All articles starting with N

Neo-slave narrative

A neo-slave narrative is a contemporary work of fiction, usually a novel, that reimagines slavery using the conventions of antebellum slave narratives, a tradition usually dated from Jubilee (1966).

Neo-Templarism: modern movements claiming inspiration from or descent from the medieval Knights Templar, suppressed in 1312. Begins with Fabré-Palaprat's 1804 Order of the Temple and the forged Larmenius Charter; spans Masonic Templar degrees, OSMTH, and the Order of the Solar Temple.

Neo-Victorian

Neo-Victorian: contemporary fiction, film, and culture that consciously revisits the Victorian era (1837–1901), from Fowles and Byatt to Sarah Waters, steampunk, and the academic field founded around the 2008 journal Neo-Victorian Studies.

Neo4j

Neo4j is a graph database management system that stores data as nodes connected by typed relationships, first released as open source in 2007 and known for the Cypher query language.

Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) is chemotherapy and radiotherapy given before surgery, used mainly for locally advanced rectal and esophageal cancer; in rectal cancer it cut five-year local relapse from 13% to 6%.

Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy

Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy is hormone-blocking drug treatment, usually an aromatase inhibitor, given for 4 to 8 months before breast surgery to shrink ER-positive tumors and allow breast-conserving surgery.

Neoadjuvant hormonal therapy

Neoadjuvant hormonal therapy is the administration of hormone-blocking drugs before definitive local treatment, chiefly surgery or radiotherapy, to shrink hormone-sensitive tumors, most often prostate cancer and breast cancer.

Neoadjuvant immunotherapy

Neoadjuvant immunotherapy is the delivery of immune checkpoint inhibitors before surgical removal of a tumor, now a standard of care proven superior to adjuvant immunotherapy in several cancers.

Neoadjuvant radiotherapy

Neoadjuvant radiotherapy is radiation therapy given before surgical removal of a tumor, standard in rectal cancer, soft tissue sarcoma, and esophageal cancer, where it lowers local recurrence.

Oct 21, 2026

Neoadjuvant Therapy

Neoadjuvant therapy: cancer treatment (chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy) given before the main treatment, usually surgery, to shrink tumors; compared with adjuvant (post-surgery) therapy across breast, esophageal, rectal, pancreatic, and gastric cancers.

Oct 21, 2026

NeoAKISTOP study

NeoAKISTOP (NeoAKI STOP, NCT05851222) is a single-center retrospective observational study at Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Milan, using big data and machine learning to predict neonatal AKI in NICU infants exposed to nephrotoxic drugs; planned enrollment 4,200, status not yet recruiting.

Oct 15, 2026

Neoarchean

The Neoarchean is the fourth and youngest era of the Archean Eon, spanning 2800 to 2500 million years ago, marked by major crustal growth near 2.7 billion years ago.

NeoBards Entertainment

NeoBards Entertainment (泥巴娱乐) is a Hong Kong-headquartered video game developer, founded in 2017, known for Resident Evil Resistance, Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, and Silent Hill f.

Neobladder reconstruction

Neobladder reconstruction is a urinary diversion operation that builds a new intestinal reservoir connected to the urethra, most often from terminal ileum, so patients can urinate normally after radical cystectomy.

Neoboletus venenatus

Neoboletus venenatus (ドクヤマドリ), formerly Boletus venenatus, is a poisonous Japanese bolete of subalpine conifer forests; its isolectin toxins cause vomiting and diarrhea about 2 hours after eating.

Oct 15, 2026

Neocarzinostatin

Neocarzinostatin, also called zinostatin, is a chromoprotein antitumor antibiotic produced by Streptomyces carzinostaticus and isolated in 1965; its labile enediyne chromophore damages DNA, and its SMANCS derivative has treated hepatoma in Japan since 1993.

Oct 21, 2026

Neoceratodus forsteri

Neoceratodus forsteri, the Australian or Queensland lungfish, is a single-lunged lobe-finned fish of the Burnett and Mary rivers, Queensland; a vulnerable living fossil and the closest living relative of tetrapods.

Neocis

Neocis is a Miami-based medical technology company founded in 2009 by Alon Mozes and Juan Salcedo that makes Yomi, the first FDA-cleared dental implant robot.

Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, also called the Neo-Classical style, is a European style of the mid-18th century based on ancient Greek and Roman buildings, with columns, symmetry, and simple geometric forms.

Neoclassical architecture in Russia

Neoclassical architecture in Russia, usually called classicism, is the classical building style that took root under Catherine II from 1762 and shaped St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Neoclassical economics

Neoclassical economics, also called the neoclassical school of economics, is the dominant school of thought explaining prices and output through rational, optimizing agents in markets tending toward equilibrium.

Neoclassical sculpture

Neoclassical sculpture is a European style of about 1750 to 1830 that revived ancient Greek and Roman art, led by Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen.

Neoclassical tearing mode suppression

Neoclassical tearing mode suppression is the elimination of magnetic islands sustained by missing bootstrap current in tokamak plasmas, achieved mainly with microwave-driven localized current, and designed into ITER.

Neoclassical transport

Neoclassical transport, also known as neoclassical diffusion, is the theory of collisional cross-field transport in toroidally confined plasmas such as tokamaks and stellarators, predicting the bootstrap current and the irreducible minimum transport level.

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (新古典主義, néo-classicisme): European art and architecture movement of the later 18th and early 19th centuries reviving Greek and Roman models, sparked by Herculaneum and Pompeii excavations and Winckelmann's writings; led by Mengs, David, Ingres, and Canova.

Neoclassicism (music)

Neoclassicism (music), or Neoclassical music, is a 20th-century compositional current reviving 18th-century forms. It is marked by stylistic allusion and is associated with Stravinsky and Poulenc.

Neoclassicism in Arabic poetry

Neoclassicism in Arabic poetry (Arabic: مدرسة الإحياء والبعث), the school of revival and resurrection, was a 19th-century movement restoring the classical qasidah, founded by Mahmud Sami al-Barudi.

Neoclassicists

The Neoclassicists (Неокласики), or Kyiv Neoclassicists, were five Ukrainian poets active from the late 1910s to the early 1930s who built a classical 'great style' of Ukrainian literature.

Neocloud

A neocloud is a cloud infrastructure provider whose main business is renting large-scale GPU compute for AI workloads, unlike general-purpose clouds such as AWS or Azure.