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No, No, Nanette
No, No, Nanette is a Broadway musical first produced in 1925 by Harry Frazee, a former owner of the Boston Red Sox. (In the lore of the Curse of the Bambino, Frazee is said to have financed the production by selling baseball superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, though the sale had occurred f..
No, No, No
"No, No, No" Single by Yoko Ono From the album Season of Glass Single Released 1981 Single Format 7", 12" Recorded 1981 Genre Rock/New Wave Song Length 2:43 Record label Geffen Records Producer Yoko Ono Chart positions Did not chart Yoko Ono single chronology "Walking on Thin Ice..
No, No, No (Destiny's Child song)
"No, No, No" is an R&B song performed by American group Destiny's Child for their debut studio album Destiny's Child (1998). The song was produced by Vincent Herbert, Rob Fusari and Wyclef Jean and received a positive reception from music critics. The original version (Part 1) and its remix featuri..
No, No, No (Thalía song)
redirect [[Template:Infobox Single]]"No, No, No" is Thalía's fourth single included on [[El_Sexto_Sentido#El_Sexto_Sentido:_Re.2BLoaded|El Sexto Sentido Re+Loaded]]. This song features Anthony "Romeo" Santos, the lead singer of Latin group Aventura. Contents 1 The Song2 Music video3&n..
No, Not Much
"No, Not Much" is a popular song. The music was written by Robert Allen, the lyrics by Al Stillman. The song was published in 1955. The song was one of a large number of Stillman-Allen compositions that were recorded by The Four Lads. The recording by The Four Lads was released by Columbia Records..
No-Neck Blues Band
The No-Neck Blues Band, also known as NNCK, is a seven-member free-form improvisational musical collective from New York City. The band was formed in 1992, and has maintained the Hint House, a practice/performance space in Harlem, for the past decade. Members of NNCK have been involved in numerous..
No-No Boy
No-No Boy is the only novel by Japanese-American writer, John Okada. It deals with the aftermath of the Japanese American internment during World War II. The title refers to Japanese Americans who answered 'no' to the following two questions, when asked by the United States government on a 1943 Leav..
No-nudity clause
A no-nudity clause is a paragraph or a section in a performer’s legal contract that stipulates that he or she will not perform nude in a theatrical, television, cinematic, or other type of production. Although such a clause could appear in the contract of either a male or a female performer, it us..
Non
Non or non can refer to: French equivalent to English "no"; Italian equivalent to English "not"; Latin equivalent to both "not" and "no"Non, the bandOld Norse language (ISO 639 alpha-3)Non, the Superman villainNaan, a Central Asian flatbreadCape Non This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation ..
Non, je ne regrette rien
"Non, je ne regrette rien" is a French song written in 1956 which is best known through the recording made by French singer Édith Piaf in 10 November 1960. Its title translates literally as "No, I regret nothing", but is more often rendered simply as "No regrets". It was composed by Charles Dumont,..
Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome
Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome, also termed circadian arrhythmia, non-24-hour circadian rhythm disorder or hypernychthemeral syndrome, is a sleep disorder in which a person's internal clock runs longer than 24 hours. The person's body essentially insists that the day is longer than 24 hours, which..
Non-abelian
Non-Abelian gauge transformations The specificity of a non-Abelian Lie group is that its elements do not commute. In particular, its generators [t^a], which form a basis for the vector space of infinitesimal transformations (called the Lie algebra), have the following commutation rule: &..
Non-abidance
In Buddhism, especially Zen and Chan, Non-abidance (Apratisthita in Sanskrit) is the practice of avoiding mental constructs during daily life. That is, other than while engaged in meditation (zazen). Some schools of Buddhism consider Apratisthita Nirvana ("non-abiding cessation") to be the highest f..
Non-achromatic objective
A non-achromatic objective is a telescope objective lens, which is not corrected for chromatic aberration. This may be either of: An early telescope objective, such as those built by Hevelius and C. Huyghens, that utilized single small (2"-3") positive lenses with enormous focal lengths and tubes (..
Non-adjacent form
The non-adjacent form (NAF) of a number is a unique signed-digit representation. Like the name suggests, non-zero values cannot be adjacent. For example: (0 1 1 1) = 4 + 2 + 1 = 7 (1 0 −1 1) = 8 − 2 + 1 = 7 (1 −1 1 1) = 8 − 4 + 2 + 1 = 7 (1 0 0 −1) = 8 − 1 = ..
Non-aggression pact
A non-aggression pact is an international treaty between two or more states, agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations. Sometimes such a pact may include a pledge of avoiding armed conflict even if participants find themselves figh..
Non-aggression Pact (band)
Non-aggression Pact (abbv. as N.A.P.) is an urban-electro-industrial music group from Florida. The band was formed in 1992 by keyboardist/drummer, Jeff Hillard and keyboardist/vocalist Jason Whitcomb. Their music featured an abrasive industrial-dance sound, with funky, grind-hop drum loops overlain ..
Non-aggression principle
The non-aggression principle (also called the non-aggression axiom, anticoercion principle, or zero aggression principle) is a deontological ethical stance associated with the libertarian movement. It holds that "aggression" — which is defined as the initiation of physical force or the thre..
Non-alcoholic beverages
Non-alcoholic beverages are beverages that contain no alcohol. These drinks are generally drunk for refreshment, to quench people's thirst. Non-alcoholic cocktails are often consumed by recovering alcoholics and by children, and include such drinks as: Shirley Temple cocktailVirgin Mary (cocktail)..
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is fatty inflammation of the liver when this is not due to excessive alcohol use. It is thought to be the major cause of cryptogenic cirrhosis of the liver. Contents 1 Classification2 Signs and symptoms3 Diagnosis4 Causes5 Treatment6&..
Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference
The Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference was held in Georgetown, Guyana from 8 August to 11 August 1972. During the conference, a monument to the four founders of the Non-Aligned Movement - President Nasser of Egypt, President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Jawaharlal Nehru of India and President Tito..
Non-Aligned Left
The Non-Aligned Left (NAL) was a left wing student union faction within the Australian National Union of Students. NAL did not bind its members to its decisions. Contents 1 Origins2 Caucus Ascendancy3 Caucus Decline4 Analysis5 Legacy6 Political composition7 NAL..
Non-Aligned Movement
Member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (2005) The Non-Aligned Movement, or NAM, is an international organization of over 100 states which consider themselves not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. The purpose of the organization as stated in the Havana Declaration o..
Non-aligned Rally
The Non-aligned Rally (Obunden Samling) is a conservative political party in the Åland Islands. At the last elections, the party won 9.4 % of popular votes and 3 out of 30 seats. External links [Official web site] Political Parties of Åland  Freeminded Co-operation &n..
Non-American casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Sept. 11, 2001 attacks Timeline Background history Planning September 11, 2001 Rest of September Oc..
Non-analytic smooth function
In mathematics, smooth functions (also called infinitely differentiable functions) and analytic functions are two very important types of functions. One can easily prove that any analytic function of a real argument is smooth. The converse is not true, with this article constructing a counterexample..
Non-apology apology
A non-apology apology is a statement in the apparent form of an apology that is actually nothing of the sort. Non-apology apologies are a common gambit in politics and public relations. An example of a non-apology apology is to say "I'm sorry if you were offended by my remarks", to someone that one..
Non-Archimedean
See: Archimedean propertyp-adic number This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..
Non-archimedean time
Non-archimedean time refers to any theory of time which holds there exists instants infinitely in the future or infinitely in the past. It is so called because if the instants of such time are assigned numbers, the set of such numbers must be non-archimedean. Non-archimedean future time would entai..
Non-Aristotelian logic
The term non-Aristotelian logic, sometimes shortened to null-A, means any non-classical system of logic which rejects one of Aristotle's premises. Contents 1 History2 Use in science fiction3 See also4 Some developers of non-Aristotelian logics5 External links History Nic..
Non-assertion covenant
A Non-Assertion Covenant is a declaration of non-enforcement by Sun Microsystems for its U.S. and foreign patents against any implementation of the Open Document Format for its Office Applications. It offers an effective model for software industrial standards. The non-assertion covenant is being p..
Non-Bahá'í
Non-Bahá'í is a common term, not typically intended pejoratively by members of the Bahá'í Faith to refer to those who are not registered members. Since the principles of the Bahá'í Faith are intended to be inclusive and there are very few activities open exclusively to Bahá'ís, many mode..
Non-banking financial company
Non-bank financial companies (NBFCs) also known as a non-bank or a non-bank bank, are financial institutions that provide banking services without meeting the legal definition of a bank, i. e. one that does not hold a banking license. Operations are, regardless of this, still exercised under bank re..
Non-bank subsidiary
Non-bank subsidiaries, are firms owned by bank holding companies which offer non-bank products and services, such as insurance and investment advice, and do not offer FDIC insured banking products, such as checking and savings accounts. Such companies customarily use the term "banc" to define themse..
Non-belligerent
A non-belligerent is a person or country who does not take part in aggression. It is often used to describe a country that is not participating in a war. A non-belligerent country may be different from a neutral country in that it may be actively supporting one side or the other without actually fig..
Non-blocking
Non-blocking may refer to: Non-blocking I/ONon-blocking synchronization This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..
Non-blocking algorithm
In concurrent programming, non-blocking algorithms are those algorithms designed to avoid requiring a critical section. Often, these algorithms allow multiple processes to make progress on a problem without ever blocking each other. For some operations, these algorithms provide an alternative to ..
Non-blocking synchronization
In computer science, non-blocking synchronization ensures that threads competing for a shared resource do not have their execution indefinitely postponed by mutual exclusion. Literature up to the turn of the century used "non-blocking" synonymously with lock-free: an algorithm with guaranteed system..
Non-Blowback Airsoft Gun
==Non-Blowback Airsoft Gun== A non-Blowback Airsoft Gun is a Semi-Automatic airsoft gun powered by a propellant called green gas. Non-Blowbacks do not have a slide that goes back whenever you shoot. Blowback Airsoft Guns however do. Non-Blowback airsoft guns (NBB) are modeled after real versions of..
Non-breaking space
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. In computing, a non-breaking space (NBSP) is a special space character that prevents an automatic line break (li..
Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible
Several texts are mentioned in the Bible, yet do not appear in the canon. Most of these are considered lost works, with the exception of the Book of Enoch. Jewish-related The Book of Jasher (fully translated as the Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just) is mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and 2 ..
Non-canonical spells in Harry Potter
In the magical world of the Harry Potter series of fictional novels by J.K. Rowling, many (often incredible) things are accomplished through the use of magical spells by the characters. For a general discussion of spells, and similar magic in the world of J.K. Rowling, see Magic (Harry Potter). Non..
Non-canonical works related and derived from Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for authors and creatives other than Arthur Conan Doyle. Contents 0.1 Print0.2 Film0.3 Television0.4 Animation0.5 Computer games Print In 1905 the French writer Maurice Leblanc pitted his gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin a..
Non-cellular life
Non-cellular life is life that exists without cells. This term usually is applied to terrestrial life, and the classification of viruses as lifeforms. In relation to the domains of life, the rare terms acytota or aphanobionta are used as the (super)kingdom / (super)domain / (super)empire name. The c..
Non-circular gear
Non-circular gear example A non-circular gear (NCG) is a special gear design with special characteristics and purpose. While a regular gear is optimized to transmit torque to another engaged member with minimum noise and wear and with maximum efficiency, a non-circular gear's main objective mig..
Non-classical analysis
In mathematics, non-classical analysis is any system of analysis, other than classical real analysis, and complex, vector, tensor, etc., analysis based upon it. Such systems include: Abstract Stone duality, a recent theory of general topology founded on the topos of locally compact locales. It all..
Non-classical ion
Non-classical ions in organic chemistry are a special type of carbonium ions displaying delocalization of sigma bonds in 3-center-2-electron bonds of bridged systems [#endnote_Moss]. The term non-classical ion was first used by J.D. Roberts in 1951 [#endnote_Roberts1] in relation t..
Non-clustered Index
A nonclustered index is a special type of index in which the logical order of the index does not match the physical stored order of the rows on disk. The leaf node of a nonclustered index does not consist of the data pages. Instead, the leaf nodes contain index rows. ..
Non-coding RNA
A non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is any RNA molecule that functions without being translated into a protein. A commonly used synonym, particularly with bacteria, is small RNA (sRNA). Less-frequently used synonyms are non-messenger RNA (nmRNA), small non-messenger RNA (snmRNA), or functional RNA (fRNA). The..
Non-coding strand
DNA is composed of two strands of nucleotides that are bound together through several types of chemical interactions. RNA Polymerase reads one of these strands, the template strand, and produces an mRNA transcript which is later translated into a protein. The DNA that is not "read" by the polymerase..
Non-cognitivism
Non-cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that ethical statements (such as 'Killing is wrong') do not assert propositions; that is to say, they do not express factual claims or beliefs and therefore are neither true nor false (they are not truth-apt). This distinguishes it from moral realism, which..
Non-combatant
Non-combatant is a military and legal term describing civilians not engaged in combat. It also includes (Geneva Conventions Protocol I, 8 June 1977, Art 43.2) persons, such as medical personnel and chaplains (who are regular soldiers but are protected because of their function) and soldiers who are..
Non-commercial
A non-commercial enterprise is work that values other considerations above and beyond that of making a profit. It differs from a non-profit enterprise in that seeking a profit is a part of their business, just not the main part. A typical example is art that is being sold, but where the artist has..
Non-commercial advertising
Non-commercial advertising is sponsored by or for a charitable institution or civic group or religious or political organization. Many noncommercial advertisements seek money and placed in the hope of raising funds. Others hope to change consumer behavior. So the main goals of noncommercial advertis..
Non-commercial educational
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a [WikiProject Countering systemic biasworldwide view].Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the [talk page]. The term non-commercial educational (NCE) applies to a radio station that does not..
Non-commissioned member
A non-commissioned member (NCM), in the Canadian Forces, is defined in the Queen's Regulations and Orders as: "… any person, other than an officer, who is enrolled in, or who pursuant to law is attached or seconded otherwise than as an officer to, the Canadian Forces…" [(QR&O 1.02)] ..
Non-commissioned officer
A non-commissioned officer (sometimes noncommissioned officer), also known as an NCO or noncom, is a non-commissioned member of an armed force who has been given authority by a commissioned officer. The non-commissioned officer corps is the 'junior' management of the military. Typically NCOs serve ..
Non-Commissioned Officer Development Ribbon
NCO Development Ribbons A Non-Commissioned Officer Development Ribbon is an award issued by the United States Army and Air Force to recognize those non-commissioned officers who have completed a prescribed leadership course at an NCO training school. Contents 1 Army2 Air Force3&nb..
Non-compete clause
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Non-competitive inhibition
Non-competitive inhibition is a type of inhibition that reduces the maximum rate of a chemical reaction (Vmax) without changing the apparent binding affinity of the catalyst for the substrate (KmApp in the case of enzyme inhibition, – see Michaelis-Menten kinetics). Non-competitve inhibition ..
Non-configurational language
Non-configurational languages are languages that have the following characteristics: free word ordernull anaphorasyntactically discontinuous expressions Examples include Warlpiri, O'odham (Papago), and Japanese. W-type W-type languages have the following (Jelinek 1984): predicate-AUX complex tha..
Non-conforming loan
A non-conforming loan is a loan that fails to meet bank criteria for funding. Reasons include the loan amount is higher than the conforming loan limit (for mortgage loans), lack of sufficient credit, the unorthodox nature of the use of funds, or the collateral backing it. In many cases, non-confor..
Non-conformist
A non-conformist, in English history, is any member of a Protestant congregation not affiliated with the Church of England. The earliest non-conformist groups included Presbyterians, Independents (Congregationalists), Baptists, and Quakers. Later non-Conformists included Methodists and the Salvati..
Non-Constituency Member of Parliament
Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs) are members of the opposition parties who were appointed as members of the Parliament of Singapore even though they had lost in the parliamentary election. The NCMP scheme was introduced in 1984 to provide a voice for the opposition in parliament. A..
Non-conventional literature
Non-conventional literature (NCL, also called ‘grey literature’) comprises scientific and technical reports, patent documents, conference papers, internal reports, government documents, newsletters, factsheets and theses, which are not readily available through commercial channels. NCL s..
Non-conventional oil
Non-conventional oil is oil produced or extracted using techniques other than the traditional oil well method. Currently, non-conventional oil production is less efficient and some types have a larger environmental impact relative to conventional oil production. Non-conventional types of productio..
Non-conventional trademark
A non-conventional trademark, also known as a nontraditional trademark, is any new type of trademark which does not belong to a pre-existing, conventional category of trade mark, and which is often difficult to register, but which may nevertheless fulfill the essential trademark function of uniquely..
Non-convergent discourse
A non-convergent discourse (NCD) is a discourse in which the participants do not accommodate on the language level, which results in the use of different languages. Alternative names for this phenomenon are asymmetric and bilingual discourse. The term was introduced by the sociolinguist Reitze Jonk..
