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Nonlinear conjugate gradient method There is a family of nonlinear conjugate gradient methods which generalize the conjugate gradient method to nonlinear optimization. Whereas linear conjugate gradient seeks a solution to the linear equation Ax=b, nonlinear conjugate gradient methods are generally used to find minima of some scalar-valued function, f of an affine point, x.
Nonlinear dimensionality reduction High dimensional data, meaning data which requires more than two or three dimensions to represent, can be difficult to interpret. One approach to simplification is to assume that the data of interest lies on an embedded non-linear manifold within the higher dimensional space.
Nonlinear distortion Nonlinear distortion is a term used (in fields such as electronics, audio and telecommunications) to describe the phenomenon of a non-linear relationship between the "input" and "output" signals of - for example - an electronic device.
Nonlinear junction detector The non-linear junction detector, or an NLJD, is a device that illuminates a small region of space with high-frequency, RF energy. Any "non linear junction" in the vicinity -- for example, and particularly, the p-n junction -- will receive this energy, and because of the non-linear nature of the junction, it will rectify it, re-emitting some of it on multiples of the illumination frequency (see harmonic).
Nonlinear Management Linear Management is the application of reductionism to management problems, often relying on the ability to predict, engineer and control outcomes by manipulating the component parts of a business (organization, operation, policy, process and so on). Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is a popular example of linear management at work.
Nonlinear optics Nonlinear optics is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization P responds nonlinearly to the electric field E of the light. This nonlinearity is typically only observed at very high light intensities such as provided by pulsed lasers.
Nonlinear programming In mathematics, nonlinear programming (NLP) is the process of solving a system of equalities and inequalities, collectively termed constraints, over a set of unknown real variables, along with an objective function to be maximized or minimized, where some of the constraints or the objective function is nonlinear.
Nonlinear Schrödinger equation In theoretical physics, the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) is a nonlinear version of Schrödinger's equation in two dimensions. It appears in optics and the theory of water waves, and it can also be considered as a second quantized bosonic theory.
Nonlinearity In mathematics, nonlinear systems represent systems whose behavior is not expressible as a sum of the behaviors of its descriptors. In particular, the behavior of nonlinear systems is not subject to the principle of superposition, as linear systems are.
Nonmetal Nonmetal is a term used in chemistry, used when classifying the chemical elements. On the basis of their general physical and chemical properties, every element in the periodic table can be termed either a metal or a non-metal.
Nonmineral A Nonmineral (Mineralogy) is a substance found in a natural environment that does not satisfy the definition of a Mineral and is not even a Mineraloid. Many nonminerals are mined and have industrial or other uses similar to minerals, such as jewelry.
NonnahĂşs NonnahĂşs is a house in Iceland in the city of Akureyri, famous for being the home of JĂłn Sveinsson, a well known Icelandic children's author. In this house Sveinsson wrote a series of novels about an Icelandic boy called Nonni.
Nonnebakken Nonnebakken (literally: the Nun Hill) is a hill in Odense, Denmark. It is the site of one of Denmark's six former Viking ring castles, built during the reign of Sweyn Forkbeard, who had forced his father Harold Bluetooth to leave the country and seek refuge by the Jomsvikings on Wollin (modern Poland) around 975.
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Nonoalca Nonoalca the name of a Central American tribe, but also used as the name of a small boat used to sail the Atlantic from Florida to Fenit Harbour in Tralee Bay in Ireland. The boat was sailed single handedly by Bill Verity who also
Nonoblique correction In particle physics, a nonoblique correction, also called a direct correction, refers to a particular type of radiative correction to the electroweak sector of the Standard Model. Nonoblique corrections are defined in four-fermion scattering processes, e.
Nonobtuse Meshes A nonobtuse triangle mesh is composed of a set of triangles in which every angle is less than or equal to 90â—¦; we call these triangles nonobtuse triangles. If each (triangle) face angle is strictly less than 90â—¦, then the triangle mesh is said to be acute.
Nonoxynol-9 Nonoxynol-9, sometimes abbreviated as N-9, is a non-ionic nonoxynol surfactant that is used as an ingredient in various cleaning and cosmetic products, but is also widely used in contraceptives for its spermicidal properties.
Nonoy Marcelo Severino "Nonoy" Marcelo (January 22, 1939- October 22, 2002) was a Filipino cartoonist born in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines best known for creating the character Ikabod Bubwit ("small rodent" in Tagalog) in the comic strip Ikabod. He also created the comic strips Plain Folks, which appeared in the Daily Mirror during the early 1960s, and Tisoy in 1963 for the Manila Times, which tells about the lifestyle of young Filipinos.
Nonparametric regression Nonparametric regression is a form of regression analysis in which the predictor does not take a predetermined form but is constructed according to information derived from the data. Nonparametric regression requires larger sample sizes than regression based on parametric models because the data must supply the model structure as well as the model estimates.
Nonpareils Nonpareils are a decorative confection of tiny sugar balls, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. Their origin is uncertain, but they may have evolved out of the pharmaceutical use of sugar, as they were a miniature version of comfits.
Nonperson A non-person is a person or a member of a group who lacks, loses, or is forcibly denied social or legal status, especially basic human rights, or who effectively from a point of view of traceability, documentation or existence, ceases to have a record of their existence within a society. It also includes people who do in fact die, but in a manner that their death is never verifiable and enquiries result in a "blank wall" of "nobody knows".
Nonpoint Nonpoint is a four-piece metal music group originating from Fort Lauderdale, South Florida.The band of vocalist Elias Soriano and drummer Robb Rivera and guitarist Andrew Goldman and bassist Kenneth "KB" Charman.
Nonpoint source pollution Nonpoint source pollution (NPS) does not come from a single source like point source pollution. It comes from many unidentifiable sources with no specific solution to rectify the problem, making it difficult to regulate.
Nonpossessory interest in land A nonpossessory interest in land is a term of the law of property to describe any of a category of rights held by one person to use land that is in the possession of another. Such rights can generally be created in one of two ways: either by an express agreement between the party who owns the land and the party who seeks to own the interest; or by an order of a court.
Nonpreemptive multitasking In a non-preemptive multi-tasking system, the various computational tasks cannot be interrupted from the exterior. Such systems are either statically scheduled, most often periodic systems, or exhibit some form of Co-operative multitasking, in which case the computational tasks can self-interrupt and voluntarily give control to other tasks.
Nonprobability sampling Sampling is the use of a subset of the population to represent the whole population. Probability sampling, or random sampling, is a sampling technique in which the probability of getting any particular sample may be calculated.
