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The three-letter acronym NLS has several possible meanings: TLA is a three-lettered abbreviation for Three-Letter Abbreviation. ...

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Government

The National Language Service promotes and facilitates communication across languages in South Africa. ... The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) are a set of surveys conducted by the US Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics, designed to gather information at multiple points in time on significant life events of several population samples of US citizens, especially their labor market activities. ...

Schools and libraries

The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. ... The National Law School of India University (NLSIU or NLS) is an institution for under-graduate and graduate legal education. ... The building on George IV bridge The National Library of Scotland is a legal deposit library in Scotland. ... Nebraska Leadership Seminar, Inc. ...

Business and commerce

  • Non-Linear Systems, manufacturer of elctronic and testing systems .
  • The stock symbol for Nautilus, Inc. (NLS), manufacturer of Nautilus, Bowflex, StairMaster, Schwinn Fitness and Pearl Izumi products.
  • New Life Spectrum, a commercial tropical fish food that is referred to by many aquarists world-wide simply as NLS.

Non-Linear Systems is an electronics manufacturing company based in San Diego, California. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Science

A nuclear localizing sequence (NLS) is an amino acid sequence which acts like a tag on the exposed surface of a protein. ... In theoretical physics, the nonlinear Schrödinger equation is a nonlinear version of Schrödingers equation in two dimensions. ...

Computing

The NLS workstation showing the CRT display, keyboard, pushbuttons, and mouse NLS, or the oNLine System, was a revolutionary computer collaboration system designed by Douglas Engelbart and the researchers at the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during the 1960s. ... Internationalization and localization[1] are means of adapting products such as publications, hardware or software for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures. ... Internet slang (also AOL speak, AOLbonics — coined to sound like ebonics) consists of slang that users of the Internet have developed and utilized. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Military

Nimrod Line Sqn Groundcrew The Nimrod Line Squadron (NLS) are responsible for the day to day servicing and first line maintenance of the Nimrod MR2 based at RAF Kinloss in Scotland. ...

Sport

The National League System comprises the seven levels of the English football league system immediately below the level of the FA Premier League and The Football League. ...

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Home Page of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (250 words)
Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.
NLS Application for Free Library Service Individuals, in English
NLS Application for Free Library Service Individauls, in Spanish
NLS (computer system) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (995 words)
Development of NLS was more or less finished in late 1968 and was demonstrated to a small crowd of technology specialists in San Francisco on December 8, 1968.
NLS was linked via leased telephone lines to ARC members in Menlo Park, California and the main display of the presentation was on a large 20 foot diagonal projection screen with Douglas Engelbart addressing the audience wearing a headset.
NLS was not designed to be easy to learn, it employed the heavy use of program modes, relied on a strict hierarchical structure, did not have a point-and-click interface, and forced the user to have to learn cryptic mnemonic codes to do anything useful with the system.
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