Non-cooperative game
In game theory, a non-cooperative game is a one in which players can cooperate, but any cooperation must be self-enforcing. A game in which players can enforce contracts through third parties is a cooperative game. See also Nash equilibrium External link [A brief introduction to non-cooperativ..
Non-coordinating anion
Anions that show a general weak coordination to cations are optimistically termed non-coordinating anion (although a better term is 'weakly coordinating anion').I. Krossing, I. Raabe, "Noncoordinating Anions—Fact or Fiction? A Survey of Likely Candidates" Angewandte Chemie International Edition 20..
Non-coperation movement
The Non-Cooperation Movement was the first-ever series of nationwide people's movements of nonviolent resistance, led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. The Movement opened the Gandhi Era in the Indian Independence Movement. Contents 1 Background2 Champaran, Kheda, Khi..
Non-Corporate Credit
Non-Corporate Credit is a catch-all term used to include types of bonds that are forms of credit, but not issued by private corporations - and therefore cannot be considered corporate debt. Non-Corporate Credit generally includes sovereign debt, regional governments and government agencies in a curr..
Non-credible threat
A non-credible threat is a term used in game theory economics to describe a threat by a player in a sequential game that they would not carry out as it would not be in their best interest to do so. A non-credible threat is made on the hope that it will be believed, and therefore the threatened und..
Non-critical race
A non-critical race is a specific type of race hazard found in digital logic circuits. A non-critical race occurs when the order in which internal variables are changed does not alter the eventual state that the state machine will end up in. In other words, a non-critical race occurs when moving t..
Non-critical string
The non-critical string theory describes the relativistic string without enforcing the critical dimension. Because in these cases, the non-critical string theory is not suitable to describe the fundamental nature of interactions, as it does not have the property of consistently quantized Lorenz symm..
Non-Currie Cup first-class matches in South Africa in 1971-72
See also: 1971-72 South African cricket season 1971-72 South African cricket season Currie Cup Section A | Currie Cup Section B | Gillette Cup | Other first-class | New Zealand Women Western Province v South African Universities (10-13 December) Western Province beat South African Universiti..
Non-Custodial Parents Party
The Non-Custodial Parents Party (NCCP) is a minor a political party in Australia, that never won a seat in a federal election. Its primary concern is Family Law and Child Support policy reform. Politics of Australia Government: Parliament (House of Representatives, Senate) - Monarchy - Go..
Non-dairy creamer
Non-dairy creamer is a substance used as a substitute for milk or cream as an addition to coffee or other beverages. Unlike "real" milk and cream, powdered creamers do not require refrigeration and have a long shelf life. Non-dairy creamers typically contain sodium caseinate, a milk protein (casei..
Non-decimal currencies
Today, only two countries in the world use currencies which have subdivisions that are a non-decimal fraction of their main unit. These two countries are Mauritania (1 ouguiya = 5 khoum) and Madagascar (1 ariary = 5 iraimbilanja). Historic Historically, the use of decimal subdivisions was the exce..
Non-denial denial
Non-denial denial is a term for a particular kind of equivocation; specifically, an apparent denial that, though it appeared clearcut and unambiguous when heard, on examination turns out to be ambiguous and not a denial at all. The phrase is particularly associated with politics and means in effect ..
Non-Denominational
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Non-denominational Christianity
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. In Christianity, the term non-denominational refers to those churches which have not formally aligned themselve..
Non-Departmental Public Bodies (Health)
Non-Departmental Public Bodies (Health) are the government bodies - see Non-Departmental Public Body - managed by the Department of Health in the United Kingdom as part of its functions in relation to the National Health Service. The current list[DoH website list of arm's length bodies] in..
Non-departmental public body
In the United Kingdom, a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury and Scottish Executive to certain types of public bodies. They have, essentially, two types of functions: advisory and executive. Contents 1 Advisory2 Executive3 ..
Non-destructive editing
Non-destructive editing is a form of editing signals where the original content is not modified in the course of editing - instead the edits themselves are edited. A pointer-based playlist - effectively an EDL - is used to keep track of edits. Each time the edited video is played back or accessed, ..
Non-deterministic Turing machine
In theoretical computer science, a non-deterministic Turing machine (NTM) is a Turing machine whose control mechanism works like a non-deterministic finite automaton. Contents 1 Description2 Definition3 Variations4 Equivalence with DTMs5 Comparison to Other Models of Comp..
Non-diegetic insert
In film studies, diegesis refers to the story world, and the events that occur within it. Thus, non-diegisis are things which occur outside the story-world. A Non-diegetic insert is a film technique that combines a shot or a series of shots cut into a sequence, showing objects represented as being..
Non-dim circuit
A non-dim circuit is a special electrical network. In theater, it is is a type of outlet usually controlled from the stage manager's panel. The word non-dim is used to distinguish this type of circuit which operates only in on or off modes, from a dimmer, which can be at any intensity on a continum...
Non-directional beacon
A non-directional beacon (NDB) is a radio broadcast station in a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. NDB usage for aviation is standardized by ICAO Annex 10 which specifies that NDBs be operated on a frequency between 190 kHz and 1750 kHz. Each NDB is to be iden..
Non-disclosure agreement
A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), also called a confidential disclosure agreement (CDA), confidentiality agreement or secrecy agreement, is a legal contract between at least two parties which outlines confidentiality materials the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish..
Non-disjunction
In biology, non-disjunction is when certain homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids fail to separate during meiosis. This results in one gamete receiving two of the same type of chromosome and another gamete receiving no copy. An example is Down Syndrome which results from trisomy of chromosom..
Non-DVP
Non-DVP trading is defined as securities trading where a client custodian will have to release payment or deliver securities on behalf of its client before it is certain that it will receive the counter-value. There is incurring settlement risk. ..
Non-economic damages caps
Non-economic damages caps are a controversial tort reform to limit (i.e., "cap") damages for intangible harms such as severe pain, physical and emotional distress, disfigurement, loss of the enjoyment of life that an injury has caused, including sterility, loss of sexual organs, physical impairment ..
Non-empty set
In set theory, a set is called non-empty (or nonempty) if it contains at least one element, and is therefore not the empty set. The requirement that a set be non-empty is frequently found in mathematical hypotheses. One reason is that we can easily make logical errors when we make hypotheses about ..
Non-English-based programming languages
Non-English-based programming languages are computer programming languages that, unlike most well-known programming languages, do not use keywords taken from, or inspired by, the English vocabulary. Contents 0.1 Programming languages based on non-English natural languages0.2 Programming..
Non-enzymatic browning
Non-enzymatic browning is a chemical process that produces a brown color in foods without the activity of enzymes. Melanins and other chemicals are responsible for the brown color. Enzymatic browning likewise produces melanins, but through the action of enzymes. The two main forms of non-enzymatic ..
Non-epileptic seizures
Non-epileptic seizures are paroxysmal events that mimic an epileptic seizure but do not involve abnormal, rhythmic discharges of cortical neurons. They are caused by either physiological or psychological conditions. The latter is discussed more fully in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Contents ..
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a branch of thermodynamics concerned with studying time-dependent thermodynamic systems, irreversible transformations and open systems. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, as contrasted with equilibrium thermodynamics, is most successful in the study of stationary sta..
Non-Euclidean crystallographic group
In mathematics, a non-Euclidean crystallographic group, NEC group or N.E.C. group is a discrete group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane. These symmetry groups correspond to the wallpaper groups in euclidean geometry. A NEC group which contains only orientation-preserving elements is called a Fuc..
Non-Euclidean geometry
Behavior of lines with a common perpendicular in each of the three types of geometry The term non-Euclidean geometry (also spelled: non-euclidian geometry) describes hyperbolic, elliptic and absolute geometry, which are contrasted with Euclidean geometry. The essential difference between Eucli..
Non-event
A non-event is an anticipated or highly publicized event that either does not occur, or simply turns out to be very anticlimactic, boring or is a hoax. Non-events are disappointing, as they are often much hyped prior to their occurrence. Some notable non-events of recent history have been: The m..
Non-excludable good
Non-excludable goods are defined in economics as goods whereby it is impossible to stop a person consuming that good when it has become publicly available at a relatively low cost. Non-excludable types of goods include public goods and common pool goods. Examples A well-architected building, such ..
Non-exclusive ethnic group
A non-exclusive ethnic group is an ethnic group with a means for people from other ethnic groups to obtain ethnic status within it. Possibly the first such group documented in history was that of the Habiru. Others have included the Jews and the Cossacks, but in modern times sovereign countries, lik..
Non-executive director
A non-executive director is a member of the board of directors of a company who does not form part of the executive management team. He or she is not an employee of the company or affiliated with it in any other way. Overview In 2003, Derek Higgs in a report for the British Government defined the ..
Non-explosive demolition agents
Non-explosive demolition agents are commercial products that are an alternative to explosives in demolition, mining, and quarrying. To use non-explosive demolition agents in demolition or quarrying, holes are drilled in the base rock like they would be drilled for use with conventional explosives. ..
Non-Facility Associated Signalling
Contents 1 NFAS1.1 What is NFAS?1.2 Why NFAS?1.3 Outside North America NFAS Describes a Primary Rate ISDN configuration where multiple T1 carriers share a signaling channel (or D Channel). Usually referred to as NFAS. What is NFAS? In the North American telecommunications s..
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be tr..
Non-Fiction (album)
Non-Fiction is the sophomore effort from Hip Hop duo Black Sheep. The album was not nearly as widely accepted as their debut A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing. The album featured a few minor rap hits, "Without A Doubt" and "North South East West". Tracklisting # Title Songwriters Producer(s) Performer..
Non-Filter
Non-Filter or Non Filter is a category of air purification system created by Microgenix Technology Ltd., a United Kingdom-based company that invented the technology. The technology is comprised of two proprietary elements. An anti-microbial agent applied to a special medium kills pathogens, and an ..
Non-finite clause
In linguistics, a non-finite clause is a subordinate clause whose verb is non-finite; for example, many languages can form non-finite clauses from infinitives. Like any subordinate clause, a non-finite clause serves a grammatical role — commonly that of a noun, adjective, or adverb — in ..
Non-finite verb
A non-finite verb is a verb form that is not limited by the subject. Considered more globally it is not fully inflected by categories that are marked inflectionally in language, such as tense, aspect, modality, number (singular or plural) or person (I, you, he/she/it; we, you, they). Its opposite ..
Non-fixed access
Non-fixed access: In personal communications service (PCS), terminal access to a network in which there is no set relationship between a terminal and the access interface. The access interface and the terminal each has its own separate "identifiers." The terminal may be moved from one access interf..
Non-Format
Non-Format is a contemporary London-based Anglo-Scandinavian graphic design team specializing in design projects for the publishing and music industries. The firm was founded by Kjell Ekhorn and Jon Forss in 2000. They work extensively for The Leaf Label, and are responsible for the recent compl..
Non-functional requirements
In systems engineering and requirements engineering, non-functional requirements are requirements which specify criteria that can be used to judge the operation of a system, rather than specific behaviors. This should be contrasted with functional requirements that specify specific behavior or funct..
Non-Functional Requirements framework (NFR)
NFR (Non-Functional Requirements) is a framework on Goal Modelling. The analysis begins with softgoals that represent NFR which stakeholders agree upon. Softgoals are goals that are hard to express, but tend to be global qualities of a software system.These could be usability, performance, security ..
Non-gaussianity
In physics, a non-gaussianity is the correction that modifies the expected gaussian function estimate for the measurement of a physical quantity. In physical cosmology, the fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background are known to be approximately gaussian, both theoretically as well as experime..
Non-German cooperation with Nazis during World War II
Non-German cooperation with Nazis during World War II existed in all the countries occupied by Germany during World War 2. Contents 1 Reasons for cooperation2 Requirements for cooperation3 Partial list of colaborationist organizations3.1 Albania3.2 Belarus3.3 Belgiu..
Non-gonococcal urethritis
Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) is an inflammation of the urethra which is not caused by gonorrheal infection. Contents 1 Symptoms2 Causes3 Diagnosis4 Treatment5 External links Symptoms The symptoms of urethritis can include pain or a burning sensation upon urination (d..
Non-governmental organization
"NGO" redirects here. For , see . A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a non-profit group or association that acts outside of institutionalized political structures and pursues matters of interest to its members by lobbying, persuasion, or direct action. The term is generally restricted to soc..
Non-governmental organizations in Sweden
Contents 1 Business & Industry2 Defense3 Think Tanks4 Foundations5 Other6 See also Business & Industry Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv)Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations (SACO)Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (T..
Non-Governmental Organization OSINT
Non-governmental organization OSINT or NGO OSINT, is rapidly emerging as critical to the success of organizations such as the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, and Greenpeace. The Brahimi Report and the final report of the High Level Threat Panel..
Non-harmonic arpeggio
In a melody a non-harmonic arpeggio is an arpeggio whose notes or chord does not appear in the harmony of the accompaniment. The most common example is the melodic triad. (van der Merwe 1989, p.321) Source van der Merwe, Peter (1989). Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Cent..
Non-heart beating donation
Prior to the introduction of brain-stem death into law in the mid to late 1970s, all organ transplants from cadaveric donors came from non-heart beating donors (NHBD). Brain-stem dead donors, however, led to better results as the organs were perfused with oxygenated blood until the point of perfus..
Non-heterosexuals
Non-heterosexuals is a neologism, used to describe a group of people whose sexual orientation is other than heterosexuality. It is used primarily as a non-exclusionary term for homosexuals (male and female), and bisexuals, although could also mean asexual. The term is thus used in much the same way ..
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of cancer arising from lymphocytes, a type of white blood cells. It is so called because of its distinction from Hodgkin's disease, a particular subtype of lymphoma. It is in fact an overarching term of many different forms of lymphoma, each with individual character..
Non-homogeneous Poisson process
In probability theory, a non-homogeneous Poisson process is a Poisson process with rate parameter [\lambda (t)] such that the rate parameter of the process is a function of time. An example of a non-homogeneous Poisson process would be the arrival rate of customers to a restaurant over a d..
Non-homologous end joining
Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is a pathway that can be used to repair double-strand breaks in DNA. NHEJ is referred to as "non-homologous" because the break ends are directly ligated without the need for a homologous template, in contrast to homologous recombination, which requires a homologous ..
Non-human fatherhood
For some animals, it is the fathers who take care of the young. Some male frogs carry unhatched eggs on its back, such as Gastrotheca, Hemiphractus, Flectonotus, and Fritziana. Darwin frog (Rhinoderma darwini) fathers carry eggs in the vocal pouch. The female seahorse (hippocampus) deposits eggs in..
Non-imaging optics
Non-imaging optics is the branch of optics concerned with the optimal transfer of optical radiation between a source and a target. Unlike traditional imaging optics, the techniques involved do not attempt to form an image of the source; instead an optimized optical system for optical radiative trans..
Non-increasing sequence
Let X be a set, and "⊆" a partial order on X. Let α be a sequence of ordinals. We say that a sequence of elements xα of X is non-increasing if for each ordinal α and each ordinal β>α, we have xβ⊆xα. Algebraically speaking, a sequence [(a_n)_..
Non-industrial water filtration
In polluted or even unfiltered mountain water there are many parasitic organisms and inorganic chemicals that are dangerous to humans. Common organisms: giardia, which causes gastroenteritiscryptosporidium, which causes gastroenteritis Common Chemicals: LeadArsenicMercury Contents 1 Reverse..
Non-inertial reference frame
A non inertial frame of reference is one in which a body violates Newton's Laws of Motion, mainly the First Law. In such a frame, despite no real force acting on a body at rest, it might move; or one that was already moving come at rest or change it's direction of motion. For comparison see an inert..
Non-Inscrits
Non-Inscrits (abbreviated NI; English: Non-Attached Members, abbreviated NA; the English name is also official, but the French name is prevalent even in English texts) are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the Political Groups. Non-Inscrits per national party can be found b..
Non-Institutional Governmental Changes in the Philippines
Non-Institutional Governmental Changes in the Philippines basically come in three forms: Uprisings, Coup d'états and People Power Revolutions. Contents 1 Uprisings2 ..
Non-Intentional Lifeform
Non-Intentional Lifeform were an Australian band in the late 1990s. Members included Andrew Day (guitar, vocals, trombone, mandolin, didjeridoo), Declan Barry (vocals), Hywel Stokes (bass) and Adam Pedretti (drums). They had a minor Australian hit with their single "Living or Existing?", which app..
Non-interactive demo
A Non-interactive demo is a term used to describe prolonged commercials or promotions. Static game content, FMV or technology demos that are intended to illustrate the power of a new product are often referred to as a non-interactive demo. ..
Non-Intercourse Act
In the last days of President Thomas Jefferson's presidency, the United States Congress replaced the Embargo Act of 1807 with the almost unenforceable Non-Intercourse Act of March 1809. This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. The intent ..
Non-interference
Non-interference is a strict multilevel security policy model, first described by Goguen and Messeguer in 1982, and amplified further in 1984. Contents 1 Introduction2 Formal expression3 Limitations3.1 Strictness3.2 No classified information at startup3.3 No summaris..