Nonprofits Research The term Nonprofits Research is used to describe the academic enterprise devoted to teaching and research on nonprofit organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), voluntary associations, voluntarism and voluntary action, philanthropy, civil society, and related activities. It is a loosely-bounded, multidisciplinary, practice-oriented community.
NonProfit Open Source Initiative The Non-Profit Open Source Initiative (NOSI) is a group, founded in 2001, coordinating the work of various other groups supporting the adoption of Open-source software in non-profit organizations. They've published a manual, "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits", and have a traveling "Cyber Cafe" demonstration of what free software can do for non-profits.
Nonrecourse debt A nonrecourse debt or non-recourse debt or nonrecourse loan is a secured loan (debt) that is secured by a pledge of collateral, typically real property, but for which the borrower is not personally liable. If the borrower defaults, the lender/issuer can seize the collateral, but the lender's recovery is limited to the collateral.
Nonrectifying junction In fabricating semiconductor devices, contact between the metal wires and the semiconductor material automatically creates p-n junctions called Schottky diodes. Such a semiconductor device would malfunction, since all of its terminals would contain diodes which act either as open circuits, or if forward biased, will possess unwanted voltage drops.
Nonresistance Nonresistance (or non-resistance) discourages physical resistance to an enemy and is a subdivision of nonviolence. Strict practitioners of nonresistance refuse to retaliate against an opponent or offer any form of self-defense.
Nonribosomal peptide Nonribosomal peptides (NRP) are a class of secondary metabolites, usually produced by microorganisms like bacteria and fungi. These are also often found in higher organisms, such as nudibranchs but they are thought to be made by bacteria inside these organisms.
Nonscience The influential book Nonscience has the longest and most complex title in publishing history: Nonscience and the Pseudotransmogrificationalific Egocentrified Reorientational Proclivities Inherently Intracorporated In Expertistical Cerebrointellectualised Redeploymentation with Special Reference to Quasi-Notional Fashionistic Normativity, The Indoctrinationalistic Methodological Modalities and Scalar Socio-Economic Promulgationary Improvementalisationalism Predelineated Positotaxically Toward Individualistified Mass-Acceptance Gratificationalistic Securipermanentalisationary Professionism, or How To Rule The World, London: Wolfe Publishing (ISBN 0-7234-0449-6). Its author is Brian J.
Nonsense Club The Nonsense Club was a scandalous club of 18th century British satirists centred around Westminster School. Its members included the satirists and poets Charles Churchill and Robert Lloyd, the parodist Bonnell Thornton, the nature poet William Cowper, and the dramatist George Colman.
Nonsense mutation In genetics, a nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and possibly a truncated, and often nonfunctional protein product.
Nonsequitur (Columbia University co-ed accapela group) Nonsequitur is a co-ed collegiate a cappella group at Columbia Universityand can be found on the [[List of collegiate a cappella groups]was concieved in 2000 during a callback audition for the Uptown Vocal [http://media.www.
Nonstandard model In model theory, a nonstandard model is a model of a set of first-order sentences that has a different (larger) underlying set than the "standard" model. Non-standard models are therefore not isomorphic to the standard model.
Nonstress test The Nonstress test is part of the formal antenatal test for fetal well being. It is considered formally reactive (good sign) if the fetal heart rate has two accelerations in 20 minutes that are at least 15 beats above the baseline heart rate and last for at least 15 seconds.
Nonsuch (ship) The Nonsuch was the ship that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later. Originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, and later the Royal Navy ketch HMS Nonsuch, the vessel was sold to Sir William Warren in 1667.
Nonsuch High School Nonsuch High School is a grammar school located in Cheam, Surrey, England, standing in 22 acres of beautiful grounds on the edge of Nonsuch Park. As Nonsuch is a selective school, girls are required to take the 11+ exam to get into year 7, however there are sometimes occasional places in other year groups.
Nonsuch Palace Nonsuch Palace was a Tudor royal palace that was built by Henry VIII in Surrey, on the location of Cuddington, near Epsom (the church and village of Cuddington were destroyed to create the plot for the palace). The palace was broken up in the late 17th century, and parts were incorporated into other buildings.
Nonsuch Park Nonsuch Park is a public park between Stoneleigh, North Cheam, Cheam, and Ewell and the last surviving part of the Little Park of Nonsuch, a deer hunting park established up by Henry VIII of England surrounding the former Nonsuch Palace. The western regions of the larger adjacent Great Park of Nonsuch, became known as Worcester Park after the 4th Earl of Worcester was appointed Keeper of the Great Park in 1606
NonStop SQL NonStop SQL is a relational database product originally produced at Tandem Computers using the pioneering Ingres source code from University of California, Berkeley. NonStop is the "brand name" for Tandem's suite of high-availability products, a brand that survived Tandem's takeover by Compaq, and today after Compaq's takeover by HP.
Nonte Phonte Nonte Phonte (Bengali: নন্টে-ফন্টে), also spelled as Nonte Fonte, is a Bangla comic-strip (and later comic book) creation of Narayan Debnath which originally was serialized for the children's monthly magazine Kishore Bharati. The stories featuring in the comic strips focusses on the trivial lives of the title characters, Nonte and Phonte, along with a school-senior, Keltuda, and their Hostel Superintendent.
Nontheism Nontheism covers a range of concepts regarding spirituality and religion which do not include the idea of a deity — a theistic God or theistic gods. It can be applied to atheism (both strong and weak) and agnosticism, as well as certain Eastern religions including Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
Nonthermal plasma A nonthermal plasma is in general any plasma which is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, either because the ion temperature is different from the electron temperature, or because the velocity distribution of one of the species does not follow a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.
Nontotient In number theory, a nontotient is a positive integer n which is not in the range of Euler's totient function φ, that is, for which φ(x) = n has no solution. In other words, n is a nontotient if there is no integer x that has exactly n coprimes below it.
Nontransitive dice Nontransitive dice is a term applied to a set of dice with the property that, when two of the dice are rolled against each other, no one die wins more against any other die in the set. For example, with three nontransitive dice A, B, and C, it is possible that A is more likely to roll a higher number than B, and B is more likely to roll a higher number than C, yet C is more likely to roll a higher number than A.
Nontron knife The Nontron knife is a traditional wooden-handled penknife manufactured in the village of Nontron in the Dordogne area of southern France, in a tradition said to date back to the 15th century. The handle is usually of boxwood.
