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Natura naturata Natura naturata is a Latin term coined in the middle ages, mainly used by Baruch Spinoza meaning "Nature natured", or "Nature already created". The term adds the suffix for the Latin past participle to created "natured.
Natural abundance Natural abundance is the prevalence of different isotopes of an element as found on Earth naturally. The relative atomic mass (a weighted average) of these isotopes is the atomic weight listed for the element in the periodic table.
Natural acoustic band The Natural Acoustic Band was a British acid-folk band, which was formed in 1969 in Milngavie, Glasgow, Scotland. There were a number of personnel changes throughout the band's history, but the best known line up was:
Natural and Cultural Peruvian Heritage The Peruvian Constitution of 1993 recognised the natural resources and ecosystem variety of its country as a heritage. In 1900, the National System of Natural Areas that are protected by the Peruvian Government (SINANPE) was created.
Natural arch A natural arch or natural bridge is a natural formation (or landform) where a rock arch forms, with a natural passageway through underneath. Most natural arches form as a narrow ridge, walled by cliffs, become narrower from erosion, with a softer rock stratum under the cliff-forming stratum gradually eroding out until the rock shelters thus formed meet underneath the ridge, thus forming the arch.
Natural authority Natural Authority is the authority a person exerts that is innate to them rather than being drawn from some external body. Natural authority relies on factors such as charisma, negotiating skills, assertiveness and self confidence rather than law, political position, wealth or standing in an organization.
Natural Area Code The Natural Area Code (or Universal Address) is a proprietary geocode system for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth, or a volume of space anywhere around the Earth. The use of thirty alphanumeric characters instead of only ten digits makes a NAC shorter than its numerical latitude/longitude equivalent.
Natural bobtail A natural bobtail is a tail which due to a mutated gene grows to a shortened length or is completely cut off at the base of the spine. The term also refers to animals carrying the gene for a naturally short tail or animals that naturally have no tail.
Natural bodybuilding Some advocates for natural bodybuilding believe their sport is more than “a competition”. Competition for a true natural bodybuilder, some believe, is not an end, but rather a challenge along the path of life-long fitness used as a goal-setting tool to motivate or as a place to celebrate personal achievements.
Natural building Natural building involves a range of building systems and materials that place major emphasis on sustainability. Ways of achieving sustainability through natural building focus on durability and the use of minimally-processed, plentiful or renewable resources, as well as those which, while recycled or salvaged, produce healthy living environments and maintain indoor air quality.
Natural Body Magic (NBM) Natural Body Magic (Also called "Natural Body Separation") is a paraphilia where the main subject is fantasizing about a person that can be either cut or disassembled into various pieces, and live and function normally. A common visual example of this is the "Sawing a woman in half" trick that was popular among stage magicians in the early 20th century.
Natural Born Chaos Natural Born Chaos is the fourth album released by the Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. It has been produced by Devin Townsend who also sings on "Black Star Deceiver" and "Soilworker's Song of the Damned".
Natural Born Kissers "Natural Born Kissers" is the last episode of the ninth season of The Simpsons, and is especially notable for its risque subject matter. Some networks, including the UK's Sky One and Canada's CBC, list the episode by its working title: "Margie, May I Sleep With Danger?
Natural Born Sinners The Natural Born Sinners were a professional wrestling tag team in Ring of Honor, consisting of Homicide and Boogalou. Wrestling in orange prison uniforms, the Natural Born Sinners would come to the ring wearing Michael Myers and Leatherface masks, with Boogalou (as Leatherface) also wielding a chainsaw.
Natural Bridge (Virginia) Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia is a geological formation in which Cedar Creek (a small tributary of the James River) has carved out a gorge of the limestone mountainous terrain, forming an arch 215 ft (66 m) high with a span of 90 ft (27 m). It consists of horizontal limestone strata, and is the remains of the roof of a cave or tunnel through which the creek once flowed.
Natural Bridge Caverns Natural Bridge Caverns are the largest known commercial caverns in the state of Texas. The name was derived from the 20 m (65 foot) natural limestone slab bridge that spans the amphitheater setting of the cavern's entrance.
Natural Bridge State Park (Kentucky) Natural Bridge State Park is a Kentucky state park located in Powell County, Kentucky along the Middle Fork of the Red River, adjacent to the Red River Gorge Geologic Area and surrounded by the Daniel Boone National Forest. Its namesake natural bridge is the centerpiece of the park.
Natural capital Natural capital is a metaphor for the mineral, plant, and animal formations of the Earth's biosphere when viewed as a means of production of oxygen, water filter, erosion preventer, or provider of other ecosystem services. It is one approach to ecosystem valuation, an alternative to the traditional view of all non-human life as passive natural resources, and to the idea of ecological health.
Natural capitalism Natural capitalism is a set of trends and economic reforms to reward energy and material efficiency and remove professional standards and accounting conventions that prevent such efficiencies. It emerged in the 1990s as a coherent theory of how to exploit market systems and mechanisms of neoclassical economics to save energy, discourage waste, mimic ecology (biomimicry), and in general to support the goals of environmentalism by reframing commodity and product relations towards a strictly service economy, thereby extending the services of natural capital.
Natural cleaning product Natural cleaning products are substances used to clean, deodorize, and/or disinfect which have natural substances as their active ingredients. In some cases, natural cleaning products may be less damaging to the environment and safer for humans and pets than conventional cleaning products.
Natural computation Natural computation, also called natural computing, is the field of research that works with computational techniques inspired in part by nature and natural systems. The aim of such research is to develop new computational tools (in software, hardware or wetware) for solving complex, usually conventionally-hard problems.
Natural Color System The Natural Color System® (NCS) is a proprietary perceptual color model published by the Scandinavian Colour Institute (Skandinaviska Färginstitutet AB) of Stockholm, Sweden. It is based on the color opponency description of color vision, first proposed by German physiologist Ewald Hering.
