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Bence Jones proteinuria
Bence Jones proteinuria, also called Bence Jones protein or urinary monoclonal free light chains, is the excretion of monoclonal kappa or lambda immunoglobulin light chains in urine, classically in multiple myeloma, detected by urine immunofixation and distinguished from albuminuria by its heat solubility and dipstick negativity.
Bence P. Ölveczky
Bence P. Ölveczky is a systems neuroscientist at Harvard University who studies how neural circuits learn and produce complex motor sequences, using rats as his main model system.
Bench Life
Bench Life is a 2024 Telugu comedy-drama web series on SonyLIV, directed by Manasa Sharma and produced by Niharika Konidela. Five episodes follow three Hyderabad IT employees, Balu, Ravi, and Meenakshi, who scheme to get benched, unlike any other office drama of its name.
Bench Maji Zone
Bench Maji Zone (Benchi, Benč-Maji), former SNNPR zone in southwest Ethiopia, capital Mizan Teferi, formed 1996 from Maji and Bench zones; split 2021 into Bench Sheko and West Omo zones.
Bench press
Bench press: supine compound press with barbell or dumbbells working pectorals, triceps, and front delts; a powerlifting lift judged on elbow depth below shoulder-joint level under IPF rules, with grip width governing load versus shoulder-joint stress.
Bench trial
Bench trial: a trial by judge alone, no jury, with the judge deciding facts and law. US federal waiver needs written waiver, government consent, court approval; bench conviction rate 55% vs jury 84%.
Bencharong
Bencharong (เบญจรงค์, "five colors") is polychrome overglaze-enamel porcelain made in China to Thai specifications, mainly for the Siamese royal court and nobility from the Ayutthaya period through the 19th century.
Benches on Kolonos Agoraios
Four rows of mid-5th-century BC poros stone benches cut into the east slope of Kolonos Agoraios at the Athenian Agora, seating 400-500 people, perhaps for a council, law court, or theatergoers.
Benchling
Benchling is a San Francisco life-sciences software company founded in 2012 by Sajith Wickramasekara and Ashu Singhal, selling a cloud R&D platform for biotech and pharmaceutical work.
Benchmark (computing)
A benchmark in computing, also called a computer benchmark, is a program or suite of programs used to assess computer system performance in a repeatable way, serving marketing, development, and research.
Benchmark (surveying)
Benchmark (surveying): a fixed mark of known elevation used as vertical control, also called a bench mark or Ordnance Survey cut-mark. Set by geodetic leveling roughly every kilometer; hundreds of thousands exist in the U.S. NSRS.
Benchmark (venture capital firm)
Benchmark, also known as Benchmark Capital, is an American venture capital firm founded in 1995 on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, known for its equal partnership.
Benchmark Ai Infrastructure
Benchmark AI Infrastructure is a pair of venture capital funds run by Benchmark partners including Peter Fenton, which raised $223.94 million in 2026 and hold Cerebras Systems shares.
Benchmark contamination
Benchmark contamination is the presence of benchmark test items or answers in a language model's training data, inflating scores through memorization rather than genuine capability.
Benchmark Founders
Benchmark Founders is a family of companion limited partnerships of Benchmark, the Woodside, California venture capital firm known for eBay, Uber, and Twitter, not a separate firm.
Benchmark saturation
Benchmark saturation is when top AI models cluster near a benchmark's ceiling, making their scores statistically indistinguishable; by 2026, 29 of 60 LLM benchmarks were saturated.
Benchmarking
Benchmarking is the practice of systematically measuring an organization's products, services, and processes against a recognized leader, competitor, or standard to improve performance, formalized at Xerox in 1979.
Benchmaxxing (benchmark gaming)
Benchmaxxing, or benchmark gaming, is the practice of optimizing AI models against benchmark tests and leaderboards rather than the underlying capability, through data contamination and selective reporting.
Bencycloquidium bromide nasal spray
Bencycloquidium bromide nasal spray (苯环喹溴铵鼻喷雾剂, brand Biliting) is Yingu Pharmaceutical's class 1 Chinese new drug, a selective M1/M3 anticholinergic spray approved in March 2020 for allergic rhinitis nasal symptoms, with a 2025 common-cold indication added.
Bend (heraldry)
Bend (heraldry): a diagonal ordinary running from dexter chief to sinister base, one-fifth to one-third of the field, with diminutives bendlet, cotise, ribbon; the bend sinister is not a mark of bastardy.
Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham: 2002 British comedy directed by Gurinder Chadha, starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley; Jess Bhamra, a British Indian Sikh teen, defies her parents to play football; grossed almost £60m on £3.5m and inspired UK women's football.
Bend of the River
Bend of the River (1952), also known by its working title Bend of the Snake, is an Anthony Mann Technicolor Western starring James Stewart as reformed outlaw Glyn McLyntock guiding settlers to Oregon, with Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, and Rock Hudson; second of five Mann-Stewart Westerns.
Bend Over Boyfriend 2
Bend Over Boyfriend 2: More Rockin', Less Talkin' is a 1999 American instructional pornographic video by Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano (S.I.R. Video), sequel to Bend Over Boyfriend, depicting women using strap-on dildos on men (pegging).
Bend test
A bend test is a mechanical testing method that applies a bending load to a beam specimen to measure flexural strength and modulus in plastics, ceramics, and composites.
Bend testing
Bend testing is a destructive mechanical test in which a metal or weld specimen is bent once and examined for cracks on its tension surface to judge ductility.
Bend, Oregon
Bend, Oregon: city in Deschutes County at a bend in the Deschutes River, incorporated 1905, population 99,178 (2020). Railroad and lumber boom town turned outdoor-recreation and tourism hub with severe housing affordability strain.
Bendahara dynasty
The Bendahara dynasty was a Malay ruling house descended from the bendahara, the chief minister of the Johor Sultanate. It ruled Johor from 1699 to 1855 and Pahang to 1884.
Bendamustine
Bendamustine (Treanda, Ribomustin, Cytostasan) is a bifunctional nitrogen mustard alkylating agent synthesized in 1963 in East Germany, FDA-approved in 2008 for CLL and rituximab-refractory indolent B-cell NHL, improving progression-free but not overall survival.
Bendamustine and rituximab regimen
The bendamustine and rituximab (BR) regimen is a chemoimmunotherapy combination pairing the alkylating drug bendamustine with the antibody rituximab, given in up to six 28-day cycles for B-cell malignancies including indolent lymphoma and CLL.
BenDavid Grabinski
BenDavid Grabinski (born 1983, Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer, co-creator of Netflix's Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and director of Happily and Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice.