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Nazarov cyclization reaction A Nazarov cyclization is an organic reaction converting a divinylketone into a cyclopentenone under the influence of a Brønsted acid such as sulfuric acid or a Lewis acid such aluminum chloride Named Organic Reactions, 2nd Edition, Thomas Laue and Andreas Plagens, John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, England, New York, 2005. 320 pp.
Nazas River The Nazas River is located in the North of Mexico and is shared by the States of Coahuila and Durango. It has only 560 kms in lenght (about 250 miles), but irrigates an area of 72000 km2 in the middle of the desert.
Nazım Hikmet Nazım Hikmet Ran (IPA:na'zɨm hik'met) (November 20, 1901 – June 3, 1963) was a Turkish poet, dramatist and communist, who is widely regarded as the best-known Turkish poet in the West and his works have been translated into several languages. He was born in Selânik in the Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloniki, Greece).
Nazca Nazca (sometimes spelled Nasca) is the name of a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru, and the name of the region's largest existing town. It is also the name applied to the Nazca culture that flourished in the area between 300 B.
Nazca Lines The Nazca Lines are gigantic geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches 53 miles between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. They were created by the Nazca culture between 200 BCE and 700 CE.
Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub is a large and cunning Ork Warlord from the game Warhammer 40000. He is one of the star players in the current Fall of Medusa V campaign, as his personal space hulk has crashlanded on the doomed planet.
Naze Nani Nadesico "Naze Nani Nadesico" ("The How and Why of Nadesico") is a plot device from the anime series, Martian Successor Nadesico. It appears in Episodes 7 and 25 and also in clip show format in Episode 14.
Nazeer Akbarabadi Nazeer Akbarabadi (Urdu: نظیر اکبر آبادی) (real name "Wali Muhammad") was an Indian poet of 18th century who wrote Urdu ghazals and nazms under takhallus (Urdu word for nom de plume) "Nazeer". His father was Muhammad Farooq and his mother was the daughter of Nawab Sultan Khan who was the governor of Agra fort.
Nazi archaeology Nazi archaeology refers to the movement led by various Nazi leaders, archaeologists, and other scholars, such as Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, to recreate the German past in order to strengthen nationalism. This movement was based on ideas of Tacitus’ Germania, which set out to bring the glory of the Roman Empire to Germany.
Nazi concentration camp badges Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were used in the concentration camps in the Nazi-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. The triangles were made of fabric and were sewn on jackets and shirts of the prisoners.
Nazi concentration camps Prior to and during World War II Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager or KZ) throughout the territory it controlled. The Nazis adopted the term euphemistically from the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War to conceal the deadly nature of the camps.
Nazi concentration camps in Norway During the German occupation of Norway in World War II the civilian occupying authorities with the Quisling regime and the German Wehrmacht operated a number of camps in Norway. The occupancy of these camps varied throughout the war, but after the fall of 1944 they filled up, as transportation of prisoners to Germany slowed down.
Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles This article details the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against ethnic Poles during World War II. Three million non-Jewish Polish citizens perished during the course of the war, most of them civilians, killed by the actions of Nazi Germany.
Nazi eugenics Nazi eugenics pertains to Nazi Germany's race based social policies that placed the improvement of the race through eugenics at the centre of their concerns and targeted those humans they identified as Life Unworthy of Life, including but not limited to: criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, religious and weak humans for elimination from the chain of heredity.
Nazi gold 'Nazi gold' refers to the assets in gold transferred by Nazi Germany to overseas banks during the Second World War. The regime maintained a policy of looting the assets of its victims to finance the war, collecting the looted assets in central depositories.
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany or the Third Reich, officially called the German Reich (Deutsches Reich), and later the Greater German Reich (GroĂźdeutsches Reich), refers to Germany in the years 1933 to 1945, when it was governed by the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP), with FĂĽhrer Adolf Hitler as chancellor and, from 1934, [[Head of State|hea
Nazi Ghost Train The Nazi Ghost Train was a Comet Line train in 1944 that the Gestapo was using to transport Belgian prisoners and Allied airmen into Germany. The Belgian Resistance managed to stop the train from reaching Germany with the prisoners.
Nazi chocolate bar bomb During the Second World War German saboteurs operating against Britain designed a range of unconventional bombs disguised as, amongst others: tins of plums, throat lozenges, shaving brushes, batteries, wood, coal and stuffed dogs. Arguably the most unconventional bomb was the Nazi explosive chocolate bar that was intended to be smuggled into the homes of the Royals with the purpose of assassination.
Nazi mysticism Nazi mysticism is a quasi-religious undercurrent of Nazism; it denotes the mixture of Nazism with occultism, esotericism, cryptohistory, and/or the paranormal — especially in the traditions of Germanic mysticism. Nazi mysticism generally ascribes a religious significance to the person of Adolf Hitler and to the Nazi mission.
Nazi party paramilitary ranks Nazi party paramilitary ranks were pseudo-military titles which were used by the National Socialist German Workers Party between the years of 1920 and 1945. Since the Nazi Party was by its very nature a paramilitary organization, by the time of the Second World War, several systems of paramilitary ranks had come into existence for both the Nazi Party itself and the various Nazi paramilitary organizations.
Nazi party rally grounds Nazi party rally grounds (in German Reichsparteitagsgelände) is the name of a site in the southeast of Nuremberg (UGN: ), where the Nazi party rallies were held from 1933 until 1938. It includes the Congress Hall, the Zeppelin Field, the Märzfeld (March Field), the Deutsche Stadion (German stadium), the former Stadion der Hitlerjugend ("stadium of the Hitler Youth", today Frankenstadion) and the Große Straße ("great road").
Nazi plunder Nazi plunder refers to art theft and other items stolen as a result of the organized spoliation of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of the ruling Nazi Party of Germany. Plundering occurred from 1933 until the end of World War II, although most plunder was acquired during the war.
Nazi propaganda Nazi Germany was noted for its psychologically powerful propaganda, much of which was centered around Jews, who were scapegoated as the source of Germany's economic woes. Nazi propaganda also expressed themes more common among the warring countries: the imminent defeat of their enemies, the need for security, etc.
Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially known as the National Socialist German Workers' Party (, or NSDAP), was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. The party's leader, Adolf Hitler, was appointed chancellor of Germany by president Hindenburg in 1933.
Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Napalm Death) Nazi Punks Fuck Off is a 1993 EP, a single and a Dead Kennedys cover song by English band Napalm Death. The EP consists of four tracks including the title track; a live version of it; "Aryanisms", a song off their 1992 album Utopia Banished; and a mix of "Contemptuous", off the same album.
Nazi symbolism The twentieth century German Nazi Party was notable for their extensive use of graphic symbolism, most notably the Hakenkreuz (swastika) which it used as its principal symbol, and, in the form of the swastika flag, became the state flag of Nazi Germany.
Nazi UFOs Nazi UFOs (German: Haunebu, Hauneburg-Geräte, or Reichsflugscheiben) are advanced aircraft or spacecraft that Nazi Germany supposedly developed during World War II and Nazi scientists continued to develop afterwards. These craft appear not only in fiction
Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group is a United States government interagency group, which tasked with locating, identifying, inventorying, and recommending for declassification classified U.S.
Nazi Writer's Union The Nazi Writer's Union (German: Der Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller) was founded in 1933 by the Nazi government of the Third Reich in the process of 'germanizing' cultural institutions and purging it of foreign influences. This process was necessitated by the Reichskulturkammergesetz (National Cultural Chamber Act) of 9 September 1933.
Nazia and Zoheb Nazia Hassan (Urdu: Ů†Ř§Ř˛ŰŚŰ Řسن) singer, born April 3 1965; died August 13 2000 and Zoheb Hassan (Urdu: زŮŰیب Řسن) were a singing sensation and pioneers of the Pakistani pop music scene during the 1980s.
Nazilli Nazilli is the second largest town in the Aydın Province of western Turkey. The city center has a population of 105,665 (from the 2000 census) but its overall population including its counties have been well over 150,000 for decades.
Nazim Nazim (Urdu: ناظم ) is the Coordinator of cities and towns in Pakistan. Nazim is the title in Urdu of the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a District, Tehsil, Union Council, or Village Council.
Nazim al-Kudsi Nazim al-Kudsi, also spelled "al-Qudsi" or "al-Cudsi" (1900-1998) (Arabic: ناظم القدسي), was a Syrian politician and head of state (December 14, 1961 - March 8, 1963), He was born in and raised in Aleppo. He obtained his undergraduate degree in law from Damascus University, his MA from the American University of Beirut (AUB), and his PhD from the University of Geneva.
Nazir (Talmud) Nazir (Hebrew: × ×–×™×¨) is a treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta and in both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the laws of the Nazirite laid down in Numbers 6:1-21. In the Tosefta its title is Nezirut ("Nazariteship").
Nazir Ahmad Nazir Ahmad is a 40-year-old Pakistani man who killed his three daughters and his stepdaughter as his wife, Rehmat Bibi, watched. When Ahmad's eldest (step) daughter, 25-year-old Muqadas Bibi, married a man against his wishes, he slit her throat with a machete in retribution while she slept.
Nazirite A nazirite or nazarite, (in Hebrew: × ×–×™×¨, nazir), refers to a Jew who took an ascetic vow described in . The term "nazirite" comes from the Hebrew word nazir meaning "consecrated" or "separated".
Nazis in fiction During and after the Second World War, Nazism became a key driving force behind Allied propaganda, as well as the development of the superhero during the Golden Age of comics. Ideas that the Third Reich could have possibly implemented have helped to fuel various films, books and comics from 1939 to the present day.
Nazis in the CIA After the end of World War II, a large number of intelligence agents from the Gestapo, German army intelligence and other groups in the Nazi intelligence apparatus were recruited by the CIA even though they had war crime records. The CIA and Nazi sympathizers such as the US military governor of the US occupation zone in Germany, John Jay McCloy facilitated the pardon and protection of Nazi industrialists and other Nazi officials especially those serving in the Nazi intelligence apparatus.
Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America is a 1992 book by John George and Laird Wilcox. It is an examination of political extremism of both the far left and far right in the United States.
Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy, directed by Tracy Atkinson and Joan Baran, narrated by Malcolm McDowell, is an English language 1998 Discovery Channel documentary regarding the occult influences and history of the Nazi Era, (pre, during and post) in Germany.
Nazism Nazism or Naziism, officially called National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party, or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. It also refers to the policies adopted by the NSDAP government of Germany (1933–1945), a period in German history known as Nazi Germany (German: Nazizeit, literally "Nazi time") or the Third Reich (German: Drittes Reich).
Nazism and race Nazis claimed to scientifically measure a strict hierarchy among races; at the top was the Aryan race (minus the Slavs, who were seen as below Aryan), then lesser races. At the bottom of this hierarchy were "parasitic" races, or Untermenschen, which were perceived to be dangerous to society.
Nazism and religion The relationship between German Nazism and religion is a controversial area of study, with much debate centered on two key issues: the role of Protestant and Catholic clergy and hierarchies in defending, criticizing, or ignoring the Nazi regime and its inceasingly repressive actions towards Jews, religious and political minorities, and others; and the role of paganism, the occult, and mysticism in formulating the views of Hitler and the Nazi Party. This entry looks at the German Nazi movement between WWI and WWII.
Nazmus Sadat Nazmus Sadat(born October 18, 1986 in Khulna) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who has represented Bangladesh A and has played a Twenty20 International for his country. A left handed batsman, he plays domestic cricket for Khulna Division.
Nazomakaimura: Incredible Toons Arthur no Astaroth: Nazomakaimura Incredible Toons is a 1996 video game for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation and was only released in Japan. It is essentially a port of Dynamix's Sid & Al's Incredible Toons with a Ghosts 'n Goblins motif.
Nazoraioi Nazoraioi (ΝαζωĎαιοι) were mentioned by Theodoretus (Century V) as Jews who believed that the Jewish messiah was nothing more nor less than a Tzadik. According to him they later came to adopt a Hebrew "gospel of Matthias" based upon Peter's account which was probably nothing more than a Toledoth.
