| NCA | National Certification Agency; National Council on Aging; National Council on Alcoholism; neurocircu... |
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| NHA | National Health Association; National Hearing Association; National Hemophilia Association; nonspeci... |
| NPF | nasopharyngeal fiberscope; National Parkinson Foundation; National Pharmaceutical Foundation; Nation... |
| BNIST | National Bureau of Scientific Information [Fr. Bureau National d'Information Scientifique] |
| INRIA | National Institute for Research in Computers and Automation [France] [Institut National de la Recher... |
| ANSI | American National Standard Institute |
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| AN-DRG | Australian National Diagnosis Related Group |
| BNLI | British National Lymphoma Investigation |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| ENB | English National Board |
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| national academy of sciences | A united states organization of distinguished scientists and engineers established for the purpose of investigating and reporting upon any subject of art or science as requested by any department of government. The national research council organised by nas serves as the principal operating agency to stimulate and support research. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| National Cancer Information Service | <address, organisation> National Cancer Institute, cancer Information Service, office of Cancer Communications, Building 31, Room 10A24, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 (27 Sep 1997) |
| national centre for health care technology | A centre in the public health service which coordinates and administers a program of research, demonstrations, and evaluations of medical technologies and assessments of health care technology. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national centre for health statistics | A centre in the public health service which is primarily concerned with the collection, analysis, and dissemination of health statistics on vital events and health activities to reflect the health status of people, health needs, and health resources. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national environmental policy act | A federal law enacted in 1969 that requires all federal agencies to consider and analyse the environmental impacts of any proposed action. NEPA requires an environmental impact statement for major federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the environment. NEPA requires federal agencies to inform and involve the public in the agency's decision making process and to consider the environmental impacts of the agency's decision. (05 Dec 1998) |
| National Formulary | An official compendium formerly issued by the American Pharmaceutical Association but now published by the United States Pharmacopeial Convention for the purpose of providing standards and specifications which can be used to evaluate the quality of pharmaceuticals and therapeutic agents. (05 Mar 2000) |
| national health planning information centre | A centre in the health resources administration division of planning methods and technology which provides access to current information on health planning and resources development. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national health programs | Components of a national health care system which administer specific services, e.g., national health insurance. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national institute for occupational safety and health | An institute of the centres for disease control and prevention which is responsible for assuring safe and healthful working conditions and for developing standards of safety and health. Research activities are carried out pertinent to these goals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national institute of mental health | A component of the national institutes of health concerned with research, overall planning, promoting, and administering mental health programs and research. (12 Dec 1998) |
| National Institutes of Health | <organisation> A nonregulatory U.S. Federal agency which has oversight of research activities that the agency funds. (09 Oct 1997) |
| national library of medicine | An agency of the national institutes of health concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs pertaining to various aspects of documentation and library services in the field of medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national practitioner data bank | A databank established by the health care quality improvement act of 1986 authorizing the department of health and human services to collect and release information on the professional competence and conduct of physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health care practitioners. The data include adverse actions on physicians' malpractice, licensure, hospital privileges, concealing of pertinent information, and the like. (12 Dec 1998) |
| National Science Foundation | <organisation> A nonregulatory U.S. Federal agency which has oversight of biotechnology research activities that the agency funds. (09 Oct 1997) |
| nationality | Origin: Cf. F. Nationalite. 1. The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism. 2. The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character. 3. A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation. "the fulfillment of his mission is to be looked for in the condition of nationalities and the character of peoples." (H. W. Beecher) 4. Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity. 5. The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bibliography, national | A bibliography which lists all the books and other publications published, or distributed in significant quantity, in a particular country. Sometimes the term is used with respect to the new publications published within a specific period, and sometimes with respect to all those published within a lengthy period of many years. It is also used to indicate a bibliogrpaphy of publications about a country (whether written by its nationals or not) and those written in the language of the country as well as those published in it. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| united states national aeronautics and space administration | An independent federal agency established in 1958. It conducts research for the solution of problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere and develops, constructs, tests, and operates aeronautical and space vehicles. (12 Dec 1998) |
| los alamos national laboratory | <radiobiology> Major DOE research facility, located in Los Alamos, new Mexico, about an hour west of Santa Fe. Former home of a frozen-deuterium-fibre Z-pinch device, which was dismantled. Home to an active theory division, including the Numerical Tokamak Grand Challenge (being performed on the CM-5 massively-parallel supercomputer). Also home to former alternative-concepts experimental devices like Scyllac, FRX-A, FRX-B, FRX-C/LSM, ZT40, and the aborted CPRF which was killed in 1991 when it was almost complete (budget cuts). Currently there are some small in-house experiments, including one on electrostatic confinement as a possible fusion device, and/or a compact neutron source. They also do theory and experimental collaboration with other labs worldwide. (09 Oct 1997) |
Synonyms : National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Council, National Research (U.S.), Councils, National Research (U.S.), National Research Councils (U.S.), Research Council, National (U.S.), Research Councils, National (U.S.)
Synonyms : National Center for Health Care Technology (U.S.)
Synonyms : National Center for Health Statistics
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Synonyms : National Health Planning Information Center (U.S.)
| National Institute of Standards and Technology |
an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs
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| National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, often pronounced "nit-suh") is a U.S. Government agency, part of the Department of Transportation, responsible for setting safety standards and verifying compliance by automobile manufacturers. It also issues guidelines for consumers, and publishes the results of safety tests of various automobiles, to allow buyers to evaluate the anticipated behavior of an automobile in a crash. ...
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| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
The purpose of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), as part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by understanding each of these elements and how they interrelate. ...
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| National Institute on Aging |
Information Center PO Box 8057 Gaithersburg, MD 20898-8057 800-222-2225 (M - F / 9 - 5 EST)
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| National Institute of Mental Health |
a branch of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) that oversees neurologic and psychologic research.
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| national | a person who owes allegiance to that nation |
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| national | inside the country |
| national | concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country |
| national | limited to or in the interests of a particular nation |
| national | owned or maintained for the public by the national government |
| national | of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country |
| national | of or relating to nationality |
| national | characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation |
| national | an honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War |
| national | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight |
| national | a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation |
| national | (Great Britain) benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law |
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