Non-intervention
Non-intervention is the norm in international relations that one state cannot interfere in the internal politics of another state, based upon the principles of state sovereignty and self-determination Contents 1 Overview2 History3 Emergent threats to norm of non-intervention4 ..
Non-interventionism
Non-interventionism is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations and avoid all wars not related to direct territorial self-defense.A similar phrase is "strategic independence"(1) In the United States, this foreign policy has been advocated at vari..
Non-invasive (medical)
Panoramic dental radiography The term non-invasive in medicine has two meanings: A medical procedure which does not penetrate or break the skin or a body cavity, i.e., it doesn't require an (invasive) incision into the body or the removal of biological tissue.An abnormal tissue growth, such as..
Non-ionising radiation
Non-ionising radiation (or in American English non-ionizing radiation) refers to any type of electromagnetic radiation that does not carry enough energy to ionize atoms or molecules - that is, to completely remove an electron from an atom or molecule. The composition of this radiation can vary de..
Non-juror
A non-juror is a person who refuses to swear a particular oath. In British history, the non-jurors were those who refused to swear allegiance to William and Mary in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution. They included Anglican clergy who were deposed for their refusal, resulting in the Nonjuri..
Non-jury trial
In a non-jury trial the verdict is given by one or more professional judges rather than a jury of the defendant's 'peers'. In the English common law, a jury is only used in criminal law, while civil law is subject to the bench. ..
Non-Kekulé molecule
A non-Kekulé molecule is a conjugated hydrocarbon that cannot be assigned classical Kekulé structures. Since non-Kekulé molecules have two or more formal radical centers, their spin-spin interactions can cause conductivity or ferromagnetism, and applications to functional materials are expected. ..
Non-league football
Non-league football refers to football in England played at a level below that of the FA Premier League and The Football League. The term non-league came into common use before 1992 when the top football clubs in England all belonged to The Football League; all clubs who were not a part of The Footb..
Non-lethal force
Non-lethal force is force which is not inherently likely to kill or cause great bodily injury to a living target. In the past, police (or soldiers in Military Aid to the Civil Power) called to a riot were primarily limited to use of bayonet or sabre charges, or firing live ammunition into the mob. ..
Non-life
In the physical sciences, non-life is an umbrella term set to distinguish or characterize those inanimate chemical precursors found in the primeval soup of the early years of planetary evolution from which life, theoretically, evolved or came into existence. In the classic 1953 Urey-Miller experime..
Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System
The Non Line of Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS) is a self-contained missile launch system under development by NetFires LLC, a partnership between Lockheed Martin and Raytheon for the US Army's Future Combat Systems and the US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship. Each Container Launch Unit (CLU) consists of ..
Non-linear control
Non-linear control is a sub-division of control engineering which deals with the control of non-linear systems. The behaviour of a non-linear system cannot be described as a linear function of the state of that system or the input variables to that system. For linear systems, there are many well-est..
Non-linear editing system
Note: Please see National Latin Examination for the standardized test that is also abbreviated NLE. A non-linear editing system (abbreviated NLE) is a video editing (NLVE) or audio editing (NLAE) system that can perform random access on the source material. Contents 1 Non-linear editing2&..
Non-linear filter
A non-linear filter is a signal-processing device whose output is not a linear function of its input. Examples of non-linear filters include: phase-locked loopsdetectorsmixers See also Nonlinearity ..
Non-linear sigma model
In quantum field theory, a nonlinear σ model describes a scalar field Σ which takes on values in a nonlinear manifold called the target manifold T. The target manifold is equipped with a Riemannian metric g. Σ is a differentiable map from Minkowski space M (or some other space) to..
Non-linear writing
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Non-linear writing is writing which made up of marks other than lines, to be distinguished from linear writing. ..
Non-lock concurrency control
In computer science, in the field of databases, non-lock concurrency control is concurrency control method used in relational databases without using locking. There are several non-lock concurrency control methods: Optimistic concurrency controlTimestamp-based concurrency controlMultiversion concu..
Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index
The Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index is a seasonally adjusted index released by the Institute for Supply Management measuring business activity in the United States service economy as part of the Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on Business. An index greater than 50 indicates growth in busines..
Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on Business
The Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on Business is a purchasing survey of the United States service economy, published by the Institute for Supply Management since June 1998. Its results are a popular economic indicator and forecaster. Its primary index is the Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index..
Non-market economics
Non-market economics is the study of the production, trade, and distribution of goods and services via mechanisms other than the market. Non-market economies do not operate through the exchange of money. Barter is usually considered a type of a commodity-economy, so it is generally not considered a..
Non-Maskable interrupt
A Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) is a special type of interrupt that can not be ignored by standard interrupt masking techniques. Otherwise, NMIs behave and are handled just like any other interrupt. An NMI is typically used to signal attention for non-recoverable hardware errors. Some NMIs may be mas..
Non-measurable set
This page gives a non-technical description of this concept. For a technical description see measure (mathematics) and the various constructions of non-measurable sets, Vitali set, Hausdorff paradox, Banach–Tarski paradox. In mathematics, a non-measurable set is a subset of a set with finite posi..
Non-medical use of dextromethorphan
Since their introduction, preparations containing the over-the-counter drug dextromethorphan have been used in a manner inconsistent with their labeling, often as a recreational drug or for spiritual experiences. Dextromethorphan has little to no psychological effect in the doses used medically, how..
Non-mendelian inheritance
In genetics, non-Mendelian inheritance is the passing on of a trait in a form other than through chromosomal inheritance. This is especially used to talk about inheritance patterns. Forms of non-Mendelian inheritance include the inheritance of mitochondrial or chloroplast and traits diseases and tra..
Non-metallic inclusions
Non-metallic inclusions are chemical compounds of metal with nonmetal which present in steel and alloys like separated parts. Contents 1 Sources of inclusions formation2 Classification of non-metallic inclusions3 Influence of non-metallic incluions to the properties of steel and a..
Non-metropolitan district
Non-metropolitan districts (usually known as just districts) are a type of local government district in England. The vast majority of non-metropolitan districts are lower tier districts, which share power with county councils and are commonly known as shire districts. The districts typically have po..
Non-ministerial government department
A non-ministerial government department is a department or ministry of a government that is not headed by a Government Minister or Government Secretary, and answers directly to a legislature. Such departments are created to remove political interference in public affairs such as prosecution, charit..
Non-monotonic logic
A non-monotonic logic is a formal logic whose consequence relation is not monotonic. Most formal logics have a monotonic consequence relation, meaning that adding a formula to a theory never produces a reduction of its set of consequences. Intuitively, monotonicity indicates that learning a new piec..
Non-motorized access on freeways
The concept of a freeway (a public way for fast and safe travel over long distances) has resulted in a set of highways with engineering features such as long sight distances, wide marked lanes and the absence of cross traffic. These features provide better safety for all freeway users. Travel withi..
Non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease
Mood disturbances: depression: occurs in 40-80% of cases; 20% of depression cases are major depressive disorder; severity and persistence of depression is positively associated with executive dysfunction and dementia;anxiety or panic attacksNote: 70% of individuals with Parkinson's disease diagnosed..
Non-Muslim interactants with Muslims during Muhammad's era
This is a list of the Non-Muslim interactants with Muslims during Muhammad's era. Contents 1 Overview2 ..
Non-Muslim Islamic scholars
''This is a sub-article to Islamic scholars. A Non-Muslim Islamic scholar is a scholar of Islam who is not a Muslim, for example St. John Philby. Among the fields of study of the early Orientalists, most of whom were not Muslims, was al-Islam. Eventually, the term Orientalist was replaced [lin..
Non-Muslim view of Ali
''This is a sub-article to Non-Muslim Islamic scholars and a parallel sub-article to Ali. Some of the non-Muslim scholars, like Watt, reject all hadith as fabrications, this colouring their view. Others, like Wilferd Madelung, refute the position of Watt. A few of them, like Lammens held a negativ..
Non-native pronunciations of English
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Non-negative matrix factorization
Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a group of algorithms in multivariate analysis and linear algebra where a matrix, [\mathbf], is factorized into (usually) two matrices, [\mathbf] and [\mathbf] [\operatorname(\mathbf) \rightarrow \mathbf ] Factorizat..
Non-Newtonian fluid
A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid in which the viscosity changes with the applied strain rate. As a result, non-Newtonian fluids may not have a well-defined viscosity. Although the concept of viscosity is commonly used to characterize a material, it can be inadequate to describe the mechanical be..
Non-nude pornography
Non-nude photography (as it is called by its supporters) or non-nude pornography (as it is sometimes called by critics or outside observers) is an online movement, a genre of photography, and an assortment of like-minded online communities that focus on the collection, creation, and distribution ..
Non-official cover
Non-official cover (NOC) is a term used in espionage (particularly by the CIA) for an agent or operative who assumes a covert role in an organization without ties to the government he or she is working for. It's typically abbreviated in espionage lingo as NOC (pronounced like the word "knock"). An ..
Non-orientable wormhole
In wormhole theory, a non-orientable wormhole is a wormhole connection that appears to reverse the chirality of anything passed through it. It is related to the "twisted" connections normally used to construct a Möbius strip or Klein bottle. In topology, this sort of connection is referred to as..
Non-parametric statistics
The branch of statistics known as non-parametric statistics is concerned with non-parametric statistical models and non-parametric statistical tests. Nonparametric models differ from parametric models in that the model structure is not specified a priori, but is instead determined from data. The te..
Non-parental ditype
A spore arrangement in Ascomycetes that contains only the two recombinant-type ascospores (assuming two segregating loci). A tetrad type containing two different genotypes, both of which are recombinant. ..
Non-Partisan Association
The Non-Partisan Association - the NPA - is a civic-level political party operating in Vancouver, Canada. The NPA was established in the 1930s to counteract the rise of the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. The party is generally right-of-centre, but socially liberal and supp..
Non-partisan democracy
Democracy This series is part ofthe Politics and the Forms of government series DemocracyHistory of democracyVarieties Anticipatory democracyAthenian democracyConsensus democracyDeliberative democracyDirect democracyLiberal democracyNon-partisan democracyParticipatory democracyRepresentatio..
Non-Partisan League
''For the adjective used to describe various United States organizations and elections, see nonpartisan. The Non-Partisan League (NPL) was a political organization that was founded in 1915 in the United States by former Socialist party organizer A. C. Townley. The Non-Partisan League advocated stat..
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union
The Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU, Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: }}}; pinyin: ) is a political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan. It has refused to ally itself with either the Pan-Blue Coalition or Pan-Green Coalition or make any statements regarding the political status o..
Non-Party Block for Supporting the Reforms
The Non-Party Block for Supporting the Reforms (Bezpartyjny Blok Wspierania Reform), abbreviated BBWR, was officially a non-political organization (in fact a political party) affiliated with Lech Wałęsa. It was established 1993 and in 1997 it became part of the Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność. ..
Non-PC compatible x86 computers
For much of the time that Microsoft operating systems have dominated business computing, it has been a given that all computers based on Intel x86 family CPUs were IBM PC Compatibles. This is not the case and never has been. Contents 1 MS-DOS systems2 Multiuser and network machines3&nbs..
Non-performing loan
A non-performing loan is a loan that is in default or close to being in default. Many loans become non-performing after being in default for 3 months, but this can depend on the contract terms. “A loan is nonperforming when payments of interest and principal are past due by 90 days or more, or a..
Non-Permanent Active Militia
The Non-Permanent Active Militia was the name of Canada's part-time volunteer military force from the time of Confederation to 1940. The NPAM (also called "the Militia" though that term could also encompass the full-time standing army known as the [[Permanent Active Militia) was composed of several..
Non-permanent marker
A non-permanent marker is a marker often used for making markings where permanence is not required or would be a drawback, as for example marking on overhead projectors or overhead transparencies, or whiteboards. It can be erased with a cloth or paper towel. Some pens require a wet cloth, while dr..
Non-perturbative
In mathematics and physics, a non-perturbative function or process is one that cannot be described by perturbation theory. An example is the function [f(x)=e^]. The function e-1/x². The Taylor series is 0, but the function is not. The Taylor series for this function is exactly..
Non-pesticide management
Non-pesticide management (NPM) describes various pest-control techniques which do not rely on pesticides. It is used in organic production of foodstuff, as well as in other situations in which the introduction of toxins is undesireable. Instead of the use of synthetic toxins, pest control is achieve..
Non-philosophy
Non-philosophy was developed by French philosopher François Laruelle formerly of the Collège international de philosophie and the [[University of Paris X: Nanterre]]. Laruelle published on non-philosophy throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He currently directs an international organisation dedicated t..
Non-photorealistic rendering
Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is an area of computer graphics that focuses on enabling a wide variety of expressive styles for digital art. In contrast to traditional computer graphics, which has focused on photorealism, NPR is inspired by artistic styles such as painting, drawing, technical i..
Non-photo blue
Non-Photo Blue (or Non-Repro Blue) is a common tool used in the graphic design and print industry. It is a particular shade of blue that will not be detected by Graphic Arts Cameras. This allows layout editors to write notes to the printer on the print flat (the image which is to be photographed a..
Non-physical entity
A Non-physical entity is an entity that lacks a physical or material body or material or physical characteristics. Non-physical entities may be considered hypothetical, e.g. deities of religions no longer conventionally believed in, and used as an example of an imaginary being in analytical philoso..
Non-piercing body jewellery
Non piercing body jewelry refers to jewelry that does not require body piercing. Magnets are often used to hold the jewelry in place. Some of the jewelry squeezes a body part to hold itself in place. Common types of non piercing body jewelry include: clip-on earringsmagnetic earringsearcuffs Anal j..
Non-player character
A non-player character (sometimes non-playable character or non-player class) or NPC is a character in a role-playing game or computer game whose actions are not controlled by the player. Contents 1 Role-playing games1.1 Playability1.2 Dependents2 Computer and video games Ro..
Non-price competition
Non-price competition is a marketing strategy "in which one firm tries to distinguish its product or service from competing products on the basis of attributes like design and workmanship" (McConnell-Brue, 2002, p. 437-438). The firm can also distinguish its product offering through quality of servi..
Non-productive activity
Non-productive activity is activities of staff that do not produce profit. For example, a builder looking for lost tools, employees talking to friends in working time. Henry Ford found a solution to this by indroducing the assembly line which greatly reduced non-productive activity. ..
Non-profit hospital
A non-profit hospital is a hospital which is organized as a non-profit corporation. Based on their charitable purpose and sometimes affiliated with a religious denomination they are a traditional means of delivering medical care in the United States. In addition to public hospitals in larger cities..
Non-profit housing
Non-profit housing is owned and managed by private non-profit groups such as churches, ethnocultural communities or by governments. Non-profit housing uses private funding and government subsidies to support a rent-geared-to-income program for low-income tenants. See also Subsidized housing ..
Non-profit organization
A nonprofit organization (abbreviated "NPO", or "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. Nonprofits may be involved in an innumerable range of areas relating to t..
Non-profit sphere
The non-profit sphere is a third area of an economy, distinct from the public sphere and the private sphere. It is made up of all of the non-profit organizations in the economy. ..
Non-Proliferation Trust
The Non-Proliferation Trust (NPT) is a U.S. Not-for-profit corporation that advocates storing 10,000 tons of U.S. nuclear waste in Russia for a fee of $15 billion paid to the Russian government and $250 million paid to a fund for Russian orphans. The group is headed by Admiral Daniel Murphy. This pr..
Non-Prophets
Name: Non-Prophets Origin: Providence, RI Members: [Sage Francis], [Joey Beats] Inception: 1998 Non-Prophets is a pairing of lyricist [Sage Francis] and beatmaker [Joey Beats�..
Non-proprietary software
Non-proprietary software is the opposite of proprietary software, which is software for which the source code has not been made available or is protected by restrictive licensing clauses. In its widest possible sense, it is software that has no associated proprietary restrictions, particularly restr..
Non-publication
In the system of common law, each judicial decision becomes part of the body of law used in future decisions. However some courts reserve certain decisions, leaving them "unpublished", and thus not available for citation in future cases. Typically a court leaves "less important" cases unpublished...
Non-qualified stock option
Non qualified stock options are stock options which do not qualify for the special treatment accorded to incentive stock options. Incentive stock options are only available for employees and other restrictions apply for them. For regular tax purposes, incentive stock options have the advantage that..
Non-rail vehicles (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends)
The television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is well known for its anthropomorphic railway engines. However, there have also been many characters over the years who are not rail-based. These are often rivals to the engines, but several become friends to the railway. Contents 1 ..
Non-recurring engineering
Non-recurring engineering (NRE) refers to the one-time cost of product development, for example, the NRE of an ASIC design. NRE refers to the cost of creating a new product, which is paid up front. Contrast with "production cost," which is ongoing and based on the quantity of material produced. For..
Non-refoulement
Non-refoulement is a principle in international law that concerns the protection of refugees from being returned to places where their lives or freedoms could be threatened. Unlike political asylum, which applies to those who can prove a well-grounded fear of persecution based on membership in a s..
Non-renewable energy
Non-renewable energy is a blanket term for sources of energy that rely on consumable materials, namely: Nuclear energy and its nuclear wastes.Fossil fuels:*Coal*Petroleum*Natural gas See also Renewable energy ..
