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; Nocturnal penile tumescence ( NPT ): It is normal for a man to have five to six erections during sleep, especially during rapid eye movement ( REM ).

Signature and ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) are not preconditions for membership in the IAEA.

The Committee agreed to form two informal " Friends of the Chair " groups to: 1 ) consider preparations for the 2005 NPT REVCON ; and 2 ) continue consideration of possible future adoption of a policy of requiring full-scope safeguards as a condition of supply to non-nuclear weapon states.

Members agreed that these materials fell outside the scope of NPT Article III. 2 for inclusion on the Trigger List.

This lasted until the end of 1984 when for operational reasons ( NPT being non-standard and too similar to NP7 ) it was recoded to NP9.

The Non-Proliferation Trust ( NPT ) is a U. S. Not-for-profit corporation that, at the beginning of the 21st century, advocated 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.

After a period of doubt about the accuracy of NPT results, a new generation of machines and reagents seems to be gaining acceptance for its ability to deliver results close in accuracy to those of the lab. A Roche CoaguChek XS.

Other advantages of the NPT approach are that it is fast and convenient, usually less painful, and offers, in home use, the ability for patients to measure their own INRs when required.

In the USA, NPT in the home is currently reimbursed by Medicare for patients with mechanical heart valves, while private insurers may cover for other indications. Medicare is now covering home testing for patients with chronic atrial fibrillation.

There is some evidence to suggest that NPT may be less accurate for certain patients, for example those who have the lupus anticoagulant.

Closed-head steel barrels and drums used for shipment of chemicals and petroleum products have a standardised bunghole arrangement, with one 2-inch ( 50. 8 mm ) NPT and one-inch ( 19 mm ) NPT threaded bunghole on opposite sides of the top head.

Closed-head steel barrels and drums now used for shipment of chemicals and petroleum products have a standardized bunghole arrangement, with one 2 " NPT and one 3 / 4 " NPT threaded bunghole on opposite sides of the top head.

National Pipe Thread Tapered Thread ( NPT ) is a U. S. standard for tapered threads used on threaded pipes and fittings.

The taper rate for all NPT threads is ( inch per foot ) measured by the change of diameter ( of the pipe thread ) over distance.

The case is tapped for either self-sealing 1 / 4 " NPT fittings, or 1 / 2 " UNF fittings with a washer seal.

* National pipe thread ( NPT ), used for plumbing of water and gas pipes, and threaded electrical conduit.

The New Agenda Coalition ( NAC ), composed of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sweden, is a geographically dispersed group of middle power countries seeking to build an international consensus to make progress on nuclear disarmament, as legally called for in the nuclear NPT.

* Peaceful use of nuclear energy-whilst the NPT allows states the right to use nuclear energy for civilian purposes, this is thought to have been used by North Korea as a cover for their nuclear weapons program.

The central Newport area was originally allocated NPT, in a similar way to Norwich and Croydon, with the surrounding areas allocated NP1 – NP8.

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As it is also the most efficient design concept for small nuclear weapons, today virtually all the nuclear weapons deployed by the five nuclear-weapon states under the NPT use the Teller – Ulam design.

Many countries believe this violates Articles I and II of the NPT, where the Netherlands has committed:

As well as being a breach of the Protocols to the ( revised ) Treaty of Brussels, many countries believe this violates Articles I and II of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ), where Germany has committed:

As a protocol to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ( NPT ), it seeks to challenge national governments to follow through on the commitments they made in Article VI the Treaty.

Over the next 30 years the standard was further defined and extended and evolved into a set of standards including National Coarse ( NC ), National Fine ( NF ), and National Pipe Taper ( NPT ).

These dates signify ratification by the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ), during the division of Germany the NPT and the BWC were ratified separately by the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) ( on 31 October 1969 and 28 November 1972, respectively ).

India is not a part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ), citing concerns that it unfairly favours the established nuclear powers, and provides no provision for complete nuclear disarmament.

It recommends safety standards, but member states are not required to comply ; it promotes nuclear energy, but it also monitors nuclear use ; it is the sole global organization overseeing the nuclear energy industry, yet it is also weighed down by checking compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ).

" The United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the NPT and in compliance with their nuclear non-proliferation obligations.

By signing the Cities Appeal, Mayors and elected local officials around the world are given the chance to get behind the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol ahead of the formal and final presentation of the results of the international signature drive at the 2010 NPT Review Conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Regularly, men who experience erectile dysfunction are given a nocturnal penile tumescence ( NPT ) test, usually over a three day period.