Nazran raid Nazran raid was carried out a large-scale raid on Republic of Ingushetia, Russian Federation, on the night of June 21-22, 2004, by a large number of mostly Chechen and Ingush fighters led by Shamil Basayev. The overnight attacks targeted 15 government buildings in the former Ingush capital and the largest city, Nazran, and at least three towns and villages located on the Baku-Rostov highway that crosses the republic from east to west.
Nazrul Endowment The Nazrul Endowment is one of several scholarly institutions established to preserve and expound upon the thoughts and philosophy of Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam as well as the preservation and analysis of the large and diverse collection of his works.
Nazrul Geeti Nazrul Geeti, literally meaning "music of Nazrul," are the works of Kazi Nazrul Islam, national poet of Bangladesh and active revolutionary during Indian Independence Movement. Nazrul Geeti incorporate revolutionary notions as well as more spiritual and philosophical themes.
Nazuraiun The Nazuraiun is the name of what began as a somewhat "catholic" network of non-Jewish and Jewish hellenophiles around Oxford sometime between 1829 and 1850. The name Nazuraiun was chosen to indicate that they are disciples of an Hassidic dynasty descended from King David whose 36 pairs of saints they call the Nazuraioi.
NA48 NA48 is a series of particle physics experiments in the field of kaon physics being carried out at the North Area of the SPS accelerator at CERN. The collaboration involves over 100 physicists mostly from Western Europe and Russia.
NAA bias NAA bias stands for 'No Abstract Available' bias and refers to failures in academic research and academic publishing. Without a full abstract, researchers will often ignore articles that could have a high degree of revelance.
NAACO Brigadier The North American Arms Corporation (NAACO) Brigadier was developed to meet Canadian requirements for a service handgun in the aftermath of World War II. It was based largely on the FN GP35 Hi-Power self-loading pistol of 1935, but scaled up significantly.
NAB Marconi Radio Awards The Marconi Radio Awards are presented annually by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) to the top commercial radio stations and on-air personalities in the United States. The awards are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, the man generally credited as the "Father of Radio.
NABJ Hall of Fame The NABJ Hall of Fame, a project of the National Association of Black Journalists, honors African-American and other journalists. The original Hall of Fame list was established April 5, 1990, honoring ten historical figures and seven contemporaries; three more contemporaries were inducted August 5, 2004.
NABOB NABOB was a joke file compression and archiving tool created by Thomas M. Tuerke (SysOp of Gravesend BBS) and Al Kalian (SysOp of Palladin BBS) at the height of the compression wars that resulted from the legal conflicts between ARC and Phil Katz.
NABPLEX NABPLEX, The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Licensing Examination is the test given to those who have finished a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmaD) program, completed a residency, and wish to receive a license to practice as a Registered Pharmacist (RPh).
NABTS NABTS (North American Broadcast Teletext Specification) is a protocol utilized for the encoding of digital data within the VBI (vertical blanking interval) of an analog video signal. It is classified under standard EIA-516, and has a rate of 15.
NAC Air NAC Air is a Native owned air carrier based in Thunder Bay, Ontario. NAC (formerly known as North American Charters) offers scheduled and charter passenger/cargo service to several locations in Northern Ontario and Manitoba.
NACA airfoil The NACA airfoils are airfoil shapes for aircraft wings developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The shape of the NACA airfoils is described using a series of digits following the word "NACA.
NACA cowling The NACA cowling is a type of aerodynamic fairing used to streamline radial engines for use on airplanes. Developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1927, it was a major advancement in drag reduction, and paid for its development and installation costs many times over due to the gains in fuel economy that it enabled.
NACA duct The NACA duct or NACA scoop is a common form of low-drag intake design, originally developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1945. When properly implemented, it allows air to be drawn into an internal duct, often for cooling purposes, with a minimal disturbance to the flow.
NACAr A country grouping reportedly proposed by Australian and Norwegian economists, consisting of Norway, Australia, Canada and Argentina. NACAR countries are characterized by middle to high income per capita, a low population density and a concentration of exports in natural resources (though this is not as clear in the case of Canada).
NACDA Director's Cup The NACDA Directors' Cup is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics. Points for the NACDA Director's Cup are based on order of finish in various NCAA sponsored championships or in the case of Division I Football media base polls.
NACCHO (Australia) NACCHO (National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation) was set up in 1976 and is the peak advocacy and support group for Australia's 135 community-controlled Aboriginal health services. These services provide primary health care initiated and operated by the local Aboriginal community to provide holistic, comprehensive and culturally appropriate health care to the community which contols it.
NACISA NACISA was the NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency, located in Brussels, Belgium until 1996 when it was merged with the SHAPE Technical Centre to form the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency.
NACMA NACMA is the NATO ACCS Management Agency. It is responsible for the management of the NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS) programme, which is a $500M project to provide the NATO commands with a new air command and control system from 2009 onwards.
NADPH oxidase The NADPH oxidase (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-oxidase) complex is an enzyme complex that is made up of five subunits. These are a Rho guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase), usually Rac1 or Rac2 (Rac stands for Rho-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate), gp91phox, p22phox, p47phox, and p67phox (phox stands for phagocytic oxidase) protein subunits.
NAFC The North American Football Confederation was a forerunner to the CONCACAF as the governing body of soccer in North America until 1963, when it merged with the CCCF/Confederacion Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol to form CONCACAF.
NAFEMS NAFEMS is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that sets and maintains standards in computer-aided engineering analysis and, specifically, finite element analysis (FEA). Now an international organisation owned by its subscribing members, NAFEMS was founded at the the U.
NAFPS New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans(or NAFPS) is a group of Native American activists and their supporters, dedicated to fighting cultural appropriation, and other abuses and misrepresentations of First Nations religions and cultures.
NAFSA: Association of International Educators NAFSA: Association of International Educators is the world's largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education. With more than 9,000 members worldwide, NAFSA seeks to increase awareness of and support for international education and exchange in higher education, government, and the community, believing that citizens with international experience and global awareness are crucial to U.
NAHS The National Art Honor Society was established in 1978 in the United States by the National Art Education Association for high school students grades 10-12, for the purpose of inspiring and recognizing those students who have shown an outstanding ability in arthttp://www.naea-reston.
NACHA-The Electronic Payments Association NACHA-The Electronic Payments Association, formerly the National Automated Clearing House Association, is an organization that develops electronic solutions to improve the ACH payment system in the United States. NACHA represents more than 12,000 financial institutions through direct memberships and a network of regional payments associations, and 650 organizations through its industry councils.
