He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

* US National Ataxia Foundation

* National Healthcare Decisions Day ( US )-April 16

It was not an overseas possession but national soil, much like Alaska or Hawaii are US National soil despite being ' discontinuous '.

This task force aims to actively address antimicrobial resistance, and is coordinated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), and the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ), as well as other US agencies.

US National Library of Medicine.

A normal activity for high schools in the US is attending Friday night football games in Autumn, while Sunday afternoons are reserved for the professional game, particularly the National Football League, and Saturdays are traditionally used for college football.

In June 2009, the US National Public Radio ( NPR ), relying on information obtained from the CIA World Factbook, put the number of Israeli Jews living in settlements in the West Bank and Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem at 250, 000.

The University has general exchange agreements with many European and US universities and maintains a special exchange program agreement with National Chiao Tung University ( NCTU ) in Taiwan where the exchange students from the two universities maintains offices for, among other things, helping local students with applying and preparing for an exchange year as well as acting as representatives ( NCTU Europe – NCTU students at Chalmers, Chalmers Asia – Chalmers students at NCTU ).

The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

Firearms with shoulder stocks and barrels less than 406 mm ( 16 in ) in length are classified as " short barreled rifles " ( under the US National Firearms Act or NFA ), and are sometimes restricted in the same way that short barrel shotguns and machine guns are.

It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL.

The three government agencies were the US Air Force, the Navy's David Taylor Model Basin, and the National Bureau of Standards ( now National Institute of Standards and Technology ).

The United States government recognizes the interconnected information technology and the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures operating across this medium as part of the US National Critical Infrastructure.

*** Mount Aniakchak ( Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve ), ( Alaska, US )

*** Crater Lake on Mount Mazama ( Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, US )

In 1988, the US National Research Council concluded that it "... finds no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years, for the existence of parapsychological phenomena.

In 1972, after concluding a study on the US government's computer security needs, the US standards body NBS ( National Bureau of Standards ) — now named NIST ( National Institute of Standards and Technology ) — identified a need for a government-wide standard for encrypting unclassified, sensitive information.

In December 2000, US President Bill Clinton awarded Engelbart the National Medal of Technology, the United States ' highest technology award.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

One of the groups set up to carry out this work was the Coalition for Peace through Security ( CPS ), modelled on the US Coalition for Peace through Strength.

An article in the US newspaper Baltimore Sun reported in 1995 that European aerospace company Airbus lost a $ 6 billion contract with Saudi Arabia in 1994 after the US National Security Agency reported that Airbus officials had been bribing Saudi officials to secure the contract.

According to its website, the US National Security Agency ( NSA ) is " a high technology organization ... on the frontiers of communications and data processing ".

* Cyberspace Electronic Security Act ( in the US )

* Social Security ( within the US ) and pension records

For the GCHQ this means that it shares information with, and gets information from, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) in the US.

In 2010, CIA documents were released indicating that " top US officials never believed Powers ’ account of his fateful flight because it appeared to be directly contradicted by a report from the National Security Agency, the clandestine US network of codebreakers and listening posts.

US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, known for his hardline policies on the Soviet Union, initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain's MI6.

, all five of the nations with permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council have operational long-range ballistic missile systems: all have submarine-launched missiles, and Russia, the United States and China also have land-based ICBMs ( the US ' missiles are silo-based, China and Russia have both silo and road-mobile missiles ).

ISI's government customers include the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Geological Survey, and Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security and Justice.

Subsequently, the success of the non-legally binding protocols was reported to the US Congress on January 9, 2009 in the Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq Report.

The principal Allies in the Second World War ( the UK, the USSR, France, the US, and the Republic of China ) became permanent members of the UN Security Council in 1946.

The US Department of Homeland Security defines left-wing extremism as groups who want " to bring about change through violent revolution rather than through established political processes.

This was inaugurated with the visit of U. S. President Richard Nixon to the PRC in 1972 and the US supporting the PRC replacing the Republic of China as the representative of China at the United Nations and taking its seat at the UN Security Council.