Non-renewable resources
Wyoming coal mine. Coal, along with many other resources is harvested at a vastly unsustainable rate. A non-renewable resource is a natural resource that cannot be re-made or re-grown. Often fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum and natural gas are considered non-renewable resources, as they ..
Non-representational theory
Non-representational theory is a theory developed in human geography, largely by the work of Nigel Thrift. It challenges social and geographical thought to go beyond representation Thrift, Nigel; 1996; Spatial Formations ; Sage . Instead of studying and reprsenting relationships, Thrift intends ..
Non-representative democracy
Non-representative democracy is a form of indirect democracy in which the people elect "electors" or "delegates" instead of representatives. Representatives are office holders who perform a legislative, executive, or judicial function. By contrast, electors or delegates function as electors of repr..
Non-repudiation
Non-repudiation is the concept of ensuring that a contract, especially one agreed to via the Internet, cannot later be denied by one of the parties involved. In today's global economy, where face-to-face agreements are often not possible, non-repudiation is becoming extremely important to commerce. ..
Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin
"NRI" redirects here. For other meanings, see NRI (disambiguation) A non-resident Indian (NRI) is an Indian citizen who has migrated to another country. Other terms with the same meaning are (somewhat self-deprecating in context) desis, overseas Indian and expatriate Indian. For tax and other offic..
Non-Resident Violator Compact
The Non-Resident Violator Compact (NRVC) is an interstate compact used by states of the United States to process traffic citations across state borders. Motorists cited for violations in a state that is not a member of the NRVC must post bail before being allowed to proceed. When a motorists is c..
Non-return-to-zero
In telecommunication, a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) line code is a binary code in which "1s" are represented by one significant condition and "0s" are represented by another, with no neutral or rest condition, such as a zero amplitude in pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), zero phase shift in phase-shi..
Non-return-to-zero, inverted
Non return to zero, inverted (NRZI) is a method of mapping a binary signal to a physical signal for transmission over some transmission media. The two level NRZI signal has a transition at a clock boundary, if the bit being transmitted is a logical zero, and does not have a transition if the bit ..
Non-return-to-zero space
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Non-rigid airship
Blimp is an informal term typically applied to non-rigid airships. These airships differ from rigid airships (e.g. Zeppelins) in that they have no rigid structure that holds the airbag in shape. Rather, blimps rely on a higher pressure of the gas (usually helium) inside the envelope. For a more com..
Non-roster invitee
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Non-scientific
Non-scientific, as contrasted with scientific, is a term referring to ideas, concepts, or theories that are generally not based on the scientific method. Most scientists maintain that scientific investigation must adhere to the scientific method, a process for evaluating empirical knowledge under t..
Non-Self-Employed Workers and Small-Scale Farmers Party
Non-Self-Employed Workers and Small-Scale Farmers Party (in German: Partei der Unselbständig Erwerbenden und Kleinbauern) was a political party in Liechtenstein. It participated in the 1953 elections, without winning any seat (there was an 18% threshold at the time). Such a threshold is not uncommo..
Non-silicon robot
Non-silicon robots are robotic systems that include no traditional computers, integrated digital or analog solid state devices, or other solid-state electronic devices. The term non-silicon robot is often used to describe a robot that has some autonomous abilities. As a simple example, a non-sil..
Non-simultaneous double squeeze
A Non-simultaneous double squeeze, in the card game of bridge, is a double squeeze in which the pressure is not applied to both opponents at the same trick. Before categorizing a little more about it we will show a diagram for the four basic matrices. ♠ 2 ♥ AJ ♦ K ♣ -..
Non-sinusoidal waveforms
Non-sinusoidal waveforms are waveforms that are not sine waves. Non-sinusoidal waveforms can be generated by harmonics and are used in mathematics, music and electronics. Examples of non-sinusoidal waveforms include square waves, rectangular waves, ramp waves, triangle waves, spiked waves and saw wa..
Non-SI units accepted for use with SI
The following units are not SI units but are "accepted for use with the International System." Non-SI units accepted for use with SI Name Symbol Quantity Equivalent SI unit minute min time s hour h time 1 h = 60 min = 3600 s day d time 1 d = 24 h = 1440 min = 86400 s degree of arc ° angle r..
Non-SI unit prefix
There exist several unit prefixes used like the SI prefixes, but that are not part of the SI system. Some of these were never part of any actual system of measurement. A few were proposals that were rejected. None are in common use, and many of the powers of ten they represent are already taken by ..
Non-small cell lung cancer staging
Non-small cell lung cancer staging is an important part of the assessment of non-small cell lung cancer. Patients with non-small cell lung cancer undergo staging as part of the process of considering treatment and prognosis. The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) recommends TNM staging follow..
Non-spacing character
A non-spacing character, when typed, doesn't move the entry point to the next character, as in conventional typewriters where to type an 'ä' one must type the umlaut (¨) first and then 'a' which will go into the same space. In computer input non-spacing characters start a non-spacing character se..
Non-speech audio input
Non-speech audio input is the use of non-speech sounds such as whistling, humming or hissing for entering data or controlling the user interface. ..
Non-standard analysis
Non-standard analysis is that branch of mathematics that formulates analysis using a rigorous notion of infinitesimal, where an element of an ordered field F is infinitesimal if and only if its absolute value is smaller than any element of F of the form 1/n, for n a natural number. Ordered fields t..
Non-standard calculus
In mathematics, non-standard calculus is the application of non-standard analysis techniques to differential and integral calculus. It provides a rigorous justification of purely formal calculations using infinitesimals to derive facts about derivatives, integrals, and series. Such formal calculat..
Non-standard cosmology
Physical cosmology Age of the universeBig BangMetric expansion of spaceComoving distanceCosmic microwave backgroundDark energyDark matterFLRW metricFriedmann equationsGalaxy formationHubble's lawInflationLarge-scale structureLambda-CDM modelNucleosynthesisObservable universeRedshiftShape of th..
Non-standard poker hand
Non-standard poker hands are hands which are not recognized by official poker rules but are created by house rules. Non-standard hands usually appear in games using wild cards or bugs. Other terms for nonstandard hands are special hands or freak hands. Because the hands are defined by house rules, t..
Non-standard positional numeral systems
Non-standard positional numeral systems are numeral systems that may be denoted positional systems, but that deviate in one way or another from the following description of standard positional systems: In a standard positional numeral system, the base b is a positive integer, and b different nume..
Non-state actor
Non-state actors, in international relations, are actors on the international level which are not states. The admission of non-state actors into international relations theory is inherently a rebuke to the assumptions of realism and other "black box" theories of international relations, which argue ..
Non-statutory law
Non-statutory law refers to the sources of law other than statutory law. Its authority rests not on legislation passed by Parliament and/or Administration and eventually codified, but rather tradition, custom, and especially precedent. It is recognized within the United States Constitution as bei..
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, usually abbreviated to NSAIDs, are drugs with analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects - they reduce pain, fever and inflammation. The term "non-steroidal" is used to distinguish these drugs from steroids, which (amongst a broad range of other effec..
Non-stoichiometric compound
Non-stoichiometric compounds are chemical compounds with an elemental composition that cannot be represented by a ratio of well-defined natural numbers, and are therefore in violation of the law of definite proportions. They are most often solids that contain random defects, resulting in the deficie..
Non-Stop
Non-Stop is a 1958 Science-Fiction novel by Brian Aldiss. The main character, Roy Complain, lives in a tribe where curiosity is discouraged. With a small group, he leaves his home and moves into uncharted territory. What they find changes their universe. Synopsis [Spoiler warningSpoiler warn..
Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing
Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing is a short album released in 1981 by Soft Cell, a pioneering synthpop/new wave duo which featured Marc Almond singing and David Ball playing synthesizers. Considered to be the first ever remix album, Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing is also widely recognized as being one of the..
Non-stop Erotic Cabaret
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is the first album released by the groundbreaking synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell, released in 1981 by Some Bizarre Records. The album's critical and commercial success was bolstered by the worldwide success of its single Tainted Love, a cover version of a little-known R&B s..
Non-Stop Productions
Non-Stop Productions was a music production company that Tupac Shakur and Johnny J had started together. After Tupac Shakur passed nothing else was released through this company. ..
Non-strict two-phase locking
In computer science, non-strict two-phase locking, also 2PL, is a locking method used in concurrent systems. The rules for 2PL are similar to those of Strict 2PL: If a transaction T wants to read/write an object, it must request a shared/exclusive lock on the object.A transaction cannot request ad..
Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland
The Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland derives their name and its liberal and tolerant identity from early eighteenth century Presbyterian ministers refusing to subscribe to, or sign, the Westminster Confession, a standard Reformed (Calvinist) statement of faith, at their ordination, for..
Non-sufficient funds
The term "non-sufficient funds" (NSF) is used in the banking industry to indicate that a demand for payment (a check) cannot be honored because insufficient funds are available in the account on which the instrument was drawn. Many banks will charge an unavailable funds fee for cheques which cannot..
Non-suit
In law, a non-suit is a judgment against a plaintiff in a civil action for failure to prosecute the case or to introduce sufficient evidence. This occurs at trial, usually after the plaintiff has closed his or her case, but before the defendant has adduced evidence. A nonsuit is typically sought o..
Non-syllabic vowel
A non-syllabic vowel is a vowel-like sound that is not the nucleus of a syllable or mora. In languages such as Japanese and many Polynesian languages, every vocalic segment constitutes a separate syllable or mora. That is, there are no diphthongs. However, languages such as English have large numb..
Non-tariff barriers to trade
Non-tariff barriers to trade are restrictions to imports but are not in the usual form of a tariff. They are criticized as a means to evade free trade rules such as those of the WTO, the EU or NAFTA that restrict tariffs. Most common examples are antidumping measures and countervailing duties, whic..
Non-terminal function
A non-terminal function is a function (node) in a parse tree which is either a root or a branch in that tree. Background A parse tree is made up of nodes and branches. In the picture below the parse tree is the entire structure, starting from S and ending in each of the leaf nodes (John,ball,the,hi..
Non-thermal microwave effect
Non-thermal microwave effects have been posited in order to explain unusual observations in microwave chemistry. As the name suggests, the effects are supposed not to require the transfer of microwave energy into thermal energy. Instead, the microwave energy itself directly couples to energy modes w..
Non-towered airport
A non-towered airport is an airport with no operating tower, or air traffic control unit. The vast majority of the world's airports are non-towered, and even airports with control towers may operate as untowered during off-hours. At untowered airports, instead of taking instructions from a tower co..
Non-traditional students
Non-traditional students is an American English term referring to students at higher education institutions (undergraduate college or university) whom are not of the typical age as the majority of their peers. In the United States, college students are typically age 18-22. In contrast, non-tradi..
Non-Trinitarian churches
The phrase non-Trinitarian churches is sometimes used to refer to a number of New religious movements (NRMs) grounded in Christianity, which parallel each other in non-belief in the Trinity and also a certain aloofness from other Christian denominations, due to a degree of mutual distrust. One notab..
Non-U.S. recipients of U.S. gallantry awards
Contents 1 The Unknown Warrior2 No. 13 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force3 Po River4 Chosin Reservoir5 Battle of the Imjin River6 Battle of Kapyong7 Battle of Long Tan8 1st Battalion Group, Royal Australian Regiment, Vietnam, 1965–19669 Australi..
Non-uniform circular motion
Non-uniform circular motion is any case in which an object moving in a circular path has a varying speed. Some examples of non-uniform circular motion include a roller coaster, a vertical pendulum, a car riding over a hill, and much more. All of these situations include an object traveling at diff..
Non-Uniform Memory Access
Non-Uniform Memory Access or Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA) is a computer memory design used in multiprocessors, where the memory access time depends on the memory location relative to a processor. Under NUMA, a processor can access its own local memory faster than non-local memory, that is,..
Non-vascular plant
Non-vascular plants include the green algae as well as those land plants without a vascular system. The non-vascular plants include several distantly related (and unrelated groups): Bryophytes - the Bryophyta (mosses), the Hepaticophyta (liverworts), and the Anthocerotophyta (hornworts). In these..
Non-vessel operating common carrier
Non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCC) are one type of sea freight forwarders. Instead of using their own ships, they operate as transportation or logistics intermediaries. That is, they book space on ships and sell it in smaller quantities, consolidating freight for transport in standard cont..
Non-violent child discipline
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. There are many effective non-violent methods of child discipline available to parents. These alternatives to c..
Non-violent revolution
A non-violent revolution is a revolution using mostly nonviolent protest against governments seen as entrenched and authoritarian to advocate democracy, liberalism, and national independence in their nation. Nonviolent revolutions began in the 20th century and have increasingly become more successfu..
Non-volatile memory
Non-volatile memory, or non-volatile storage, is computer memory that can retain the stored information even when not powered. Examples of non-volatile memory include read-only memory, flash memory, most types of magnetic computer storage devices (e.g. hard disks, floppy disk drives, and magnetic ta..
Non-voting Stock
Non-voting stock is stock that provides the shareholder very little or no vote on corporate matters, such as election of the board of directors or mergers. This type of share is usually implemented for individuals who want to invest in the company’s profitability and success at the expense of voti..
Non-well-founded set theory
Non-well founded set theories are variants of axiomatic set theory which allow sets to contain themselves and otherwise violate the rule of well-foundedness. In non-well founded set theories, the foundation axiom of ZFC is replaced by axioms implying its negation. The theory of non-well-founded set..
Nona
Nona may be: Nona (Roman), goddessNona, Latin name of Nin, Croatia"Nona", a 1978 short story by Stephen King. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point dire..
Nonacosane
Nonacosane General Molecular formula C29H60 CAS number 630-03-5 Molecular weight 408.60 Physical characteristics Melting point 63.7 °C Boiling point 440.8 °C Specific gravity 0.8083 Nonacosane is a straight-chain hydrocarbon with a molecular formula of C29H60, and the str..
Nonactin
Nonactin is a member of a family of naturally occurring cyclic ionophores known as the macrotetrolide antibiotics. The other members of this homologous family are monactin, dinactin, trinactin and tetranactin which are all neutral ionophoric substances and higher homologs of nonactin. Collectively, ..
Nonagonal number
A nonagonal number or enneagonal number is a figurate number that represents a nonagon. The nonagonal number for n is given by the formula: [\over 2] The first few nonagonal numbers are: 1, 9, 24, 46, 75, 111, 154, 204, 261, 325, 396, 474, 559, 651, 750, 856, 969, 1089, 1216, 1350, 149..
Nonagram
Nonagram is a nine-pointed star similar to the hexagram. It is composed of three equilateral triangles, each rotated 0, 40 and 80 degrees. It is said to be the star of Goliath as the opposite to the star of David, the hexagram. This geometrical figure should not be confused with the logic puzzles c..
Nonai Station
Nonai Station (野内駅 -eki) is a station on the Tōhoku Main Line in Aomori, Aomori. Contents 1 Lines2 Route bus3 Surrounding area4 History5 Adjacent stations Lines JR East Tōhoku Main Line Route bus Aomori municipal bus*For.Aomori Station*For.Asamush..
NoNameScript
NoNameScript (with the acronym NNS or just referred to as nnscript) is an add-on script for the popular IRC client mIRC, designed to make chatting easier and more comfortable. Contents 1 History1.1 The Name1.2 Today2 Facts3 Eastereggs4 External links History The ..
Nonamesset Island
Nonamesset Island is the most easterly of the Elizabeth Islands of Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA. The island has a land area of 1.398 km² (0.54 sq mi or 345.5 acres) and was uninhabited as of the 2000 census. [link] ..
Nonami Maho
Nonami Maho (野波麻帆; born 13 June 1980 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress. External links [}}}] at the Internet Movie Database[JMDb Profile (in Japanese][Official Homepage (in Japanese)] ..
Nonane
Nonane General Molecular formula C9H20 SMILES CCCCCCCCC Molar mass 128.2 g/mol Appearance colorless liquid CAS number [111-84-2] Properties Density and phase 0.718 g/ml, liquid Solubility in water Immiscible > Melting point −53 °C Boiling point 1..
Nonanoic acid
Nonanoic acid Chemical name Nonanoic acid Chemical formula C9H18O2 Molecular mass 158.23 g/mol CAS number [112-05-0] Density 0.900 g/cm3 Melting point 12.5 °C Boiling point 254 °C SMILES CCCCCCCCC(O)=O [Chemical infoboxDisclaimer and references]..
Nonant
Nonant is a commune of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France. Its postal code is 14400. The INSEE code is 14465. ..
Nonantola
Città di Nonantola Area 55 km² Location ..
Nonary
Nonary is a base-9 numeral system, typically using the digits 0-8, but not the digit 9. The first few numbers in nonary and decimal are: Nonary 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 81011121314Decimal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910111213 The mult..
Nonassociative ring
In abstract algebra, a nonassociative ring is a generalization of the concept of ring. A nonassociative ring is a set R with two operations, addition and multiplication, such that: R is an abelian group under addition:# [a+b = b+a]# [(a+b)+c = a+(b+c)]# There exists 0 in R such..
