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Nestorinae: (from the article "parrot") The subfamily Nestorinae is found only in New Zealand. The kea (Nestor notabilis) occasionally tears into sheep carcasses (rarely, weakened sheep) to get at the fat around the kidneys. The ...
Nestorius: early bishop of Constantinople whose views on the nature and person of Christ led to the calling of the Council of Ephesus in 431 and to Nestorianism, one of the ... [13 Related Articles]
Nestos River: river in southwestern Bulgaria and western Thrace, Greece. The Nestos rises on Kolarov peak of the Rila Mountains of the northwestern Rhodope (Rodopi) Mountains. The river's upper confluents separate the ...
Nestroy, Johann: one of Austria's greatest comic dramatists, and a brilliant character actor who dominated the mid-19th-century Viennese popular stage.
net: an open fabric of thread, cord, or wire, the intersections of which are looped or knotted so as to form a mesh. Nets are primarily used for fishing. [1 Related Articles]
net asset: (from the article "taxation") Taxes on net worth are levied on the total net worth of a person-that is, the value of his assets minus his liabilities. As with the income tax, the personal ...
net energy: (from the article "feed") ...body functions, either as a percentage of the diet or as the total grams or units required per day. The amounts of energy needed are measured as digestible energy (DE), ...
net loss: (from the article "accounting") ...the gains and losses recognized during the period, including both the results of the company's normal, day-to-day activities and any other events. If net income is negative, it is referred ...
net material product: (from the article "defense economics") ...estimates of both d and GDP are possible, each giving a different d/GDP ratio. Capitalist economies, which use the GDP, measure economic activity differently from communist economies, which use a ...
net neutrality: (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") There was no resolution in the dispute over U.S. policy concerning net neutrality-the principle that, among other things, network providers should be required to treat all broadband consumers equally instead ...
net price principle: (from the article "publishing, history of") ...and met with fierce opposition, in the general interest of the industry it was inevitable. Like copyright, it helped to provide a firm structure within which fair prices could be ...
net primary productivity: (from the article "Average net primary production of the Earth's major habitats") ...substances. The total amount of productivity in a region or system is gross primary productivity. A certain amount of organic material is used to sustain the life of producers; what ...
net reproductive rate: (from the article "population ecology") The average number of offspring that a female leaves during her lifetime is called the net reproductive rate (R₀). If all females survived to the oldest possible age for that ...
net-casting spider: (from the article "ogre-faced spider") ...the family Dinopidae (or Deinopidae; order Araneida). One pair of eyes is unusually large, producing an ogrelike appearance. The spiders occur throughout the tropics. One genus, Dinopis, the net-casting spider, ...
net-transfer reaction: (from the article "metamorphic rock") Metamorphic reactions can be classified into two types that show different degrees of sensitivity to temperature and pressure changes: net-transfer reactionsand exchange reactions. Net-transfer reactions involve the breakdown of preexisting ...
net-winged beetle: any of some 2,800 species of soft-bodied, brightly coloured, predominately tropical beetles (insect order Coleoptera) whose wing covers, or elytra, are broader at the tip than at the base and ... [1 Related Articles]
Netanya: city, west-central Israel. It lies on the Mediterranean coast, 19 miles (30 km) north of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Because of its proximity to the West Bank, the city was a frequent ...
Netanyahu, Benjamin: Israeli politician and diplomat, who was his country's prime minister from 1996 to 1999. [11 Related Articles]
netball: popular game in girls' schools in England and several other British Commonwealth countries, similar to six-player girls' basketball in the United States. It is played on a hard-surfaced rectangular court ...
Nether-Polar Urals: (from the article "Ural Mountains") ...River in the southeast; most mountains rise to 3,300-3,600 feet (1,000-1,100 metres) above sea level, although the highest peak, Mount Payer, reaches 4,829 feet. The next stretch, the Nether-Polar Urals, ...
