NPP releases the first installment of information about military recruiting in fiscal year 2006 with analyses by ZIP code, county and state.
NPP does not support any candidate or political party.
NPP's intention in making this information available is solely to educate the public on the impacts of federal tax and spending policies at the community level.
www.nationalpriorities.org (259 words)
PUERTO RICO HERALD: NPP Senators Urge Colleagues To Vote Against Mercado 6 PDP Senators Wont Support ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The New Progressive Party (NPP) delegation at the Senate urged their colleagues from other parties to be present at the time of the vote on the nomination of Secretary of State Ferdinand Mercado as Supreme Court chief justice.
The NPP senator based his analysis on the Senate rules, which he said establish that a favorable vote on the confirmation of a nominee would be counted, taking into consideration the number of senators on the floor at the time of vote.
SAN JUAN (AP) The four New Progressive Party (NPP) candidates for resident commissioner agreed Tuesday that the imminent closing of the U.S. Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Ceiba is a consequence of the current administrations alleged policy to remove the U.S. Armed Forces from the island.
NPP REPORT(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
NPP is a quantifiable characteristic of the biosphere and is a fundamental ecosystem variable modeled at the global scale.
From a theoretical viewpoint, NPP incorporates most of the annual carbon flux from the atmosphere to the biosphere and is considered to be the main cause of seasonal fluctuations in atmospheric CO concentrations [Ciais et al., 1995; Keeling et al., 1996].
View Figure 4: Spatial distribution of the variability in NPP estimates among the models as represented by (a) the standard deviation of model NPP estimated in a grid cell; and (b) the coefficient of variance of model NPP estimated in a grid cell.
NPP is the primary driver of the coupled carbon and nutrient cycles, and is the primary controller of the size of carbon and organic nitrogen stores in landscapes
In the context of NPP estimation this is problematic, as there do not exist enough empirical NPP estimates across large spatial scales to simultaneously construct the models and independently validate them.
The justification for focusing on annual average NPP is that it is a common output of a wide range of theoretical approaches, and therefore a larger number of estimates are available for comparison.
An example of where NPP 10.1(e) might apply is where an individual has made a claim under their life insurance policy and the insurer is preparing to dispute the claim and it needs to collect health or other sensitive information about the claimant and about witnesses in order to prepare its case.
NPP 2.4 permits a provider of a health service to disclose health information in some circumstances where the individual is unable to give consent and where the disclosure is not contrary to any known wish of the individual.
NPP 7.2 aims to prevent organisations from using Commonwealth government assigned identifiers in a way that is inconsistent with the purpose for which they were originally issued.
Het is mogelijk en noodzakelijk om de afwikkeling van personenschadegevallen, waarbij een derde aansprakelijk kan worden gehouden, te verbeteren.
Het NPP wil de harmonie en duidelijkheid in de afhandeling van personenschade cq.
Daarom wordt gestreefd naar een betere en meer persoonlijke bejegening van het slachtoffer, alsmede een verbetering van de technische aspecten van de schaderegeling.
The congress is expected to endorse the nomination of President J.A. Kufuor, the party’s sole candidate, as the flagbearer of the NPP for the 2004 presidential election.
The NPP has also appreciated the fact that it will be contesting the polls as the ruling party and not as the largest opposition party and, therefore, it will be tactically wise to settle on the President so as not to dissipate its energies on wranglings.
Political functionaries of the various political parties, especially the NPP, must realise that they hold their present positions owing to the fact that the party won elections and nothing else and for that matter efforts should be made to ensure that structures of the NPP throughout the country are always strong and battle-ready.
At the Ignalina NPP an interesting phenomenon was observed: when the operators pushed the control rods into the reactor, they experienced a temporary increase in reactivity instead of its expected decrease.
The same phenomenon occurred during the test run of the fourth Chernobil reactor but it was not considered important enought to draw the operators' attention to or to write it down in the operating manual of the reactor.
At 14:00, the electric distribution center informed the Chernobil Lenin NPP that in spite of the approaching weekend the energy need of the consumers is greater than expected.
The purpose of the visit was to discuss the suggestions for further cooperation in the area of radiation protection between the Kola NPP and SSI for the period of the years 2006-2008 and to consider the previously implemented common projects, like the supply of thermo luminescent radiation monitoring system "Harshaw".
On September 6 the Kola NPP has become the place of comprehensive emergency drills with involvement of OPAS group that is a special unit organized for urgent assistance to the nuclear power plants of Russia in case of extraordinary events.
It was not by a chance that the Kola NPP Alpine Center had been chosen for hosting the competition: we are the happy possessors of the snow gun (snowing machine) necessary for maintaining good conditions of the slope even in spring.
www.kolanpp.ru /english (6154 words)
PUERTO RICO HERALD: Pesquera, Rossello To Participate In NPP Assembly, Radiomarathon. More PDP Candidacies ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The NPP electoral commissioner noted the importance of persuading NPP voters to register and participate in the general election of 2004.
Regarding the petition of NPP Sen. Orlando Parga to have the directorate deal directly with the financial situation of the party, Pesquera said no motion was filed to that effect.