NACHRI The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), is an organization of children's hospitals with more than 200 members in the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
NAIA independent schools NAIA independent schools are 4-year institutional members of the NAIA that play college football independent of any formal conference affiliation. In sports other than football, most of these schools compete in a college athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA.
NAIA national football championship The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national football championship is decided by a post-season playoff system featuring the best NAIA college football teams in the United States. Under sponsorship of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the championship game has been played annually since 1956.
NAIA national men's basketball championship The NAIA Men's Basketball National Championship has been held yearly since 1937, when it was established by James Naismith, to crown a national champion for smaller colleges and universities. Unlike the NCAA Tournament, which mainly features larger university and colleges, the NAIA Tournament only features 32 teams, and the entire tournament is competed in one week, instead of three weekends.
NAICS 21 NAICS 21 (Mining Sector) comprises establishments that extract naturally-occurring mineral solids, such as coal and ores; liquid minerals, such as crude petroleum; and gases, such as natural gas. The term, "mining", is used in the broad sense to include quarrying, well operations, beneficiating (e.
NAICS 22 NAICS 22 (Utilities Sector) The utilities sector comprises establishments engaged in the provision of the following utility services: electric power, natural gas, steam supply, water supply, and sewage removal. Within this sector, the specific activities associated with the utility services provided vary by utility: electric power includes generation, transmission, and distribution; natural gas includes distribution; steam supply includes provision and/or distribution; water supply includes treatment and distribution; and sewage removal includes collection, treatment, and disposal of waste through sewer systems and sewage treatment facilities.
NALEO [Logo]National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) was founded in 1976NALEO At-A-Glance by Edward R. Roybal as a non-profit organization, and created an educational fund that aims to empower Latinos to participate fully in the American political process, from citizenship to public service.
NALU at Fulham Correctional Centre Nalu at Fullham Correctional Centre is a minimum security correctional facility located outside the main walls of Fulham Correctional Centre in Sale, Victoria. It is a state-funded facility that is run by GEO Group Australia, which runs Fulham as well.
NAMC YS-11 The NAMC YS-11 is a turboprop airliner built by a Japanese consortium, the Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. The program was initiated by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1954: the aircraft was rolled out in 1962, and production ceased in 1974.
NAMD NAMD (NAnoscale Molecular Dynamics)1is a free-of-charge molecular dynamics simulation package written using the Charm++ parallel programming model, noted for its parallel efficiency and often used to simulate large systems (millions of atoms). It has been developed by the joint collaboration of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCB) and the Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
NAME (dispersion model) The NAME atmospheric pollution dispersion model Air Quality Programme and Progress, Met Office Scientific Advisory Committee (MOSAC), November 11-12, 2004Met Office "Specialised forecasts"Met Office "NWP Gazette", 3rd Quarter, 1996Met Office "NWP Gazette", December 2000 was first developed by the UK's Met Office in 1986 after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, which demonstrated the need for a method that could predict the spread and deposition of radioactive gases or material released into the atmosphere.
NAMF NAMF (Naturvidenskabelig mentorforening) is an organization run by mentors from the Faculty of Natural Science, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. A mentor is a Danish student who helps exchange students finding their way around, once they arrive in Copenhagen.
NAMM Show The NAMM Show is the largest music products trade show in the world. Held every January in Anaheim, California, USA the show brings together all facets of the music products industry to reveal new musical instruments/products and ideas to help music products retailers and manufacturers become more successful.
NANDA NANDA (formerly the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association) is a professional organization of nurses to standardize nursing terminology that was founded in 1982 and develops and refines the nomenclature, criteria, and taxonomy of nursing diagnoses. In 2002, NANDA relaunched as NANDA International in response to the broadening scope of their membership.
NANOG NANOG is the North American Network Operators' Group, which runs meetings, talks, surveys and an influential mailing list for Internet service providers. Sometimes referred to as "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes".
NAPCAN NAPCAN is an Australian organisation that seeks to resource and network child welfare professionals and practitioners working to prevent child abuse and neglect from happening before it starts. It does this through the provision of tools, resources, support networks and information.
NAPCS NAPCS (North American Product Classification System) is a multi-phase effort by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to develop a comprehensive list of products, product definitions, and product codes that will be organized into an integrated demand-based classification framework that classifies both goods and services according to how they are principally used. It is intended that NAPCS will be used throughout the statistical community to coordinate the collection, tabulation, and analysis of data on the value of products produced by both goods- and services-producing industries and on the prices charged for those products.
NAPLPS NAPLPS (North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax) is a graphics language for use originally with videotex and teletext services. The basics of NAPLPS were later used as the basis for several other microcomputer based graphics systems.
NAPMA The National Association of Professional Martial Artists (NAPMA) is the world's largest association for professional martial artists. It supports martial arts school owners and instructors with business plans, advertising programs, and other resources.
NAPOLCOM The National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) is the agency of the Philippine government that administers and controls the Philippine National Police (PNP). It was mandated by the Constitution and the major police reform laws, Republic Act Nos.
NAPT NAPT (Network Address Port Translation) is a variation of NAT (Network Address Translation). It is also referred to as PAT (Port Address Translation) by Cisco, and RAPT (Reverse Address and Port Translation) or RAT in some implementations.
NAPTR NAPTR stands for Naming Authority Pointer and is a newer type of DNS record that supports regular expression based rewriting. Several NAPTR records can be chained together creating fairly sophisticated URI rewriting rules.
NAR 2 NAR 2 (Serbian Nastavni Računar 2, en. Educational Computer 2) was a theoretical model of a 32-bit word computer created by Faculty of Mathematics of University of Belgrade professor Nedeljko Parezanović as an enhacement to its predecessor, NAR 1.
NARIC All EU and EEA states and all the associated countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Cyprus have a designated National Accreditation Recognition Information Centre (NARIC), which provides a way to compare academic qualifications as part of the Bologna Process.
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences The National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences is warded for innovative research in the chemical sciences that in the broadest sense contributes to a better understanding of the natural sciences and to the benefit of humanity.