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About is a book authored by infomercial entrepreneur and convicted felon Kevin Trudeau. It is advertised on television infomercials as a book that claims to reveal information about drug companies as well as a variety of natural cures for serious illnesses.
Natural Design Natural Design is an area of Aesthetics which which investigates and analyzes design found in Nature, particularly recurring design such as the similarities between the Solar System and the Atom, the ripples in sand and those in clouds, as well as the distribution channels of a water tributary and our body's circulatory and nervous systems.
Natural Desktop The Natural Desktop is a piece of software for Windows XP created by Stardock that is designed to recreate the environment outside, inside. To do this, Natural Desktop employs detailed animations of weather states, wallpapers by Digital Blasphemy and optional background sounds (e.
Natural Dreamers Natural Dreamers is a math rock group on the independent, San Francisco-based Frenetic Records label. Its members include guitarists Chris Cohen, John Dietrich (also a member of Deerhoof), and drummer Jay Pellicci (also of Dilute).
Natural evil Natural evil (also known as surd evil) is the result of any event perceived to be morally negative and that is not caused by the action or inaction of an agent, such as a person. It is a form of evil that stands in contradistinction to moral evil.
Natural Environment Park (Ontario) Natural Environment is the designation given by the Ontario Provincial Park System to parks which act as both Recreation parks and Nature Reserve parks. They both protect wildlife and allow for camping and other recreational activities.
Natural family planning Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a set of Catholic-sanctioned methods of family planning, which help women to achieve or avoid pregnancy by identifying times of infertility and potential fertility. In accordance with the teachings of this church, NFP excludes the use of artificial birth control methods and orgasmic acts outside of marital intercourse, promoting abstinence during high fertility times for couples trying to avoid pregnancy.
Natural fertility Natural fertility is a concept developed by French demographer Louis Henry to refer to the level of fertility that would prevail in a population that makes no conscious effort to limit, regulate, or control fertility, so that fertility depends only on physiological factors affecting fecundity. In contrast, populations that practice fertility control will have lower than "natural fertility" levels as a result of delaying first births (a lengthened interval between menarchy and first pregnancy), spacing out the intervals between births, or stopping child-bearing at a certain age.
Natural fiber Fiber or fibre (see spelling differences) is a class of hair-like materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to pieces of thread. They can be spun into filaments, thread, or rope.
Natural food movement The natural food movement is a term for a style of eating that became popular in America and Western Europe during the 1970s. Its principles include avoiding artificial ingredients and 'processed' foods such as refined sugar and white flour.
Natural Foods Diet The Natural Foods Diet is the avoidance of all unnatural and refined/processed ingredients. These ingredients include refined sugars, refined flours, milled grains, hydrogenated oils, artificial sweeteners, artificial food colors, artificial flavorings, and other similar ingredients.
Natural gas Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfideIt is found in oil field]s and [[natural gas fields, and in coal beds. When methane-rich gases are produced by the anaerobic decay of non-fossil organic material, these are referred to as biogas.
Natural gas prices Natural gas prices are now strongly influenced by worldwide markets, since the development of large pipeline networks in North America, Europe and Asia and of long distance ocean shipment of liquified natural gas beginning in the 1960s.
Natural gas vehicle A Natural gas vehicle or NGV is a vehicle that uses compressed natural gas (CNG) or, less commonly, liquified natural gas (LNG)) as a clean alternative to other automobile fuels. Worldwide, there are roughly 4 million NGVs as of 2004, with the largest number of NGVs in Argentina, Brazil, and Pakistan.
Natural gum Natural gums are polysaccharides of natural origin, capable of causing a large viscosity increase in solution, even at small concentrations. In the food industry they are used as thickening agents, gelling agents, emulsifiers and stabilisers.
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) is a natural gas pipeline which brings gas from the Texas Permian Basin and Gulf of Mexico into the Chicago area. It has two legs, one which goes to New Mexico and the other of which goes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Natural hair Natural hair or black hair, is a term used mainly by Western people of African descent to refer to their hair in its unprocessed form. That is, African hair which has not been altered by any chemical treatment such as perming, relaxing, straightening, bleaching or coloring.
Natural health In alternative medicine, natural health is an eclectic self-care system of natural therapies concerned with building and restoring health and wellness via prevention and healthy lifestyles. Natural health includes diet, exercise, naturopathy, nutripathy, herbalism, natural hygiene, homeopathy, massage therapy, relaxation techniques (e.
Natural history group The term natural history group refers to subjects in a drug trial that receive no treatment of any kind and whose illness is, as a consequence, left to run its "natural" course. The term stems from the natural history of an illness, which is the course and outcome of that illness in the absence of treatment.
Natural history of Australia The natural history of Australia has been shaped by the geological evolution of the Australian continent from Gondwana and the changes in global climate over geological time. The building of the Australian continent and its association with other land masses, as well as climate changes over geological time have created the unique flora and fauna present in Australia today.
Natural hygiene Natural hygiene (or orthopathy) is an alternative to medicine that claims that the human body can and will heal itself if the causes of disease are removed. However, it does acknowledge that this concept is not helpful for some conditions, such as diabetes and others.
Natural Health Center The Natural Health Center is a teaching clinic where licensed naturopathic doctors work with and train the medical students of the National College of Natural Medicine. It is also owned and managed by the college.
Natural Health Products Directorate The Natural Health Products Directorate (NHPD) is the division of the Health Products and Food Branch of Health Canada that is responsible for implementation of the Natural Health Product Regulations, including Good Manufacturing Practices, for Natural Health Products for sale in Canada.
Natural Heritage District of Jeju Island The Natural Heritage District of Jeju Island is a tentative World Heritage site that the South Korean government has registered with UNESCO. Jeju is a volcanic island, 130 kilometers from the southern coast of Korea.