Nonato Luiz
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Nona (Roman)
In Roman mythology, Nona was the equivalent of Clotho in Greek mythology. She, along with Decima and Morta formed the Parcae (Roman) / Moirae (Greek). Nona was also referred to as "Ninth", the Roman goddess of pregnancy. She was called upon by pregnant women in their ninth month when the child was d..
Nona (Stephen King)
"Nona" is a short horror story by Stephen King first published in the 1978 Shadows anthlogy and collected in the 1985 volume Skeleton Crew. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. It tells of a college dropout fleeing from life who meets and falls in love wi..
Nona Gaprindashvili
Nona Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili (born May 3, 1941) is a Georgian chess player, and the sixth women's world chess champion (1962-1978). Born in Zugdidi, Georgian SSR, she was the strongest female player of her generation. In 1961, aged 20, Gaprindashvili won the fourth women's Candidate..
Nona Gaye
Nona Marvisa Gaye (born September 4, 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American singer, former fashion model, and screen actress, and the daughter of African-American soul music legend Marvin Gaye. Her mother, the former Janis Hunter, was of Irish, Afro-Cuban and Greek descent. Nona's grandfather w..
Nona Hendryx
Nona Hendryx (born October 9, 1944, in Trenton, New Jersey) is a vocalist, record producer, renowned songwriter, musician, author, and actress. Hendryx is known for her work as a solo artist as well as for being one-third of the trio Labelle, who had a hit with "Lady Marmalade". Her music has rang..
Nonbenzodiazepine
The Nonbenzodiazepines are new drugs that work very close to clone the positives of benzodiazepines, however with much less side effects. Thus far, the two main groups are: Imidazopyridines zolpidem (Ambien)alpidem Pyrazolopyrimidines zaleplon (Sonata) ..
Nonblocking minimal spanning switch
A substitute for a 16x16 crossbar switch made from 12 4x4 crossbar switches. A nonblocking minimal spanning switch is a piece of machinery, a "switch" that uses a particular algorithm to make connections. The most familiar use of switches of this type is in a telephone exchange. A switchin..
Nonbroadcast Multiple Access Network
In computing, a Nonbroadcast Multiple Access Network, or NBMA, is a network to which multiple computers and devices are attached, but data is transmitted directly from one computer to another over a virtual circuit or across a switching fabric, NBMA do not support multicast or broadcast traffic. Som..
Nonbuilding structure
Nonbuilding structures, also referred to simply as structures, are those not designed for continuous human occupancy. The term is used by architects and civil engineers to distinctly identify structures that are not buildings. Examples of nonbuilding structures: redirect [[Template:Listdev]]Bridg..
Nonce
Nonce means 'for the present time' or 'for a single occasion or purpose', although the word is not often found in general use. A dictionary may note nonce words, those for which there is only a single textual instance. In security engineering, a nonce is a 'number used once'. It is often a random or..
Noncentral chi-square distribution
} I_(\sqrt)]| cdf =| mean =[k+\lambda\,]| median =| mode =| variance =[2(k+2\lambda)\,]| skewness =[\frac(k+3\lambda)}}]| kurtosis =[\frac]| entropy =| mgf =[\frac\right)}}]| char =[\frac\right)}..
Noncentral chi distribution
I_(\lambda x)]| cdf =| mean =[\mu\equiv\sqrt}L_^\left(\frac\right)\,]| median =| mode =| variance =[k+\lambda^2-\mu^2\,]| skewness =| kurtosis =| entropy =| mgf =| char = }} In probability theory and statistics, the noncentral c..
Noncentral F-distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the noncentral F-distribution is a continuous probability distribution that is a generalization of the (ordinary) F-distribution. It describes the distribution of the quotient (X/n1)/(Y/n2), where X and Y are independent noncentral chi-square variates. Impleme..
Noncentral t-distribution
In probability and statistics, the noncentral t-distribution is a generalization of Student's t-distribution. It is useful for calculating confidence intervals over non–central statistical parameters such as "the 10th percentile of X", given only sample data. External links [Eric W. Weisstei..
Nonce word
A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was a nonce word (originally from German) appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake until Murray Gell-Mann independently used the same word to name a new class of subatomic p..
Nonchalant
Tanya Pointer, better known as Nonchalant is a singer, rapper, and songwriter from Washington DC. She had a hit in 1996 with the gold single "5 O'Clock" which hit number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. ..
Nonchord tone
A nonchord tone, nonharmonic tone, or non-harmony note is a note in a piece of common practice music which is not in the chord that is formed by the other notes; for example, if a piece of music is currently on a C Major chord, the notes CEG are members of that chord, while any other note played at ..
Nonclassical light
Nonclassical light refers to states of light that can not be described using classical electromagnetism; its characteristics are described by the quantised electromagnetic field and quantum mechanics. ..
Nonclinical studies
Nonclinical / Pre-Clinical Studies of Drug / Product Candidates Pre-Clinical Studies should be done on animals, before the permit of clinical trial on humans could be obtained. Pre-clinical studies serve a vital role in the drug discovery and development processes. These studies can be used to id..
Noncoding DNA
In genetics, non-coding DNA describes DNA which does not contain instructions for making proteins (or other cell products such as RNAs). In eukaryotes, a large percentage of many organisms' total genome sizes are comprised of noncoding DNA (a puzzle known as the "C-value enigma"). Some noncoding DN..
Noncoherent STC
Non-coherent STC are a way of transmitting data in wireless communications. In this multiple antenna scheme, it is assumed that do not the receiver only has knowledge of the statistics of channel — Non-coherent space-time transmission schemes were proposed by Tom Marzetta and Bertrand Hochwald..
Noncolonization
Noncolonization was a principal of the Monroe Doctrine proclaimed by United States president James Monroe in 1823. It stated that the Americas should undergo no further colonization by European powers. Sources http://www.monroedoctrine.net/ ..
Noncomala
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Noncommutative geometry
In mathematics, non-commutative geometry is concerned with the possible spatial interpretations of algebraic structures for which the commutative law fails; that is, for which xy does not always equal yx. The challenge of the theory is to get around the lack of commutative multiplication, which is a..
Noncommutative logic
Noncommutative logic is the name given to a family of substructural logics in which the exchange rule is inadmissible. The oldest noncommutative logic is the Lambek calculus, which gave rise to the class of logics known as categorial grammars. Since the publication of Jean-Yves Girard's linear log..
Noncommutative quantum field theory
In physics, noncommutative quantum field theory (or quantum field theory on noncommutative space-time) is a branch of quantum field theory in which the spatial coordinates1 do not commute. One (commonly studied) version of such theories has the "canonical" commutation relation: [[x^, x..
Noncommutative topology
Noncommutative topology in mathematics is a term applied to the strictly C*-algebraic part of the noncommutative geometry program. The program has its origins in the Gel'fand duality between the topology of locally compact spaces and the algebraic structure of commutative C*-algebras. Several topol..
Nonconcatenative morphology
Nonconcatenative morphology is an account of morphology developed in the 1980s by J. J. McCarthy and inspired by Autosegmental phonology. It works well in representing vowel harmony, reduplication and systems such as Semitic consonantal roots. For example, depending on the vowels, the Arabic cons..
Nonconductor
Nonconductors or electrical insulators are materials which lack movable electric charges, and which therefore lack a low-resistance path for charge flow. When a difference in electrical potential is placed across a nonconductor, no free charges are exposed to the electric field, so no flow of charg..
Nonconformism
Nonconformism is the refusal to conform to common standards, conventions, rules, traditions or laws. Nonconformist was a term used in England after the Act of Uniformity 1662 to refer to an English subject belonging to a non-Christian church or any non-Anglican church. It may also refer more narrow..
Nonconformist register
A Nonconformist register is a parish register of a nonconformist church or chapel. Nonconformist churches are Protestant churches which do not conform to the doctrines of the established Church of England. Examples include the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian churches and the Quakers. Following Ha..
Nonconstructive proof
In mathematics, a nonconstructive proof, as opposed to a constructive proof, is a mathematical proof that purports to demonstrate the existence of something, but does not reveal how to construct it. Many nonconstructive proofs assume the non-existence of the thing whose existence is required to be ..
Nonconsumption agreements
Nonconsumption agreements were protests organized by colonists in 1774 in opposition of new import duties that were placed on the colonists by Charles Townshend. These duties taxed items that were frequently imported by the colonies from Great Britain including: tea, paint, paper, glass, etc. Thous..
Noncototient
A noncototient is a positive integer n that can not be expressed as the difference between a positive integer m and the number of coprime integers below it. That is, m - φ(m) = n, where φ stands for Euler's totient function, has no solution. The cototient of n is defined as n-φ(n), so a..
Noncovalent bonding
Noncovalent bonding refers to a variety of interactions, that are not covalent in nature, between molecules or parts of molecules that provide force to hold the molecules or parts of molecules together usually in a specific orientation or conformation. These non-covalent interactions include: ionic ..
Noncovalent solid-phase organic synthesis
Noncovalent solid-phase organic synthesis or NC-SPOS is a form of Solid-phase synthesis where by the organic substrate is bonded to the solid phase not by a covalent bond but by other chemical interactions. This bond may consist of an induced dipole interaction between a hydrophobic matrix and a hyd..
Noncrossing partition
In combinatorial mathematics, the topic of noncrossing partitions has assumed some importance because of (among other things) its application to the theory of free probability. A noncrossing partition of ten points Contents 1 Definition2 Lattice structure3 How many noncrossin..
Nondalton, Alaska
Nondalton is a city in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 221. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 History4 External links Geography Nondalton is located at [59°58′1″N, 154°51′6″W] (59.967015, -154.851..
Nonda Katsalidis
Nonda Katsalidis is an award winning Australian architect. He is currently a practicing director of architecture firm Fender Katsalidis Architects in partnership with Karl Fender. His previous firm was Nation Fender Katsalidis prior to Bob Nation's withdrawal from the partnership. Katsalidis des..
Nondelegation doctrine
The nondelegation doctrine is the principle that the Congress of the United States, being vested with "all legislative powers" by Article One, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, cannot delegate that power to anyone else. However, delegation of some authority is exercised as an implied pow..
Nondestructive testing
Contents 1 Applications2 Methods and techniques3 Elements4 Reliability4.1 Defect detection tests4.2 Violations of probability theory5 See also6 References7 External links Nondestructive testing (also called NDT, nondestructive evaluation, NDE, and..
Nondeterministic algorithm
"Nondeterministic" redirects here. For , see . In the theory of computation, a nondeterministic algorithm is an algorithm with one or more choice points where multiple different continuations are possible, without any specification of which one will be taken. A particular execution of such an algo..
Nondeterministic finite state machine
In the theory of computation, a nondeterministic finite state machine or nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) is a finite state machine where for each pair of state and input symbol there may be several possible next states. Contents 1 Intuitive explanations2 Formal definition3 ..
Nondimensionalization
Nondimensionalization is the partial or full removal of units from a mathematical equation by a suitable substitution of variables. This technique can simplify and parameterize problems where measured units are involved. It is closely related to dimensional analysis. In some physical systems, the te..
Nondisjunction
Overview Nondisjunction is the failure of chromosome pairs to separate properly during meiosis or mitosis. The result of this error is a cell with an imbalance of chromosomes. When a chromosome is lost, it is called a Monosomy, in which the gamete with the defect will have one or more chromosomes mi..
Nondualism
The term nondual is a literal translation of the Sanskrit term advaita. That is, things remain distinct while not being separate. The term can refer to a belief, condition, theory, practice, or quality. Contents 1 Various usages2 Nondualism versus monism3 Nondual realization4 ..
None
None may be: None, a common English word with the general meaning of "not any". See Nothing.None, a liturgical hour.None, a commune in the province of Turin, Piedmont, ItalyThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred yo..
Nonea
Nonea is a genus of the borage family Boraginaceae. Sometimes known as monkswort, these are perennial or annual herbs. The leaves are grayish-green, and the plants are hairy all over. External link [Nonea info and pictures] ..
NONELEMENTARY
In computational complexity theory, the complexity class NONELEMENTARY is the complement of the class ELEMENTARY. Example decidable problems in NONELEMENTARY this class are: the problem of regular expression equivalence with notdecision problem for monadic second-order logic over treesdecision prob..
Nonelementary integral
In mathematics, a nonelementary integral is an integral for which it can be shown that there exists no formula in terms of elementary functions (i.e. involving polynomials, and the standard functions sin, cos, exp, and so on). It can be shown (though not easily) that, if one is given a function of a..
Nonene
Nonene is an alkene with the molecular formula C9H18. It is an intermediate in production of nonylphenol. Propylene undergoes polymerization to form a trimer which is then converted to nonene. Nonene is then reacted in an alkylation process with phenol to produce nonylphenol. See also Alpha-olefin..
Nonestica
Nonestica, also known as the Continent of Imagination, is a fictional continent on which the Land of Oz is located. Nonestica is located in the fictional Nonestic Ocean. Nonestica contains the countries of Oz, Ev, Ix, Mo, Phunniland,the unidentified Kingdom of Dreams and many others in it. Due to ..
Nonesuch
The word nonesuch means something with nothing like it; an unrivalled thing; a paragon. Nonesuch can also refer to the following: Nonesuch PressNonesuch RecordsNonesuch River Golf Course Nonesuch also appears as an alternate spelling for: Nonsuch Palace See also Nonsuch This is a [disambiguati..
Nonesuch Press
For other similar names see Nonesuch. Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera, and David Garnett. The press was at its peak in the 1920s and '30s, but continued operating through the mid-1960s. Nonesuch was unusual among private presses in th..
Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records is currently allied with Warner Bros. Records even though it is an Elektra Records subsidiary. Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records in 1950, founded Nonesuch in 1964 to license European classical music. He sold Elektra and Nonesuch to Kinney National Company in 1970. In the late..
Nonesuch Records artists
The following is a list of bands, past and present, who have had recordings released on the Nonesuch Records label: Contents 0.1 A0.2 B0.3 C0.4 D0.5 E0.6 F0.7 G0.8 H0.9 J0.10 K0.11 L0.12 M0.13 N0.14 O0.15 P0.16 R0.17&..
Nonesuch River
Nonesuch River is a river located near Scarborough, Maine. Its name was given because it was thought to be unparallelled in scenic beauty. Nonesuch River Golf Course is located nearby. ..
Nonesuch River Golf Course
Nonesuch River Golf Course is an 18-hole golf course located in Scarborough, Maine, USA. Designed primarily by Tom Walker of the United States Golf Association, Nonesuch was opened to the public in 1997. External links [Nonesuch River Golf Course official website]..
Nonet
In the general sense, a nonet refers to a group of nine. In music, a nonet is a composition which requires nine musicians for a performance. See: nonet (music) In poetry, a nonet is a nine line poem, with the first line containing nine syllables, the next eight, so on until the last line has one s..
Nonet (music)
In music, a nonet is a composition which requires nine musicians for a performance, or a musical group that consists of nine people. Unlike some other musical ensembles such as the string quartet, there is no established or standard set of instruments in a nonet. Composers of nonets often mix string..
Nonexistent article
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Nonexplosive stop
In phonetics and phonology, nonexplosive stops are stop consonants that lack the pressure build-up and burst release normally associated with stops. They are reported to occur in Ikwere, an Igboid (Niger-Congo) language of Nigeria. Ikwere's two nonexplosive stops, transcribed as /ḅ/ and /ʼḅ/, ..
None (EP)
None is an EP by Swedish Tech metal band Meshuggah. Tracklist Humiliative (5:17)Sickening (5:47)Ritual (6:17)Gods of Rapture (5:11)Aztec Two-Step (3:36) Line-up Jens Kidman: VocalsTomas Haake: DrumsPeter Nordin: BassFredrik Thordendal: Lead guitar, rhythm guitarMårten Hagström: Rhythm guitar..
None (liturgy)
None is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies. It consists mainly of psalms and is said at 3 p.m. Its name comes from Latin and refers to the ninth hour of the day after dawn. From the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1917; note that this describes ..
None but the Lonely Heart
None but the Lonely Heart is a 1944 film which tells the story of a Cockney lad who returns home with no ambitions, but finds that his family needs him. It stars Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt, George Coulouris and Dan Duryea. The movie was adapted by Cliffo..
None for All and All for One (EP)
A strictly limited edition EP of new material written in secret by the British industrial metal band Pitchshifter. The EP was given free with every ticket purchased for the 'Back From The Dead' tour in March 2006. Supporting Pitchshifter on this tour were: Skindred, This Is Menace, Murder One, Sylo..
None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948
None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948 is a book co-authored by Canadian historians Irving Abella and Harold Troper. Published in 1982, the book argues that the Canadian government did less than other Western countries to help Jewish refugees between 1933 and 1948. According to ..
None More Black
None More Black is a New Jersey-based melodic punk outfit on Fat Wreck Chords, formed by lead singer / guitarist Jason Shevchuk after the demise of his previous band, Philadelphia's Kid Dynamite. Jason left Kid Dynamite so that he could finish film school, and "to sort some things out." While at s..