Nonuniversal theory Nonuniversal theory is a theory of cognitive development first created by David Henry Feldmanprofessor at the Eliot-Pearson School of Child Development at Tufts University]. The theory proposes that development occurs in domain-specific stages (versus the universal stages of [[Jean Piaget|Piaget and others).
Nonverbal communication Nonverbal communication (NVC) is usually understood as the process of sending and receiving wordless messages. Such messages can be communicated through gesture; body language or posture; facial expression and eye contact; object communication such as clothing, hairstyles or even architecture; symbols and infographics; prosodic features of speech such as intonation and stress and other paralinguistic features of speech such as voice quality, emotion and speaking style.
Nonverbal learning disorder Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD) (also known as NVLD) NLD is a developmental or learning disorders with manifestations in the following domains: a) somatosensory and motor functions; b) visuospatial and visuoconstructive functions; c) arithmetic; d) social cognition, and e) inferential reasoning. Psychopathologically, externalizing symptoms predominate in the preschool and early school years, often confouding with attention-deficit/hyperactivity and oppositional-defiant disorders.
Nonviolence Nonviolence (or non-violence) can be both a political strategy or moral philosophy that rejects the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political change. As an alternative to both passive acquiessance and armed struggle, nonviolence proclaims other means of popular struggle such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance or the power of nonco-operation combined with persuasion.
Nonviolence International Nonviolence International describes itself as a decentralized network of resource centers that promote the use of nonviolent resistance. Founded by Palestinian activist Mubarak Awad in 1989, NI is a 501(c)3 organization registered in Washington, DC, USA.
Nonviolent communication Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a process developed by Marshall Rosenberg that seeks to allow people to communicate with others effectively and with compassion. It focuses on clearly expressing observations, feelings, needs and requests to others in a way that avoids diagnostic language or language that labels or defines others.
Nonviolent Peaceforce Nonviolent Peaceforce is an international NGO composed of a federation of 94 member organisations from across the world in order to create a trained, international civilian unarmed peace force that can be sent to conflict areas called in by local groups to protect human rights and allow them the space to struggle non-violently, enter into dialogue and seek peaceful resolution.
Nonviolent resistance Nonviolent resistance (or nonviolent action) is the practice of applying power to achieve socio-political goals through symbolic protests, economic or political noncooperation, civil disobedience and other methods, without using violence.
Nonvolatile BIOS memory Non-volatile BIOS memory refers to the memory on a personal computer motherboard containing BIOS settings and sometimes the code used to initialize the computer and load the operating system. The non-volatile memory was historically called CMOS RAM or just CMOS because it traditionally used a low-power CMOS memory chip (the Motorola MC146818, or one of its higher-capacity clones), which was powered by a small battery when the system power was off.
Nonylphenol Nonylphenol is an organic compound of the wider family of alkylphenols. It is a product of industrial synthesis formed during the alkylation process of phenols, particularly in the synthesis of polyethoxylate detergents.
Nonzee Nimibutr Nonzee Nimibutr (Thai นนทรีย์ นิมิบุตร, born in 1962 in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand) is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Nonzero Records Nonzero Records is an independent record label based in Sydney, Australia. Nonzero was founded to provide Bluebottle Kiss a label to release their album Revenge Is Slow in 2002 and quickly expanded, primarily focused on recording and releasing local Sydney rock bands, Nonzero has also provided Australian releases for American alt.
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny is a book by Robert Wright originally published in 2000. It argues that biological evolution and cultural evolution are shaped and directed first and foremost by "non-zero-sumness," that is, the prospect of creating new situations that are not zero-sum.
Nooaitch First Nation Nooaitch First Nation is a Nlaka'pamux First Nations government located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is a member of the Nicola Tribal Association, which are two of three tribal councils of the Nlaka'pamux people.
Noodler's Ink Noodler's Ink is a brand of permanent, pH neutral ink designed for fountain pens, developed by pen collector Nathan Tardiff. Many inks in the Noodler's brand carries the distinction of being "bulletproof": waterproof, sunproof, and immune to chemical erasure commonly used in check fraud.
Noodles Hahn Frank George (Noodles) Hahn (April 29, 1879 - February 6, 1960) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (NL, 1899-1905) and New York Highlanders (AL, 1906). Hahn batted and threw left handed.
Noodles on my Back Noodles on my Back, or Hippo Noodles is a popular comical song depicting a musical hippopotamus who sings about the noodles on his back, both solo and with a friendly pig named Roy. It includes rather random lyrics (And I also like to drink Soda pop), but creates a strange humour at the same time.
Noodling Noodling is the practice and sport of fishing for catfish using only one's bare hands. Noodling may be called grabbling, graveling, hogging, or tickling, depending on what state you're in (Kentuckians call it dogging, while Nebraskans prefer stumping.
Noogenesis Noogenesis, from the Greek Noös (=Mind) and Genos (=Birth), and related to the term Anthropogenesis (human evolution) was the term used by French Jesuit, Scientist and Philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the birth and evolution of the mind.
NookBay NookBay is an international website developed for the bidding of items from the videogame Animal Crossing: Wild World. The system is similar to eBay, where members bid on items that are sold by other users, competing for the item, but instead, the bids are made with the game's currency, "Bells".
Nookie (song) "Nookie" is the first single released from the album Significant Other by Limp Bizkit. It is arguably the biggest song of 1999 and is their second biggest hit (Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) being their biggest).
Nooksack (tribe) Nooksack, known in their own language as the Noxws'a7aq, are a Native American people in northwestern Washington state in the United States. The tribe lives in the mainland northwest corner of the state near the small town of Deming, Washington (in western Whatcom County), and has 1341 enrolled members.
Nooksack River The Nooksack River is a river, approximately 25 mi (40 km) long, in northwestern Washington in the United States. It drains an area of the Cascade Range along the Canadian border, flowing through a fertile agricultural coastal area before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at the south end of the Strait of Georgia.
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA) was formed in 1990 as a non-profit organization with an overall goal of seeing an increase in returning natural spawing salmon to the over 1,600km of rivers and streams in Whatcom County, WA Whatcom County is home to seven species of salmon (chinook, chum, coho, pink, sockeye, steelhead and kokanee), along with several other salmonids (bull trout, Dolly varden, both sea-run and resident cutthroat, and rainbow trout) which rely heavily on the return of salmon each year.
Noon Noon is the time exactly halfway through the day, written 12:00 in the 24-hour clock and 12:00 noon in the 12-hour clock. Midday is also used as a synonym for noon, although this may also be a more general term to mean around noon, or very early afternoon.