Natural Heritage Education Natural Heritage Education is an educational program offered by Ontario Parks in some provincial parks in Ontario, Canada. It is designed to provide education focusing on the natural and cultural heritage of the park its surrounding area.
Natural Heritage Trust The Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) was set up by the Australian Government in 1997 to help restore and conserve Australia's environment and natural resources. Since then, thousands of community groups and organisations have received funding for environmental and natural resource management projects.
Natural History Museum The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum). Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA in 1913 as the Museum of History, Science, and Art. The moving force behind it was a museum association founded in 1910.
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (informally called The Wild Center) is a natural history museum that opened July 4, 2006 in New York state's Adirondack Park. The Museum was designed by Hellmuth Obata + Kassabaum, the same firm that designed the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, in collaboration with The Office of Charles P.
Natural History Museum, Leiden The National Museum of Natural History,Leiden or Naturalis, originated from the merger of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (abbreviated RMNH) and the Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie (abbreviated RGM) in 1984.
Natural History Publications (Borneo) Natural History Publications (Borneo) is a publishing house based in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. It is among the leading English language and natural history publishers in the Malaysia and the entire Southeast Asian region.
Natural childbirth Natural childbirth is a childbirth philosophy that attempts to minimize medical intervention, particularly the use of anesthetic medications and surgical interventions such as episiotomies, forceps and ventouse deliveries and caesarean sections.
Natural justice Natural justice is a legal philosophy used in some jurisdictions in the determination of just, or fair, processes in legal proceedings. The concept is very closely related to the principle of natural law (latin: jus naturale) which has been applied as a philosophical and practical principle in the law in several common law jurisdictions, particularly the UK and Australia.
Natural Justice Natural Justice is a charity that does research on the causes of criminal behavior, and especially on the related effects of nutrition. Natural Justice carried out an experiment in the Aylesbury Prison for young offenders.
Natural killer cell Natural killer (NK) cells are a form of cytotoxic lymphocyte which constitute a major component of the innate immune system. NK cells play a major role in the host-rejection of both tumours and virally infected cells.
Natural kind In philosophy a natural kind is a grouping of things which is a natural grouping, not an artificial one. Or, it is something a set of things (objects, events, beings) has in common which sets it apart from other things as a real set rather than as a group of things arbitrarily lumped together by a person or group of people.
Natural Killer T cell Natural killer T (NKT) cells are a heterogeneous group of T cells that share properties of both T cells and natural killer (NK) cells. Many of these cells recognize the non-polymorphic CD1d molecule, an antigen-presenting molecule that binds self- and foreign lipids and glycolipids.
Natural landscaping Natural landscaping, also called native gardening, is the use of plants, including trees, shrubs, groundcover, grasses and wildflowers, which are indigenous to the geographical area in which the garden is located, as well as rocks and boulders in place of groomed lawns and planned planting beds to blend residential or commercial property into the natural surroundings of the particular area.
Natural language In the philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a language that is spoken, written, or signed (visually or tactilely) by humans for general-purpose communication, as distinguished from such constructs as computer-programming languages or the "languages" used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic.
Natural language search Natural Language Search is the term used to describe web search engines that apply natural language processing of some form. Traditional search engines tend to use a non-linguistic model of language and the hypothesis is that NLS will provide better results - that is to say, results that more accurately and efficiently support a users need.
Natural law Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is a law whose content is set by nature, and that therefore has validity everywhere."Natural Law," International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
Natural lines of drift Natural lines of drift are those paths across terrain that are the most likely to be used when going from one place to another. These paths are typically those that offer the greatest ease while taking into account obstacles (e.
Natural Lands Trust The Natural Lands Trust, headquartered in Media, Pennsylvania, is one of the oldest regional land conservation groups in the United States. Founded by a group of avid bird-watchers in 1953, as the Philadelphia Conservationists, the Trust works in the suburban counties near Philadelphia to the Delaware Bay of the Jersey Shore to the Poconos.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, first published in 1983, is a theoretical linguistics journal currently published by Springer Netherlands. It is mainly devoted to work in generative linguistics, and features replies and book reviews in addition to the main research articles.
Natural Language Toolkit Natural Language ToolKit or, more commonly, NLTK is a suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing (NLP) for the Python programming language. NLTK includes graphical demonstrations and sample data.
Natural Law Party The TM organization founded the Natural Law Party in 1992 in support of candidates for public office dedicated to promoting both TM and Maharishi's far-reaching political goals at all levels of society. The Natural Law Party was a trans-national political party with national branches in over 80 countries.
Natural Law Party of Canada The Natural Law Party of Canada was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party, the political arm of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation movement. It never won a seat in Parliament, nor came close to doing so.
Natural Law Party of New Zealand The Natural Law Party of New Zealand was formed in 1995 and based its policies on the concept of "natural law" as understood by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation movement. According to the party, most of the country's problems can be solved using meditation.
Natural Law Party of Ontario The Natural Law Party of Ontario was a political party in the Canadian province of Ontario, established as the provincial affiliate of the Natural Law Party of Canada. It was established in 1993, and fielded candidates in the 1995 and 1999 provincial elections.
Natural Life Natural Life were an English band of the early 1990s that are best described as a "bohemian rock collective". The band were signed to an offshoot of Hollywood Records called Tr1be Records and featured percussionist Shovel, before he found fame as a member of M People.
Natural material A natural material is any product or physical matter that comes from plants and animals used to make other objects or products. Minerals and the metals that can be extracted from them (without further modification) are also considered to belong into this category.
Natural monuments of South Korea This is a partial list of the natural monuments of South Korea, as designated by the Cultural Heritage Administration of South Korea. As of December 2006, a total of 473 natural monuments had been designated; of these, 394 were still on the list, while the others had been removed for various reasons.