None More Black (Demo)
This is a demo released by None More Black, it was recorded sometime in 2002, and got them a record deal with Fat Wreck Chords. In addition to four exclusive tracks, it features different versions of songs that would also appear on their 7" record, their first full length, and their Loud About L..
None of These Candidates
None of These Candidates is a voting option for Nevada voters for President of the United States and for state constitutional positions. This is listed along with the names of individuals running for the position. In the 2004 President Election, 3,668 voters cast their ballot for None of These Can..
None of the above
None of the Above (NOTA) is a ballot choice in some jurisdictions or organizations, placed so as to allow the voter to indicate his disapproval with all of the candidates in any voting system. Entities which include "None of the Above" on ballots as standard procedure include the United States Lib..
None of the Above (Amerie album)
None of the Above is the third album by American R&B singer Amerie. ..
None of the Above Party of BC
The None of the Above Party of BC was a fringe political party that intended to nominate candidates for election to the Legislature of British Columbia, Canada in the 2005 provincial election. The party never ran any candidates and is no longer active. The party's slogan's are "Putting people first..
None So Live
None So Live is a live album by Cryptopsy. It was released after Mike DiSalvo left the band and is the only release with Martin Lacroix on vocals. Track listing "Intro" (1:56)"Crown of Horns" (3:55)"White Worms" (3:45)"We Bleed" (6:21)"Open Face Surgery" (4:30)"Cold Hate, Warm Blood" (4:20)..
None So Vile
None So Vile is the second album by Cryptopsy, released in 1996 on the now defunct Wrong Again Records. The album was recorded at the Victor Studio Montreal. The album was later re-issued by Displeased Records. Heralded by many as one of the greatest death metal albums of all time, None So Vile d..
Nonfarm payrolls
Nonfarm payrolls is an economic report released monthly. It is a compiled name for goods-producing, construction and manufacturing companies. ..
Nonfictional character
A nonfictional character is a character in a story that was a real-life figure. An example is Jamie Foxx's portrayal of Ray Charles in the film Ray. Sometimes, the setting and events are real, but the character is fictional (such as Johnny Tremain), which included real life groups such as the Sons ..
Nonfiction (album)
Nonfiction is a J-Rock single released by the pillows on September 14, 2005. Track Listing NonfictionHEART IS THEREMy Girl (Fiction Version) the pillows discography Pantomime | 90's My LIFE | MOON GOLD | WHITE INCARNATION | KOOL SPICE | LIVING FIELD | Please Mr. Lostman | LITTLE BUSTERS | ..
Nonfirstorderizability
In formal logic, nonfirstorderizability is the inability of an expression to be adequately captured in standard first-order logic. Nonfirstorderizable sentences are sometimes presented as evidence that first-order logic is not adequate to capture the nuances of meaning in natural language. The ter..
Nongbua Lamphu
Nong Bua Lamphu is a town in Thailand, capital of the Nong Bua Lamphu province. ..
Nongbua Lamphu Province
Nong Bua Lamphu (Thai หนองบัวลำภู) is one of the north-eastern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Udon Thani, Khon Kaen and Loei. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Symbols4 Administrative divisions5 Exter..
Nongjungjo
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Nongmynsong
Nongmynsong is a census town in East Khasi Hills district in the Indian state of Meghalaya. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Nongmynsong had a population of 11,362. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Nongmynsong has an average..
Nongoma, KwaZulu-Natal
Nongoma, is surrounded by the Ngome Forest in Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is situated 300km north of Durban and 56km from Ulundi. It is a busy market town today, serving a large surrounding area. The area has 4 royal palaces belonging to the current Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini: K..
Nongpoh
Jawaharlal Nehru distributing sweets to children at the Salesian oratory at Nongpoh, Meghalaya Nongpoh is the headquarters of Ri-Bhoi district in the state of Meghalaya in India. ..
Nongqawuse
Nongqawuse (right) with fellow prophetess, Nonkosi Nongqawuse (184?–1898) was the Xhosa prophetess whose prophecies led to a millennialist movement that culminated in the Xhosa cattle-killing crisis of 1856–1857. In April or May 1856, the teenaged Nongqawuse and her friend Nombanda went t..
Nongshu
redirect [[Template:Context]]農書 (Agricultural Treatise) by Wang Zhen, completed in 1313. ..
Nongstoin
Nongstoin is the headquarters of West Khasi Hills district in the state of Meghalaya in India. In January 2006, Pope Benedict XVI erected a diocese in Nongstoin, covering the West Khasi Hills district. ..
Nongthymmai
Nongthymmai is a census town in East Khasi Hills district in the Indian state of Meghalaya. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Nongthymmai had a population of 34,209. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Nongthymmai has an average..
Nong Chok
Nong Chok (Thai: ) is one of the 50 districts (Khet) of Bangkok, Thailand. It is bounded by other districts (from north clockwise): Amphoe Lam Luk Ka of Pathum Thani Province, Amphoe Bang Nam Priao and Amphoe Mueang Chachoengsao of Chachoengsao Province, Lat Krabang, Min Buri and Khlong Sam Wa of Ba..
Nong Han
Nong Han may refer to Thailand: Lake Nong HanNong Han LuangTambon Nong Han, Amphoe San Sai, Chiang Mai ProvinceAmphoe Nong Han, Udon Thani Province redirect [[Template:Disambig]] ..
Nong Khaem
Nong Khaem Thai: ) is one of the 50 districts (Khet) of Bangkok, Thailand. The district is bounded by other Bangkok districts (from north clockwise): Thawi Watthana, Bang Khae, Bang Bon of Bangkok, Krathum Baen of Samut Sakhon province, Sam Phran and Phutthamonthon of Nakhon Pathom province Conten..
Nong Khai
Nong Khai (หนองคาย) is a city in North-East Thailand, capital of the Nong Khai Province. It is situated directly at the Mekong River and is the site of the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge across to Laos. It is the Thai gateway to the Laotian capital of Vientiane..
Nong Khai Province
Nong Khai (Thai หนองคาย) is the one of the north-eastern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from south-east clockwise) Nakhon Phanom, Sakon Nakhon, Udon Thani and Loei. To the north it borders Laos. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Symbols4&nb..
Nong Shim
Nong Shim Co., Ltd. KSE: [04370] is a food manufacturer specializing in instant noodles and snacks. The company was established under the name Lotte Industrial Company on September 18 1965 in South Korea and changed its name in March 1978. Its products are sold around the world. Nong Shi..
Nong Shim Cup
The Nong Shim Cup is a Go competition. Outline The Nong Shim Cup is a gathering of the best players from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. They send in teams of players to compete. Past winners Team Years Held ..
Nong Thung Thong
Nong Thung Thong (Thai หนองทุ่งทอง) is a swamp on the east bank of the Tapi River in Khian Sa district, Surat Thani Province, southern Thailand. The area, together with the Nong Tung Ka on the west bank of the river, forms a complex of grassland and swamps along the river. D..
Nonholonomic system
In physics and mathematics, a nonholonomic system is a system in which a return to the original internal configuration does not guarantee return to the original system position. In other words, unlike with a holonomic system, the outcome of a nonholonomic system is path -dependent, and the number of..
Nonhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation
Localized time-varying charge and current densities can act as sources of electromagnetic waves in a vacuum. Maxwell's equations can be written in the form of a Nonhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation with sources. The addition of sources to the wave equations makes the partial differential equ..
Noni
Morinda citrifolia, commonly known as Great morinda, Indian mulberry, Noni (from Hawaiian), Nono (in Tahiti), Aal (in Hindi), is a shrub or small tree in the family Rubiaceae. Morinda citrifolia is native to Southeast Asia but has been extensively spread by man throughout India and into the Pacifi..
Nonie Darwish
Nonie Darwish Nonie Darwish is a freelance writer, public speaker and founder of [Arabs for Israel]. The outspoken daughter of a "shahid" (martyr), Darwish attributes her father's death to "the Middle Eastern Islamic culture and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birth..
Nonington
Nonington is a small village in the south east corner of Kent, situated halfway between the historic city of Canterbury and the channel port town of Dover. It is home to The Bruderhof who have taken over the old Nonington College of Physical Education. Nonington has its own primary school; Noningto..
Nonini
Nonini (1981-), whose real name is Hubert Nakitare, is a Kenyan hip hop artist originally signed to Calif Records, but later joined Homeboyz Productions after falling out with producer Clemo. He is most famous for his controversial and sexually explicit lyrics. He was introduced to the Kenyan urban..
Nonius (crater)
Crater characteristics Coordinates ..
Nonius Marcellus
Nonius Marcellus, Latin grammarian and lexicographer, lived at the end of the 3rd or the beginning of the 4th century AD. He is often called the "Peripatetic of Thubursicum" (in Numidia, probably his birth-place). He is the author of a sort of lexicon, called De compendiosa doctrina, in 20 sections..
Nonius Philippus
Nonius Philippus was a governor of Britannia Inferior, a province of Roman Britain by AD 242. Little else is known of him as he is mentioned only on a dedication at Old Carlisle. ..
Noni Hazelhurst
Noni Hazelhurst AO (born in Melbourne, August 17, 1953) is an Australian actress. She won the Best Support Actress in a Single Series in the Logie Awards of 1985. Hazelhurst completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 at Flinders University in Adelaide. She has studied ballet, singing, piano, speech and dr..
Noni Răzvan Ene
Noni Răzvan Ene, Romania’s representative in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004, with the song "Îţi mulţumesc", was born in Bucharest on the 17th of April 1992. His official website is www.NoniEne.com. Name: Noni Rãzvan EneOfficial website: www.NoniEne.comDate of birth: the 17th of Apr..
Nonjudicial punishment
Nonjudicial punishment in the United States military, is a form of military discipline authorized by Article 15 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Nonjudicial punishment permits commanders to administratively discipline troops without a court-martial. The receipt of nonjudicial punishment does..
Nonjuring schism
The Nonjuring schism was a split in the Anglican Church in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, over whether William of Orange could legally be recognized as King of England. Many of the Anglican clergy felt legally bound by their previous oaths of allegiance to James II, and though they could..
Nonjustice law
Nonjustice law is a branch of holistic law based upon the concept of nonjustice and Mahatma Gandhi's famous quote that "the true function of a lawyer [is] to unite parties riven asunder." Founded by Quaker attorney and peace advocate James P. Kimmel, Jr., J.D., nonjustice law acknowleges t..
Nonketotic hyperglycinemia
Non-ketotic hyperglycinemia is a defect of metabolism caused by failure to properly convert the amino acid glycine to other molecules. It causes build-up of glycine in the blood and cerebro-spinal fluid. Clinical features include seizures; hypotonia; apnea; and coma. There are four forms of this au..
Nonketotic hyperosmolar coma
Nonketotic hyperosmolar coma is a type of diabetic coma associated with a high mortality seen in diabetes mellitus type 2. The preferred term used by the American Diabetes Association is hyperosmolar nonketotic state (HNS). Another commonly used name is hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketotic coma (..
Nonlimiting water range
John Letey (1985) from UC Riverside introduced the Non-limiting water range (NLWR) concept in an attempt to integrate several physical properties associated with plant or root growth to refine the concept of available water capacity. NLWR represents the range of water content in the soil where lim..
Nonlinearity
This article describes the use of the term nonlinearity in mathematics. For other meanings, see nonlinearity (disambiguation). In mathematics, nonlinear systems represent systems whose behavior is not expressible as a sum of the behaviors of its descriptors. In particular, the behavior of nonlinear..
Nonlinearity (disambiguation)
Nonlinear generally refers to a situation that has a disproportionate cause and effect.[link] Description: A->B -linear B A< -nonlinear C Manifestations Nonlinearity, in mathematics, indicates systems represented systems whose behavior is not expressible as a..
Nonlinear (arts)
In the arts, the word nonlinear is used to describe events portrayed in a non-chronological manner. This technique is often used to mimic the structure and recall of human memory, but it has been applied for other reasons as well. Nonlinearity is very common in film. Some good examples of movies wit..
Nonlinear autoregressive exogenous model
In time series modeling, a nonlinear autoregressive exogenous model (NARX) is a nonlinear autoregressive model which has exogenous inputs. Such a model can be stated algebraically as [ y_t = F(y_, y_, y_, \ldots, u_, u_, u_, \ldots) + \varepsilon_t ] Here y is the variable of interest, ..
Nonlinear device
A nonlinear device is a device which does not have a linear input/output relation. In a diode, for example, the current is a non-linear function of the voltage: [I = I_0 e^] Most semiconductor devices have non-linear characterisitcs, but if the input of a non-linear device is expected to ..
Nonlinear dimensionality reduction
High dimensional data, data which requires more than two or three dimensions to represent, can be difficult to interpret. One approach to simplification is to assume that the data of interest lies on an embedded non-linear manifold within the higher dimenesional space. If the manifold is of low enou..
Nonlinear distortion
Nonlinear distortion is a term used (in fields such as electronics, audio and telecommunications) to describe the phenomenon of a non-linear relationship between the "input" and "output" signals of - for example - an electronic device. Model For many devices, a linear model is accurate only for sm..
Nonlinear junction detector
The non-linear junction detector, or an NLJD, is a device that illuminates a small region of space with high frequency, RF energy. Any "non linear junction" in the vicinity -- for example, and particularly, the PN_junction -- will receive this energy, and because of the non-linear nature of the j..
Nonlinear Management
Contents 1 Background2 Examples of Nonlinear Management At Work3 References4 External Links Background Linear Management is the application of reductionism to management problems, often relying on the ability to predict, engineer and control outcomes by manipulating the compo..
Nonlinear medium
A nonlinear medium is one which is intended to be accessed in a nonlinear fashion. Examples include: a hard drivea newspapera phone book See also nonlinearlinear medium ..
Nonlinear optics
Nonlinear optics is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization P responds nonlinearly to the electric field E of the light. This nonlinearity is typically only observed at very high light intensities such as provided by pul..
Nonlinear programming
In mathematics, nonlinear programming (NLP) is the process of solving a system of equalities and inequalities over a set of unknown real variables, along with an objective function to be maximized or minimized. Contents 1 Mathematical formulation of the problem2 Methods for solving the ..
Nonlinear regression
Nonlinear regression in statistics is the problem of fitting a model [ y = f(x,\theta) + \varepsilon ] to multidimensional x,y data, where f is a nonlinear function of x with parameters θ. It is often erroneously thought that the use of least squares to estimate the parameters a..
Nonlinear Schrödinger equation
In theoretical physics, the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) is a nonlinear version of Schrödinger's equation in two dimensions. It appears in optics and the theory of water waves, and it can also be considered as a second quantized bosonic theory. It is an example of an integrable model. ..
Nonlocality
A Physical theory is said to exhibit strict nonlocality if in that theory it is not possible to treat widely separated systems as independent. The term is most often reserved, however, just for interaction supposed to occure outside the past light cone. Nonlocality does not necessarily imply a lack..
Nonlocal Lagrangian
In field theory, a nonlocal Lagrangian is a Lagrangian, a type of functional [ \mathcal[phi(x)] ] which contains terms which are nonlocal in the fields [ \ \phi(x)] i.e. which are not polynomials or functions of the fields or their derivatives evaluated at a single point..
Nonmetal
Together with the metals and metalloids, a nonmetal is one of three categories of chemical elements as distinguished by ionisation and bonding properties. These properties stem from the fact that nonmetals are highly electronegative, i.e. they gain valence electrons from other atoms more readily th..
Nonmetricity tensor
In mathematics, the nonmetricity tensor in differential geometry is the covariant derivative of the metric tensor. It is therefore a tensor field of rank three. It vanishes for the case of Riemannian geometry. ..
Nonmineral
A Nonmineral (Mineralogy) is a substance found in a natural environment that does not satisfy the definition of a Mineral and is not even a Mineraloid. Many nonminerals are mined and have industrial or other uses similar to minerals, such as jewelry. Other alleged minerals, such as dilithium, are ..
Nonnahús
Nonnahús is a house in Iceland, famous for being the home of Jón Sveinsson, a well known Icelandic children's author. In this house Sveinsson wrote a series of novels about an Icelandic boy called Nonni. The house is now a museum containing 19th century furniture and personal articles of the aut..
Nonnative speakers in TESOL
Non-native Speakers in TESOL (NNESTs) Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL (NNEST) Caucus was first proposed in 1996 and officially established as one of six caucuses in TESOL in 1998. The major goals of the caucus are: to create a nondiscriminatory professional environment for all TESOL members ..
Nonna Otescu
Nonna Otescu (1888–1940) was a significant Romanian composer. ..
Nonnberg Abbey
Nonnberg Abbey is a Benedictine nunnery in Salzburg, Austria. It was founded in about 714 by Saint Rupert of Salzburg and is the oldest women's religious house in the German-speaking world. The first abbess was Saint Erentrudis of Salzburg, either a niece or a sister of Saint Rupert. The abbey's e..
Nonnebakken
Nonnebakken (literally: the Nun Hill) is a hill in Odense, Denmark. It is the site of one of Denmark's six former Viking ring castles, built during the reign of Sweyn Forkbeard, who had forced his father Harold Bluetooth to leave the country and seek refuge by the Jomsvikings on Wollin (modern Polan..