Noon bell During the Siege of Nándorfehérvár (modern-day Belgrade) in 1456, Hungarian nobleman John Hunyadi defended the city against the onslaught of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. During the siege, Pope Callixtus III ordered the bells of every church to be rung every day at noon, as a call for believers to pray for the defenders of the city.
Noon Universe The Noon Universe (Russian term: "Мир ПолŃдня" or "Мир Полдня" - "World of Noon") is a fictional future alternate universe that serves as a setting for a number of hard science fiction novels written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The universe is named after Noon: 22nd Century, the chronologically first novel from the series.
Noon-day Gun The Noon-day Gun (ĺŤç‚®) is a former naval gun mounted on a small enclosed site near the Causeway Bay typhoon shelter on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. There has been a gun sited in approximately this area ever since the 1860s - the original location as at East Point, which as a point of the island, has long since disappeared due to reclamation of land on the north side of the island.
Noonday Creek Noonday Creek is a stream that runs through northern Cobb County and into southern Cherokee County, Georgia. It begins northwest of Marietta and south of Kennesaw, near the northeast side of Kennesaw Mountain (part of a ridge dividing the county's two major watersheds).
Noonkanbah Station Noonkanbah Station is a cattle station in the south central Kimberley of Western Australia. The traditional owners - the Yungngora people were employed by the station owners until 1971 until they walked off over a pay and conditions dispute.
Noontide Press Noontide Press is an American publishing entity which publishes, among other controversial titles, the Protocols of Zion, as well as the International Jew. Quoting - and according to - the Anti-Defamation League, describing its founding and early years:
Noor (actress) Noor (Urdu: نŮر) before coming into the movie scene was a model and appeared in a dozen TV ads and commercials including the famous Dalda, Sultan and notably BioAmla hair oil commercials which made her a recognizable face in the fashion and entertainment world in Pakistan. She was offered to act in the Movie Mujhay Chaand Chaheeye by Actor/Director Shaan.
Noor (horse) Noor (1945-unknown) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse Champion who competed successfully in the United Kingdom and the United States. Given the Arabic name meaning "Light", Noor was sired by five-time U.
Noor bint Asem bin Nayef Princess Noor bint Asem (Arabic: نŮر بنت عاصم) (born October 6, 1982) is a princess of Jordan. Her father is Prince Asem bin Al Nayef, a grandson of King Abdullah I of Jordan and her mother is Princess Firouzeh Vokshouri.
Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang Hajji Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang (米廣江, born 1963) is an expert in Islamic calligraphy, specializing in the Sini style which originated from the Chinese Muslim tradition. Born in Shandong Province, he is a lecturer at the Islamic College at Zhenzhou in Hebei Province, and is also a researcher of Islamic culture at the Henan Academy of Sciences.
Noor Hassanali Noor Mohamed Hassanali (August 13, 1918 – August 25, 2006) was the second President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (1987 to 1997). A retired High Court judge, President Hassanali was the first Indo-Trinidadian to hold the office of President and was the first Muslim head of state in the Americas.
Noor Holsboer Eleonoor ("Noor") Wendeline Holsboer (born July 12, 1967 in Enschede, Overijssel) is a former Dutch field hockey defender, who twice won the bronze medal with the Women's National Team: in 1988 and in 1996.
Noor Inayat Khan Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan GC MBE (January 1, 1914, Moscow - September 13, 1944, Dachau concentration camp), usually known as Noor Inayat Khan, was a British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II of Indian origin and the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French RĂ©sistance.
Noor Jehan Noor Jehan (Urdu: نŮر جŰاں) (September 21, 1926 – December 23, 2000) was a famous singer and actress. She is revered in Pakistan by her title Mallika-e-Tarranum (Queen of Melody) (Urdu: Ů…Ů„Ú©Ű ŘŞŘ±Ů†Ů…) and is considered to be one of the greatest singers to have come from the Indian Subcontinent.
Noordeinde Palace Noordeinde Palace is one of the four official palaces of the Dutch royal family. Located in The Hague in the province of South Holland, it has been used as the "working palace" for Queen Beatrix since 1984.
Noorderhaaks Noorderhaaks, also called Razende bol (Raging ball in Dutch), is a Dutch sandbar in the North Sea, a few kilometres west of the Marsdiep which separates the island Texel from mainland North Holland. The sandbar covers an area of around 5 km², although the exact area varies due to tide and the dynamic nature of the area.
Noorderkerk (Amsterdam) The Noorderkerk ("Northern Church") is a 17th century Protestant church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. A number of other towns in the Netherlands also have a Noorderkerk church, including The Hague, Hoorn and Kampen.
Noordhoek, Cape Town Noordhoek is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, located below Chapman's Peak on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula, approximately thirty-five kilometres to the south of the city itself. The name "Noordhoek" was taken from Dutch and literally means "north corner".
Noordhollandsch Kanaal The Groot Noordhollandsch Kanaal (Great North-Holland Canal), now known simply as Noordhollandsch Kanaal, is a canal in the Dutch province of North-Holland. The canal stretches about 75 kilometres, from Den Helder in the north to Amsterdam in the south, passing the cities of Alkmaar and Purmerend.
Noordoewer Noordoewer is a town in southern Namibia, its name meaning 'North Bank' in Afrikaans in reference to the north bank of the Orange River that it built on. The town lies opposite the South African town of Vioolsdrif to which it is connected by a bridge on the B1 road.
Noordung (NSK) Noordung (also Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung) are a Slovenian theatre group; founded in 1983 under the name of Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater they were, in 1984, a founding member of the Neue Slowenische Kunst collective. They were also known 1987–1990 as Red Pilot Theater.
Noorduyn Norseman The Noorduyn Norseman is a Canadian single-engine bush plane designed to operate from unimproved surfaces. Norseman aircraft are known to have been registered and/or operated in 68 countries throughout the world and also have been based and flown on the Arctic and Antarctic continents.
Noored Kooli An ambitious and innovative solution to address the critical teacher shortage in Estonia drawing inspiration from a similar scheme Teach First UK. Launching Febuary 6 2006, Noored Kooli aims to place 10-15 exceptional Estonian Graduates into the schools that need them the most for a minimum of 2 years.
Noorzai Noorzai or Nurzai (Urdu: نŮر زئی) are one of the major tribes of the Pashtun. Although it is not really proven which two branches (Durrani or Ghilzais) of Pashtuns they are related to, most of them believe they are descendants of the Durrani as they have been living in Afghanistan for hundreds of years.
