Riis

R0248500 (rēs), Jacob August 1849-1914. Danish-born American journalist and reformer whose reports on living conditions in city slums, including How the Other Half Lives (1890), led to improvements in housing and education.

Riis

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n. Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.

RIIS

Acronym	Definition
RIIS➣Research Institute for Internet Strategies (Japan)
RIIS➣Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (South Africa)
RIIS➣Research into Internet Systems (Southfield, MI)
RIIS➣Range Integrated Instrumentation System
RIIS➣Research Institute of Industrial Safety (Japan)
RIIS➣Route Integration Instrumentation System
RIIS➣Radiology Intelligent Information System (Nagoya University Hospital; Nagoya, Aichi, Japan)
RIIS➣Radiographic Image Interpretation System (radiology)