A State Department document made available by the National Security Archive on 10 April 2010 reveals that a démarche protesting Pinochet's Operation: Condor assassination program was proposed and sent on 23 August 1976 to US diplomatic missions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to be delivered to their host governments but later rescinded on 16 September 1976 by Henry Kissinger, following concerns raised by US ambassadors assigned there of both personal safety and a likely diplomatic contretemps.

relies on the similar and related high level of difficulty of the discrete logarithm problem, as does the closely related DSA, which was developed at the US National Security Agency ( NSA ) and published by NIST as a proposed standard.

" In the United States, political scientists known as " Americanists " look at a variety of data including constitutional development, elections, public opinion and public policy such as Social Security reform ,..... foreign policy, US Congressional committees, and the US Supreme Court — to name only a few issues.

* US Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security ( ABET certified institution degree in engineering or physics required )

In the modern sense, this would be Islam's equivalent to US Social Security or UK National Insurance.

The administration believed that any search or surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency of US citizens communicating with foreign nationals abroad was immune to a Fourth Amendment challenge.

* US Composting Council

The standardized 1N-series numbering EIA370 system was introduced in the US by EIA / JEDEC ( Joint Electron Device Engineering Council ) about 1960.

Several groups claim that the military base on Diego Garcia has been used by the US government for transport of prisoners involved in the controversial extraordinary rendition program, an allegation formally reported to the Council of Europe in June 2007.

In the US, the Distance Education and Training Council ( DETC ) specializes in the accreditation of distance education institutions.

He also opposes the US Department of Education and Council on Higher Education Accreditation, claiming it is a cartel and the group has, in part, caused higher education to " become uniformly secular, liberal, and mediocre: raising the cost of entry.

In the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, the Allies established their joint military occupation and administration of Germany via the Allied Control Council ( ACC ), a four-power ( US, UK, USSR, France ) military government effective until the restoration of German sovereignty.

The US Green Building Council ( USGBC ) has also incorporated a credit for reducing the amount of light trespass and sky glow into their environmentally friendly building standard known as LEED.

Advocacy groups for pedestrians and the blind in the US have been critical of Segway PT use: America Walks and the American Council of the Blind oppose allowing the PT to be driven on sidewalks, even for those with disabilities, and have actively lobbied against any such legislation.

According to reports, the Conservative party's links to far-right parties within Europe has caused a " host of condemnation " from Jewish groups in the US ; Ira Forman, chief executive of the National Jewish Democratic Council, stated that " There is obviously concern in the US when there is legitimacy conferred on individuals and political parties that have had some association with anti-Semitism.

" Parents Television Council named it the Best TV Show of the Week, and 5 ) Holiday sales for the five-week period ending January 2, 2010, achieved Macy's sales goals: $ 4. 4 billion US in sales, 1 % growth in same-store sales, and 29 % growth of Macys. com.

The US Permanent Representative to the UN said that the European / US draft had enough support in the Security Council to be adopted unless Russia chose to object.

Whilst the draft resolution on Kosovo's status had yet to be endorsed by the Security Council, senior US officials had been suggesting that an agreement might be reached by 2008.

During a state visit to India in November 2010, US president Barack Obama announced US support for India's bid for permanent membership to UN Security Council as well as India's entry to Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement, Australia Group and Missile Technology Control Regime.

The first use of Blue-Green Alliance as a political affiliation in a US election was during the 2005 City Council Primaries in Minneapolis, MN.

The three major accrediting bodies in the United States are Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business ( AACSB ), which accredits research universities, the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs ( ACBSP ), which accredits universities and colleges, and the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education ( IACBE ), all of which also accredit schools outside the US.

Goldberg said the US was committed to the principle of political independence and territorial integrity and was ready to reaffirm it bilaterally and publicly in the Security Council resolution.

The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson acknowledges that terminology used in the Church's social teachings needs glossing for US audiences where the adjective social may have a negative connotation of collective arrogation of responsibility for individual well-being.

During a state visit to India in November 2010, US president Barack Obama announced US support for India's bid for permanent membership to UN Security Council as well as India's entry to Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement, Australia Group and Missile Technology Control Regime.