Image Ntis logo.png right The National Technical Information Service NTIS is an agency within the United ... as well as a variety of public and private sources worldwide. The NTIS serves the United States ... , engineering , and business related information available today. For more than 60 years NTIS has ... covering over 350 subject areas. The stated aim of the NTIS is to support the Department of Commerce ... . ref name About ref name About NTISNTIS is also recognized as an approved Office of Personnel ... solutions for U.S. Federal agencies. USGovernment Dept. of Commerce NTIS Scope Containing over 2.0 million bibliographic records, the NTIS Database is a significant resource for accessing the latest ... cassettes, audio cassettes and more. The complete electronic file dates back to 1964. On average, NTIS ... project , and the latest government sponsored research. NTIS covers a wide spectrum of subject areas. NTIS Operations NTIS is provides information dissemination of its collection of approximately ... U.S. Federal Government agencies. NTIS provides a variety of dissemination services for other .... ref name About Cite web last Scope title NTIS Database publisher U.S. Department of Commerce date ... 2010 06 29 ref ref name About NTIS Cite web last Brief description title About NTIS publisher ... Information Service accessdate 2010 06 29 ref NTIS Statutory Authorities NTIS basic authority to operate ... of Title 15 of the United States Code 15 U.S.C. 1151 1157 . This chapter also established NTIS authority ... at 15 U.S.C. 3704b. That Act gave NTIS the authority to enter into joint ventures and declared ... by fees, required agencies to make copies of their scientific and technical reports available to NTIS, and directed NTIS to focus on developing new electronic methods and media for disseminating information. Another statute having a profound impact on NTIS is the Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations Act for FY 1993 Public Law 102 395 which established NTIS Revolving Fund and gave it the authority ... more details
Summary Appeared on page 96 of D.C. Reguli, Conversion of the D 37C computer for general purpose applicaitons, 1974, NTIS Document AD777244. U.S. Air Force. Licensing PD USGov Military Air Force ... more details
Convert to SVG and copy to Wikimedia Commons Summary Figure adapted from Astrionics System Handbook, revised ed., NASA MSFC No. IV 4 401 1, NTIS Doc. N70 70002, 1 November 1968, 418 pp. International Business Machines Corporation working under NASA Contract NAS8 14000 . Licensing PD USGov NASA ... more details
Convert to SVG and copy to Wikimedia Commons Summary Figure adapted from Astrionics System Handbook, revised ed., NASA MSFC No. IV 4 401 1, NTIS Doc. N70 70002, 1 November 1968, 418 pp. International Business Machines Corporation working under NASA Contract NAS8 14000 . Licensing PD USGov NASA ... more details
Convert to SVG and copy to Wikimedia Commons Summary Figure adapted from Astrionics System Handbook, revised ed., NASA MSFC No. IV 4 401 1, NTIS Doc. N70 70002, 1 November 1968, 418 pp. International Business Machines Corporation working under NASA Contract NAS8 14000 . Licensing PD USGov NASA ... more details
Summary Figure adapted from Astrionics System Handbook, revised ed., NASA MSFC No. IV 4 401 1, NTIS Doc. N70 70002, 1 November 1968, 418 pp. International Business Machines Corporation working under NASA Contract NAS8 14000 . Licensing PD USGov NASA ... more details
Summary Image adapted from Astrionics System Handbook, revised ed., NASA MSFC No. IV 4 401 1, NTIS Doc. N70 70002, 1 November 1968, 418 pp. International Business Machines Corporation working under NASA Contract NAS8 14000 . Licensing PD USGov NASA ... more details
Summary Information Description Department of Commerce recordings of Project 25 P25 radio tests. Source National Technical Information Service NTIS Date 08 18 2000 Location area of Capitol Peak, Washington, USA Author US Government Permission Public Domain other versions Disclosure Recordings from APCO Project 25 equipment testing done by the NTIS using Motorola XPS 2000 radios in digital and analog FM modes. Three original government recording segments were pasted together into a single file and had levels adjusted so all three segments were similar. Original files were 8 kHz .voc raw format which were converted to the standard Wikipedia, OGG format. Consider this file in the public domain it consists of three public domain sounds edited into a single file with the coding changed slightly. First segment original test audio. Second segment analog FM in a noisy, but usable, signal area. Third segment P25 recovered digital audio from a professional receiver. Location within a 50 mile radius of Capitol Peak transmitter site coord 46 58 24 N 123 08 16 W , Washington, USA. Licensing PD USGov ... more details
