Exposition: Characters and setting are established and the conflict, or problem, is introduced. Rising action: The conflict begins to affect the characters, complicating their lives. Climax: The conflict is faced during the main, most dramatic event of the story.
Nerve conduction velocity. A nerve conduction study (NCS) is a medical diagnostic test commonly used to evaluate the function, especially the ability of electrical conduction, of the motor and sensory nerves of the human body.
The NICS is a name check system that queries available records in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), the Interstate Identification Index (III), and the NICS Indices to determine if prospective firearm purchasers are disqualified from receiving or possessing firearms.