Natural Magic [Naturalis|Magiae Naturalis] (in English, Natural Magic) is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558. Its popularity ensured it was republished in five Latin editions within ten years, with translations into Italian (1560), French, (1565) and Dutch (1566) printed.
Natural nuclear fission reactor A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where analysis of isotope ratios has shown that self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions have occurred. The existence of this phenomenon was discovered in 1972 by French physicist Francis Perrin.
Natural number object In category theory, a natural number object (nno) is an object endowed with a recursive structure similar to natural numbers. More precisely, in a category E with a terminal object (alternately, a topos), an nno N is given by:
Natural Nylon Natural Nylon was a British film production company. It was officially formed in 1997 by Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor, Sean Pertwee, Damon Bryant and Bradley Adams, although the history of the group goes back a few years earlier.
Natural order The natural order is the moral source from which natural law seeks to derive its authority. It encompasses the natural relations of beings to one another, in the absence of law, which natural law attempts to reinforce.
Natural philosophy Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature, known in Latin as philosophia naturalis, is a term applied to the objective study of nature and the physical universe that was regnant before the development of modern science. It is considered the counterpart, or to positivists the precursor, of what is now called natural science, especially physics.
Natural point of aim Natural point of aim is a shooting skill where the shooter minimizes the effects of body movement on the firearm's impact point. Along with proper stance, sight picture and trigger control, it forms the basis of marksmanship.
Natural product A natural product is a chemical compound or substance produced by a living organism - found in nature that usually has a pharmacological or biological activity for use in pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug design.
Natural proof In computational complexity theory, a natural proof is a notion introduced by Alexander Razborov and Steven Rudich to describe a class of proofs for proving lower bounds on the circuit complexity of a boolean function. The proofs they describe show, either directly or indirectly, that a boolean function has a certain natural combinatorial property.
Natural region A Natural region is one which is distinguished by its natural features of geography and usually more importantly, geology. The natural ecology of the region is likely to be significant but one of these factors tends to influence the others.
Natural reservoir Natural reservoir or nidus, refers to the long-term host of the pathogen of an infectious disease. It is often the case that hosts do not get the disease carried by the pathogen or it is asymptomatic and non-lethal.
Natural resource Natural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. A commodity is generally considered a natural resource when the primary activities associated with it are extraction and purification, as opposed to creation.
Natural rights Natural rights (also called human rights) are universal rights that are seen as inherent in the nature of people, and not contingent on human actions or beliefs. One theory of natural rights was developed from the theory of natural law during the Enlightenment in opposition to the divine right of kings, and provided a moral justification for liberalism.
Natural Resources Natural Resources is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas in 1970 on the Gordy (Motown) label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who".
Natural Resources Canada Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), is a department of the government of Canada responsible for natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests, earth sciences, mapping and remote sensing. Under the Canadian constitution, responsibility for natural resources belongs to the provinces, not the federal government, but the federal government has jurisdiction over off-shore resources, trade and commerce in natural resources, over statistics, over international relations, and over boundaries.
Natural Resources Conservation Service The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) was founded in 1935 at the urging of Hugh Bennett, who also served as the agency's first chief. It was formed to address the problems caused by poor farming practices that resulted in the Dust Bowl, primarily soil erosion.
Natural Resources Stewardship Project The Natural Resources Stewardship Project is a Canadian non-profit organization presenting itself as undertaking "A proactive grassroots campaign to counter the Kyoto Protocol and other greenhouse gas reduction schemes while promoting sensible climate change policy." It is headed by global warming skeptics Tom Harris, formerly Ottawa director of High Park Group, and Tim Ball, formerly Professor of Geography at the University of Winnipeg.
Natural science In science, natural science is the rational study of the universe via rules or laws of natural order. The term natural science is also used to distinguish those fields that use the scientific method to study nature from the social sciences, which use the scientific method to study human behavior, and from the formal sciences, such as mathematics and logic, which use a different methodology.
Natural selection Natural selection is the process by which favorable traits that are heritable propagate throughout a reproductive population: individual organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with unfavorable traits. If these traits have a genetic basis, then the genotypes associated with the favored traits will increase in frequency in the next generation.
Natural semantic metalanguage The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) is an approach to semantic analysis based on reductive paraphrase (that is, breaking concepts/words down into combinations of simpler concepts/words, see oligosynthetic) using a small collection of semantic primes. The semantic primes (below) are believed to be atomic, primitive meanings present in all human languages.
Natural sign In musical notation, a natural sign (natural) is a sign used to cancel a flat or sharp from either a preceding note or the key signature. Naturals are assumed (by default) in key signatures and mentioned only in key signature changes.
Natural skin care Natural skin care is the care of the skin (the largest organ of the body) using naturally-derived ingredients (such as herbs, roots, essential oils and flowers) combined with naturally occurring carrier agents, preservatives, surfactants, humectants and emulsifiers (everything from natural soap to oils to pure water). The classic definition of natural skin care is based on using botanically sourced ingredients currently existing in or formed by nature, without the use of synthetic chemicals, and manufactured in such a way to preserve the integrity of the ingredient.
Natural Science and Technical Academy Isny The Natural Science and Technical Academy Isny (Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Akademie Isny, NTA or NTA Isny) is a privately run, state-approved German university focusing in applied sciences, located in Isny im Allgäu.
Natural Sciences (Cambridge) The University of Cambridge has an undergraduate degree programme in natural sciences, termed the Natural Sciences Tripos (NST or NatSci) that differs from most other universities, in that a student cannot read only one 'science', but must study several different broad bases of the sciences in their first year, called part IA. Teaching is carried out by 16 different departments.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) is a Canadian government division that provides grants for research in the natural sciences and in engineering. In 2004-2005, it will invest CAD $850 million in university-based research and training.
Natural Sciences Collections Association The Natural Sciences Collections Association promotes research and exchange of ideas, advances in technical and ethical standards, and raising the public profile of the conservation and preservation of natural science collections and objects in the United Kingdom.