Nonnegative matrix
A nonnegative matrix is a matrix where all the elements are equal to or above zero [\mathbf \geq 0, \qquad \forall_\, x_ \geq 0.] A positive matrix is defined similarly. The set of positive matrices is a subset of all nonnegative matrices. A non-negative matrix can represent a transition ..
Nonnenwerth
Nonnenwerth is an island near Bad Honnef in the Rhine, administratively part of Remagen in Rhineland-Palatinate. Contents 1 Religious houses1.1 First foundation1.2 Second foundation2 External links Religious houses The island is mainly known as the site of a Benedictine nunne..
Nonnewaug High School
To meet Wikipedia's , this article may require [Cleanupcleanup]. More on this school is needed. [WikiProject Schools#StructureGuidelines] and [[Help:Editing|editing help]] are available. See rationale on this article's [[Talk:|talk page]]. This school based article is relat..
Nonnie Griffin
Nonnie Griffin was born in 1933 in Canada. She studied at the Toronto Conservatory in her native land, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and even with famed mime artist Marcel Marceau. Apart from being a veteran of the stage, she starred in Nelvana's [[Star Wars: Ewoks]] the year before..
Nonnus
The Greek epic poet Nonnus (Greek "Nonnos"), a native of Panopolis (Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid, probably lived at the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th century AD. He produced the Dionysiaca, an epic tale of the god Dionysus, a paraphrase of the Gospel of John, and two poems which are..
Nonnweiler
Nonnweiler is a village and a municipality in the district of Sankt Wendel, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approx. 20 km northwest of Sankt Wendel, and 30 km southeast of Trier. ..
Nono
Nono can refer to: the surname of Luigi Nono, Italian composerthe nickname of Norbert Krief, French rock guitarist No-No is a character in the anime series: Ulysses 31 Noo-Noo is a character in the TV series Teletubbies This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles ass..
Nonodake Station
Nonodake Station Nonodake Station (のの岳駅) is located on the JR Kesennuma Line in Wakuya, Miyagi. Contents 1 Line2 Surrounding area3 History4 Adjacent stations Line JR East Kesennuma Line Surrounding area The peak after which this station is n..
Nonoichi, Ishikawa
Nonoichi (野々市町; -machi) is a town located in Ishikawa District, Ishikawa, Japan. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 46,462 and a density of 3,426.40 persons per km². The total area is 13.56 km². Education [Kanazawa Institute of Technology] External lin..
Nonosbawsut
Nonosbawsut (unknown – March 1819) was a leader of the Beothuk people. Family head of and partner of Demasduwit, born Newfoundland, Canada. Sometimes referred to as Chief Nonosbawsut, his stature within the last remaining Betothuk would better be describe as that of a headman or leader. Nonos..
Nonouti
Nonouti is an atoll and district of Kiribati. The atoll is located in the South Gilbert Islands, 38 km from Tabiteuea. The western side of the atoll is the only area where a permanent landmass can be found; Noumalang Island. The other area of the atoll consists of tiny islets and islands which form ..
Nonoxynol-9
Nonoxynol-9, sometimes abbreviated as N-9, is a non-ionic nonoxynol surfactant that is used as an ingredient in various cleaning and cosmetic products, but is also widely used in contraceptives for its spermicidal properties. Although it was at one time widely promoted as a protection against sex..
Nonoy Marcelo
Severino "Nonoy" Marcelo was born on 22 January 1939 in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines. A renowned Filipino cartoonist, Marcelo was best known for creating the character Ikabod Bubwit ("small rodent" in Tagalog), star of the comic strip Ikabod. He also created the comic strips Plain Folks and Ti..
Nonparametric regression
Nonparametric regression is a form of regression analysis in which the predictor does not take a predetermined form but is constructed according to information derived from the data. Nonparametric regression requires larger sample sizes than regression based on parametric models because the data mus..
Nonpareils
Nonpareils are a decorative confection of tiny sugar balls, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. Their origin is uncertain, but they may have evolved out of the pharmaceutical use of sugar, as they were a miniature version of comfits. The French name has been interpret..
Nonpartisan
In U.S. politics, nonpartisan denotes an election in which the candidates do not declare or do not formally have a political party affiliation. It also denotes organizations that do not have formal alignment with a political party. Nonpartisan elections are generally held for municipal and county ..
Nonpartisan system
Much of the contents of this page were merged with Non-partisan_democracy. A nonpartisan government is one with no official political parties. The government is called nonpartisan if the law does not permit political parties,government policies are decided by a direct democracy,officials are chosen..
Nonperson
A non-person is a person or a member of a group who lacks, loses, or is forcibly denied social or legal status, especially basic human rights, or who effectively from a point of view of traceability, documentation or existence, ceases to have a record of their existence within a society. It also in..
Nonpoint
Nonpoint (formed in Miami in 1997), an alternative metal/rap metal band that consists of two Latin Americans (vocalist Elias Soriano and drummer Robb Rivera) and two Caucasians (guitarist Andrew Goldman and bassist KB). On almost every album they have recorded, Soriano (a native of New Jersey) sing..
Nonpoint source pollution
Nonpoint source pollution (NPS) does not come from a single source like point source pollution. It comes from many unidentifiable sources with no specific solution to rectify the problem, making it difficult to regulate. An example NPS pollution would be urban runnoff of items like oil, fertilizers,..
Nonpop
Nonpop is a meta-genre comprising the overlapping genres of modern music, avant-garde music, performance art, new music, art music, experimental music, contemporary classical music, and similar genres. History The term nonpop is controversial, having been introduced on [Kalvos & Damian's New ..
Nonpossessory interest in land
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Nonprobability sampling
Sampling is the use of a subset of the population to represent the whole population. Probability sampling, or random sampling, is a sampling technique in which the probability of getting any particular sample may be calculated. Nonprobability sampling does not meet this criterion and should be use..
Nonprocedural language
NPL (for NonProcedural Language) was a relational database language developed by T.D. Truitt et al in 1980 for Apple II and MS-DOS. Reference: "An Introduction to Nonprocedural Languages Using NPL", T.D. Truitt et al, McGraw-Hill 1983. ..
Nonprofits Research
The term Nonprofits Research is used to describe the academic enterprise devoted to teaching and research on nonprofit organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), voluntary associations, voluntarism and voluntary action, philanthropy, civil society, and related activities. It is a loose..
Nonprofit Blog Exchange
The Nonprofit Blog Exchange is a volunteer-run project designed to raise awareness of blogs maintained by nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations. Bloggers from nonprofit organizations and nonprofit technology professionals are encouraged to participate in blogging exchanges. See also Nonprofi..
Nonprofit technology
Nonprofit technology comprises information and communication technologies that support the goals of nonprofit, nongovernmental, third sector, grassroots, and other mission-based organizations. The professional association for this field is N-TEN (Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network). Practitio..
Nonrecourse debt
A nonrecourse debt or non-recourse debt or nonrecourse loan is a secured loan (debt) that is secured by a pledge of collateral, typically real property, but for which the borrower is not personally liable. If the borrower defaults, the lender/issuer can seize the collateral, but the lender's recove..
Nonrecourse liability
Nonrecourse Liability is any liability of the Company treated as a “nonrecourse liability” under United States Treasury Regulation Section [1.704-2(b)(3).] ..
Nonrectifying junction
In fabricating semiconductor devices, contact between the metal wires and the semiconductor material automatically creates p-n junctions called Schottky diodes. Such a semiconductor device would malfunction, since all of its terminals would contain diodes which act either as open circuits, or if fo..
Nonresistance
Nonresistance (or non-resistance) discourages physical resistance to an enemy and is a subdivision of nonviolence. Strict practitioners of nonresistance refuse to retaliate against an opponent or offer any form of self-defense. Mahatma Gandhi defined it more broadly as seeking to return good for evi..
Nonribosomal peptide
Nonribosomal peptides (NRP) are a class of secondary metabolites, usually produced by microorganisms like bacteria and fungi. These are also often found in higher organisms, such as nudibranchs but they are thought to be made by bacteria inside these organisms. Note that although there are many pe..
Nonsan
Hangul: 논산시 Hanja: 論山市 Revised Romanization: Nonsan-si McCune-Reischauer: Nonsan-si Statistics Area: 554.82 km² Population: 136,3562003 registration [link] Pop. density: 246 people/km² Administrative divi..
Nonsan-Cheonan Expressway
The Nonsan Cheonan Expressway is a freeway serving the South Chungcheong region in South Korea. It connects Nonsan on the Gyeongbu Expressway to Cheonan on the Honam Expressway. The freeway's route number is 25, which it shares with the Honam Expressway. See also List of Korea-related topicsRoad..
Nonscience
Nonscience and the Pseudotransmogrificationalific Egocentrified Reorientational Proclivities Inherently Intracorporated In Expertistical Cerebrointellectualised Redeploymentation with Special Reference to Quasi-Notional Fashionistic Normativity, The Indoctrinationalistic Methodological Modalities an..
Nonsectarian
Nonsectarian, in its most literal sense, refers to a lack of sectarianism. The term is also more narrowly used to describe private educational institutions or other organizations not affiliated with or restricted to a particular religious denomination. Examples of private universities that ident..
Nonseminoma
Together with seminomas, nonseminomas make up the two histlogical subtypes of testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT). TGCT, again, is the common type of testicular cancer. ..
Nonsense
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. See [Nonsense] for the usage of "Nonsense" in Wikipedia. Nonsense is an utterance or written text in what appears to be a human language or other symbolic system, that does not in fact carry any identifiable meaning. Contents 1 Distinguish..
Nonsense (disambiguation)
Nonsense is an utterance or written text in what appears to be a human language or other symbolic system, that does not in fact carry any identifiable meaning. Nonsense may also mean: Abstract nonsense, a term used by mathematicians to describe certain kinds of arguments and concepts in category t..
Nonsense Club
The Nonsense Club was a scandalous club of 18th century British satirists centred around Westminster School. Its members included the satirists and poets Charles Churchill and Robert Lloyd, the parodist Bonnell Thornton, the nature poet William Cowper, and the dramatist George Colman. So..
Nonsense mediated decay
A cellular mechanism of mRNA surveillance to detect premature nonsense mutations and prevent the expression of truncated or erroneous proteins. Some of the genes involved in Saccharomyces cerevisiae[mRNA catabolism, nonsense-mediated decay]. It is thought to happen due to exon-junction..
Nonsense mutation
In genetics, a nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and possibly a truncated, and often nonfunctional protein product. Contents 1 Simple example2 Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay3 ..
Nonsense Rat
The Nonsense Rat, Rattus burrus, is currently listed as a vulnerable species (2003), and this particular species of rat is also endemic to India. The Nonsense Rat was first reported in 1902 by Miller. References Baillie (1996). [Rattus burrus]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. I..
Nonsense strand
Nonsense strand is the strand from DNA that is transcribed in transcription after being melted to a mRNA. The other strand is not. References Merrill, Dr. Gary F. 'Transcription', lecture notes distributed in Biochemistry 451 General Biochemistry, Oregon State University, Weigend on 06 June 2006. ..
Nonsense verse
Nonsense verse is a form of poetry, normally composed for humorous effect, which is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, whimsical or just plain strange. It has a long tradition, particularly in English, being congenial to the absurdist streak in British humour. Some Dadaist writin..
Nonspecific immunity
Nonspecific immunity, or nonspecific defence refers to mechanisms or structures in the body that help prevent infections regardless of previous exposure, as opposed to specific immunity. The major parts of the nonspecific immunity consists of physical barriers such as the skin, cellular defences..
Nonsporting Group
The Non-Sporting group, also referred to as the Companion Group, of dog breeds is a kennel club designation for purebred dog breeds that fit into no other grouping. These dogs come in all shapes, sizes, and have many different temperaments. An example group member is the Dalmatian. ..
Nonstandard consequence operator
In mathematics, nonstandard consequence operators are usually members of a set of consequence operators that is a member of a nonstandard model. There are some defined exceptions to this requirement. Additional details, references and external links can be found in the article consequence operator. ..
Nonstandard dialect
A nonstandard dialect is a dialect that does not have the institutional support or sanction that a standardized dialect has. Like any dialect, a nonstandard dialect has its own vocabulary and an internally consistent grammar and syntax; and it may be spoken using a variety of accents. Describing a ..
Nonstop
Nonstop are the only Portuguese girl group created out of the TV talent show Popstars in 2001, they are also the oldest Popstars group in activity. Nonstop have achieved notable success with there first album, Nonstop, and especially with their first hit single Ao Limite Eu Vou. Song writer ..
NonStop SQL
NonStop SQL is a relational database product originally produced at Tandem Computers using the pioneering Ingres source code from University of California, Berkeley. NonStop is the "brand name" for Tandem's suite of high-availabiliy products, a brand that survived Tandem's takeover by Compaq, and to..
Nonstress test
The Nonstress test is part of the formal antenatal test for fetal well being. It is considered formally reactive (good sign) if the fetal heart rate has two accelerations in 20 minutes that are at least 15 beats above the baseline heart rate and last for at least 15 seconds. ..
Nonsuch
Nonsuch may mean: Nonsuch (album), by XTCNonsuch (ship), the English ship that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668–69Nonsuch Palace, an English royal palace existing during the 16th centuryNonsuch Island, island off Bermuda, being restored to pre-colonial ecologyUSS Nonsuch, a US warship from 181..
Nonsuch (album)
Nonsuch is an album by XTC, released on April 27, 1992. The name of the album may have been taken from the lyrics to Oranges and Lemons's "Chalkhills and Children." The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. "The Disappointed" was nominated for an Ivor Novello aw..
Nonsuch (sailboat)
This article is about the line of cat-rigged sailboats. For other uses of the word "nonsuch", see Nonsuch. The Nonsuch line of catboats is a series of popular crusing sailboats built between 1978 and the mid-1990s by Hinterhoeller in St. Catharines, Ontario. They are renowned for their rugged con..
Nonsuch (ship)
The Nonsuch was the ship that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later. Originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, and later the Royal Navy ketch HMS Nonsuch, the vessel was sold to Sir William Warren in 1667. ..
Nonsuch Island, Bermuda
Nonsuch Island (originally Nonesuch Island) is part of the chain which makes up Bermuda. It is located in St. George's Parish, in the northeast of the territory. The island, which covers 14 acres (5.7 hectares), is situated at the eastern entrance to Castle Harbour, close to the southeasternmost po..
Nonsuch Palace
A contemporary woodcut of Nonsuch Palace. Nonsuch Palace was a Tudor royal palace that was built by Henry VIII in Surrey, on the location of Cuddington, near Epsom (the church and village of Cuddington were destroyed to create the plot for the palace). The palace was broken up in the late 17t..
Nonsuch Park
Nonsuch Park is the remnant of open space surrounding the former Nonsuch Palace, and is a public park between Stoneleigh, North Cheam, Cheam, and Ewell. It is the last surviving open part of the Great Park of Nonsuch whose western regions became known as Worcester Park after the 4th Earl of Worces..
Nonsymmetric gravitational theory
In theoretical physics, the nonsymmetric gravitational theory (NGT) of John Moffat is a classical theory of gravitation which tries to explain the mystery of dark matter. In general relativity, the gravitational field is characterized by a symmetric rank-2 tensor, the metric tensor. The possibility..
Nonsyndromic deafness
Nonsyndromic deafness is hearing loss that is not associated with other signs and symptoms. In contrast, syndromic deafness involves hearing loss that occurs with abnormalities in other parts of the body. Genetic changes are related to the following types of nonsyndromic deafness. nonsyndromic dea..
Nonterminal
In Backus-Naur form (BNF) a nonterminal is a symbol that can be expressed in terms of other terminals or nonterminals. For more information see the entry for Terminal symbol. ..
Nonterminal symbol
A nonterminal symbol is that symbol which has the capability of being further defined in terms of terminals and/or non-terminals. It may be said to be a glyph or mark that is further decomposable. ..
Nonthaburi Province
Nonthaburi (Thai: ) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani, Bangkok and Nakhon Pathom. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Symbols4 Administrative divisions5 External link..
Nontheism
Nontheism (or non-theism), broadly conceived, according to Caporale & Grumelli (1971) , is the absence of belief in both the existence and non-existence of a deity (or deities, or other numinous phenomena). It is used somewhat differently by certain liberal theologians — such as Episcopal bishop ..
Nontotient
In number theory, a nontotient is a positive integer n which is not in the range of Euler's totient function φ, that is, for which φ(x) = n has no solution. In other words, n is a nontotient if there is no integer x that has exactly n coprimes below it. All odd numbers are nontotients, exce..
Nontransitive dice
Nontransitive dice have the property that, when two of the dice are rolled against each other, no one die wins more against any other die in the set. For example, with three transitive dice A, B, and C: A is more likely to win against B, B is more likely than C, and C is more likely than A. T..
Nontrinitarianism
Part of a series onChristian theology ..
Nontrivial
Nontrivial can mean a number of things. It is a term common among communities of engineers and mathematicians, to indicate a statement or theorem that is not obvious or easy to solve.It is also used as an understated way of expressing the emotion that a given problem is difficult or convoluted. So..