NAS Wexford NAS Wexford, a US naval air station, was built during World War I at a site formerly used by the Royal Naval Air Service to protect the southern entrance to the Irish Sea. A seaplane station, it was located at Ferrybank.
Nazas River The Nazas River is located in the North of Mexico and is shared by the States of Coahuila and Durango. It has only 560 kms in lenght (about 250 miles), but irrigates an area of 72000 km2 in the middle of the desert.
Nazım Hikmet Nazım Hikmet Ran (IPA:na'zɨm hik'met) (November 20, 1901 – June 3, 1963) was a Turkish poet, dramatist and communist, who is widely regarded as the best-known Turkish poet in the West and his works have been translated into several languages. He was born in Selânik in the Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloniki, Greece).
Nazca Nazca (sometimes spelled Nasca) is the name of a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru, and the name of the region's largest existing town. It is also the name applied to the Nazca culture that flourished in the area between 300 B.
Nazca Lines The Nazca Lines are gigantic geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches 53 miles between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. They were created by the Nazca culture between 200 BCE and 700 CE.
Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub is a large and cunning Ork Warlord from the game Warhammer 40000. He is one of the star players in the current Fall of Medusa V campaign, as his personal space hulk has crashlanded on the doomed planet.
Naze Nani Nadesico "Naze Nani Nadesico" ("The How and Why of Nadesico") is a plot device from the anime series, Martian Successor Nadesico. It appears in Episodes 7 and 25 and also in clip show format in Episode 14.
Nazeer Akbarabadi Nazeer Akbarabadi (Urdu: نظیر اکبر آبادی) (real name "Wali Muhammad") was an Indian poet of 18th century who wrote Urdu ghazals and nazms under takhallus (Urdu word for nom de plume) "Nazeer". His father was Muhammad Farooq and his mother was the daughter of Nawab Sultan Khan who was the governor of Agra fort.
Nazi archaeology Nazi archaeology refers to the movement led by various Nazi leaders, archaeologists, and other scholars, such as Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, to recreate the German past in order to strengthen nationalism. This movement was based on ideas of Tacitus’ Germania, which set out to bring the glory of the Roman Empire to Germany.
Nazi concentration camp badges Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were used in the concentration camps in the Nazi-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. The triangles were made of fabric and were sewn on jackets and shirts of the prisoners.
Nazi concentration camps Prior to and during World War II Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager or KZ) throughout the territory it controlled. The Nazis adopted the term euphemistically from the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War to conceal the deadly nature of the camps.
Nazi concentration camps in Norway During the German occupation of Norway in World War II the civilian occupying authorities with the Quisling regime and the German Wehrmacht operated a number of camps in Norway. The occupancy of these camps varied throughout the war, but after the fall of 1944 they filled up, as transportation of prisoners to Germany slowed down.
Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles This article details the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against ethnic Poles during World War II. Three million non-Jewish Polish citizens perished during the course of the war, most of them civilians, killed by the actions of Nazi Germany.
Nazi eugenics Nazi eugenics pertains to Nazi Germany's race based social policies that placed the improvement of the race through eugenics at the centre of their concerns and targeted those humans they identified as Life Unworthy of Life, including but not limited to: criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, religious and weak humans for elimination from the chain of heredity.
Nazi gold 'Nazi gold' refers to the assets in gold transferred by Nazi Germany to overseas banks during the Second World War. The regime maintained a policy of looting the assets of its victims to finance the war, collecting the looted assets in central depositories.
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany or the Third Reich, officially called the German Reich (Deutsches Reich), and later the Greater German Reich (GroĂźdeutsches Reich), refers to Germany in the years 1933 to 1945, when it was governed by the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP), with FĂĽhrer Adolf Hitler as chancellor and, from 1934, [[Head of State|hea
Nazi Ghost Train The Nazi Ghost Train was a Comet Line train in 1944 that the Gestapo was using to transport Belgian prisoners and Allied airmen into Germany. The Belgian Resistance managed to stop the train from reaching Germany with the prisoners.
Nazi chocolate bar bomb During the Second World War German saboteurs operating against Britain designed a range of unconventional bombs disguised as, amongst others: tins of plums, throat lozenges, shaving brushes, batteries, wood, coal and stuffed dogs. Arguably the most unconventional bomb was the Nazi explosive chocolate bar that was intended to be smuggled into the homes of the Royals with the purpose of assassination.
Nazi mysticism Nazi mysticism is a quasi-religious undercurrent of Nazism; it denotes the mixture of Nazism with occultism, esotericism, cryptohistory, and/or the paranormal — especially in the traditions of Germanic mysticism. Nazi mysticism generally ascribes a religious significance to the person of Adolf Hitler and to the Nazi mission.
Nazi party paramilitary ranks Nazi party paramilitary ranks were pseudo-military titles which were used by the National Socialist German Workers Party between the years of 1920 and 1945. Since the Nazi Party was by its very nature a paramilitary organization, by the time of the Second World War, several systems of paramilitary ranks had come into existence for both the Nazi Party itself and the various Nazi paramilitary organizations.
Nazi party rally grounds Nazi party rally grounds (in German Reichsparteitagsgelände) is the name of a site in the southeast of Nuremberg (UGN: ), where the Nazi party rallies were held from 1933 until 1938. It includes the Congress Hall, the Zeppelin Field, the Märzfeld (March Field), the Deutsche Stadion (German stadium), the former Stadion der Hitlerjugend ("stadium of the Hitler Youth", today Frankenstadion) and the Große Straße ("great road").
Nazi plunder Nazi plunder refers to art theft and other items stolen as a result of the organized spoliation of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of the ruling Nazi Party of Germany. Plundering occurred from 1933 until the end of World War II, although most plunder was acquired during the war.
Nazi propaganda Nazi Germany was noted for its psychologically powerful propaganda, much of which was centered around Jews, who were scapegoated as the source of Germany's economic woes. Nazi propaganda also expressed themes more common among the warring countries: the imminent defeat of their enemies, the need for security, etc.
Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially known as the National Socialist German Workers' Party (, or NSDAP), was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. The party's leader, Adolf Hitler, was appointed chancellor of Germany by president Hindenburg in 1933.
Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Napalm Death) Nazi Punks Fuck Off is a 1993 EP, a single and a Dead Kennedys cover song by English band Napalm Death. The EP consists of four tracks including the title track; a live version of it; "Aryanisms", a song off their 1992 album Utopia Banished; and a mix of "Contemptuous", off the same album.
Nazi symbolism The twentieth century German Nazi Party was notable for their extensive use of graphic symbolism, most notably the Hakenkreuz (swastika) which it used as its principal symbol, and, in the form of the swastika flag, became the state flag of Nazi Germany.
Nazi UFOs Nazi UFOs (German: Haunebu, Hauneburg-Geräte, or Reichsflugscheiben) are advanced aircraft or spacecraft that Nazi Germany supposedly developed during World War II and Nazi scientists continued to develop afterwards. These craft appear not only in fiction
Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group is a United States government interagency group, which tasked with locating, identifying, inventorying, and recommending for declassification classified U.S.
Nazi Writer's Union The Nazi Writer's Union (German: Der Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller) was founded in 1933 by the Nazi government of the Third Reich in the process of 'germanizing' cultural institutions and purging it of foreign influences. This process was necessitated by the Reichskulturkammergesetz (National Cultural Chamber Act) of 9 September 1933.
Nazia and Zoheb Nazia Hassan (Urdu: Ů†Ř§Ř˛ŰŚŰ Řسن) singer, born April 3 1965; died August 13 2000 and Zoheb Hassan (Urdu: زŮŰیب Řسن) were a singing sensation and pioneers of the Pakistani pop music scene during the 1980s.
Nazilli Nazilli is the second largest town in the Aydın Province of western Turkey. The city center has a population of 105,665 (from the 2000 census) but its overall population including its counties have been well over 150,000 for decades.
Nazim Nazim (Urdu: ناظم ) is the Coordinator of cities and towns in Pakistan. Nazim is the title in Urdu of the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a District, Tehsil, Union Council, or Village Council.
Nazim al-Kudsi Nazim al-Kudsi, also spelled "al-Qudsi" or "al-Cudsi" (1900-1998) (Arabic: ناظم القدسي), was a Syrian politician and head of state (December 14, 1961 - March 8, 1963), He was born in and raised in Aleppo. He obtained his undergraduate degree in law from Damascus University, his MA from the American University of Beirut (AUB), and his PhD from the University of Geneva.
Nazir (Talmud) Nazir (Hebrew: × ×–×™×¨) is a treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta and in both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the laws of the Nazirite laid down in Numbers 6:1-21. In the Tosefta its title is Nezirut ("Nazariteship").
Nazir Ahmad Nazir Ahmad is a 40-year-old Pakistani man who killed his three daughters and his stepdaughter as his wife, Rehmat Bibi, watched. When Ahmad's eldest (step) daughter, 25-year-old Muqadas Bibi, married a man against his wishes, he slit her throat with a machete in retribution while she slept.
Nazirite A nazirite or nazarite, (in Hebrew: × ×–×™×¨, nazir), refers to a Jew who took an ascetic vow described in . The term "nazirite" comes from the Hebrew word nazir meaning "consecrated" or "separated".
Nazis in fiction During and after the Second World War, Nazism became a key driving force behind Allied propaganda, as well as the development of the superhero during the Golden Age of comics. Ideas that the Third Reich could have possibly implemented have helped to fuel various films, books and comics from 1939 to the present day.
Nazis in the CIA After the end of World War II, a large number of intelligence agents from the Gestapo, German army intelligence and other groups in the Nazi intelligence apparatus were recruited by the CIA even though they had war crime records. The CIA and Nazi sympathizers such as the US military governor of the US occupation zone in Germany, John Jay McCloy facilitated the pardon and protection of Nazi industrialists and other Nazi officials especially those serving in the Nazi intelligence apparatus.
Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America is a 1992 book by John George and Laird Wilcox. It is an examination of political extremism of both the far left and far right in the United States.
Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy, directed by Tracy Atkinson and Joan Baran, narrated by Malcolm McDowell, is an English language 1998 Discovery Channel documentary regarding the occult influences and history of the Nazi Era, (pre, during and post) in Germany.
Nazism Nazism or Naziism, officially called National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party, or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. It also refers to the policies adopted by the NSDAP government of Germany (1933–1945), a period in German history known as Nazi Germany (German: Nazizeit, literally "Nazi time") or the Third Reich (German: Drittes Reich).
Nazism and race Nazis claimed to scientifically measure a strict hierarchy among races; at the top was the Aryan race (minus the Slavs, who were seen as below Aryan), then lesser races. At the bottom of this hierarchy were "parasitic" races, or Untermenschen, which were perceived to be dangerous to society.
Nazism and religion The relationship between German Nazism and religion is a controversial area of study, with much debate centered on two key issues: the role of Protestant and Catholic clergy and hierarchies in defending, criticizing, or ignoring the Nazi regime and its inceasingly repressive actions towards Jews, religious and political minorities, and others; and the role of paganism, the occult, and mysticism in formulating the views of Hitler and the Nazi Party. This entry looks at the German Nazi movement between WWI and WWII.
Nazmus Sadat Nazmus Sadat(born October 18, 1986 in Khulna) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who has represented Bangladesh A and has played a Twenty20 International for his country. A left handed batsman, he plays domestic cricket for Khulna Division.
Nazomakaimura: Incredible Toons Arthur no Astaroth: Nazomakaimura Incredible Toons is a 1996 video game for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation and was only released in Japan. It is essentially a port of Dynamix's Sid & Al's Incredible Toons with a Ghosts 'n Goblins motif.
Nazoraioi Nazoraioi (ΝαζωĎαιοι) were mentioned by Theodoretus (Century V) as Jews who believed that the Jewish messiah was nothing more nor less than a Tzadik. According to him they later came to adopt a Hebrew "gospel of Matthias" based upon Peter's account which was probably nothing more than a Toledoth.
Nazran raid Nazran raid was carried out a large-scale raid on Republic of Ingushetia, Russian Federation, on the night of June 21-22, 2004, by a large number of mostly Chechen and Ingush fighters led by Shamil Basayev. The overnight attacks targeted 15 government buildings in the former Ingush capital and the largest city, Nazran, and at least three towns and villages located on the Baku-Rostov highway that crosses the republic from east to west.
