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Noriko Anno
Noriko Anno (阿武教子), born 1976 in Yamaguchi, Japan, is a judoka who won Olympic gold at Athens 2004 in the -78 kg class and four straight world titles (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003), after 1993 world silver.
Noriko Arai
Noriko Arai (新井紀子, born 1962) is a Japanese mathematician and professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo who led the Todai Robot Project.
Noriko's Dinner Table (紀子の食卓)
Noriko's Dinner Table (紀子の食卓, Noriko no Shokutaku) is Sion Sono's 2005 Japanese film, both prequel and sequel to Suicide Club, following runaway sisters drawn into a rental family service amid mass suicides.
Norikuradake
Norikuradake (乗鞍岳, Mount Norikura), 3,026 m Kengamine, is a composite andesite-dacite volcano, the third highest volcano in Japan, at the southern end of the Northern Japan Alps on the Nagano-Gifu border, a Hyakumeizan hiking peak with a shuttle-bus skyline.
Norilsk (Норильск)
Norilsk (Норильск) is a Russian Arctic mining city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, founded 1935 with Norillag labour, the largest city built on permafrost, isolated from road and rail, heavily polluted, and facing thawing permafrost.
Norilsktransgaz
Norilsktransgaz (Норильсктрансгаз) is a Russian gas pipeline transport company serving the Norilsk Industrial District, with about 1,639 km of pipelines built from 1968 to carry gas to MMC Norilsk Nickel's Arctic operations.
Norimae Park
Norimae Park (노리매공원) is a flower-themed park in Daejeong-eup, Seogwipo-si, Jeju, opened in 2012 by Hanchang Industry chairman Kim Dong-gyu; its name joins 'play' and 'apricot', and it holds over 1,000 apricot trees and a February blossom festival.
Norimaki (海苔巻)
Norimaki (海苔巻) is Japanese rolled sushi: vinegared rice and filling rolled in a dried nori seaweed sheet, as futomaki, hosomaki, or temaki. Nori cultivation began in Edo in the late 1600s; Drew-Baker's 1949 conchocelis discovery stabilized the industry.
Norinco
Norinco (中国北方工业公司, China North Industries Corporation) is the trading and manufacturing name of China's state-owned ordnance industry, its biggest producer of tanks, artillery, and other land systems.
Norinco CQ
The Norinco CQ, officially the CQ 5.56 and also sold as the CQ-311, is an unlicensed Chinese copy of the American M16A1 assault rifle, offered for export since the early 1980s.
Norine Hammond
Norine Hammond is an American politician, a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 94th district, first appointed in 2010 to fill the vacancy left by Rep. Rich Myers.
Norinori
Norinori (ノリノリ) is a Nikoli shading logic puzzle: shade exactly two cells in each outlined region so every shaded cell pairs into a domino, with dominoes never touching; solving it is NP-complete.
Norio Ichihashi
Norio Ichihashi (市橋規夫) is named on Mobileye's corporate history page as a founding team member of the Israeli company in 1999, responsible for its Asian market until 2001.
Norio Miyaura
Norio Miyaura (宮浦 憲夫), born in Hokkaido in 1946, is a Japanese organic chemist at Hokkaido University known for the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction and the Miyaura borylation.
Norio Sakurai (桜井 のりお)
Norio Sakurai (桜井 のりお), born 1985 in Ageo, Saitama, is a Japanese manga artist for Akita Shoten, creator of Mitsudomoe, Korororo!, Kodomo Gakkyū, and the award-winning romance The Dangers in My Heart (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu), adapted to anime from 2023.
Norio Shibata
Norio Shibata (柴田 哲男) is a Japanese pharmaceutical and fluorine chemist, an emeritus professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology known for molecular conversion methods that recover fluorine from PFAS waste.
Norio Wakamoto (若本 規夫)
Norio Wakamoto (若本 規夫, born 1945, Yamaguchi) is a Sigma Seven Japanese voice actor and narrator, the Japanese voice of Cell, Sazae-san's Ana-go, and Vicious, known for the "Wakamoto-bushi" delivery.
Norisring
Norisring: temporary 2.3 km street circuit in Nuremberg, Germany, on the former Nazi rally grounds around the Steintribüne; first raced 18 May 1947, FIA Grade 2, annual DTM round each July and its best-attended event.
Noritaka Mizuno
Noritaka Mizuno (水野 哲孝) is a Japanese catalytic and materials chemist, a professor at the University of Tokyo known for selective oxidation catalysis with hydrogen peroxide.
Noritake
Noritake (ノリタケ株式会社, NORITAKE CO., LIMITED) is a Japanese ceramics manufacturer headquartered in Nagoya, founded in 1904 and known for porcelain tableware and industrial grinding products.
Noritatsu Tsubaki
Noritatsu Tsubaki is a Japanese chemist and professor at the University of Toyama since 2001, known for over 35 years of C1 catalysis, converting CO2, methane, and methanol into fuels and chemicals.
Norites
Norites Mojsisovics, 1879 is an extinct Triassic genus of ammonoid cephalopods in the family Noritidae, order Ceratitida, type species Ammonites gondola; not a mythological being.
Norival Bonamichi
Norival Bonamichi (born 1955) is a Brazilian businessman who co-founded the animal-health company Ouro Fino with childhood friend Jardel Massari, starting as a veterinary-products distributor in 1985.
Noriyuki Sagata
Noriyuki Sagata (佐方 功幸) is a Japanese cell biologist, professor and later emeritus professor at Kyushu University, known for identifying the c-mos product as the cytostatic factor in vertebrate eggs.
Norka Latamblet
Norka Latamblet (Norka Latamblet Daudinot), Cuban volleyball player born 1963 in Guantánamo; Olympic gold at Barcelona 1992, Pan American Games golds 1983, 1987, 1991, later a coach of Cuba's women's national team.
Norketamine
Norketamine, also called N-desmethylketamine, is the major active metabolite of ketamine, formed mainly by the liver enzyme CYP3A4 and retaining anesthetic and psychoactive activity at roughly one-third of ketamine's potency.
Norleucine
Norleucine (Nle), also called α-aminocaproic acid, is a nonproteinogenic amino acid and straight-chain isomer of leucine that substitutes for methionine in bacterial proteins, serving as a research tool and a contaminant in recombinant protein production.
Norm (mathematics)
In mathematics, a norm, or vector norm, is a function on a vector space that assigns each vector a length, satisfying positivity, homogeneity, and the triangle inequality.
Norm Abram
Norm Abram, American master carpenter born in Rhode Island, was This Old House's master carpenter from 1979 to 2022 and hosted The New Yankee Workshop on PBS for 21 seasons, 1989 to 2009, building about 235 furniture projects.
Norm activation model
The norm activation model is a social-psychological model, proposed by Shalom Schwartz in the late 1960s, explaining prosocial and pro-environmental behavior through activated personal norms, feelings of moral obligation.