Noosa Heads, Queensland Noosa Heads (), part of the Noosa district, is a small coastal settlement, located about 100 minutes drive North of Brisbane. It is known for its beautiful beaches and nearby rocky headlands covered in lush forest.
Nonlinear dimensionality reduction High dimensional data, meaning data which requires more than two or three dimensions to represent, can be difficult to interpret. One approach to simplification is to assume that the data of interest lies on an embedded non-linear manifold within the higher dimensional space.
Nonlinear distortion Nonlinear distortion is a term used (in fields such as electronics, audio and telecommunications) to describe the phenomenon of a non-linear relationship between the "input" and "output" signals of - for example - an electronic device.
Nonlinear junction detector The non-linear junction detector, or an NLJD, is a device that illuminates a small region of space with high-frequency, RF energy. Any "non linear junction" in the vicinity -- for example, and particularly, the p-n junction -- will receive this energy, and because of the non-linear nature of the junction, it will rectify it, re-emitting some of it on multiples of the illumination frequency (see harmonic).
Nonlinear Management Linear Management is the application of reductionism to management problems, often relying on the ability to predict, engineer and control outcomes by manipulating the component parts of a business (organization, operation, policy, process and so on). Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is a popular example of linear management at work.
Nonlinear optics Nonlinear optics is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization P responds nonlinearly to the electric field E of the light. This nonlinearity is typically only observed at very high light intensities such as provided by pulsed lasers.
Nonlinear programming In mathematics, nonlinear programming (NLP) is the process of solving a system of equalities and inequalities, collectively termed constraints, over a set of unknown real variables, along with an objective function to be maximized or minimized, where some of the constraints or the objective function is nonlinear.
Nonlinear Schrödinger equation In theoretical physics, the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) is a nonlinear version of Schrödinger's equation in two dimensions. It appears in optics and the theory of water waves, and it can also be considered as a second quantized bosonic theory.
Nonlinearity In mathematics, nonlinear systems represent systems whose behavior is not expressible as a sum of the behaviors of its descriptors. In particular, the behavior of nonlinear systems is not subject to the principle of superposition, as linear systems are.
Nonmetal Nonmetal is a term used in chemistry, used when classifying the chemical elements. On the basis of their general physical and chemical properties, every element in the periodic table can be termed either a metal or a non-metal.
Nonmineral A Nonmineral (Mineralogy) is a substance found in a natural environment that does not satisfy the definition of a Mineral and is not even a Mineraloid. Many nonminerals are mined and have industrial or other uses similar to minerals, such as jewelry.
NonnahĂşs NonnahĂşs is a house in Iceland in the city of Akureyri, famous for being the home of JĂłn Sveinsson, a well known Icelandic children's author. In this house Sveinsson wrote a series of novels about an Icelandic boy called Nonni.
Nonnebakken Nonnebakken (literally: the Nun Hill) is a hill in Odense, Denmark. It is the site of one of Denmark's six former Viking ring castles, built during the reign of Sweyn Forkbeard, who had forced his father Harold Bluetooth to leave the country and seek refuge by the Jomsvikings on Wollin (modern Poland) around 975.
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Nonoalca Nonoalca the name of a Central American tribe, but also used as the name of a small boat used to sail the Atlantic from Florida to Fenit Harbour in Tralee Bay in Ireland. The boat was sailed single handedly by Bill Verity who also
Nonoblique correction In particle physics, a nonoblique correction, also called a direct correction, refers to a particular type of radiative correction to the electroweak sector of the Standard Model. Nonoblique corrections are defined in four-fermion scattering processes, e.
Nonobtuse Meshes A nonobtuse triangle mesh is composed of a set of triangles in which every angle is less than or equal to 90â—¦; we call these triangles nonobtuse triangles. If each (triangle) face angle is strictly less than 90â—¦, then the triangle mesh is said to be acute.
Nonoxynol-9 Nonoxynol-9, sometimes abbreviated as N-9, is a non-ionic nonoxynol surfactant that is used as an ingredient in various cleaning and cosmetic products, but is also widely used in contraceptives for its spermicidal properties.
Nonoy Marcelo Severino "Nonoy" Marcelo (January 22, 1939- October 22, 2002) was a Filipino cartoonist born in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines best known for creating the character Ikabod Bubwit ("small rodent" in Tagalog) in the comic strip Ikabod. He also created the comic strips Plain Folks, which appeared in the Daily Mirror during the early 1960s, and Tisoy in 1963 for the Manila Times, which tells about the lifestyle of young Filipinos.
Nonparametric regression Nonparametric regression is a form of regression analysis in which the predictor does not take a predetermined form but is constructed according to information derived from the data. Nonparametric regression requires larger sample sizes than regression based on parametric models because the data must supply the model structure as well as the model estimates.
Nonpareils Nonpareils are a decorative confection of tiny sugar balls, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. Their origin is uncertain, but they may have evolved out of the pharmaceutical use of sugar, as they were a miniature version of comfits.
Nonperson A non-person is a person or a member of a group who lacks, loses, or is forcibly denied social or legal status, especially basic human rights, or who effectively from a point of view of traceability, documentation or existence, ceases to have a record of their existence within a society. It also includes people who do in fact die, but in a manner that their death is never verifiable and enquiries result in a "blank wall" of "nobody knows".
Nonpoint Nonpoint is a four-piece metal music group originating from Fort Lauderdale, South Florida.The band of vocalist Elias Soriano and drummer Robb Rivera and guitarist Andrew Goldman and bassist Kenneth "KB" Charman.
Nonpoint source pollution Nonpoint source pollution (NPS) does not come from a single source like point source pollution. It comes from many unidentifiable sources with no specific solution to rectify the problem, making it difficult to regulate.
Nonpossessory interest in land A nonpossessory interest in land is a term of the law of property to describe any of a category of rights held by one person to use land that is in the possession of another. Such rights can generally be created in one of two ways: either by an express agreement between the party who owns the land and the party who seeks to own the interest; or by an order of a court.
Nonpreemptive multitasking In a non-preemptive multi-tasking system, the various computational tasks cannot be interrupted from the exterior. Such systems are either statically scheduled, most often periodic systems, or exhibit some form of Co-operative multitasking, in which case the computational tasks can self-interrupt and voluntarily give control to other tasks.
Nonprobability sampling Sampling is the use of a subset of the population to represent the whole population. Probability sampling, or random sampling, is a sampling technique in which the probability of getting any particular sample may be calculated.