Nazrul Endowment The Nazrul Endowment is one of several scholarly institutions established to preserve and expound upon the thoughts and philosophy of Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam as well as the preservation and analysis of the large and diverse collection of his works.
Nazrul Geeti Nazrul Geeti, literally meaning "music of Nazrul," are the works of Kazi Nazrul Islam, national poet of Bangladesh and active revolutionary during Indian Independence Movement. Nazrul Geeti incorporate revolutionary notions as well as more spiritual and philosophical themes.
Nazuraiun The Nazuraiun is the name of what began as a somewhat "catholic" network of non-Jewish and Jewish hellenophiles around Oxford sometime between 1829 and 1850. The name Nazuraiun was chosen to indicate that they are disciples of an Hassidic dynasty descended from King David whose 36 pairs of saints they call the Nazuraioi.
NA48 NA48 is a series of particle physics experiments in the field of kaon physics being carried out at the North Area of the SPS accelerator at CERN. The collaboration involves over 100 physicists mostly from Western Europe and Russia.
NAA bias NAA bias stands for 'No Abstract Available' bias and refers to failures in academic research and academic publishing. Without a full abstract, researchers will often ignore articles that could have a high degree of revelance.
NAACO Brigadier The North American Arms Corporation (NAACO) Brigadier was developed to meet Canadian requirements for a service handgun in the aftermath of World War II. It was based largely on the FN GP35 Hi-Power self-loading pistol of 1935, but scaled up significantly.
NAB Marconi Radio Awards The Marconi Radio Awards are presented annually by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) to the top commercial radio stations and on-air personalities in the United States. The awards are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, the man generally credited as the "Father of Radio.
NABJ Hall of Fame The NABJ Hall of Fame, a project of the National Association of Black Journalists, honors African-American and other journalists. The original Hall of Fame list was established April 5, 1990, honoring ten historical figures and seven contemporaries; three more contemporaries were inducted August 5, 2004.
NABOB NABOB was a joke file compression and archiving tool created by Thomas M. Tuerke (SysOp of Gravesend BBS) and Al Kalian (SysOp of Palladin BBS) at the height of the compression wars that resulted from the legal conflicts between ARC and Phil Katz.
NABPLEX NABPLEX, The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Licensing Examination is the test given to those who have finished a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmaD) program, completed a residency, and wish to receive a license to practice as a Registered Pharmacist (RPh).
NABTS NABTS (North American Broadcast Teletext Specification) is a protocol utilized for the encoding of digital data within the VBI (vertical blanking interval) of an analog video signal. It is classified under standard EIA-516, and has a rate of 15.
NAC Air NAC Air is a Native owned air carrier based in Thunder Bay, Ontario. NAC (formerly known as North American Charters) offers scheduled and charter passenger/cargo service to several locations in Northern Ontario and Manitoba.
NACA airfoil The NACA airfoils are airfoil shapes for aircraft wings developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The shape of the NACA airfoils is described using a series of digits following the word "NACA.
NACA cowling The NACA cowling is a type of aerodynamic fairing used to streamline radial engines for use on airplanes. Developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1927, it was a major advancement in drag reduction, and paid for its development and installation costs many times over due to the gains in fuel economy that it enabled.
NACA duct The NACA duct or NACA scoop is a common form of low-drag intake design, originally developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1945. When properly implemented, it allows air to be drawn into an internal duct, often for cooling purposes, with a minimal disturbance to the flow.
NACAr A country grouping reportedly proposed by Australian and Norwegian economists, consisting of Norway, Australia, Canada and Argentina. NACAR countries are characterized by middle to high income per capita, a low population density and a concentration of exports in natural resources (though this is not as clear in the case of Canada).
NACDA Director's Cup The NACDA Directors' Cup is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics. Points for the NACDA Director's Cup are based on order of finish in various NCAA sponsored championships or in the case of Division I Football media base polls.
NACCHO (Australia) NACCHO (National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation) was set up in 1976 and is the peak advocacy and support group for Australia's 135 community-controlled Aboriginal health services. These services provide primary health care initiated and operated by the local Aboriginal community to provide holistic, comprehensive and culturally appropriate health care to the community which contols it.
NACISA NACISA was the NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency, located in Brussels, Belgium until 1996 when it was merged with the SHAPE Technical Centre to form the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency.
NACMA NACMA is the NATO ACCS Management Agency. It is responsible for the management of the NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS) programme, which is a $500M project to provide the NATO commands with a new air command and control system from 2009 onwards.
NADPH oxidase The NADPH oxidase (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-oxidase) complex is an enzyme complex that is made up of five subunits. These are a Rho guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase), usually Rac1 or Rac2 (Rac stands for Rho-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate), gp91phox, p22phox, p47phox, and p67phox (phox stands for phagocytic oxidase) protein subunits.
NAFC The North American Football Confederation was a forerunner to the CONCACAF as the governing body of soccer in North America until 1963, when it merged with the CCCF/Confederacion Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol to form CONCACAF.
NAFEMS NAFEMS is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that sets and maintains standards in computer-aided engineering analysis and, specifically, finite element analysis (FEA). Now an international organisation owned by its subscribing members, NAFEMS was founded at the the U.
NAFPS New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans(or NAFPS) is a group of Native American activists and their supporters, dedicated to fighting cultural appropriation, and other abuses and misrepresentations of First Nations religions and cultures.
NAFSA: Association of International Educators NAFSA: Association of International Educators is the world's largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education. With more than 9,000 members worldwide, NAFSA seeks to increase awareness of and support for international education and exchange in higher education, government, and the community, believing that citizens with international experience and global awareness are crucial to U.
NAHS The National Art Honor Society was established in 1978 in the United States by the National Art Education Association for high school students grades 10-12, for the purpose of inspiring and recognizing those students who have shown an outstanding ability in arthttp://www.naea-reston.
NACHA-The Electronic Payments Association NACHA-The Electronic Payments Association, formerly the National Automated Clearing House Association, is an organization that develops electronic solutions to improve the ACH payment system in the United States. NACHA represents more than 12,000 financial institutions through direct memberships and a network of regional payments associations, and 650 organizations through its industry councils.