The Guaynabo mayor mentioned that some of the problems are that the NPP has not been able to pay a debt, has gone into a controversy over a fundraising event, has difficulty in paying for utilities, and the party president is at odds with the wants and needs of the NPP members.
The NPP mission will provide operational agencies early access to the next generation of operational sensors, thereby greatly reducing the risks incurred during the transition.
In preparation for this system, NPP will provide risk reduction for this future operational system and it will maintain continuity of certain environmental data sets that were initiated with NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.
NPP is a joint mission to extend key measurements in support of long term monitoring of climate trends and of global biological productivity.
The GTOS Net Primary Productivity (NPP) demonstration project was initiated in 1998 to improve the current estimates of global terrestrial primary productivity by comparing ground based measurements of land cover (LC), leaf area indices (LAI) and net primary productivity (NPP) with satellite-derived remote sensing products.
The GTOS NPP Demonstration project is coordinating a validation effort of the MODIS NPP data with site measurements.
As scientific validity of the MODIS global NPP is established, cooperating sites will be able to begin using the data for wider regional monitoring of the vegetation dynamics of their areas.
The NPP was proposed in the draft of PlanBaltimore, the City's comprehensive plan, as a way to develop and implement community-driven strategic plans at the neighborhood level.
The NPP will facilitate coordination, based on clearly stated neighborhood goals and priorities, between all partners in neighborhood revitalization - community residents and groups, government agencies, non-profit groups, and the private sector.
The NPP will ensure that planning efforts are neighborhood-driven and that opportunities exist for all interested persons and groups to express their viewpoints.
NPP '95 Workshop Report(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
There are significant differences in the calculation of NPP within current global terrestrial models, and Potsdam '95 was held in order to compare model parameters and outputs.
During and after the workshop, NPP was investigated at the global, regional and biome level.
The offer by GCTE to contribute NPP and other data sets for their proposed and existing transects, and the suggestion to approach the USA LTERS to request similar information were noted.
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
NASA and the NPOESS Integrated Program Office (IPO) are developing NPP as the mission precursor to the NPOESS mission, and to provide data continuity between the Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua missions and the NPOESS launch slated for late in the decade.
NPP also provides the NPOESS IPO with risk reduction for the NPOESS program through early flight validation of critical NPOESS sensors.
NPP is scheduled to launch into a 515-mile orbit in 2006.
www.ballaerospace.com /npp.html (208 words)
KOLA NPP(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Kola NPP is located in the north-east part of Russia, in Murmansk Region.
The heat from the KOla NPP is utilized for hothouses wherein flowers, cucumber, onion, tomatoes, radish, parsley, salad, etc. are grown.
Near NPP a trout -breeding facility has been set up at the offing of the water discharge channel, about 100 tons of marketable fish in one year.
Global patterns in daily energy expenditure of birds and mammals in relation to net primary productivity(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Net primary production (NPP) of terrestrial ecosystems is the energy base for heterotrophs (i.e., organisms that do not produce their own food).
NPP (t C/ year or t C/3 months) data was compiled by Walter Jetz (personal communication) using annual totals for 1995-1996 from Woodward et al.’s (1995) global NPP model.
Global patterns in NPP during a) the 3 most productive months (NPP_high; g/m2/3 mo) and b) the 3 least productive months (NPP_low; t C/ha/3 mo).
The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) is a joint mission involving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) and the NPOESS Integrated Program Office (IPO).
The NPP mission collects and distributes remotely-sensed land, ocean, and atmospheric data to the meteorological and global climate change communities as the responsibility for these measurements transitions from existing Earth-observing missions such as Aqua, Terra and Aura, to the NPOESS.
For the IPO, NPP provides risk reduction with an opportunity to demonstrate and validate new instruments and processing algorithms, as well as to demonstrate and validate aspects of the NPOESS command, control, communications and ground processing capabilities prior to the launch of the first NPOESS spacecraft.
Time of collection is monthly for each site in association with the soil water content measurements made at the 15 NPP sites, though there may be more frequent collections for those 4 sites mentioned above that are associated with hydrology natural run-off plots; they are collected whenever a run-off event occurs.
Time of collection is monthly for each site in association with the soil water content measurements made at the 15 NPP sites, though may be more frequent collections for those 4 sites mentioned above that are associated with hydrology plots; they are collected whenever a run-off event occurs.
Authorities claim that the regular operation of a NPP has no impact on human health.
Although the National plan “Environment and Health” from 1998 calls for research on the health risk from nuclear power generation, such research has not yet been conducted.
The No to Belene NPP campaign is organised by environmental non-governmental organisations and aims to encourage the public participation in the decision-making process around the construction of a new nuclear power station in Bulgaria.
bluelink.net /belene/e_index.shtml (476 words)
NPP OSI - Projects(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Several dozens of projects implemented by NPP OSI in cooperation with many foreign and Ukrainian companies leading in its area.
Development of Plans on work licensing for the Ukrainian NPP power units equipment modernization and database on Tacis project implementation in the frame of “Approach 2+2”
Analysis of radwaste management at Ukrainian NPP and ISE UkrDI “Radon” and population of the National database on radwaste management as constituent part of IAEA international database