Nonprofits Research The term Nonprofits Research is used to describe the academic enterprise devoted to teaching and research on nonprofit organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), voluntary associations, voluntarism and voluntary action, philanthropy, civil society, and related activities. It is a loosely-bounded, multidisciplinary, practice-oriented community.
NonProfit Open Source Initiative The Non-Profit Open Source Initiative (NOSI) is a group, founded in 2001, coordinating the work of various other groups supporting the adoption of Open-source software in non-profit organizations. They've published a manual, "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits", and have a traveling "Cyber Cafe" demonstration of what free software can do for non-profits.
Nonrecourse debt A nonrecourse debt or non-recourse debt or nonrecourse loan is a secured loan (debt) that is secured by a pledge of collateral, typically real property, but for which the borrower is not personally liable. If the borrower defaults, the lender/issuer can seize the collateral, but the lender's recovery is limited to the collateral.
Nonrectifying junction In fabricating semiconductor devices, contact between the metal wires and the semiconductor material automatically creates p-n junctions called Schottky diodes. Such a semiconductor device would malfunction, since all of its terminals would contain diodes which act either as open circuits, or if forward biased, will possess unwanted voltage drops.
Nonresistance Nonresistance (or non-resistance) discourages physical resistance to an enemy and is a subdivision of nonviolence. Strict practitioners of nonresistance refuse to retaliate against an opponent or offer any form of self-defense.
Nonribosomal peptide Nonribosomal peptides (NRP) are a class of secondary metabolites, usually produced by microorganisms like bacteria and fungi. These are also often found in higher organisms, such as nudibranchs but they are thought to be made by bacteria inside these organisms.
Nonscience The influential book Nonscience has the longest and most complex title in publishing history: Nonscience and the Pseudotransmogrificationalific Egocentrified Reorientational Proclivities Inherently Intracorporated In Expertistical Cerebrointellectualised Redeploymentation with Special Reference to Quasi-Notional Fashionistic Normativity, The Indoctrinationalistic Methodological Modalities and Scalar Socio-Economic Promulgationary Improvementalisationalism Predelineated Positotaxically Toward Individualistified Mass-Acceptance Gratificationalistic Securipermanentalisationary Professionism, or How To Rule The World, London: Wolfe Publishing (ISBN 0-7234-0449-6). Its author is Brian J.
Nonsense Club The Nonsense Club was a scandalous club of 18th century British satirists centred around Westminster School. Its members included the satirists and poets Charles Churchill and Robert Lloyd, the parodist Bonnell Thornton, the nature poet William Cowper, and the dramatist George Colman.
Nonsense mutation In genetics, a nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and possibly a truncated, and often nonfunctional protein product.
Nonsequitur (Columbia University co-ed accapela group) Nonsequitur is a co-ed collegiate a cappella group at Columbia Universityand can be found on the [[List of collegiate a cappella groups]was concieved in 2000 during a callback audition for the Uptown Vocal [http://media.www.
Nonstandard model In model theory, a nonstandard model is a model of a set of first-order sentences that has a different (larger) underlying set than the "standard" model. Non-standard models are therefore not isomorphic to the standard model.
Nonstress test The Nonstress test is part of the formal antenatal test for fetal well being. It is considered formally reactive (good sign) if the fetal heart rate has two accelerations in 20 minutes that are at least 15 beats above the baseline heart rate and last for at least 15 seconds.
Nonsuch (ship) The Nonsuch was the ship that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later. Originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, and later the Royal Navy ketch HMS Nonsuch, the vessel was sold to Sir William Warren in 1667.
Nonsuch High School Nonsuch High School is a grammar school located in Cheam, Surrey, England, standing in 22 acres of beautiful grounds on the edge of Nonsuch Park. As Nonsuch is a selective school, girls are required to take the 11+ exam to get into year 7, however there are sometimes occasional places in other year groups.
Nonsuch Palace Nonsuch Palace was a Tudor royal palace that was built by Henry VIII in Surrey, on the location of Cuddington, near Epsom (the church and village of Cuddington were destroyed to create the plot for the palace). The palace was broken up in the late 17th century, and parts were incorporated into other buildings.
Nonsuch Park Nonsuch Park is a public park between Stoneleigh, North Cheam, Cheam, and Ewell and the last surviving part of the Little Park of Nonsuch, a deer hunting park established up by Henry VIII of England surrounding the former Nonsuch Palace. The western regions of the larger adjacent Great Park of Nonsuch, became known as Worcester Park after the 4th Earl of Worcester was appointed Keeper of the Great Park in 1606
NonStop SQL NonStop SQL is a relational database product originally produced at Tandem Computers using the pioneering Ingres source code from University of California, Berkeley. NonStop is the "brand name" for Tandem's suite of high-availability products, a brand that survived Tandem's takeover by Compaq, and today after Compaq's takeover by HP.
Nonte Phonte Nonte Phonte (Bengali: নন্টে-ফন্টে), also spelled as Nonte Fonte, is a Bangla comic-strip (and later comic book) creation of Narayan Debnath which originally was serialized for the children's monthly magazine Kishore Bharati. The stories featuring in the comic strips focusses on the trivial lives of the title characters, Nonte and Phonte, along with a school-senior, Keltuda, and their Hostel Superintendent.
Nontheism Nontheism covers a range of concepts regarding spirituality and religion which do not include the idea of a deity — a theistic God or theistic gods. It can be applied to atheism (both strong and weak) and agnosticism, as well as certain Eastern religions including Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
Nonthermal plasma A nonthermal plasma is in general any plasma which is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, either because the ion temperature is different from the electron temperature, or because the velocity distribution of one of the species does not follow a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.
Nontotient In number theory, a nontotient is a positive integer n which is not in the range of Euler's totient function φ, that is, for which φ(x) = n has no solution. In other words, n is a nontotient if there is no integer x that has exactly n coprimes below it.
Nontransitive dice Nontransitive dice is a term applied to a set of dice with the property that, when two of the dice are rolled against each other, no one die wins more against any other die in the set. For example, with three nontransitive dice A, B, and C, it is possible that A is more likely to roll a higher number than B, and B is more likely to roll a higher number than C, yet C is more likely to roll a higher number than A.
Nontron knife The Nontron knife is a traditional wooden-handled penknife manufactured in the village of Nontron in the Dordogne area of southern France, in a tradition said to date back to the 15th century. The handle is usually of boxwood.
Nonuniversal theory Nonuniversal theory is a theory of cognitive development first created by David Henry Feldmanprofessor at the Eliot-Pearson School of Child Development at Tufts University]. The theory proposes that development occurs in domain-specific stages (versus the universal stages of [[Jean Piaget|Piaget and others).