NACHRI The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), is an organization of children's hospitals with more than 200 members in the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
NAIA independent schools NAIA independent schools are 4-year institutional members of the NAIA that play college football independent of any formal conference affiliation. In sports other than football, most of these schools compete in a college athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA.
NAIA national football championship The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national football championship is decided by a post-season playoff system featuring the best NAIA college football teams in the United States. Under sponsorship of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the championship game has been played annually since 1956.
NAIA national men's basketball championship The NAIA Men's Basketball National Championship has been held yearly since 1937, when it was established by James Naismith, to crown a national champion for smaller colleges and universities. Unlike the NCAA Tournament, which mainly features larger university and colleges, the NAIA Tournament only features 32 teams, and the entire tournament is competed in one week, instead of three weekends.
NAICS 21 NAICS 21 (Mining Sector) comprises establishments that extract naturally-occurring mineral solids, such as coal and ores; liquid minerals, such as crude petroleum; and gases, such as natural gas. The term, "mining", is used in the broad sense to include quarrying, well operations, beneficiating (e.
NAICS 22 NAICS 22 (Utilities Sector) The utilities sector comprises establishments engaged in the provision of the following utility services: electric power, natural gas, steam supply, water supply, and sewage removal. Within this sector, the specific activities associated with the utility services provided vary by utility: electric power includes generation, transmission, and distribution; natural gas includes distribution; steam supply includes provision and/or distribution; water supply includes treatment and distribution; and sewage removal includes collection, treatment, and disposal of waste through sewer systems and sewage treatment facilities.
NALEO [Logo]National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) was founded in 1976NALEO At-A-Glance by Edward R. Roybal as a non-profit organization, and created an educational fund that aims to empower Latinos to participate fully in the American political process, from citizenship to public service.
NALU at Fulham Correctional Centre Nalu at Fullham Correctional Centre is a minimum security correctional facility located outside the main walls of Fulham Correctional Centre in Sale, Victoria. It is a state-funded facility that is run by GEO Group Australia, which runs Fulham as well.
NAMC YS-11 The NAMC YS-11 is a turboprop airliner built by a Japanese consortium, the Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. The program was initiated by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1954: the aircraft was rolled out in 1962, and production ceased in 1974.
NAMD NAMD (NAnoscale Molecular Dynamics)1is a free-of-charge molecular dynamics simulation package written using the Charm++ parallel programming model, noted for its parallel efficiency and often used to simulate large systems (millions of atoms). It has been developed by the joint collaboration of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCB) and the Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
NAME (dispersion model) The NAME atmospheric pollution dispersion model Air Quality Programme and Progress, Met Office Scientific Advisory Committee (MOSAC), November 11-12, 2004Met Office "Specialised forecasts"Met Office "NWP Gazette", 3rd Quarter, 1996Met Office "NWP Gazette", December 2000 was first developed by the UK's Met Office in 1986 after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, which demonstrated the need for a method that could predict the spread and deposition of radioactive gases or material released into the atmosphere.
NAMF NAMF (Naturvidenskabelig mentorforening) is an organization run by mentors from the Faculty of Natural Science, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. A mentor is a Danish student who helps exchange students finding their way around, once they arrive in Copenhagen.
NAMM Show The NAMM Show is the largest music products trade show in the world. Held every January in Anaheim, California, USA the show brings together all facets of the music products industry to reveal new musical instruments/products and ideas to help music products retailers and manufacturers become more successful.
NANDA NANDA (formerly the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association) is a professional organization of nurses to standardize nursing terminology that was founded in 1982 and develops and refines the nomenclature, criteria, and taxonomy of nursing diagnoses. In 2002, NANDA relaunched as NANDA International in response to the broadening scope of their membership.
NANOG NANOG is the North American Network Operators' Group, which runs meetings, talks, surveys and an influential mailing list for Internet service providers. Sometimes referred to as "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes".
NAPCAN NAPCAN is an Australian organisation that seeks to resource and network child welfare professionals and practitioners working to prevent child abuse and neglect from happening before it starts. It does this through the provision of tools, resources, support networks and information.
NAPCS NAPCS (North American Product Classification System) is a multi-phase effort by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to develop a comprehensive list of products, product definitions, and product codes that will be organized into an integrated demand-based classification framework that classifies both goods and services according to how they are principally used. It is intended that NAPCS will be used throughout the statistical community to coordinate the collection, tabulation, and analysis of data on the value of products produced by both goods- and services-producing industries and on the prices charged for those products.
NAPLPS NAPLPS (North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax) is a graphics language for use originally with videotex and teletext services. The basics of NAPLPS were later used as the basis for several other microcomputer based graphics systems.
NAPMA The National Association of Professional Martial Artists (NAPMA) is the world's largest association for professional martial artists. It supports martial arts school owners and instructors with business plans, advertising programs, and other resources.
NAPOLCOM The National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) is the agency of the Philippine government that administers and controls the Philippine National Police (PNP). It was mandated by the Constitution and the major police reform laws, Republic Act Nos.
NAPT NAPT (Network Address Port Translation) is a variation of NAT (Network Address Translation). It is also referred to as PAT (Port Address Translation) by Cisco, and RAPT (Reverse Address and Port Translation) or RAT in some implementations.
NAPTR NAPTR stands for Naming Authority Pointer and is a newer type of DNS record that supports regular expression based rewriting. Several NAPTR records can be chained together creating fairly sophisticated URI rewriting rules.
NAR 2 NAR 2 (Serbian Nastavni Računar 2, en. Educational Computer 2) was a theoretical model of a 32-bit word computer created by Faculty of Mathematics of University of Belgrade professor Nedeljko Parezanović as an enhacement to its predecessor, NAR 1.
NARIC All EU and EEA states and all the associated countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Cyprus have a designated National Accreditation Recognition Information Centre (NARIC), which provides a way to compare academic qualifications as part of the Bologna Process.
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences The National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences is warded for innovative research in the chemical sciences that in the broadest sense contributes to a better understanding of the natural sciences and to the benefit of humanity.
NAS Wexford NAS Wexford, a US naval air station, was built during World War I at a site formerly used by the Royal Naval Air Service to protect the southern entrance to the Irish Sea. A seaplane station, it was located at Ferrybank.
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