Natural abundance Natural abundance is the prevalence of different isotopes of an element as found on Earth naturally. The relative atomic mass (a weighted average) of these isotopes is the atomic weight listed for the element in the periodic table.
Natural acoustic band The Natural Acoustic Band was a British acid-folk band, which was formed in 1969 in Milngavie, Glasgow, Scotland. There were a number of personnel changes throughout the band's history, but the best known line up was:
Natural and Cultural Peruvian Heritage The Peruvian Constitution of 1993 recognised the natural resources and ecosystem variety of its country as a heritage. In 1900, the National System of Natural Areas that are protected by the Peruvian Government (SINANPE) was created.
Natural arch A natural arch or natural bridge is a natural formation (or landform) where a rock arch forms, with a natural passageway through underneath. Most natural arches form as a narrow ridge, walled by cliffs, become narrower from erosion, with a softer rock stratum under the cliff-forming stratum gradually eroding out until the rock shelters thus formed meet underneath the ridge, thus forming the arch.
Natural authority Natural Authority is the authority a person exerts that is innate to them rather than being drawn from some external body. Natural authority relies on factors such as charisma, negotiating skills, assertiveness and self confidence rather than law, political position, wealth or standing in an organization.
Natural Area Code The Natural Area Code (or Universal Address) is a proprietary geocode system for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth, or a volume of space anywhere around the Earth. The use of thirty alphanumeric characters instead of only ten digits makes a NAC shorter than its numerical latitude/longitude equivalent.
Natural bobtail A natural bobtail is a tail which due to a mutated gene grows to a shortened length or is completely cut off at the base of the spine. The term also refers to animals carrying the gene for a naturally short tail or animals that naturally have no tail.
Natural bodybuilding Some advocates for natural bodybuilding believe their sport is more than “a competition”. Competition for a true natural bodybuilder, some believe, is not an end, but rather a challenge along the path of life-long fitness used as a goal-setting tool to motivate or as a place to celebrate personal achievements.
Natural building Natural building involves a range of building systems and materials that place major emphasis on sustainability. Ways of achieving sustainability through natural building focus on durability and the use of minimally-processed, plentiful or renewable resources, as well as those which, while recycled or salvaged, produce healthy living environments and maintain indoor air quality.
Natural Body Magic (NBM) Natural Body Magic (Also called "Natural Body Separation") is a paraphilia where the main subject is fantasizing about a person that can be either cut or disassembled into various pieces, and live and function normally. A common visual example of this is the "Sawing a woman in half" trick that was popular among stage magicians in the early 20th century.
Natural Born Chaos Natural Born Chaos is the fourth album released by the Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. It has been produced by Devin Townsend who also sings on "Black Star Deceiver" and "Soilworker's Song of the Damned".
Natural Born Kissers "Natural Born Kissers" is the last episode of the ninth season of The Simpsons, and is especially notable for its risque subject matter. Some networks, including the UK's Sky One and Canada's CBC, list the episode by its working title: "Margie, May I Sleep With Danger?
Natural Born Sinners The Natural Born Sinners were a professional wrestling tag team in Ring of Honor, consisting of Homicide and Boogalou. Wrestling in orange prison uniforms, the Natural Born Sinners would come to the ring wearing Michael Myers and Leatherface masks, with Boogalou (as Leatherface) also wielding a chainsaw.
Natural Bridge (Virginia) Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia is a geological formation in which Cedar Creek (a small tributary of the James River) has carved out a gorge of the limestone mountainous terrain, forming an arch 215 ft (66 m) high with a span of 90 ft (27 m). It consists of horizontal limestone strata, and is the remains of the roof of a cave or tunnel through which the creek once flowed.
Natural Bridge Caverns Natural Bridge Caverns are the largest known commercial caverns in the state of Texas. The name was derived from the 20 m (65 foot) natural limestone slab bridge that spans the amphitheater setting of the cavern's entrance.
Natural Bridge State Park (Kentucky) Natural Bridge State Park is a Kentucky state park located in Powell County, Kentucky along the Middle Fork of the Red River, adjacent to the Red River Gorge Geologic Area and surrounded by the Daniel Boone National Forest. Its namesake natural bridge is the centerpiece of the park.
Natural capital Natural capital is a metaphor for the mineral, plant, and animal formations of the Earth's biosphere when viewed as a means of production of oxygen, water filter, erosion preventer, or provider of other ecosystem services. It is one approach to ecosystem valuation, an alternative to the traditional view of all non-human life as passive natural resources, and to the idea of ecological health.
Natural capitalism Natural capitalism is a set of trends and economic reforms to reward energy and material efficiency and remove professional standards and accounting conventions that prevent such efficiencies. It emerged in the 1990s as a coherent theory of how to exploit market systems and mechanisms of neoclassical economics to save energy, discourage waste, mimic ecology (biomimicry), and in general to support the goals of environmentalism by reframing commodity and product relations towards a strictly service economy, thereby extending the services of natural capital.
Natural cleaning product Natural cleaning products are substances used to clean, deodorize, and/or disinfect which have natural substances as their active ingredients. In some cases, natural cleaning products may be less damaging to the environment and safer for humans and pets than conventional cleaning products.
Natural computation Natural computation, also called natural computing, is the field of research that works with computational techniques inspired in part by nature and natural systems. The aim of such research is to develop new computational tools (in software, hardware or wetware) for solving complex, usually conventionally-hard problems.
Natural Color System The Natural Color System® (NCS) is a proprietary perceptual color model published by the Scandinavian Colour Institute (Skandinaviska Färginstitutet AB) of Stockholm, Sweden. It is based on the color opponency description of color vision, first proposed by German physiologist Ewald Hering.