Nonverbal communication Nonverbal communication (NVC) is usually understood as the process of sending and receiving wordless messages. Such messages can be communicated through gesture; body language or posture; facial expression and eye contact; object communication such as clothing, hairstyles or even architecture; symbols and infographics; prosodic features of speech such as intonation and stress and other paralinguistic features of speech such as voice quality, emotion and speaking style.
Nonverbal learning disorder Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD) (also known as NVLD) NLD is a developmental or learning disorders with manifestations in the following domains: a) somatosensory and motor functions; b) visuospatial and visuoconstructive functions; c) arithmetic; d) social cognition, and e) inferential reasoning. Psychopathologically, externalizing symptoms predominate in the preschool and early school years, often confouding with attention-deficit/hyperactivity and oppositional-defiant disorders.
Nonviolence Nonviolence (or non-violence) can be both a political strategy or moral philosophy that rejects the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political change. As an alternative to both passive acquiessance and armed struggle, nonviolence proclaims other means of popular struggle such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance or the power of nonco-operation combined with persuasion.
Nonviolence International Nonviolence International describes itself as a decentralized network of resource centers that promote the use of nonviolent resistance. Founded by Palestinian activist Mubarak Awad in 1989, NI is a 501(c)3 organization registered in Washington, DC, USA.
Nonviolent communication Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a process developed by Marshall Rosenberg that seeks to allow people to communicate with others effectively and with compassion. It focuses on clearly expressing observations, feelings, needs and requests to others in a way that avoids diagnostic language or language that labels or defines others.
Nonviolent Peaceforce Nonviolent Peaceforce is an international NGO composed of a federation of 94 member organisations from across the world in order to create a trained, international civilian unarmed peace force that can be sent to conflict areas called in by local groups to protect human rights and allow them the space to struggle non-violently, enter into dialogue and seek peaceful resolution.
Nonviolent resistance Nonviolent resistance (or nonviolent action) is the practice of applying power to achieve socio-political goals through symbolic protests, economic or political noncooperation, civil disobedience and other methods, without using violence.
Nonvolatile BIOS memory Non-volatile BIOS memory refers to the memory on a personal computer motherboard containing BIOS settings and sometimes the code used to initialize the computer and load the operating system. The non-volatile memory was historically called CMOS RAM or just CMOS because it traditionally used a low-power CMOS memory chip (the Motorola MC146818, or one of its higher-capacity clones), which was powered by a small battery when the system power was off.
Nonylphenol Nonylphenol is an organic compound of the wider family of alkylphenols. It is a product of industrial synthesis formed during the alkylation process of phenols, particularly in the synthesis of polyethoxylate detergents.
Nonzee Nimibutr Nonzee Nimibutr (Thai นนทรีย์ นิมิบุตร, born in 1962 in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand) is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Nonzero Records Nonzero Records is an independent record label based in Sydney, Australia. Nonzero was founded to provide Bluebottle Kiss a label to release their album Revenge Is Slow in 2002 and quickly expanded, primarily focused on recording and releasing local Sydney rock bands, Nonzero has also provided Australian releases for American alt.
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny is a book by Robert Wright originally published in 2000. It argues that biological evolution and cultural evolution are shaped and directed first and foremost by "non-zero-sumness," that is, the prospect of creating new situations that are not zero-sum.
Nooaitch First Nation Nooaitch First Nation is a Nlaka'pamux First Nations government located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is a member of the Nicola Tribal Association, which are two of three tribal councils of the Nlaka'pamux people.
Noodler's Ink Noodler's Ink is a brand of permanent, pH neutral ink designed for fountain pens, developed by pen collector Nathan Tardiff. Many inks in the Noodler's brand carries the distinction of being "bulletproof": waterproof, sunproof, and immune to chemical erasure commonly used in check fraud.
Noodles Hahn Frank George (Noodles) Hahn (April 29, 1879 - February 6, 1960) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (NL, 1899-1905) and New York Highlanders (AL, 1906). Hahn batted and threw left handed.
Noodles on my Back Noodles on my Back, or Hippo Noodles is a popular comical song depicting a musical hippopotamus who sings about the noodles on his back, both solo and with a friendly pig named Roy. It includes rather random lyrics (And I also like to drink Soda pop), but creates a strange humour at the same time.
Noodling Noodling is the practice and sport of fishing for catfish using only one's bare hands. Noodling may be called grabbling, graveling, hogging, or tickling, depending on what state you're in (Kentuckians call it dogging, while Nebraskans prefer stumping.
Noogenesis Noogenesis, from the Greek Noös (=Mind) and Genos (=Birth), and related to the term Anthropogenesis (human evolution) was the term used by French Jesuit, Scientist and Philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the birth and evolution of the mind.
NookBay NookBay is an international website developed for the bidding of items from the videogame Animal Crossing: Wild World. The system is similar to eBay, where members bid on items that are sold by other users, competing for the item, but instead, the bids are made with the game's currency, "Bells".
Nookie (song) "Nookie" is the first single released from the album Significant Other by Limp Bizkit. It is arguably the biggest song of 1999 and is their second biggest hit (Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) being their biggest).
Nooksack (tribe) Nooksack, known in their own language as the Noxws'a7aq, are a Native American people in northwestern Washington state in the United States. The tribe lives in the mainland northwest corner of the state near the small town of Deming, Washington (in western Whatcom County), and has 1341 enrolled members.
Nooksack River The Nooksack River is a river, approximately 25 mi (40 km) long, in northwestern Washington in the United States. It drains an area of the Cascade Range along the Canadian border, flowing through a fertile agricultural coastal area before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at the south end of the Strait of Georgia.
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA) was formed in 1990 as a non-profit organization with an overall goal of seeing an increase in returning natural spawing salmon to the over 1,600km of rivers and streams in Whatcom County, WA Whatcom County is home to seven species of salmon (chinook, chum, coho, pink, sockeye, steelhead and kokanee), along with several other salmonids (bull trout, Dolly varden, both sea-run and resident cutthroat, and rainbow trout) which rely heavily on the return of salmon each year.
Noon Noon is the time exactly halfway through the day, written 12:00 in the 24-hour clock and 12:00 noon in the 12-hour clock. Midday is also used as a synonym for noon, although this may also be a more general term to mean around noon, or very early afternoon.
Noon bell During the Siege of Nándorfehérvár (modern-day Belgrade) in 1456, Hungarian nobleman John Hunyadi defended the city against the onslaught of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. During the siege, Pope Callixtus III ordered the bells of every church to be rung every day at noon, as a call for believers to pray for the defenders of the city.
