Localization Industry Standards Association

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Localisation Industry Standards Association. A non-profit, industry-wide organization that "aims to provide professional support for the development of localization guidelines and business standards". Many of the leading companies in the localization industry are members of this organization.

Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture, a competitive grants program established in 1988; now called Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE).

The concept of reducing the amount of cash inputs, particularly fertilizers and chemicals, and through cropping practices and rotations, maintain an efficient and profitable agricultural system.

Low Input Sustainable Agriculture involves the reduction of runoff and the total amount of contaminant that could possibly cause groundwater contamination. This can be accomplished through improved chemical management, irrigation management, and planting techniques. LISA also involves organic farming practices as well. (United States Department of Agriculture, USDA).

Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture (LISA) is an alternative method of agriculture that reduces the application of purchased inputs such as fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides. Methods include crop rotation, mechanical cultivation to control weeds, integrated pest management strategies, application of livestock manures, municipal sludge, and compost for fertilizer and over seeding of legumes into maturing fields of grain crops.

Open Source Security System for home users as well as for system administrators. Aims at providing an uniform security platform, Operating System Independent, to protect and prevent valuable data from corruption/stealling and destruction.

Large Installation System Administration

LISA is the Annual System Administration Conference, co-sponsored by USENIX and SAGE. It began in 1986.

Abbreviation for Life Investment and Superannuation Association.

Lifelong Individual Savings Account. Original suggested name for the government pension account similar to the ISA. Renamed as a Pooled Pension Investment (PPI).

Lifelong Individual Savings Account. This was a name some people suggested for a new Government idea for a pension investment system. But the Government chose the name Pooled Pension Investment (PPI) .