Nontron
'''Nontron View of the lower part of Nontron''' Country      France Région Aquitaine Départment Dordogne(sous-préfecture) Arrondissement Nontron Canton Canton of Nontron(chief town) INSEE 24311 Postal Code 24300 MayorCurrent Term Pierr..
Nontronite
Nontronite is the iron(III) rich member of the smectite group of clay minerals. Nontronites typically have a chemical composition consisting of more than ~30% Fe2O3 and less than ~12% Al2O3 (ignited basis). Nontronite generally does not exist in economic deposits like montmorillonite, although it ..
Nontron knife
The Nontron knife is a traditional wooden-handled penknife manufactured in the village of Nontron in the Dordogne area of southern France, in a tradition said to date back to the 15th century. The handle is usually of boxwood. Nontron knives are decorated with pokerwork designs based on a distincti..
Nontuberculous mycobacteria
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), or atypical mycobacteria or mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT), are mycobacteria which do not cause tuberculosis or Hansen's disease (leprosy). Contents 1 Introduction2 Medical classification3 References4 External links Introductio..
Nonuniform rational B-spline
A NURBS curve being created in NX Shape Studio.[Animated version] NURBS, short for non-uniform, rational B-spline, is a mathematical model commonly used in computer graphics for generating and representing curves and surfaces. Contents 1 History2 Use3 Technical sp..
Nonunion
"Nonunion" also means a workforce that does not belong to a trade union. Nonunion is permanent failure of healing following a broken bone. Nonunion is a serious complication of a fracture and may occur when the fracture moves too much, has a poor blood supply or gets infected. Patients who smoke h..
Nonuplet
Nonuplets is a case of multiple birth, in which the mother gives birth to nine offspring at one time. There have been six (possibly seven) recorded cases of human nonuplet births and conceptions. The Broderick set was born in Australia in 1972, five boys and four girls. None of them survived, baby..
Nonverbal communication
Nonverbal communication (NVC) is usually understood as the process of sending and receiving wordless messages. Such messages can be communicated through gesture; body language or posture; facial expression and eye gaze; object communication such as clothing, hairstyles or even architecture; symbols ..
Nonverbal learning disorder
Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD) (also known as NVLD) is a neurological syndrome consisting of specific assets and deficits. The assets include early speech and vocabulary development, remarkable rote memory skills, attention to detail, early reading skills development and excellent spelling ski..
Nonviolence
Part of the Politics series onGreen politics Green issues Worldwide green parties (list): Global Greens · Africa · Americas · Asia-Pacific · Europe Ideas in the Global Greens Charter: ecological wisdom social justice participatory democracy nonviolence susta..
Nonviolence International
Nonviolence International describes itself as a decentralized network of resource centers that promote the use of nonviolent resistance. Founded by Palestinian activist Mubarak Awad in 1989, NI is a 501(c)3 organization registered in Washington, DC, USA. They are active in educating and training th..
Nonviolent communication
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a process developed by Marshall Rosenberg that seeks to allow people to communicate with others effectively and with compassion. It focuses on clearly expressing observations, feelings, needs and requests to others in a way that avoids diagnostic language or languag..
Nonviolent Peaceforce
Nonviolent Peaceforce is an international NGO composed of a federation of 94 member organisations from across the world in order to create a trained, international civilian unarmed peace force that can be sent to conflict areas called in by local groups to protect human rights and allow them the sp..
Nonviolent Radical Party
Formerly called Transnational Radical Party, the Nonviolent Radical Party is a political association of citizens, parliamentarians and members of government of various national and political backgrounds who intend to use nonviolent means to create an effective body of international law with respect ..
Nonviolent resistance
Nonviolent resistance (or nonviolent action) comprises the practice of applying power to achieve socio-political goals through symbolic protests, economic or political noncooperation, civil disobedience and other methods, without the use of violence. It has the guiding principle of nonviolence. Pa..
Nonviolent self defense
Nonviolent Self Defense (NSD) is a system of self-protection and humane control developed in the 1970s by Harvard-trained psychologist Dr. William Paul. NSD was devised for use by mental health professionals who dealt with potentially violent psychiatric patients on a daily basis. NSD is a system of..
Nonvolatile acid
A nonvolatile acid is an acid produced from sources other than carbon dioxide. ..
Nonvolatile BIOS memory
Nonvolatile BIOS memory refers to the memory on a personal computer motherboard containing BIOS settings and sometimes the code used to initialize the computer and load the operating system. The nonvolatile memory was historically called CMOS RAM or just CMOS because it traditionally used a low-pow..
Nonwovens
Non-woven textiles are those which are neither woven nor knit, for example felt. Non-wovens are typically not strong (unless reinforced by a backing or densified). In the recent years non-woven material has become an alternative to polyurethane foam. Non-woven fabric is manufactured by putting sm..
Nonya Food
Nonya or Peranakan food combines Chinese, Malay and other influences into a unique blend. Peranakans are descendants of early Chinese migrants who settled in Penang, Malacca and Singapore, inter-marrying with local Malays. The old Malay word nonya (also spelled nyonya), a term of respect and affec..
Nonylphenol
4-nonylphenol Nonylphenol is an organic compound of the wider family of alkylphenols. It is a product of industrial synthesis formed during the alkylation process of phenols, particularly in the synthesis of polyethoxylate detergents. Because of their man-made origins, nonylphenols are classifi..
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr (Thai นนทรีย์ นิมิบุตร, born in 1962 in Nonthaburi, Thailand) is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also i..
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny is a book by Robert Wright originally published in 2000. It argues that biological evolution and cultural evolution are shaped and directed first and foremost by "non-zero-sumness," that is, the prospect of creating new situations that are not zero-sum. Contents..
Nonzero dispersion shifted fiber
Nonzero dispersion shifted fiber, specified in ITU-T G.655 and also called NZDSF, is a type of single-mode optical fiber which was designed to overcome the problems of dispersion shifted fiber. NZDSF is available in two primary flavors, NZD+ and NZD-, which differ in their zero-dispersion wavelength..
Nonzero Records
Nonzero Records is an independent record label based in Sydney, Australia. Primarily focused on recording and releasing local Sydney rock bands, Nonzero has also provided Australian releases for American alt.country band, Richmond Fontaine and Dutch folk/rock band Big Low. ..
Non (Superman)
In the movies Superman and Superman II, Non was one of three Kryptonians who escaped from the Phantom Zone to wreak havoc on Earth, after being imprisoned there (as documented in Superman: The Movie). Non followed General Zod, and had been banished with Zod for his part in an attempted coup against ..
Non Access Stratum
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Non compos mentis
The term non compos mentis comes from Latin, non meaning "not," compos meaning "in control," and mentis, genitive singular of mens, mind. and means not having a sound mind; not sane. It is most typically used in its negative form, non compos mentis, that is, not having control of one's faculties, ..
Non Comprehendus
Non Comprehendus is the debut album from the South Australian rock band Testeagles. The Album received much attention on Triple j at the time and was nominated for ARIA awards in 9 different categories. Unfortunately their contract with Sony didn't last, and they were dropped soon after the album ..
Non Conforming Lenders
Non-conforming Lenders provide loans for projects that are outside of traditional bank lending criteria. These loans are called non-conforming loans. A large portion of real-estate loans are qualified as non-conforming because either the borrower's financial status or the property type does not meet..
Non constat
Non constat approxamitely translates into "it is not certain." Often times this phrase will be used in legal context. However, it is used to explain scientific phenomenon, and religious advocations. Such as in medieval history, for rulers to issue a 'Non Constat' decree, banning the worship of a ..
Non ducor, duco
Non ducor, duco is a Latin motto meaning "I am not lead, I lead". It is the motto of São Paulo. ..
Non est factum
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Non Gae
Non Gae (family name- Ju, d. 1593) was a kisaeng of Jinju in the late 16th century. She was born in Jangsu, Jeolla province. The fortress of Jinju was occupied by the Japanese during the Seven Year War, after a long battle in which Non Gae's lover Choe Gyeong-hoe was slain. Non Gae was called t..
Non homologué
Non homologué was a 1985 album of Jean-Jacques Goldman sung in French. All the songs are his except "Je te donne," which was a collaboration with Michael Jones. The album was recorded at Studio Gang by Jean-Pierre Janiau, assisted by Olivier do Espirito Santo. It was released by JRG/NEF and produc..
Non Ho L'Età
Non Ho L'Età (sometimes Non Ho L'Età Per Amarti, English translation: "I Am Not Old Enough (To Love You", literally "I Don't Have The Age (To Love You)") was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 performed in Italian by Gigliola Cinquetti representing Italy. The song is sung from t..
Non liquet
Non liquet is a legal term used to describe a situation where there is no applicable law. That is to say, a court comes to the conclusion that the situation engaged in a case has no answer from the governing system of law. This is of particular relevance to international law since international c..
Non nobis solum
Non nobis solum (Latin: "Not for ourselves alone") is the motto of Burnie, in Tasmania, Australia. It appeared on the council seal of the town until 1992, when the seal was updated to a new, more colourful one without the motto present. It is also the motto of Lower Canada College, a private schoo..
Non Phixion
Non Phixion (left to right): Goretex, Eclipse, Sabac and Ill Bill. Non Phixion (pronounced as non-fiction) was a hardcore hip-hop group formed in 1995 in Brooklyn, New York. It consisted of four emcees — Ill Bill, MC Serch, Sabac Red, and Goretex — plus DJ Eclipse. The group was or..
Non Regular Permanent Staff
In the British Army, Non Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS - often pronounced as Nerps) are members of the Territorial Army who are employed on a full-time basis. They usually fill vital unit administration or quartermaster roles and are most often long-service TA veterans or retired regulars. They hold..
Non rotating hubcap
A non-rotating hubcap is a wheel cover automobiles that retains the same orientation even when a vehicle is in motion. This allows for advertising to be placed on the hubcap and be read even while a car is moving. Non-rotating hubcaps with advertisements can often be found on taxis and commercial ..
Non scholae, sed vitae discimus
Non scholae, sed vitae discimus is a Latin phrase meaning We do not learn for the school, but for life, indicating that one should not gain knowledge and skill to please a teacher or master, but because of the benefits you will gain in your life. This is the motto of many schools, all over the wor..
Non sequitur
Non sequitur may refer to: Non sequitur (logic), a logical fallacyNon sequitur (absurdism), a comment which is humorously absurd or has no relation to the comment it followsNon Sequitur (comic strip), the comic stripNon Sequitur (ensemble), the musical ensemble at The Walden School This is a [..
Non sequitur (absurdism)
A non sequitur is a literary device; used in comedy (as opposed to its use in formal logic) it is a comment which, due to its lack of meaning relative to the comment it follows, is absurd to the point of being humorous. Its use can be deliberate or unintentional. Literally, it is Latin for "it doe..
Non Sequitur (comic strip)
Non Sequitur is a comic strip created by Wiley Miller in 1991 and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate to over 700 newspapers. The strip can be found online at gocomics.com, although archives are only viewable with an account. Translated from Latin as, "it does not follow", Non Sequitur is often ..
Non sequitur (logic)
Non sequitur is Latin for "it does not follow." In formal logic, an argument is a non sequitur if the conclusion does not follow from the premise. It should be stressed that in a non sequitur, the conclusion can be either true or false, but the argument is a fallacy because the conclusion does not..
Non Sequitur (Voyager episode)
Non Sequitur is an episode of [[Star Trek: Voyager]]. Plot summary Harry Kim wakes up on Earth, in San Francisco. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. He lives in an apartment with his girlfriend, Libby, and works at the shuttlecraft development center ..
Non serviam
In literature, the Latin phrase non serviam was spoken by Satan as he refused to serve God. It translates into "I will not serve." It is attributed to Satan in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, but the origin of this attribution is unknown. It might have originated in one of F..
Non Serviam
Non Serviam, released in 1994 on Unisound, is the fourth full length album from the Greek Black Metal band Rotting Christ. Track listing "The Fifth Illusion" – 5:33"Wolfera the Jackal" – 7:13"Non Serviam" – 5:13"Morality of a Dark Age" – 5:01"Where Mortals Have No Pride" – 7:48"Fethroesfo..
Non specific immunity
Also called innate immunity. Compare with specific immunity. ..
Non starter
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Non Stop Dancing 65
Non stop dancing '65 is a 1965 album by the James Last Band, conducted and arranged by James Last, engineered by Peter Klemt, recorded at Polydor studios in Hamburg, Germany. This album was the first in a series of about 30 Non Stop Dancing albums. The final official entry of the series was in 1..
Non Stop Ride (album)
Non Stop Ride is not an official release by Godhead as Jason Miller and Julian Beeston made this mix for Cleopatra Records. There a lot of covers of the likes of The Prodigy's Narayan, and Smack My Bitch up, KMFDM's Virus and Blur's Girls and boys. The last 3 are songs by Jason and Julian and are..
No Name
As a proper name, 'No Name' can refer to: The town of Noname, ColoradoA 19th-century sensation novel by Wilkie CollinsA folk boyband from Montenegro (see No Name (band))A rock band from Slovakia (see No Name (Slovak band))A private label brand of the Canadian food retailer Loblaw Companies Limited (..
No Name, Colorado
No Name is an unicorporated community in Colorado. It is located east of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, off exit 119 of Interstate 70. It is named for No Name Creek and No Name Canyon. The No Name Tunnel of I-70 is nearby. External links [Photo of No Name's interstate exit][Photo of No ..
No Name (band)
For other meanings, see No Name. No Name with the flag of Montenegro in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest No Name is a six-piece Montenegrin boyband known more for the controversies around their participation in the national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest than for their musical..
No name (brand)
The correct title of this article is no name (brand). The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. no name is a brand used by Loblaw grocery stores to refer to their value line of private label brand products. It predates th..
No Name (Slovak band)
No Name is a Slovak rock band. It was formed in Košice on August 26, 1996 by Viliam Gutray and three Timko brothers - Igor, Roman and Ivan. Today, the band has six members. Discography 1998 – No Name2000 – Počkám si na zázrak (English: I'll Wait for a Miracle)2001 – Oslávme si živ..
No Name Face
No Name Face is the debut album by the band Lifehouse. It was released on October 31, 2000, and it produced the hit "Hanging by a Moment" which went on to be the most played song on radio that year. This album springboarded Lifehouse into the limelight, and produced many radio-friendly hits. More s..
No Name Key
No Name Key is located in the Lower Keys. It is somewhat remote and sparsely populated. Its a fairly small Island in comparison to its neighbor, Big Pine Key. It is only accessible by Boat and one bridge that connects the small island with Big Pine Key. Some of its native residents include the e..
No Need for Alarm
The album No Need For Alarm was released by Del tha Funkee Homosapien in the year 1993 under the publisher Elektra Records. Track Listing You're In ShamblesCatch A Bad OneWack M.C.'sNo Need For AlarmBoo Boo Heads ft. Kurious on the introTreats For The KiddiesWorldwide ft. UnicronNo More Worrie..
No Need for Bushido
No Need for Bushido is a webcomic started on April 11, 2002 on Comic Genesis (then Keenspace). The comic is drawn by Alex Kolesar and written by Joseph Kovell. Its content and title are based on various influences from such anime and manga as Tenchi Muyo! (which has a series of volumes titled "No..
No Need to Argue
No Need to Argue (or NNTA for short) is an album by The Cranberries. It was released in 1994. All lyrics by Dolores O'Riordan. Track listing "Ode To My Family" (Hogan/O'Riordan) - 4:31"I Can't Be With You" (O'Riordan) - 3:07"Twenty One" (Hogan/O'Riordan) - 3:07"Zombie" (O'Riordan) - 5:06"Empty" (..
No New York
No New York was a compilation album released in 1978 (see 1978 in music) by Antilles Records on the recommendation of Brian Eno. Although it only contained songs by four different artists, it is considered by many the definitive single album documenting the New York City No Wave movement. The album ..
No Nose Job: The Legend of Digital Underground
No Nose Job: The Legend of Digital Underground is the first compliation album from the rap group, Digital Underground. It features several of their hit songs, such as "Same Song" and "The Humpty Dance." Track listing The Humpty DanceFreaks Of The IndustryDoowutchyalikeSame SongThe Way We SwingPac..
No No Song
Ringo Starr's cover of Hoyt Axton's No No Song was included on his 1974 album Goodnight Vienna. It was a top three hit in the US, and a prophetic assessment of Ringo's attitude towards addictive substances by the late 1980s. ..
No Nuclear War
No Nuclear War is an album by Peter Tosh. It was released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). Track listing "No Nuclear War""Nah Goa Jail""Fight Apartheid""Vampire""In My Song""Lessons In My Life""Testify""Come Together" ..
Ōno no Azumabito
'This article is about a member of the Ōno (大野) samurai clan; for the samurai of the Ono (小野) clan, see Ono no Azumabito. Ōno no Azumabito (大野東人)(d. 742) was a samurai and Court official of Japan's Nara period. In 724, he fought alongside Fujiwara no Umakai against the Ebisu peop..

 

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