Netherlandic language: a West Germanic language that is the national language of The Netherlands and, with French, one of the two official languages of Belgium. Although speakers of English usually call the ... [11 Related Articles]
Netherlands Antilles: five islands in the Caribbean Sea constituting an autonomous part of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. The group is composed of two widely separated subgroups approximately 500 miles (800 km) ... [16 Related Articles]
Netherlands Antilles, flag of: Netherlands territorial flag consisting of three equal horizontal stripes of white, blue, and white; a central red vertical stripe over the white stripe but under the blue one; and, centred ...
Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation: (from the article "Netherlands, The") ...has remained in existence long after its contents have ebbed away. Nevertheless, religious organizations, political parties, and small factional groups are still guaranteed access to the airwaves by Netherlands Broadcasting ...
Netherlands Dance Theatre: (from the article "Tetley, Glen") ...of three commedia dell'arte characters and set to the atonal song cycle of the same name by the experimental composer Arnold Schoenberg. Its success gained Tetley a position as guest ...
Netherlands gin: (from the article "gin") Netherlands gins, known as Hollands, geneva, genever, or Schiedam, for a distilling centre near Rotterdam, are made from a mash containing barley malt, fermented to make beer. The beer is ...
Netherlands maiolica: (from the article "Dutch ware") principally tin-enameled earthenware, with some porcelain, manufactured in the Netherlands since the end of the 16th century. The earliest pottery wares were painted in the style of Italian majolica with ...
Netherlands Natural Gas Company, The: (from the article "Netherlands, The") ...had its largest deficit. The natural gas discoveries began a trend in Dutch industries toward greater use of domestically produced fuel. Purchase, transport, and sale of the gas are in ...
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research: (from the article "The Rembrandt Research Project") Financial aid from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; NWO) enabled the team to begin the first phase of the work in 1968. This included ...
Netherlands Reformed Church, The: largest Protestant church in The Netherlands, the successor of the established Dutch Reformed Church that developed during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Reforming interest emerged in the Netherlands ... [5 Related Articles]
Netherlands South Africa Railway Company: (from the article "Kruger, Paul") ...the independence of the Transvaal but which resulted at the same time in raising the cost of production of gold. They complained of high railway tariffs, which Kruger's concessionaires, The ...
Netherlands Trading Society: (from the article "Indonesia") The formation in 1824 of the Netherlands Trading Society (Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij; NHM)-a company embracing all merchants engaged in the East Indies trade and supported by the government of The Netherlands ...
Netherlands, flag of The: horizontally striped red-white-blue national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3. [2 Related Articles]
Netherlands, The: country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. ''Netherlands'' means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or "Wooded Land") was originally given to one of ... [129 Related Articles]
Netherlands, The, history of: (from the article "Netherlands, The") This section surveys the history of the Kingdom of The Netherlands from its founding in 1579 to the present. For a discussion of the period prior to that date, see ...
Netium: (from the article "Andria") city, Puglia (Apulia) region, southeastern Italy, on the eastern slopes of the Murge plateau, just south of Barletta. Andria was perhaps the Netium mentioned by the 1st-century BC Greek geographer ...
Netiv Hagdud: (from the article "agriculture, origins of") At the Netiv Hagdud site in Israel, dating to 11,500 BP, wild barley is the most common plant food found among the grass, legume, nut, and other plant remains. The ...
Neto, Agostinho: poet, physician, and first president of the People's Republic of Angola. [7 Related Articles]
Netscape Communications Corp.: American developer of Internet software with headquarters in Mountain View, California. [4 Related Articles]
Netscape Communicator: (from the article "Netscape Communications Corp.") Netscape also placed a greater emphasis on sales of server applications and corporate services, and it released a new product, Communicator, which combined the Navigator browser with workgroup-collaboration features designed ...
Netscape Navigator: (from the article "Netscape Communications Corp.") Clark and Andreessen planned to further this popularization process and to capitalize on it by marketing a commercial-quality Web browser, Web-server software, development tools, and related services. In October 1994 ...
