What does NAS stand for?

National Academy of Sciences

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National Assembly of Religious Women (various locations) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Advanced Research Workshop North Atlantic Right Whale North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium Narcotics Affairs Section (US Embassy) Narcotics Assistance Section Narrow Band Acquisition Qualifier Subsystem NAS Area Supervisor (FAA) NASA Advanced Supercomputing Nassau, Bahamas - Nassau International Airport (Airport Code)		National Acceptance Scheme for CPDW (EU) National Accessibility Scheme National Accreditation Standards (Australia) National Achievement Scholars National Advanced Systems National Aerodynamic Simulator National Aerospace Standard (Department of Defense) National Aircraft Standard National Airports System (Canada) National Airspace Study

Samples in periodicals archive:

Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Snow cap disappearing from Mount Kilimanjaro

Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the scientists found that the gene, known as the corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) gene, is an important part of how humans respond to everyday stress, reports The BBC.

Human stress genes send monkeys on a booze binge

Supplementation with antioxidant vitamins C and E may preclude the health-promoting effects of exercise, a study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found.

Vitamins may block exercise benefits

The study appeared in the August edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Undiagnosed diabetes falls among men

The findings of the research are to be published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials, during the week of September 11, 2006.

GNI Identifies Important Reuglator and Associated Signaling Cascade ...

A new study published in the May 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences scanned the brains of 12 lesbians as they smelled both a male-oriented and female-oriented substance.

Love is in the smell

Xiangzhong Yang of the Center for Regenerative Biology at the University of Connecticut, an author of the study, which is to be published today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cloned cows' milk, beef up to standard

Researchers at Stanford University reported in an issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of 20 dyslexic children, 8-12 years old, as well as 12 non-dyslexic children.

Research shows hope for dyslexia. (Update: education news from ...