orphan date October 2009 The National Technical Reports Library NTRL was created by the National Technical Information Service NTIS , an agency of the United States Department of Commerce U.S. Department of Commerce , as a means of disseminating scientific and technical information produced by federal and international sources. The NTRL is an IP authenticated subscription based platform which allows subscribers to search the extensive NTIS collection using bibliographic parameters. The NTRL is a useful tool for members of the business, library, government, and academic communities as it provides a solution to locating the results of billions of dollars of federal research on a wide variety of topics, including Aeronautics, Chemistry, Energy, Environment, Health care Health Care , Library & Information science Information Sciences , Mathematics, Medicine & Biology, Physics, and Transportation. These are only some of the numerous subjects covered by the NTRL. The NTRL is an overarching means of accessing over 2 million bibliographic records and over 550K full text reports. http www.commerce.gov http www.ntis.gov http www.ntis.gov products ntrl.aspx Category Online archives ... more details
. NTIS, NARA and CRICOS registrations Martin College offers courses based on the Australian Government ... NTIS , the database on vocational education and training in Australia. NTIS is the official national ... Training Organisations RTOs . ref http www.ntis.gov.au Default.aspx? rto 105806 NTIS RTOs ref ref http www.ntis.gov.au Default.aspx? RTO 105806 Scope NTIS Scope ref As a multi state organisation ... more details
Image Technology administration l.png right The Technology Administration TA is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that works with United States industries to promote economic competitiveness. TA is led by Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, Robert Cresanti . The TA oversees three agencies National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST National Technical Information Service NTIS Office of Technology Policy OTP As is stated on the TA website, TA was abolished under the America COMPETES Act of 2007. The website remains for archival purposes but the responsibilities of the administration were transferred to other agencies. External links cite web title Technology Administration url http www.technology.gov accessdate 2005 11 23 USDC agencies Category United States Department of Commerce ja ... more details
italic title Taxobox name Saxidomus nutalli image regnum Animal ia phylum Mollusca classis Bivalvia ordo familia Veneridae genus Saxidomus species S. nutalli binomial Saxidomus nutalli binomial authority Dixon, 1788 Saxidomus nutalli , the California butterclam or butternut clam , is a species of large edible saltwater clam , a marine ocean marine bivalve mollusk in the family biology family Veneridae , the venus clams. ref ITIS, 2008 ref This is a commercially exploited species that attains a length of approximately 15 cm. ref Intertidal, 2008 ref Archeology This species was harvested by Chumash people Chumash peoples on the central California coast, at least as early as the Millingstone Horizon . ref C.M.Hogan, 2008 ref See also Intertidal zone Line notes reflist References NTIS Report Saxidomus nutalli http www.itis.gov servlet SingleRpt SingleRpt?search topic TSN&search value 81448 Intertidal Marine Invertebrates of the South Puget Sound 2008 http www.nwmarinelife.com htmlswimmers s nuttalli.html C.Michael Hogan 2008 Morro Creek , The Megaltihic Portal, editor Andy Burnham http www.megalithic.co.uk article.php?sid 18502 mollusc stub commercial molluscs Edible molluscs Category Veneridae Category Edible molluscs ... more details
. Courses are VETAB accredited with full and part time options available. Courses include NTIS 30772QLD CRICOS 067500D Certificate IV in Christian Ministry and Theology NTIS 30631QLD CRICOS 062509B Certificate IV in Creative Arts in Christian Ministry NTIS 30773QLD CRICOS 067501C Diploma of Christian Ministry and Theology NTIS 30632QLD CRICOS 062510J Diploma of Creative Arts in Christian Ministry NTIS 30774QLD CRICOS 067502B Advanced Diploma of Christian Ministry and Theology NTIS 30633QLD ... more details