Netscher, Caspar: German painter of the Baroque era who established a fashionable practice as a portrait painter.
netsuke: ornamental togglelike piece, usually of carved ivory, used to attach a medicine box, pipe, or tobacco pouch to the obi (sash) of a Japanese man's traditional dress. During the Tokugawa ... [5 Related Articles]
netting: in textiles, ancient method of constructing open fabrics by the crossing of cords, threads, yarns, or ropes so that their intersections are knotted or looped, forming a geometrically shaped mesh, ... [2 Related Articles]
Netting, Robert McCorkle: U.S. anthropologist who established cultural ecology as a scientific discipline (b. Oct. 14, 1934--d. Feb. 4, 1995). [1 Related Articles]
nettle: (from the article "Urticaceae") the nettle family comprising about 45 genera of herbs, shrubs, small trees, and a few vines, distributed primarily in tropical regions. The family is typical of the nettle order (Urticales). ...
nettle tree: (from the article "hackberry") The eastern North American tree called hackberry, or nettle tree, is C. occidentalis. It has bright green elmlike leaves, which often have three prominent veins arising from the base of ...
Nettles, Bonnie: (from the article "Heaven's Gate") Founders Marshall H. Applewhite (1932-1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927-1985) met in 1972 and soon became convinced that they were the two "endtime" witnesses mentioned in Revelation 11. In 1975 they ...
Nettleship, Richard: (from the article "mysticism") ...the self with God; it is nothing, therefore, but the fundamental feeling of religion, the religious life at its very heart and centre." Against such exclusive concentration the British writer ...
Neturei Karta: (from the article "fundamentalism") ...continue to reject Zionism-at least in principle-as blasphemous. In practice, the rejection of Zionism has led to the emergence of a wide variety of groups, ranging from the Neturei Karta ...
network: (from the article "urban culture") ...migrants or because they are subject to racial prejudice, the labourers have little legal protection and welfare support. In the face of this massive insecurity they depend on extensive mutual-aid ...
network analysis: (from the article "sociology") The patterns may be quantified and supplemented with other data to reveal a group's informal structure. A powerful application of the approach, often mathematized, called network analysis, maps different types ...
network cave: (from the article "cave") ...borderlands and the sinking stream injected large quantities of water at a single point. Branchwork caves develop where there are multiple inlets, each at the head of one of the ...
network file structure: (from the article "database") ...treelike structure, with each level of records branching off into a set of smaller categories. Unlike hierarchical databases, which provide single links between sets of records at different levels, network ...
network former: (from the article "industrial glass") ...as would appear in a sodium silicate glass is shown schematically in Figure 2. Here the building blocks of the glass network are polyhedra formed around what is known as ...
network level: (from the article "computer science") ...of bits across a physical link are defined. Next, the data-link layer handles standard-size "packets" of data bits and adds reliability in the form of error detection and flow control. ...
network marketing: (from the article "marketing") ...cleaners), and Avon (cosmetics). In addition, Tupperware pioneered the home-sales approach, in which friends and neighbours gather in a home where Tupperware products are demonstrated and sold. Network marketing, a ...
network modifier: (from the article "amorphous solid") ...are called network formers. Chemical species such as sodium and calcium, which do not bond directly to the network but which simply sit (in ionic form) within its interstitial holes, ...
network modifier: (from the article "industrial glass") ...(NWF) ion, (2) the connectivity of the structure, as determined by the concentration of nonbridging oxygens, which, in turn, is determined by the concentration and nature of network-modifying (NWM) ions, ...
network organization: (from the article "information system") In a network organization, long-term corporate partners supply goods and services to and through a central firm. Together, a network of small companies can present the appearance of a large ...
network polymer: (from the article "fibre, man-made") ...chains grow off the long chain at certain intervals, so that a branched structure is formed. In other polymers the branches become numerous and cross-link to other polymer chains, thus ...
network protocol: (from the article "computer science") Another important architectural area is the computer communications network, in which computers are linked together via computer cables, infrared light signals, or low-power radiowave transmissions over short distances to form ...