Noon Universe The Noon Universe (Russian term: "Мир ПолŃдня" or "Мир Полдня" - "World of Noon") is a fictional future alternate universe that serves as a setting for a number of hard science fiction novels written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The universe is named after Noon: 22nd Century, the chronologically first novel from the series.
Noon-day Gun The Noon-day Gun (ĺŤç‚®) is a former naval gun mounted on a small enclosed site near the Causeway Bay typhoon shelter on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. There has been a gun sited in approximately this area ever since the 1860s - the original location as at East Point, which as a point of the island, has long since disappeared due to reclamation of land on the north side of the island.
Noonday Creek Noonday Creek is a stream that runs through northern Cobb County and into southern Cherokee County, Georgia. It begins northwest of Marietta and south of Kennesaw, near the northeast side of Kennesaw Mountain (part of a ridge dividing the county's two major watersheds).
Noonkanbah Station Noonkanbah Station is a cattle station in the south central Kimberley of Western Australia. The traditional owners - the Yungngora people were employed by the station owners until 1971 until they walked off over a pay and conditions dispute.
Noontide Press Noontide Press is an American publishing entity which publishes, among other controversial titles, the Protocols of Zion, as well as the International Jew. Quoting - and according to - the Anti-Defamation League, describing its founding and early years:
Noor (actress) Noor (Urdu: نŮر) before coming into the movie scene was a model and appeared in a dozen TV ads and commercials including the famous Dalda, Sultan and notably BioAmla hair oil commercials which made her a recognizable face in the fashion and entertainment world in Pakistan. She was offered to act in the Movie Mujhay Chaand Chaheeye by Actor/Director Shaan.
Noor (horse) Noor (1945-unknown) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse Champion who competed successfully in the United Kingdom and the United States. Given the Arabic name meaning "Light", Noor was sired by five-time U.
Noor bint Asem bin Nayef Princess Noor bint Asem (Arabic: نŮر بنت عاصم) (born October 6, 1982) is a princess of Jordan. Her father is Prince Asem bin Al Nayef, a grandson of King Abdullah I of Jordan and her mother is Princess Firouzeh Vokshouri.
Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang Hajji Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang (米廣江, born 1963) is an expert in Islamic calligraphy, specializing in the Sini style which originated from the Chinese Muslim tradition. Born in Shandong Province, he is a lecturer at the Islamic College at Zhenzhou in Hebei Province, and is also a researcher of Islamic culture at the Henan Academy of Sciences.
Noor Hassanali Noor Mohamed Hassanali (August 13, 1918 – August 25, 2006) was the second President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (1987 to 1997). A retired High Court judge, President Hassanali was the first Indo-Trinidadian to hold the office of President and was the first Muslim head of state in the Americas.
Noor Holsboer Eleonoor ("Noor") Wendeline Holsboer (born July 12, 1967 in Enschede, Overijssel) is a former Dutch field hockey defender, who twice won the bronze medal with the Women's National Team: in 1988 and in 1996.
Noor Inayat Khan Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan GC MBE (January 1, 1914, Moscow - September 13, 1944, Dachau concentration camp), usually known as Noor Inayat Khan, was a British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II of Indian origin and the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French RĂ©sistance.
Noor Jehan Noor Jehan (Urdu: نŮر جŰاں) (September 21, 1926 – December 23, 2000) was a famous singer and actress. She is revered in Pakistan by her title Mallika-e-Tarranum (Queen of Melody) (Urdu: Ů…Ů„Ú©Ű ŘŞŘ±Ů†Ů…) and is considered to be one of the greatest singers to have come from the Indian Subcontinent.
Noordeinde Palace Noordeinde Palace is one of the four official palaces of the Dutch royal family. Located in The Hague in the province of South Holland, it has been used as the "working palace" for Queen Beatrix since 1984.
Noorderhaaks Noorderhaaks, also called Razende bol (Raging ball in Dutch), is a Dutch sandbar in the North Sea, a few kilometres west of the Marsdiep which separates the island Texel from mainland North Holland. The sandbar covers an area of around 5 km², although the exact area varies due to tide and the dynamic nature of the area.
Noorderkerk (Amsterdam) The Noorderkerk ("Northern Church") is a 17th century Protestant church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. A number of other towns in the Netherlands also have a Noorderkerk church, including The Hague, Hoorn and Kampen.
Noordhoek, Cape Town Noordhoek is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, located below Chapman's Peak on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula, approximately thirty-five kilometres to the south of the city itself. The name "Noordhoek" was taken from Dutch and literally means "north corner".
Noordhollandsch Kanaal The Groot Noordhollandsch Kanaal (Great North-Holland Canal), now known simply as Noordhollandsch Kanaal, is a canal in the Dutch province of North-Holland. The canal stretches about 75 kilometres, from Den Helder in the north to Amsterdam in the south, passing the cities of Alkmaar and Purmerend.
Noordoewer Noordoewer is a town in southern Namibia, its name meaning 'North Bank' in Afrikaans in reference to the north bank of the Orange River that it built on. The town lies opposite the South African town of Vioolsdrif to which it is connected by a bridge on the B1 road.
Noordung (NSK) Noordung (also Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung) are a Slovenian theatre group; founded in 1983 under the name of Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater they were, in 1984, a founding member of the Neue Slowenische Kunst collective. They were also known 1987–1990 as Red Pilot Theater.
Noorduyn Norseman The Noorduyn Norseman is a Canadian single-engine bush plane designed to operate from unimproved surfaces. Norseman aircraft are known to have been registered and/or operated in 68 countries throughout the world and also have been based and flown on the Arctic and Antarctic continents.
Noored Kooli An ambitious and innovative solution to address the critical teacher shortage in Estonia drawing inspiration from a similar scheme Teach First UK. Launching Febuary 6 2006, Noored Kooli aims to place 10-15 exceptional Estonian Graduates into the schools that need them the most for a minimum of 2 years.
Noorzai Noorzai or Nurzai (Urdu: نŮر زئی) are one of the major tribes of the Pashtun. Although it is not really proven which two branches (Durrani or Ghilzais) of Pashtuns they are related to, most of them believe they are descendants of the Durrani as they have been living in Afghanistan for hundreds of years.
Noosa Heads, Queensland Noosa Heads (), part of the Noosa district, is a small coastal settlement, located about 100 minutes drive North of Brisbane. It is known for its beautiful beaches and nearby rocky headlands covered in lush forest.
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