The US Navy operates Naval Support Facility ( NSF ) Diego Garcia, a large naval ship and submarine support base, military air base, communications and space-tracking facility, and an anchorage for pre-positioned military supplies for regional operations aboard Military Sealift Command ships in the lagoon.

In the US, residential dishwashers can be certified to a NSF International testing protocol which verifies the cleaning and sanitation performance of the unit.

* Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research Site ( US NSF )

With an annual budget of about US $ 6. 87 billion ( fiscal year 2010 ), the NSF funds approximately 20 % of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States ' colleges and universities.

Support for MPI meetings came in part from ARPA and US National Science Foundation under grant ASC-9310330, NSF Science and Technology Center Cooperative agreement number CCR-8809615, and the Commission of the European Community through Esprit Project P6643.

In 1997, PGMedia filed an anti-trust suit against NSI citing the ROOT zone as an essential facility, and the US National Science Foundation ( NSF ) was enjoined to this action.

The US National Science Foundation ( NSF ) requested a review from David J. Farber at the University of Delaware.

The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) funds NOAO to provide forefront astronomical research facilities for US astronomers.

The US holds a 50 % share of the project ( funded by the NSF ) which provides public access time on each of Gemini's two 8m telescopes.

NOAO is working with both projects in planning for potential future involvement of the broad US community through operational support funding by the NSF.

The funded UK e-Science programme was reviewed on its completion in 2009 by an international panel led by Daniel Atkins, director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure of the US NSF.

* US Navy Web site on NSF Kamiseya and source for this article

As the program is funded by the NSF, undergraduates must be citizens or permanent residents of the US or its possessions.

In the USA, Tessella has provided subject matter expertise on the US National Archives ERA program and the NSF funded DataNet program.

The US National Science Foundation ( NSF ) issued a solicitation asking for a " distributed terascale facility " from program director Richard L. Hilderbrandt.

Oxford, UK and Indianapolis, US, The Fridtjol Nansen Institute & The International African Institute in association with James Currey and Indiana University Press.

This is mostly a matter of terminology, and US Asatru may be equated with UK Odinism for practical purposes, as is evident in the short-lived International Asatru-Odinic Alliance of folkish Asatru / Odinist groups.

Other rules include International Financial Reporting Standards, or IFRS, or US GAAP.

International service is good to Europe, US, and East Asia

: International: Landing points for the MAYA-1, Eastern Caribbean Fiber System, and the Cayman-Jamaica Fiber System submarine cables that provide links to the US and parts of Central and South America.

In 1983 the Abdallah regime borrowed US $ 2. 85 million from the International Development Association to devise a national family planning program.

Another such organization is the Affirming Pentecostal Church International, currently the largest affirming Pentecostal organization, with churches in the US, UK, Central and South America, Europe and Africa.

Escom paid US $ 14 million for Commodore International, primarily for the Commodore brand name.

In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

In 1996 Jones International University was launched and claims to be the first fully online university accredited by a regional accrediting association in the US.

According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total outstanding notional amount is US $ 708 trillion ( as of June 2011 ).

According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2003 foreign reserves were just US $ 17. 2 million, sufficient to cover only two weeks of imports.

:* International: Access to important cable links between US and Canada as well as between NZ and Australia ( Southern Cross Cable Network ); satellite earth station-1 Intelsat ( Pacific Ocean )

The US philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce praised Cantor's set theory, and, following public lectures delivered by Cantor at the first International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Zurich in 1897, Hurwitz and Hadamard also both expressed their admiration.

International donors came forward to assist in rebuilding infrastructure, donating US $ 1400 million in 2000.

* Rob Coppinger, Secret files reveal US interest in UK HOTOL spaceplane, Flight International, 23 February 2009.

In a recent example, Kirk Wright of International Management Associates has been accused of mail fraud and other securities violations which allegedly defrauded clients of close to US $ 180 million.

* International Banking Facility ( IBF ) is a legal entity of a US bank

In 1994 the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and the United States Environmental Protection Agency agreed to give Kazakhstan US $ 62 million to help the country overcome ecological problems.

Later its growth continued from flight operations at the Keflavík International Airport which was built by the US during the 1940s.

