SMAP
SMAP is a Japanese boy band formed by Johnny & Associates. While originally consisting of six members, the group currently consists of five: Masahiro Nakai, Takuya Kimura, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, and Shingo Katori. The group's name is an acronym standing for Sports Music Assemble People.
The best selling boyband in Asia by more than 35 million records sold, SMAP released their first CD in 1991 and has since released over fifty singles and twenty albums. Approximately more than half of the singles and a half of the albums have reached the top of the Japanese Oricon music charts. In recent years, the interval between the band's single CD releases has become longer, and they are now released approximately once a year.
The members of SMAP have also pursued careers outside of music, including involvement in television variety shows, dramas, commercials, and movies, making them one of the most popular Johnny's groups. Largely due to their popularity, Johnny & Associates became the most successful agency in Japan, with earnings of almost three billion Japanese yen in 1995.
SMAP1
Stromal membrane-associated protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAP1 gene.
The protein encoded by this gene is similar to the mouse stromal membrane-associated protein-1. This similarity suggests that this human gene product is also a type II membrane glycoprotein involved in the erythropoietic stimulatory activity of stromal cells. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms.
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Soil Moisture Active Passive
Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) is an American environmental research satellite launched on 31 January 2015. It is one of the first Earth observation satellites being developed by NASA in response to the National Research Council’s Decadal Survey.
Mission overview
SMAP will provide measurements of the land surface soil moisture and freeze-thaw state with near-global revisit coverage in 2–3 days. SMAP surface measurements will be coupled with hydrologic models to infer soil moisture conditions in the root zone. These measurements will enable science applications users to:
SMAP observations will be acquired for a period of at least three years after launch. A comprehensive validation, science, and applications program will be implemented, and all data will be made available publicly through the NASA archive centers.
Pams (company)
Pams (previously Pam's) is a New Zealand company, owned by Foodstuffs, which also owns New World, Pak'n Save and Four Square. Pams sources and brands a wide range of supermarket goods as a house brand. Some combinis in Japan have started to stock products for example that one by the train station in Nabari has pams chicken chips.
History
Pams was formed in 1937 by Four Square supermarkets.
Advertising
In 2000 celebrity chef Jamie Oliver signed up on advertisements for Pam's, with the company also sponsoring Oliver's television show Oliver's Twist.
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PAMS
PAMS (an acronym for Production, Advertising, Merchandising Service), based in Dallas, Texas, is one of the most famous jingle production company in American broadcasting. It produced identification packages for radio stations around the world, as well as some commercial music.
History
The company was founded by William B. Meeks, Jr. (1921–1999) in 1951.
Meeks worked on the air and also sold advertising, often creating jingles for some of the clients he sold time to. Eventually he decided to devote all his time to advertising, and in 1951 he started PAMS Advertising Agency, Inc. Initially, very few station jingles were made, but it wasn't until the mid-50s that individual cuts were assembled into packages that could be syndicated to stations all over the country. After the success of the first few PAMS jingle series, the company's focus slowly shifted to providing IDs to the ever growing number of top-40 radio stations. By the end of 1964, PAMS' primary business had become station jingles, and the name of the company was shortened to PAMS, Inc.
PAMS (disambiguation)
PAMS is a U.S. jingle-production company.
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