Livermore loops also known as the Livermore Fortran kernels or LFK is a Benchmark computing benchmark for parallel computing parallel computers . It was created by Francis H. McMahon from scientific source code run on computers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . It consists of 24 Do while loop do loops , some of which can be vectorized, and some of which cannot. The benchmark was published in 1986 in Livermore fortran kernels A computer test of numerical performance range . ref F. H. McMahon. Livermore fortran kernels A computer test of numerical performance range. Technical Report UCRL 53745, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, December 1986. NTIS report http www.ntis.gov search product.aspx?ABBR DE87009360 DE87009360 . ref The Livermore loops were originally written in Fortran , but have since been ported to many programming languages. Each loop carries out a different mathematical kernel The article titled kernel mathematics does not include this usage. What does it mean? . Those kernels are hydrodynamics fragment, incomplete Cholesky decomposition Cholesky conjugate gradient , inner product , banded linear system s solution, tridiagonal linear systems solution, general linear recurrence equations, equation of state fragment, alternating direction implicit integration , integrate predictor s, difference predictor s, first sum, difference operator first difference , 2 D particle in a cell, 1 D particle in a cell, casual Fortran, Monte Carlo method Monte Carlo search, implicit conditional computation , 2 D explicit hydrodynamics fragment, general linear recurrence equations, discrete ordinates transport , matrix matrix transport , Planckian distribution , 2 D implicit hydrodynamics fragment, and location of a first array minimum. ref Xingfu Wu. Performance Evaluation, Prediction and Visualization of Parallel Systems. Springer, 1999. ISBN 0792384628. Page 144. ref References references External links http www.netlib.org benchmark livermor ... more details
, the unit will be recoded as B Note When NTIS functionality permits, newly allocated codes will not include ... and Registered Training Organisations . ref name ntis 2011 cite web url http www.ntis.gov.au title NTIS accessdate 2011 02 02 work training.com.au network ref References reflist Category ... more details
Infobox Disease Name Euthyroid sick syndrome Image Caption DiseasesDB ICD10 ICD10 E 07 8 e 00 ICD9 ICD9 790.94 ICDO OMIM MedlinePlus eMedicineSubj med eMedicineTopic 753 MeshID D005067 Euthyroid sick syndrome , sick euthyroid syndrome , non thyroidal illness syndrome or low T sub 3 sub low T sub 4 sub syndrome is a state of adaptation or dysregulation of thyrotropic feedback control ref name urlEuthyroid Sick Syndrome Thyroid Disorders Merck Manual Professional cite web url http www.merck.com mmpe sec12 ch152 ch152c.html title Euthyroid Sick Syndrome Thyroid Disorders Merck Manual Professional work accessdate 2009 03 29 ref where the levels of T3 and or T4 are at unusual levels, but the thyroid gland does not appear to be dysfunctional. This condition is often seen in starvation, critical illness or patients in intensive care unit. Causes Fasting , starvation , sepsis , Physical trauma trauma , cardiopulmonary bypass , malignancy , Stress biology stress , heart failure , hypothermia , myocardial infarction , chronic renal failure , cirrhosis , and diabetic ketoacidosis . Citation needed date September 2008 Diagnosis Ill patients may have normal to low TSH depending on the spectrum of illness. Total T4 and T3 levels may be altered by binding protein abnormalities, and medications. Reverse T3 are generally increased signifying inhibition of normal Type 1 enzyme or reduced clearance of reverse T3. Generally the levels of Free T3 will be lowered, followed by the lowering of Free T4 in relation to severity of the disease.Patients might have high corticosteroid level. Therapy Several trials investigated a possible therapy of ESS. However, they yielded inconsistent and partly contradictory results. This may be caused in the fact that the investigated populations were too heterogeneous in the lack of a consistent definition of NTIS ref cite journal doi 10.1186 1472 6823 8 13 last1 Dietrich first1 JW last2 Stachon first2 A last3 Antic first3 B last4 Klein first4 HH last5 Her ... more details
A registered training organisation RTO in Australia , is a vocational education organisation that provides students with training that results in qualifications and statements of attainment that are recognised and accepted by industry and other educational institutions throughout Australia. Registered training organisations can be State and Territory government or privately owned training organisations. All registered training organisations in Australia and the qualifications they are registered to deliver are listed on the National Training Information Service NTIS . To become a registered training organisation, an organisation must apply to the State and Territory Registering Course Accrediting Body R CAB in which their home office