Most PCSOs work within a Safer Neighbourhood ( SNT ) or Neighbourhood Policing team ( NPT ) as they are also known which contains PCSOs, special constables and beat managers ( Police Constables ) all headed by a Neighbourhood Sergeant and / or Inspector.

PCSOs are a civilianised non-uniform role, who deal mainly with the administration side of the Neighbourhood Policing Team ( NPT ).

Examples are the NPT and BSP series.

NPSH threads have a slightly smaller diameter and more threads per inch than NH, but NPSH hoses can be fitted to NPT ( National Pipe Tapered ) plumbing fixtures, as the diameters and thread pitches are similar.

Collectively, these are known as National Pipe Thread ( NPT ) fittings.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

The duo began their Paramount film careers in 1949 as ensemble players in My Friend Irma, based on the popular radio series of the same name.

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, typically known by a distinct name.

This delay effect is informally referred to as ensemble tear or phasing ( not to be confused with the music composition technique of the same name ).

Radius of gyration or gyradius is the name of several related measures of the size of an object, a surface, or an ensemble of points.

Twenty years after Days of Heaven, Malick returned to film directing in 1998 with The Thin Red Line, a loose adaptation of the James Jones World War II novel of the same name, for which he gathered a large ensemble of famous stars.

Meanwhile, Clinton regained the rights to the name " The Parliaments " and initiated another new entity, now known as Parliament, with the same five singers and five musicians but this time as a smoother R & B-based funk ensemble that Clinton positioned as a counterpoint to the more rock-oriented Funkadelic.

" In order to continue recording for other labels, Clinton renamed the entire ensemble Funkadelic ( a name coined by bassist Billy Bass Nelson ).

During a contractual dispute with Revilot, Clinton temporarily lost the rights to the name " The Parliaments ," and signed the ensemble to Westbound Records as Funkadelic, which Clinton positioned as a funk-rock band featuring the five touring musicians with the five Parliaments singers as uncredited guests.

By 1968, because of a dispute with Revilot, the record company that owned the name " The Parliaments ," the ensemble began playing under the name Funkadelic.

The ensemble usually toured under the combined name Parliament-Funkadelic or simply P-Funk ( which also became the catch-all term for George Clinton's rapidly growing stable of funk artists ).

Under the name Funkadelic, the ensemble was geared towards a rock audience, and as Parliament it was aimed at a soul music audience.

The name nocturne was first applied to pieces in the 18th century, when it indicated an ensemble piece in several movements, normally played for an evening party and then laid aside.

Even so, for most of its 100-year history, and especially today, the ensemble is known by the two-word name " Seattle Symphony ".

The show was an ensemble piece revolving around key personnel in a United States Army Mobile Army Surgical Hospital ( MASH ; the asterisks in the name are not part of military nomenclature and were creatively introduced in the novel ) in the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ).

In 1996 he was part of the ' name ' ensemble cast in Tim Burton's comic homage to 1950s science fiction Mars Attacks !, playing the complacently self-satisfied Lt-Gen. Casey.

Cale also played in La Monte Young and Tony Conrad's ensemble the Theater of Eternal Music also known as the Dream Syndicate ( not to be confused with the 1980s band of the same name ).

The traditional music of the Bamana is dominated by the percussion instruments fileh ( one-half calabash hand drum ), gita ( calabash bowl with seeds or cowrie shells attached to give a " clack " sound when rotated ), the karignyen ( metal scraper ), the bonkolo drum ( played with one open hand and a thin bamboo stick ), the kunanfa ( large bowl drum covered by a cowhide and played with the open hands, often referred to as " barra ", or " chun "), the gangan ( Bamana name for a small, mallet-struck dunun, essentially the same instrument as the konkoni, or kenkeni, played with the jenbe ensemble ).

The ensemble was founded in 1945 by American occupation authorities as the orchestra for Radio Stuttgart, under the name Sinfonieorchester von Radio Stuttgart ( Symphony Orchestra of Radio Stuttgart ).

Duck suggested the name " The Dream Syndicate " in reference to Tony Conrad's early 1960s New York experimental ensemble ( better known as the Theater of Eternal Music ), whose members included John Cale.

The Magic of Ju-Ju in 1967 also took its name from African musical traditions, and this time the music dove headlong into the continent's music, utilising an African percussion ensemble.