network routing: (from the article "operations research") A network may be defined by a set of points, or "nodes," that are connected by lines, or "links." A way of going from one node (the "origin") to another ...
network software: (from the article "software") ...Application software thus includes word processors, spreadsheets, database management, inventory and payroll programs, and many other "applications." A third software category is that of network software, which coordinates communication between ...
network structure: (from the article "cluster") Still another kind of particularly stable closed shell occurs in clusters sometimes called network structures. The best-known of these is C₆₀, the 60-atom cluster of carbon atoms. In this cluster ...
network theory: (from the article "Jerne, Niels K.") ...put forth in 1971, postulates that the body learns in the thymus to distinguish between its own components and those that are foreign. The third, and perhaps most famous, of ...
network theory: (from the article "number game") The word graph may refer to the familiar curves of analytic geometry and function theory, or it may refer to simple geometric figures consisting of points and lines connecting some ...
Neu-Darchau: (from the article "Elbe River") ...At Dresden the discharge rate averaged 11,200 cubic feet (317 cubic metres) per second in the period 1931-75, but the rate varied from a minimum of 800 cubic feet to ...
neu-ozier: (from the article "ozier pattern") ...basic types of ozier molding: the ordinair-ozier ("ordinary ozier"), a kind of zigzag basket weave; the alt-ozier ("old ozier"), which has radial ribs; the neu-ozier ("new ozier"), the ribs of ...
Neuber, Caroline: actress-manager who was influential in the development of modern German theatre. [3 Related Articles]
Neuber, Johann: (from the article "Neuber, Caroline") Rebelling against her tyrannical father, she ran away at age 20 with a young clerk, Johann Neuber, and married him in 1718. They served their theatrical apprenticeship in the traveling ...
Neuberg, Treaty of: (from the article "Austria") Rudolf was succeeded in 1365 by his two brothers, Albert III and Leopold III. After some years of joint rule, however, they quarreled and in 1379, by the Treaty of ...
Neubrandenburg: city, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Land (state), northeastern Germany. It lies near the northern end of Tollense Lake, where the Tollense River flows from the lake, about 50 miles ...
Neuchatel: canton, western Switzerland, bordering France to the northwest and Lake Neuchatel to the southeast and bounded by the cantons of Bern on the northeast and Vaud on the southwest. It ...
Neuchatel: capital (since 1815) of Neuchatel canton, western Switzerland, on the northwestern shore of Lake Neuchatel, at the mouth of the Seyon River, partly on the slopes of the Chaumont (3,566 ... [1 Related Articles]
Neuchatel crisis: (1856-57), tense episode of Swiss history that had repercussions among the Great Powers of Europe. The Congress of Vienna (1814-15), in its general settlement of territorial questions after the Napoleonic ...
Neuchatel, Lake: largest lake wholly in Switzerland; its area of 84 square miles (218 square km) is divided among the cantons of Neuchatel, Vaud, Fribourg, and Bern. Lakes Neuchatel, Biel (Bienne), and ... [1 Related Articles]
Neuchateloises Mountains: (from the article "Neuchatel") ...principal valleys of the canton (the Ruz Valley, watered by the Seyon, and the Travers Valley, watered by L'Areuse), which lie at an elevation of 2,300 feet (700 metres); and ...
Neudeck-Nymphenburg porcelain: (from the article "Nymphenburg porcelain") ...until the present day. The first factory was established in 1747 at the castle of Neudeck, outside Munich, by Maximilian III Joseph, elector of Bavaria. The wares produced here are ...
Neue Bach-Gesellschaft: (from the article "Bach, Johann Sebastian") ...the Bach-Gesellschaft (BG) was founded in the centenary year 1850, with the purpose of publishing the complete works. By 1900 all the known works had been printed, and the BG ...
Neue Kunstlervereinigung: exhibiting group founded in Munich, Germany, in 1909 by Wassily Kandinsky, Alexey von Jawlensky, Gabriele Munter, and numerous others who were united by opposition to the official art of Munich ... [2 Related Articles]
Neue Pinakothek: (from the article "Bavarian State Picture Galleries") The Neue Pinakothek (New Pinakothek), based on private picture collections of the Bavarian kings, is a collection noted for its works of European painting from the 18th through the 20th ...
Neue Sachlichkeit: (German: New Objectivity), a group of German artists in the 1920s whose works were executed in a realistic style (in contrast to the prevailing styles of Expressionism and Abstraction) and ... [10 Related Articles]
Neue Sezession: (from the article "Pechstein, Max") In 1908 Pechstein moved from Dresden to settle in Berlin, where he showed his work at the Berliner Sezession, an exhibiting society, the following year. In 1910 he became one ...
Neue Subjektivitat: (from the article "German literature") The 1970s were marked by an inward turning that became known as Neue Subjektivitat ("New Subjectivity"). The dominant genre was lyric poetry. Its authors had formerly been involved in the ...
Neue Zurcher Zeitung: Swiss daily newspaper published in Zurich and generally considered one of the world's great newspapers. [1 Related Articles]
Neuengamme-Ring: a complex of Nazi German concentration camps situated in marshy country near Neuengamme, a suburb of the port city of Hamburg, Germany.
Neufahrer, Ludwig: (from the article "medal") ...Augsburg (1527-32), produced more than 230 medals. In Nurnberg, Matthes Gebel (active 1525-54) and his follower Joachim Deschler (active 1540-69) were the principal medalists. Ludwig Neufahrer worked mainly in Nurnberg ...
Neugebauer, Gerry: (from the article "infrared astronomy") ...by infrared radiation released by the detection equipment itself) and special interference filters for ground-based telescopes, were introduced during the early 1960s. By the end of the decade, Gerry Neugebauer ...
Neuhof, Theodor, Baron: German adventurer. An indefatigable intriguer in military, political, and financial affairs throughout Europe, he was for a time (1736-43) the nominal king of Corsica under the style of Theodore I.
Neuilly, Pont de: (from the article "Perronet, Jean") The result was also aesthetically pleasing; Perronet's Pont de Neuilly has been called the most graceful stone bridge ever built. He was 80 years old when he began the Pont ...
Neuilly, Treaty of: (Nov. 27, 1919), peace treaty between Bulgaria and the victorious Allied powers after World War I that became effective Aug. 9, 1920. Under its terms Bulgaria was forced to cede ... [4 Related Articles]
Neuilly-sur-Seine: exclusive residential northwestern suburb of Paris, France. It lies in Hauts-de-Seine departement, Ile-de-France region, west of the capital and north of the Bois de ...
Neuman, Alfred E.: (from the article "Gaines, William Maxwell") ...inquiry on the influence on youth of violent comic books that resulted in the adoption of a standards code. The magazine was represented by a foolish-looking gap-toothed cover boy, the ...
Neuman, Andres: (from the article "Literature") Andres Neuman, an Argentine living in Spain, published his third novel, Una vez Argentina, which was a finalist for the Herralde Prize. The novel was an effort to retrieve the ...
Neumann line: any of the fine, straight, scratchlike marks that appear when some iron meteorites are cut open and the exposed surface polished and etched. The lines reveal an internal structure thought ...
Neumann problem: (from the article "elliptic equation") ...at points of the boundary (Dirichlet problem) or those in which heat is being supplied or removed across the boundary in such a way as to maintain a constant temperature ...
Neumann, Balthasar: German architect who was the foremost master of the late Baroque style. [1 Related Articles]
Neumann, Franz: (from the article "Horkheimer, Max") ...array of philosophers and social scientists-including Theodor Adorno (1903-69), Eric Fromm (1900-80), Leo Lowenthal (1900-93), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), and Franz Neumann (1900-54)-who (along with Horkheimer) came to be known collectively ...
Neumann, Franz Ernst: German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician who devised the first mathematical theory of electrical induction, the process of converting mechanical energy to electrical energy.
Neumann, Saint John: bishop of Philadelphia, a leader in the Roman Catholic parochial-school system in the United States.