is located or the State or Territory in which most of their training is delivered. To become registered to deliver vocational education and training in Australia and deliver Australian qualifications overseas, the training organisation must 1 have legal access to, or own, an Australian Qualifications Framework AQF qualification or nationally recognised short course, and 2 meet the training delivery requirements of the Australian Quality Training Framework AQTF . The first versions of the AQTF had set twelve standards. They formed the ground rules and details of the quality systems that must be established before any organisation could operate as a registered training organisation. These standards were approved by federal, state and territory Government minister ministers on 8 June 2001 and nationally reviewed in 2004 and 2005. On July 1 2007 the AQTF 2007 changes came into effect to reduce the regulatory burdens and to streamline and standardise audit processes for national consistency. The original twelve standards have become three standards and nine conditions of registration. The focus of audits are shifting towards an outcomes based model, away from the traditional evidence and processes based model. A set of Excellence Criteria fo ... more details
The Death Master File is a computer database database file made available by the United States Social Security Administration since 1980. It is known commercially as the Social Security Death Index SSDI . The file contains information about persons who had Social Security number s and whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration from 1962 to the present or persons who died before 1962, but whose Social Security accounts were still active in 1962. As of 2009, the file contained information on over 83 million deaths. The data include Given name and surname and since the 1990s, middle initial Full date of birth Month and year of death or full date of death for accounts active in 2000 or later Social Security number State and year or year range in which the Social Security number was issued Last ZIP code of the person while alive ZIP code to which the lump sum death benefit was sent, if applicable The Death Master File is a subset of the Social Security Administration s Numident database file, computerized in 1961, ref Social Security Administration, http www.ssa.gov history 1960.html Detailed Chronology 1960s . The DMF contains about 99,000 deaths for 1961, and about 301,000 deaths for 1962. ref which contains information about all Social Security numbers issued since 1936. The Death Master File is considered a public document under the Freedom of Information Act , and monthly and weekly updates of the file are sold by the National Technical Information Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce . ref NTIS Products http www.ntis.gov products ssa dmf.aspx Social Security Administration s Death Master File , National Technical Information Service. ref It is used by financial and credit firms and government agencies to match records and prevent identity theft identity fraud . The Death Master File, in its SSDI form, is also used extensively by genealogist s. Lorretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargraves Luebking report in The Source A Guidebook of America ... more details
The Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center OSC is a United States government intelligence center that provides analysis of open source intelligence open source materials, including gray literature , through OSC s headquarters and overseas bureaus. ref Peak, Douglas. October 1, 2005 Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin. http findarticles.com p articles mi m0IBS is 4 31 ai n16419801 DOD and the DNI Open Source Center Building the Partnership. Volume 31 Issue 4 Page 15. ref ref name About World News Connection http wnc.fedworld.gov description.html About World News Connection. ref Established November 1, 2005 under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence , OSC was tasked with improving the availability of OSINT open sources to intelligence officers and other government officials. ref https www.cia.gov cia public affairs press release 2005 pr11082005.html DNI Press Release ref OSC provides material to the National Technical Information Service NTIS and other government officials through the online news service World News Connection . ref name About World News Connection ref http intellit.muskingum.edu dni folder dniosc.html Other Public Citations ref History In the fall of Nov 1992, Senator David Boren , then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence , sponsored the National Security Act of 1992, attempting to achieve modest reform in the U.S. Intelligence Community . His counterpart on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was Congressman McCurdy . The House version of the legislation included a separate Open Source Office, at the suggestion of Larry Prior, a Marine Reservist familiar with the MCIC experience and then serving on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff. The Aspin Brown Commission stated in 1996 that US access to open sources was severely deficient and that this should be a top priority for both funding and DCI attention. In issuing its July 2004 report, the 9 11 Commission ... more details
