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CPS may refer to any of the following.

Companies, associations, and other organisations[link]

Africa[link]

• Convention Panafricaine Sankariste

Asia[link]

• Center for Planetary Science, an institution in Japan

Australia[link]

• Corporate Protective Services, Sydney based GPS monitoring company
• Chatswood Public School, a school in Sydney

Bangladesh[link]

• Criminology and Police Science, CPS is a discipline studied by the department at Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University in Tangail, Bangladesh. Md. Afjal Hossain is one of the second batch student who has included this CPS in this wiki-page.

Canada[link]

• Calgary Police Service, the police service for the city of Calgary, Alberta
• Canadian Pacific Survey
• Canadian Paediatric Society
• Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, an association that teaches safe boating
• Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties
• Canadian Peony Society, a group dedicated to the cultivation and increased awareness of peonies.

Chile[link]

• Colegio Preciosa Sangre, a Chilean school in Pichilemu
  • Cheer CPS, the cheerleading group of Colegio Preciosa Sangre

France[link]

• Committee of Public Safety, the de facto executive government in France, 1793–1794

India[link]

• Children's Paradise School

United Kingdom[link]

• Cambridge Philosophical Society, a scientific society at the University of Cambridge
• Centre for Policy Studies, a British think-tank
• Chamberlayne Park School, now Chamberlayne College for the Arts, Weston, Hampshire
• Crown Prosecution Service, in England and Wales
• Compass International Airways (ICAO airline designator)
• Cambridge Positioning Systems (bought by CSR - Cambridge Silicon Radio)
• Complete Production Solutions (Bournemouth UK ) Lighting Sound Audio Visual and Event Production

United States[link]

• Center for the Partially Sighted, an agency that promotes independent living for people of all ages with impaired sight, in Los Angeles, California
• Chicago Public Schools
• Child Protective Services, the name used in many United States jurisdictions for a state or local government agency which investigates child abuse and neglect
• ChoicePoint, whose New York Stock Exchange symbol was CPS until its buyout by Reed Elsevier
• Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Civilian Public Service, a national system of work camps for conscientious objectors in the United States administered and paid for by the peace churches during World War II
• Coalition for Positive Sexuality, a self-described "guerrilla sex education" group
• The College Preparatory School, a high school in Oakland, California
• CPS Energy, San Antonio's municipally owned natural gas and electric company
• Current Population Survey, a statistical survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Columbia Public Schools

Science and technology[link]

Automotive[link]

• Cam Profile Switching (CPS), a variable valve timing technology by Malaysian carmaker Proton.

Biology[link]

• Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction that produces carbamoyl phosphate

Chemistry[link]

• Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili peppers
• Concentrate of Poppy Straw (also called Poppy Straw Concentrate), a preparation of opium

Childhood psychology[link]

• Collaborative problem solving (from the book Explosive Child, a model to handle children and adolescents with behaviour problems)

Computing[link]

• CPS (file format), a file format for raster graphics images produced by Corel Photo House, a discontinued forerunner of Corel Photo Paint and Paint Shop Pro
• Capcom Play Systems, CPS-1, CPS-2, and CPS-3, arcade system boards manufactured by Capcom in the early 1990s
• Certification Practice Statement, legal document that describes how the Certificate Authority manages the certificates it issues
• Characters per second is a measurement of the data transfer rate during a Direct Client-to-Client file transfer, like bytes per second
• Citrix Presentation Server, now known as Citrix XenApp.
• Collaborative portal server, an Open Source content management system that is used by the BBC^[1] and other websites for generating content.
• Conversational programming system, an early time sharing operating system that ran on IBM System/360 mainframes
• Continuation-passing style, a programming technique
• Cyber-Physical Systems, the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources

Economy[link]

• Cost-per-sale

Manufacturing[link]

• Constant pressure system, a technology used in some super soakers

Medicine[link]

• Complex partial seizures

Metrology[link]

• Centipoise, a measurement of viscosity
• counts per second, a measurement of the number of instrument-detected events per second, e.g., the number of photons per second in fluorescence spectroscopy
• Cycle(s) per second, now known as hertz, which is the SI unit for frequency
• Cells per second, bandwidth measurement unit for ATM protocol.

Music theory[link]

• Combination Product Set, all ways of choosing the product of m distinct values from a set of n primes, treated as a subset of an n-dimensional lattice to create a musical scale with many just intonation chords

Optics[link]

• Compensating phase shift

Polymer science[link]

• Compact polystyrene

Telecommunications[link]

• Calls per second in telephony or other telecommunications
• Carrier Preselect, a landline telephone option that lets European customers use a third party for call charges instead of using the national operator (British Telecom, KPN, Telekom, Swisscom, Belgacom, etc.) without dialling a prefix

Miscellanea[link]

• Caterpillar Production System, modeled after the Toyota Production System
• Central Park South, a street in New York City
• Certified Professional SafeTech, a qualification awarded by the Safe and Vault Technicians Association
• Certified Professional Secretary
• Claims processing system, a warranty processing system available for use by automobile dealerships
• Classroom Performance Systems, a technological student assessment system
• Clerk Police Sergeant, or Clerk Sergeant, a former rank in the London Metropolitan Police
• Computerized performance system, a technical system for manipulating audio, video, and symbols, and performing complex and repetitive mixing procedures for recorded or live performance
• Crane, Poole & Schmidt, a fictional law firm in the television series Boston Legal
• Current Population Survey, conducted by the United States Census Bureau to measure unemployment and other labor data

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Nancy Schaefer (28 June 1936 – 26 March 2010^[1]) was an American politician and conservative activist, who served in the Georgia State Senate from 2004 to 2008.

Born in Clayton,^[1] Schaefer became a prominent conservative political activist in Georgia in the 1980s. She subsequently ran for Mayor of Atlanta in 1993, before running as the Republican Party's nominee for Lieutenant governor of Georgia in 1994,^[2] where she lost to incumbent Democrat Pierre Howard.^[3][4] She unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Governor in 1998, finishing in third place behind Guy Millner and Mike Bowers with 7.7% of the vote in the party's primary election.^[3][5] She was elected to the State Senate in 2004 for the northern-state 50th district,^[6] where she served until she was defeated by Jim Butterworth in a Republican primary in 2008.^[3] She had also sought to wrest the Republican nomination for Georgia's 10th congressional district from Paul Broun in 2008, but withdrew her candidacy before the primary election.^[7] Throughout her career as an activist and politician, she was a champion of Christian conservative causes, opposing abortion and gay rights and promoting the display of the Ten Commandments in public places.^[2][3] Upon her death, fellow State Senator Ralph Hudgens eulogized her as "almost like a rock star of the Christian right".^[7] She was a senior official in the Baptist church, having served as a First Vice President of the Georgia Baptist Convention.^[3]

Schaefer died at her home near Turnerville in Habersham County on 26 March 2010 with her husband of 52 years, Bruce Schaefer. Police concluded the deaths to have been a murder–suicide perpetrated by her husband.^[2][8][9] Before her death, she published and promoted the report "The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services",^[10] leading to conspiracy theories surrounding her murder.^[11]

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