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Basavaraj Horatti
Basavaraj Horatti is an Indian politician who served as Chairman of the Karnataka Legislative Council, elected from its teachers' constituency for a record eight successive terms.
Basavaraj Rayareddy
Basavaraj Rayareddy, also spelled Basavaraj Rayareddi, is an Indian National Congress politician serving as Karnataka's Higher Education Minister, a six-term MLA from Yelburga, and a former Koppal member of the Lok Sabha.
Basavarajiyam
Basavarajiyam (Basavarajeeyam), an 18th-century bilingual Sanskrit-Telugu Ayurvedic compendium by Basavaraju of Andhra, in 25 chapters covering pulse diagnosis, rasa preparations, and disease treatment still used in Telangana.
Basawakkulama Tank
Basawakkulama Tank (Abhaya Wewa, Abhayavapi), Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka: the first reservoir in the country's recorded history, built by King Pandukabhaya (437–367 BCE), capacity 1,910 acre-feet, still supplying pilgrims and irrigating 916 acres.
Basawan
Basawan (بساون), also written Basavan, was an Indian miniature painter at the Mughal court of Akbar, active from about 1556 to 1600 and father of the painter Manohar.
Basbrun (crater on Iapetus)
Basbrun, an 80-km IAU-named impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 52°S, 111.8°W, approved August 5, 2008; named for Charlemagne's officer in the Song of Roland who hanged Ganelon's 30 relatives.
Bascinet
The bascinet is a close-fitting iron or steel helmet that served as the standard helmet of Europe from about 1300 to about 1420, worn by knights and sergeants.
Bascule bridge
A bascule bridge is a movable bridge whose span, called a leaf, rotates upward like a seesaw on a counterweighted pivot to let vessels pass through a waterway.
Base (chemistry)
A base is a chemical species that accepts a proton from an acid, defined as one half of acid-base chemistry; common strong bases include sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide.
Base and superstructure
Base and superstructure: the Marxist model from Marx's 1859 Preface in which the economic structure of production relations determines the legal, political, and ideological superstructure, with debates over determinism, autonomy, and culture.
Base Boy Entertainment Network Inc
Base Boy Entertainment Network Inc is a Santa Monica, California music and media company founded by Juavona Gallien in 2023, operating the BaseBoyEnt app that pays gig workers in stock rather than cash.
Base calling
Base calling is the computational step that converts a DNA sequencer's raw signal, such as image intensities or electrical current, into a nucleotide sequence with a per-base quality score.
Base Composition
Base composition, also called base ratio or GC content, is the relative amounts of purines and pyrimidines in a nucleic acid; in double-stranded DNA A = T and G = C (Chargaff's rules), and GC content varies widely between species.
Base editing
Base editing is a genome editing technique that converts one DNA base into another using a deaminase fused to impaired CRISPR–Cas9, without double-strand breaks or donor templates.
Base erosion and profit shifting
Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) is multinational tax avoidance via profit shifting to low-tax jurisdictions, addressed by the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, its 15-action 2015 package, the Inclusive Framework, and the Two-Pillar global minimum tax.
Base excess
Base excess, also called base deficit or standard base excess, is a measure of the metabolic component of an acid–base disorder, reported with arterial blood gas results since 1960.
Base Excision Repair
Base excision repair (BER) is a cellular DNA repair pathway that removes small base lesions from oxidation, deamination, and alkylation, discovered by Tomas Lindahl, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Base flood elevation
Base flood elevation is the height floodwater is expected to reach in a 100-year flood, the reference for US floodplain rules, building codes, and insurance.
Base isolation
Base isolation is a seismic protection technique that places flexible bearings between a building or bridge and its foundation, reducing the earthquake forces transmitted to the structure.
BASE jumping
BASE jumping is parachuting from fixed objects: buildings, antennae, spans, and earth. Formalized by Carl Boenish in 1978 at Yosemite's El Capitan; far riskier than skydiving, with 540 deaths since 1981.
Base level
Base level is the lowest elevation to which a stream can erode its bed, a fundamental concept in fluvial geomorphology defined by John Wesley Powell in 1875.
Base Line Cay
Base Line Cay is a small island (cay) in South Andros District, Bahamas, at 24.06667°N, 77.68333°W, elevation about 4 m, near Kemps Bay and Congo Town; GeoNames ID 3572859, Wikidata Q21713633.
Base pair
A base pair, also called a nucleotide pair, is two nucleotide bases joined by hydrogen bonds across the strands of DNA or RNA, the standard unit for measuring genome length.
Base parameter regression
Base parameter regression identifies a robot's dynamics through a minimal set of linearly independent parameter combinations, called base parameters, making the least-squares estimation problem well posed.
Base Power (company)
Base Power is an American energy company founded in Austin, Texas, in 2023 by Zach Dell and Justin Lopas that combines retail electricity with home battery backup.
Base rate fallacy
The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect, is a cognitive error in which people judge probability from case-specific evidence while underweighting how common the event is.
Base Set (Pokémon)
Base Set (拡張パック) is the first Pokémon TCG expansion, 102 cards, Japan October 20 1996, English January 9 1999. Print runs: 1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited, 1999-2000; Charizard #4 is its most valuable card.
Base stacking
Base stacking is the face-to-face association of adjacent nucleobases in nucleic acids, which along with hydrogen bonding stabilizes the DNA double helix and folded RNA structures.
Base station
A base station, also called a radio base station, is the fixed radio equipment of a mobile network, transmitting and receiving signals to devices within one cell.
Base station controller
A base station controller (BSC) is the GSM network element that manages one or more base transceiver stations and sits between them and the core network, controlling radio resources.