In addition to the BSA, the U. S. imposes controls on the movement of currency across its borders, requiring individuals to report the transportation of cash in excess of US $ 10, 000 on a form called Report of International Transportation of Currency or Monetary Instruments ( known as a CMIR ).

* US Department of State International Narcotics Control Strategy Report ( INCSR ), annual report issued in March every year.

As a member of the International Criminal Court Nigeria signed a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the US military ( as covered under Article 98 ).

However, most open-wheel races are on dedicated road courses, such as Watkins Glen International in the US, Nürburgring in Germany, and the Bahrain International Circuit in the Middle East.

A kindred not associated with any other group is known as an independent kindred, which is more typical within the US than elsewhere.

In 2005 the US government body NIMH published the results of a major independent ( not funded by the pharmaceutical companies ) multi-site, double-blind study ( the CATIE project ).

* Independent films: In the US, Telluride Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Austin's South by Southwest, New York City's Tribeca Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival are all considered significant festivals for independent film.

One of the reasons given for developing Galileo as an independent system was that position information from GPS can be made significantly inaccurate by the deliberate application of universal Selective Availability ( SA ) by the US military ; this was enabled until 2000, and can be re-enabled at any time.

Early versions were independently invented and patented by a major US auto insurance company, Progressive Auto Insurance () and a Spanish independent inventor, Salvador Minguijon Perez ().

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the US Occupation authorities initially encouraged the formation of independent unions.

Before using machinima, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum of Rooster Teeth Productions spent US $ 9, 000 to produce a live-action independent film ; in contrast, the four Xbox game consoles used to make Red vs. Blue in 2005 cost $ 600.

* Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II ( START II )— signed 1993, never put into force: START II was a bilateral agreement between the US and Russia which attempted to commit each side to deploy no more than 3, 000 to 3, 500 warheads by December 2007 and also included a prohibition against deploying multiple independent reentry vehicles ( MIRVs ) on intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs )

It is to be the first undersea or submarine telecommunications cable that directly links the US with China and the first independent trans-Pacific connection.

If the latter option were to win, a separate referendum would be held where Puerto Ricans would have been given the option of being admitted as a US State " on equal footing with the other states ", or becoming a " sovereign nation, either fully independent from or in free association with the United States.

* Public Affairs Links, an independent overview of the industry in the US and Europe

On March 3, 1837, US President Andrew Jackson appointed Alcée La Branche American chargé d ' affaires to the Republic of Texas, thus officially recognizing Texas as an independent republic.

Abdullah took a more independent line from the US and concentrated on improving regional relations, particularly with Iran.

SU is the largest independent university in the Northwest US, with over 7, 500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs within eight schools, and is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

By comparison, under US law, " A trade secret, as defined under ( 3 ) ( A ), ( B ) ( 1996 ), has three parts: ( 1 ) information ; ( 2 ) reasonable measures taken to protect the information ; and ( 3 ) which derives independent economic value from not being publicly known.

The communist movement was seen collateral with the independent movement in the Indochinese countries, waging war against the US.

) and, independent of the former, tinkering with " flexible regulation " at the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Indymedia also sees the incident in the context of " numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government ", including a subpoena to obtain IP logs from Indymedia at the occasion of the Republican National Conference,

A series of official visits to Western countries ( including the US, France, United Kingdom, Spain ) helped Ceaușescu to present himself as a reforming Communist, pursuing an independent foreign policy within the Soviet Bloc.

In Worcester v. Georgia ( 1832 ), the US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that American Indian nations were " distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights ," and entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments that infringed on their sovereignty.

Stars and Stripes is authorized by Congress and the US Department of Defense to produce independent daily military news and information distributed at U. S. military installations in Europe and Mideast and East Asia.

Wilson's approach of maintaining close relations with the US while pursuing an independent line on Vietnam has attracted new interest in the light of the different approach taken by the Blair government vis-a-vis Britain's participation in the Iraq War ( 2003 ).

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation ( RFC ) was an independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in 1932, Act of January 22, 1932, c. 8, 47 Stat.

In July 2012 Deadline reported that a remake for US television networks was being developed by the independent studio Georgeville Television.

Although some of this part of US 1 was followed by other Interstates-I-85 between Petersburg and Henderson, North Carolina, and I-20 between Camden, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia-the rest remains an independent route that has been four-laned in many places.