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About is a book authored by infomercial entrepreneur and convicted felon Kevin Trudeau. It is advertised on television infomercials as a book that claims to reveal information about drug companies as well as a variety of natural cures for serious illnesses.
Natural Design Natural Design is an area of Aesthetics which which investigates and analyzes design found in Nature, particularly recurring design such as the similarities between the Solar System and the Atom, the ripples in sand and those in clouds, as well as the distribution channels of a water tributary and our body's circulatory and nervous systems.
Natural Desktop The Natural Desktop is a piece of software for Windows XP created by Stardock that is designed to recreate the environment outside, inside. To do this, Natural Desktop employs detailed animations of weather states, wallpapers by Digital Blasphemy and optional background sounds (e.
Natural Dreamers Natural Dreamers is a math rock group on the independent, San Francisco-based Frenetic Records label. Its members include guitarists Chris Cohen, John Dietrich (also a member of Deerhoof), and drummer Jay Pellicci (also of Dilute).
Natural evil Natural evil (also known as surd evil) is the result of any event perceived to be morally negative and that is not caused by the action or inaction of an agent, such as a person. It is a form of evil that stands in contradistinction to moral evil.
Natural Environment Park (Ontario) Natural Environment is the designation given by the Ontario Provincial Park System to parks which act as both Recreation parks and Nature Reserve parks. They both protect wildlife and allow for camping and other recreational activities.
Natural family planning Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a set of Catholic-sanctioned methods of family planning, which help women to achieve or avoid pregnancy by identifying times of infertility and potential fertility. In accordance with the teachings of this church, NFP excludes the use of artificial birth control methods and orgasmic acts outside of marital intercourse, promoting abstinence during high fertility times for couples trying to avoid pregnancy.
Natural fertility Natural fertility is a concept developed by French demographer Louis Henry to refer to the level of fertility that would prevail in a population that makes no conscious effort to limit, regulate, or control fertility, so that fertility depends only on physiological factors affecting fecundity. In contrast, populations that practice fertility control will have lower than "natural fertility" levels as a result of delaying first births (a lengthened interval between menarchy and first pregnancy), spacing out the intervals between births, or stopping child-bearing at a certain age.
Natural fiber Fiber or fibre (see spelling differences) is a class of hair-like materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to pieces of thread. They can be spun into filaments, thread, or rope.
Natural food movement The natural food movement is a term for a style of eating that became popular in America and Western Europe during the 1970s. Its principles include avoiding artificial ingredients and 'processed' foods such as refined sugar and white flour.
Natural Foods Diet The Natural Foods Diet is the avoidance of all unnatural and refined/processed ingredients. These ingredients include refined sugars, refined flours, milled grains, hydrogenated oils, artificial sweeteners, artificial food colors, artificial flavorings, and other similar ingredients.
Natural gas Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfideIt is found in oil field]s and [[natural gas fields, and in coal beds. When methane-rich gases are produced by the anaerobic decay of non-fossil organic material, these are referred to as biogas.
Natural gas prices Natural gas prices are now strongly influenced by worldwide markets, since the development of large pipeline networks in North America, Europe and Asia and of long distance ocean shipment of liquified natural gas beginning in the 1960s.
Natural gas vehicle A Natural gas vehicle or NGV is a vehicle that uses compressed natural gas (CNG) or, less commonly, liquified natural gas (LNG)) as a clean alternative to other automobile fuels. Worldwide, there are roughly 4 million NGVs as of 2004, with the largest number of NGVs in Argentina, Brazil, and Pakistan.
Natural gum Natural gums are polysaccharides of natural origin, capable of causing a large viscosity increase in solution, even at small concentrations. In the food industry they are used as thickening agents, gelling agents, emulsifiers and stabilisers.
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) is a natural gas pipeline which brings gas from the Texas Permian Basin and Gulf of Mexico into the Chicago area. It has two legs, one which goes to New Mexico and the other of which goes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Natural hair Natural hair or black hair, is a term used mainly by Western people of African descent to refer to their hair in its unprocessed form. That is, African hair which has not been altered by any chemical treatment such as perming, relaxing, straightening, bleaching or coloring.
Natural health In alternative medicine, natural health is an eclectic self-care system of natural therapies concerned with building and restoring health and wellness via prevention and healthy lifestyles. Natural health includes diet, exercise, naturopathy, nutripathy, herbalism, natural hygiene, homeopathy, massage therapy, relaxation techniques (e.
Natural history group The term natural history group refers to subjects in a drug trial that receive no treatment of any kind and whose illness is, as a consequence, left to run its "natural" course. The term stems from the natural history of an illness, which is the course and outcome of that illness in the absence of treatment.
Natural history of Australia The natural history of Australia has been shaped by the geological evolution of the Australian continent from Gondwana and the changes in global climate over geological time. The building of the Australian continent and its association with other land masses, as well as climate changes over geological time have created the unique flora and fauna present in Australia today.
Natural hygiene Natural hygiene (or orthopathy) is an alternative to medicine that claims that the human body can and will heal itself if the causes of disease are removed. However, it does acknowledge that this concept is not helpful for some conditions, such as diabetes and others.
Natural Health Center The Natural Health Center is a teaching clinic where licensed naturopathic doctors work with and train the medical students of the National College of Natural Medicine. It is also owned and managed by the college.
Natural Health Products Directorate The Natural Health Products Directorate (NHPD) is the division of the Health Products and Food Branch of Health Canada that is responsible for implementation of the Natural Health Product Regulations, including Good Manufacturing Practices, for Natural Health Products for sale in Canada.
Natural Heritage District of Jeju Island The Natural Heritage District of Jeju Island is a tentative World Heritage site that the South Korean government has registered with UNESCO. Jeju is a volcanic island, 130 kilometers from the southern coast of Korea.
