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Naropa University
Naropa University, founded 1974 in Boulder, Colorado by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche as the Naropa Institute, is a private Buddhist-inspired liberal arts university known for contemplative education, the Jack Kerouac School, HLC accreditation, and its 2024 campus sale.
Narotam Sekhsaria
Originally a cotton trader from Gujarat, Narotam Satyanarayan Sekhsaria founded Ambuja Cements in 1981 and grew it into one of India's lowest-cost producers before selling it to Holcim.
Narottam Das
Narottam Das (नरोत्तमदास) was a 16th-century Krishna-devotee poet of the Hindi bhakti period, a Kanyakubja Brahmin from Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, whose surviving Braj poem Sudama Charit retells the story of Sudama and Krishna.
Narottam Mohanlal Dayal Chauhan
Narottam Mohanlal Dayal Chauhan was an Indian confectioner and businessman who founded the first Parle factory in Vile Parle, Mumbai, in 1929, from which Parle Products grew.
Narottama Dasa
Narottama Dasa (নরোত্তম দাস), known as Narottama Dasa Thakura, was a Bengali Vaishnava poet and missionary who organized the Kheturi festival and founded the Garanhati kirtana style.
Nārowāl District
Narowal District (نارووال), Punjab, Pakistan; created 1991 from Sialkot District with tehsils Narowal, Shakargarh, Zafarwal; 1,950,954 people (2023 census), 2,337 sq km, border district housing the Kartarpur shrine.
NARP syndrome
NARP syndrome (neuropathy, ataxia, retinitis pigmentosa) is a rare maternally inherited mitochondrial disorder caused by MT-ATP6 mutations, most often m.8993T>G at 70-90% heteroplasmy, causing neuropathy, ataxia, retinopathy, and seizures, treated supportively.
Narpat Bhandari
Narpat Bhandari is a Silicon Valley semiconductor engineer and entrepreneur, born in Sojat, India, who founded Aspen Semiconductor, cofounded The Indus Entrepreneurs in 1992, and holds over 30 patents.
Narrabri Coal Mine
The Narrabri Coal Mine is an underground thermal coal mine in the Gunnedah Basin of New South Wales, Australia, majority owned by Whitehaven Coal and employing around 500 people.
Narragansett Electric Company
The Narragansett Electric Company is a Rhode Island utility that transmits and distributes electricity across most of the state, doing business as Rhode Island Energy since 2022.
Narran Lake Nature Reserve
Narran Lake Nature Reserve (Dharriwaa), a 26,480 ha NSW nature reserve created in 1988 protecting a terminal wetland of the Narran River; Ramsar-listed 1999, major colonial waterbird breeding site, jointly managed with Yuwaalaraay/Euahlayi custodians.
Narration
Narration: the act of telling a story, and in narratology (Genette) the producing act distinct from story (histoire) and narrative discourse (récit), covering voice, point of view, and focalization.
Narrative
Narrative: a representation of connected events told by someone to someone; its study is narratology (narrative theory), coined by Todorov in 1969, covering story versus discourse, focalization, and postclassical approaches.
Narrative analysis
Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method that examines people's stories as whole units, rather than fragmenting them into codes, to identify their structure, content, and meaning.
Narrative criticism
Narrative criticism is a literary-critical method that interprets a narrative as a unified whole, analyzing plot, characters, and point of view; it is used most prominently on the Gospels.
Narrative exposure therapy
Narrative exposure therapy (NET) is a short-term trauma-focused psychotherapy for PTSD, developed at the University of Konstanz, in which patients narrate their whole life story.
Narrative inquiry
Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that collects and analyzes people's stories to understand how they experience events, named by Connelly and Clandinin in 1990 and used mainly in education and nursing.
Narrative interview
A narrative interview is a qualitative research method, developed by Fritz Schütze in 1977, in which the participant tells an uninterrupted story instead of answering questions.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir by Frederick Douglass recounting his life in bondage in Maryland and his escape to freedom.
Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry, also called verse narrative, is poetry that tells a story, one of the oldest poetic forms. Its main subtypes are epic and ballad, with courtly romance a medieval development.
Narrative review
A narrative review is a literature review that synthesizes published research through expert judgment and discursive argument, without a pre-specified protocol, reproducible search, or formal quality appraisal.
Narrative synthesis
Narrative synthesis is a systematic review method that summarizes findings from multiple studies in words rather than statistical pooling, used in about a third of health reviews.
Narrative therapy
Narrative therapy is a psychotherapy approach developed by Michael White and David Epston that externalizes problems as separate from the person and helps people re-author their life stories.
Narratology
Narratology is the theory of narrative structures, coined by Tzvetan Todorov as a science of narrative. Key concepts: story versus discourse, Genette's focalization; classical structuralist phase and postclassical branches including cognitive, feminist, and unnatural narratology.
Narrinai
Narrinai (நற்றிணை), also called Naṟṟiṇai Nāṉūṟu, is a classical Tamil anthology of 400 love poems, one of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) of Sangam literature, conventionally dated to roughly 300 BCE to 300 CE.
Narrow band imaging
Narrow band imaging is an endoscopic technique that filters light into narrow wavelengths absorbed by hemoglobin, highlighting mucosal blood vessels to help distinguish neoplastic tissue.
Narrow band photometry
Narrow band photometry is an observational astronomy technique that measures an object's brightness through a filter passing only a small wavelength range, separating emission-line flux from the continuum.
Narrow Margin
Narrow Margin (1990) is a Peter Hyams action thriller starring Gene Hackman and Anne Archer, a remake of the 1952 RKO noir The Narrow Margin, set on a train through the Canadian Rockies; it grossed $10.1 million on a $21 million budget.
Narrow Socialists
Narrow Socialists were the revolutionary Marxist wing of Bulgarian social democracy, formed at the 1903 party split under Dimitar Blagoev and renamed the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1919.
Narrow-bandgap perovskite
A narrow-bandgap perovskite is a mixed tin-lead metal-halide semiconductor with a bandgap near 1.2 eV, serving as the bottom light absorber in all-perovskite tandem solar cells.