationAdministration The US government entity charged with regulating civil aviation, developing and operating systems of air traffic control and navigation, etc. Federal Aviation Administration Occupational Safety and Health Administration A regulatory agency within the U.S. Department of Labor whose mission is to ensure safe and healthful workplaces in the United States. OccupationalSafetyAndHealthAdministration Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FederalDepositInsuranceCorporation NationalParkService National Park Service The National Park Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Interior, which manages U.S. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQwoLJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NationalPark</a>s. the Office of Air and Radiation This is an agency within the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwEtlX5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EnvironmentalProtectionAgency_US</a> whose job is to monitor air pollution. OfficeOfAirAndRadiation FederalReserveBoard Federal Reserve Board The mission of this independent government agency is to encourage competition in all communications markets and to protect the public interest. In response to direction from the Congress, the FCC develops and implements policy concerning interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. (From the FCC home page, http://www.ftp.gov/) FederalCommunicationsCommission Federal Communications Commission BureauOfLandManagement The Bureau of Land Management is an agency of the U.S. Department of Interior, which manages public lands in the Western part of the United States. Bureau of Land Management FederalTradeCommission Federal Trade Commission USFishAndWildlifeService This is an agency within the Interior Department which, among many other things, decides which species are endangered. It generally keeps tabs on the state of animal life within the United States. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service SmallBusinessAdministration Small Business Administration U.S. Bureau Of Indian Affairs This constant denotes the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (B.I.A.), a part of the U.S. Department of the Interior which deals with Native Americans and with `Indian' reservations within the USA. USBureauOfIndianAffairs regulatory agency The collection of all government agencies whose purpose is regulating some facet of business or life. It does not include law enforcement organizations, although an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rWLJYpHqBQdeMI4Jyzqf5kA" class="cyc_term">RegulatoryAgency</a> may have one or more law enforcement organizations as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi_v5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subOrganizations</a>. RegulatoryAgency Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString ExecutiveGovernmentalOrganization executive branch of government A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViKppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalGovernmentOrganization</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZfkIHrThQdiWL_Y3RJ_NSA" class="cyc_term">ExecutiveGovernmentalOrganization</a> is an executive (i.e. law-enforcement, state department, or national security) organization that is part of some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQrtFpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RegionalGovernment</a>. A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (q.v.). Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a collection that is temporally stuff-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>) but physically-spatially object-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>) -- i.e. object-like with respect to some physical-spatial part-whole predicate (e.g. some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r8a2smPXcQdiEoJhcx65EiQ" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>). Consider the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Further, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is temporally stuff-like: any one of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of a given copy <code>COPY</code> of (say) "Moby Dick" is still a copy of "Moby Dick". (Most collections of tangible objects are temporally stuff-like in this way.) But <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is spatially object-like: if we take a scalpel and slice <code>COPY</code> into ten pieces, each piece is not a copy of "Moby Dick". So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. ExistingObjectType type of object regulatory agency The collection of all government agencies whose purpose is regulating some facet of business or life. It does not include law enforcement organizations, although an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rWLJYpHqBQdeMI4Jyzqf5kA" class="cyc_term">RegulatoryAgency</a> may have one or more law enforcement organizations as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi_v5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subOrganizations</a>. RegulatoryAgency regulatory agency The collection of all government agencies whose purpose is regulating some facet of business or life. It does not include law enforcement organizations, although an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rWLJYpHqBQdeMI4Jyzqf5kA" class="cyc_term">RegulatoryAgency</a> may have one or more law enforcement organizations as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi_v5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subOrganizations</a>. RegulatoryAgency