Natural Heritage Education Natural Heritage Education is an educational program offered by Ontario Parks in some provincial parks in Ontario, Canada. It is designed to provide education focusing on the natural and cultural heritage of the park its surrounding area.
Natural Heritage Trust The Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) was set up by the Australian Government in 1997 to help restore and conserve Australia's environment and natural resources. Since then, thousands of community groups and organisations have received funding for environmental and natural resource management projects.
Natural History Museum The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum). Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA in 1913 as the Museum of History, Science, and Art. The moving force behind it was a museum association founded in 1910.
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (informally called The Wild Center) is a natural history museum that opened July 4, 2006 in New York state's Adirondack Park. The Museum was designed by Hellmuth Obata + Kassabaum, the same firm that designed the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, in collaboration with The Office of Charles P.
Natural History Museum, Leiden The National Museum of Natural History,Leiden or Naturalis, originated from the merger of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (abbreviated RMNH) and the Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie (abbreviated RGM) in 1984.
Natural History Publications (Borneo) Natural History Publications (Borneo) is a publishing house based in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. It is among the leading English language and natural history publishers in the Malaysia and the entire Southeast Asian region.
Natural childbirth Natural childbirth is a childbirth philosophy that attempts to minimize medical intervention, particularly the use of anesthetic medications and surgical interventions such as episiotomies, forceps and ventouse deliveries and caesarean sections.
Natural justice Natural justice is a legal philosophy used in some jurisdictions in the determination of just, or fair, processes in legal proceedings. The concept is very closely related to the principle of natural law (latin: jus naturale) which has been applied as a philosophical and practical principle in the law in several common law jurisdictions, particularly the UK and Australia.
Natural Justice Natural Justice is a charity that does research on the causes of criminal behavior, and especially on the related effects of nutrition. Natural Justice carried out an experiment in the Aylesbury Prison for young offenders.
Natural killer cell Natural killer (NK) cells are a form of cytotoxic lymphocyte which constitute a major component of the innate immune system. NK cells play a major role in the host-rejection of both tumours and virally infected cells.
Natural kind In philosophy a natural kind is a grouping of things which is a natural grouping, not an artificial one. Or, it is something a set of things (objects, events, beings) has in common which sets it apart from other things as a real set rather than as a group of things arbitrarily lumped together by a person or group of people.
Natural Killer T cell Natural killer T (NKT) cells are a heterogeneous group of T cells that share properties of both T cells and natural killer (NK) cells. Many of these cells recognize the non-polymorphic CD1d molecule, an antigen-presenting molecule that binds self- and foreign lipids and glycolipids.
Natural landscaping Natural landscaping, also called native gardening, is the use of plants, including trees, shrubs, groundcover, grasses and wildflowers, which are indigenous to the geographical area in which the garden is located, as well as rocks and boulders in place of groomed lawns and planned planting beds to blend residential or commercial property into the natural surroundings of the particular area.
Natural language In the philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a language that is spoken, written, or signed (visually or tactilely) by humans for general-purpose communication, as distinguished from such constructs as computer-programming languages or the "languages" used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic.
Natural language search Natural Language Search is the term used to describe web search engines that apply natural language processing of some form. Traditional search engines tend to use a non-linguistic model of language and the hypothesis is that NLS will provide better results - that is to say, results that more accurately and efficiently support a users need.
Natural law Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is a law whose content is set by nature, and that therefore has validity everywhere."Natural Law," International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
Natural lines of drift Natural lines of drift are those paths across terrain that are the most likely to be used when going from one place to another. These paths are typically those that offer the greatest ease while taking into account obstacles (e.
Natural Lands Trust The Natural Lands Trust, headquartered in Media, Pennsylvania, is one of the oldest regional land conservation groups in the United States. Founded by a group of avid bird-watchers in 1953, as the Philadelphia Conservationists, the Trust works in the suburban counties near Philadelphia to the Delaware Bay of the Jersey Shore to the Poconos.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, first published in 1983, is a theoretical linguistics journal currently published by Springer Netherlands. It is mainly devoted to work in generative linguistics, and features replies and book reviews in addition to the main research articles.
Natural Language Toolkit Natural Language ToolKit or, more commonly, NLTK is a suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing (NLP) for the Python programming language. NLTK includes graphical demonstrations and sample data.
Natural Law Party The TM organization founded the Natural Law Party in 1992 in support of candidates for public office dedicated to promoting both TM and Maharishi's far-reaching political goals at all levels of society. The Natural Law Party was a trans-national political party with national branches in over 80 countries.
Natural Law Party of Canada The Natural Law Party of Canada was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party, the political arm of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation movement. It never won a seat in Parliament, nor came close to doing so.
Natural Law Party of New Zealand The Natural Law Party of New Zealand was formed in 1995 and based its policies on the concept of "natural law" as understood by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation movement. According to the party, most of the country's problems can be solved using meditation.
Natural Law Party of Ontario The Natural Law Party of Ontario was a political party in the Canadian province of Ontario, established as the provincial affiliate of the Natural Law Party of Canada. It was established in 1993, and fielded candidates in the 1995 and 1999 provincial elections.
Natural Life Natural Life were an English band of the early 1990s that are best described as a "bohemian rock collective". The band were signed to an offshoot of Hollywood Records called Tr1be Records and featured percussionist Shovel, before he found fame as a member of M People.
Natural material A natural material is any product or physical matter that comes from plants and animals used to make other objects or products. Minerals and the metals that can be extracted from them (without further modification) are also considered to belong into this category.
Natural monuments of South Korea This is a partial list of the natural monuments of South Korea, as designated by the Cultural Heritage Administration of South Korea. As of December 2006, a total of 473 natural monuments had been designated; of these, 394 were still on the list, while the others had been removed for various reasons.
Natural Magic [Naturalis|Magiae Naturalis] (in English, Natural Magic) is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558. Its popularity ensured it was republished in five Latin editions within ten years, with translations into Italian (1560), French, (1565) and Dutch (1566) printed.