Tosco T he O il S hale CO rporation was an independent US based petroleum refining and marketing corporation. It was founded in 1955 in Santa Monica, California by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company A&P heir Huntington Hartford , and originally focused on extracting oil from oil shale and developing alternative energy sources. Oil shale operations In 1964 Tosco, Standard Oil of Ohio , and Cliffs Natural Resources Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company formed Colony Development, a joint venture company to develop the Colony Oil Shale Project in Colorado and to commercialize the TOSCO II process TOSCO II technology . In 1969, ARCO joined the project. The project was ended in April 1972. ref name assessment Cite paper title An Assessment of Oil Shale Technologies date June 1980 url http www.princeton.edu ota disk3 1980 8004 8004.PDF format PDF id NTIS order PB80 210115 accessdate 2008 11 23 ref Expansion In 1976 the company name was shortened to Tosco after the company acquired the Avon Refinery in Concord, California , and other west coast facilities from Phillips Petroleum , making it a major player in petroleum refining. The company continued its efforts in oil shale extraction until May 2, 1982 when Exxon which had bought Atlantic Richfield s 60 share in the project in 1980 pulled out of the Colony Project joint venture, leaving Tosco unable to keep the venture viable in spite of a 1.1 million loan guarantee from the U.S. government. Exxon claimed the project s projected 6 billion price tag made the project no longer feasible, but Exxon was required to purchase Tosco s 40 share in the project as a result of their withdrawal. ref Standard Reference Encyclopedia Yearbook Events of 1982 , page 155. New York Funk & Wagnalls, 1983. ref Reorganization A major company reorganization followed in 1983. Several takeover bids during the 1980s failed to materialize, and another major reorganization took place in 1991 with the company moving its headquarters to Stamford, Connectic ... more details
Infobox industrial process name Gas Combustion Retort image caption type chemical sector chemical industry , oil industry technologies feedstock oil shale product shale oil companies facility United States Bureau of Mines Oil Shale Experiment Station inventor year developer United States Bureau of Mines The Gas Combustion Retort Process was an above ground retorting technology for shale oil extraction . It was a predecessor of the Paraho process Paraho and Petrosix processes, and modern directly heated oil shale retorting technologies in general. ref name assessment Cite book title An Assessment of Oil Shale Technologies publisher DIANE Publishing author Office of Technology Assessment United States Office of Technology Assessment pages 110 url http www.princeton.edu ota disk3 1980 8004 8004.PDF format PDF date June 1980 id NTIS order PB80 210115 accessdate 2009 06 30 isbn 9781428924635 ref History The Gas Combustion Retort process was developed by the United States Bureau of Mines at the end of 1940s. The first gas combustion retort, designed by Cameron Engineers , went into operation in 1949 and it was located in the United States Bureau of Mines Oil Shale Experiment Station at Anvil Point in Rifle, Colorado . The Bureau of Mines tested this process in three retorts with capacity of 6, 10, and 25 tonne ton of oil shale per day accordingly. ref name assessment The consortium of Mobil , Humble Oil , Continental Oil , Pan American Oil, Phillips Petroleum Company , and Sinclair Oil evaluated and improved this technology between 1964 and 1968. ref name assessment Technology The Gas Combustion Retort process is classified as an internal combustion technology. For the oil shale pyrolysis it uses a vertical vessel retort. ref name lee Cite book last Lee first Sunggyu title Oil Shale Technology publisher CRC Press page 110 year 1990 url http books.google.com ?id ojovooEaWhgC&pg PA110 isbn 0849346150 accessdate 2009 06 30 ref Crushed raw oil shale is fed into the top o ... more details
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