Natural nuclear fission reactor A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where analysis of isotope ratios has shown that self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions have occurred. The existence of this phenomenon was discovered in 1972 by French physicist Francis Perrin.
Natural number object In category theory, a natural number object (nno) is an object endowed with a recursive structure similar to natural numbers. More precisely, in a category E with a terminal object (alternately, a topos), an nno N is given by:
Natural Nylon Natural Nylon was a British film production company. It was officially formed in 1997 by Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor, Sean Pertwee, Damon Bryant and Bradley Adams, although the history of the group goes back a few years earlier.
Natural order The natural order is the moral source from which natural law seeks to derive its authority. It encompasses the natural relations of beings to one another, in the absence of law, which natural law attempts to reinforce.
Natural philosophy Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature, known in Latin as philosophia naturalis, is a term applied to the objective study of nature and the physical universe that was regnant before the development of modern science. It is considered the counterpart, or to positivists the precursor, of what is now called natural science, especially physics.
Natural point of aim Natural point of aim is a shooting skill where the shooter minimizes the effects of body movement on the firearm's impact point. Along with proper stance, sight picture and trigger control, it forms the basis of marksmanship.
Natural product A natural product is a chemical compound or substance produced by a living organism - found in nature that usually has a pharmacological or biological activity for use in pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug design.
Natural proof In computational complexity theory, a natural proof is a notion introduced by Alexander Razborov and Steven Rudich to describe a class of proofs for proving lower bounds on the circuit complexity of a boolean function. The proofs they describe show, either directly or indirectly, that a boolean function has a certain natural combinatorial property.
Natural region A Natural region is one which is distinguished by its natural features of geography and usually more importantly, geology. The natural ecology of the region is likely to be significant but one of these factors tends to influence the others.
Natural reservoir Natural reservoir or nidus, refers to the long-term host of the pathogen of an infectious disease. It is often the case that hosts do not get the disease carried by the pathogen or it is asymptomatic and non-lethal.
Natural resource Natural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. A commodity is generally considered a natural resource when the primary activities associated with it are extraction and purification, as opposed to creation.
Natural rights Natural rights (also called human rights) are universal rights that are seen as inherent in the nature of people, and not contingent on human actions or beliefs. One theory of natural rights was developed from the theory of natural law during the Enlightenment in opposition to the divine right of kings, and provided a moral justification for liberalism.
Natural Resources Natural Resources is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas in 1970 on the Gordy (Motown) label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who".
Natural Resources Canada Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), is a department of the government of Canada responsible for natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests, earth sciences, mapping and remote sensing. Under the Canadian constitution, responsibility for natural resources belongs to the provinces, not the federal government, but the federal government has jurisdiction over off-shore resources, trade and commerce in natural resources, over statistics, over international relations, and over boundaries.
Natural Resources Conservation Service The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) was founded in 1935 at the urging of Hugh Bennett, who also served as the agency's first chief. It was formed to address the problems caused by poor farming practices that resulted in the Dust Bowl, primarily soil erosion.
Natural Resources Stewardship Project The Natural Resources Stewardship Project is a Canadian non-profit organization presenting itself as undertaking "A proactive grassroots campaign to counter the Kyoto Protocol and other greenhouse gas reduction schemes while promoting sensible climate change policy." It is headed by global warming skeptics Tom Harris, formerly Ottawa director of High Park Group, and Tim Ball, formerly Professor of Geography at the University of Winnipeg.
Natural science In science, natural science is the rational study of the universe via rules or laws of natural order. The term natural science is also used to distinguish those fields that use the scientific method to study nature from the social sciences, which use the scientific method to study human behavior, and from the formal sciences, such as mathematics and logic, which use a different methodology.
Natural selection Natural selection is the process by which favorable traits that are heritable propagate throughout a reproductive population: individual organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with unfavorable traits. If these traits have a genetic basis, then the genotypes associated with the favored traits will increase in frequency in the next generation.
Natural semantic metalanguage The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) is an approach to semantic analysis based on reductive paraphrase (that is, breaking concepts/words down into combinations of simpler concepts/words, see oligosynthetic) using a small collection of semantic primes. The semantic primes (below) are believed to be atomic, primitive meanings present in all human languages.
Natural sign In musical notation, a natural sign (natural) is a sign used to cancel a flat or sharp from either a preceding note or the key signature. Naturals are assumed (by default) in key signatures and mentioned only in key signature changes.
Natural skin care Natural skin care is the care of the skin (the largest organ of the body) using naturally-derived ingredients (such as herbs, roots, essential oils and flowers) combined with naturally occurring carrier agents, preservatives, surfactants, humectants and emulsifiers (everything from natural soap to oils to pure water). The classic definition of natural skin care is based on using botanically sourced ingredients currently existing in or formed by nature, without the use of synthetic chemicals, and manufactured in such a way to preserve the integrity of the ingredient.
Natural Science and Technical Academy Isny The Natural Science and Technical Academy Isny (Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Akademie Isny, NTA or NTA Isny) is a privately run, state-approved German university focusing in applied sciences, located in Isny im Allgäu.
Natural Sciences (Cambridge) The University of Cambridge has an undergraduate degree programme in natural sciences, termed the Natural Sciences Tripos (NST or NatSci) that differs from most other universities, in that a student cannot read only one 'science', but must study several different broad bases of the sciences in their first year, called part IA. Teaching is carried out by 16 different departments.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) is a Canadian government division that provides grants for research in the natural sciences and in engineering. In 2004-2005, it will invest CAD $850 million in university-based research and training.
Natural Sciences Collections Association The Natural Sciences Collections Association promotes research and exchange of ideas, advances in technical and ethical standards, and raising the public profile of the conservation and preservation of natural science collections and objects in the United Kingdom.
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