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Berry–Esseen theorem
The Berry–Esseen theorem, or Berry–Esseen inequality, is a probability result giving a finite-sample bound on how far standardized sums of independent variables stray from the normal distribution.
Berryz Kobo
Berryz Kobo (Berryz工房) was a Japanese idol girl group in Hello! Project, formed in 2004 from the Hello! Project Kids, which released 36 singles before entering an indefinite suspension in 2015.
Bersa Thunder 380
The Bersa Thunder 380 is an Argentine semi-automatic pistol in .380 ACP, introduced in 1995 and resembling the Walther PPK at about half the price.
Bersabe
Bersabe (Hebrew Ḥorvat Beer-Sheba; Arabic Khirbet e-Saba) is an ancient Jewish village in eastern Galilee, Israel, known from three passages of Josephus, who fortified it in 66–67 CE.
Bersaglieri
Bersaglieri: Italian light-infantry corps founded 18 June 1836 by Alessandro La Marmora under King Carlo Alberto; marksmen-runners famed for mobility, Porta Pia 1870, cyclist units, six regiments today.
Bersama
Bersama Fresen. (1837), a genus of African evergreen trees and shrubs in Francoaceae (formerly Melianthaceae), type species B. abyssinica; 7 accepted species per Kew, widely used in traditional medicine.
Bersant Celina
Bersant Edvar Celina, born 1996 in Prizren, Kosovo, raised in Drammen, Norway; attacking midfielder, Manchester City academy product, later Swansea, Dijon, AIK, now Al Ettifaq; 36 Kosovo caps.
Berserk (1997 TV series)
Berserk (剣風伝奇ベルセルク, Kenpū Denki Beruseruku) is a 25-episode 1997–1998 OLM anime directed by Naohito Takahashi adapting the Golden Age arc of Miura's manga, noted for Susumu Hirasawa's score and abrupt Eclipse ending.
Berserk (ベルセルク) (2016 TV series)
Berserk (ベルセルク), 2016–2017 anime TV series adapting Miura's manga, LIDENFILMS/GEMBA/Millepensee, directed by Shin Itagaki, 3DCG-heavy, 12+12 episodes, Black Swordsman and Conviction arcs, Sagisu score with Hirasawa insert song.
Berserk (ベルセルク) (manga)
Berserk (ベルセルク) is Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy seinen manga, serialized from 1989 in Hakusensha's Young Animal, following Guts's revenge against Griffith; continued since 2022 by Studio Gaga under Kouji Mori, with over 70 million copies worldwide.
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc (ベルセルク 黄金時代篇) is the 2012–2013 three-part theatrical anime adapting Kentaro Miura's Berserk Golden Age arc, directed by Toshiyuki Kubooka at Studio 4°C, 288 minutes total, re-edited into the 13-episode 2022 TV Memorial Edition.
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I – The Egg of the King (ベルセルク 黄金時代篇I 覇王の卵)
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I – The Egg of the King (ベルセルク 黄金時代篇I 覇王の卵) is a 2012 Studio 4°C anime film, first of a Golden Age arc trilogy, directed by Toshiyuki Kubooka, released 4 February 2012 by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan.
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III—The Advent
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III—The Advent (ベルセルク 黄金時代篇III 降臨) is the 2013 Studio 4°C anime film concluding the Golden Age trilogy, depicting Griffith's rescue, the Behelit, and the Eclipse, released R15+ in Japan.
Berserker
Berserker (Old Norse berserkr) means a frenzied Scandinavian warrior of the Viking Age and earlier, known from sagas, skaldic poetry and law codes. Distinct from ulfheðnar, wolf-skin warriors; linked to Odin; source of 'go berserk' via Scott (1822).
Bersih
Bersih (Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections, Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil) is Malaysia's electoral-reform civil-society coalition, founded 2006, which held five yellow-shirted mass rallies (2007–2016) demanding clean elections and clean government, contributing to BN's 2018 electoral defeat.
Bersimis 1 hydroelectric plant
Bersimis 1, also called Bersimis-1, is an underground hydroelectric generating station on the Betsiamites River in Quebec, built from 1953 to 1956 as Hydro-Québec's first major project and first underground powerhouse.
BERT (language model)
BERT, or Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a bidirectional Google language model released in 2018. Pre-trained with masked language modeling and then fine-tuned, it set records on 11 NLP benchmarks and made pretrain-then-fine-tune the standard.
Bert and Ernie
Bert and Ernie, Sesame Street Muppet roommates, first appeared in the 1969 test pilot teaching the number two. Originally performed by Jim Henson (Ernie) and Frank Oz (Bert); now Eric Jacobson and Steve Whitmire.
Bert Blyleven
Bert Blyleven (Rik Aalbert Blyleven), Dutch-born MLB pitcher (1970-1992), 287 wins, 3,701 strikeouts, famed curveball; elected to Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011 on 14th ballot after sabermetric campaign.
Bert Bolin
Bert Bolin (1925–2007) was a Swedish meteorologist, professor at Stockholm University, and first chairman of the IPCC, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
Bert Brunekreef
Bert Brunekreef (born 1953 in Utrecht) is a Dutch environmental epidemiologist known for research on air pollution and children's respiratory health, long based at Wageningen and Utrecht universities.
Bert Bushnell
Bert Bushnell (Bertram Harold Thomas Bushnell, 1921-2010), British rower, Maidenhead RC; won 1948 London Olympic gold in men's double sculls with Dickie Burnell in 6:51.3; later ran a hire-cruiser business.
Bert Campaneris
Bert Campaneris (Dagoberto Campaneris), Cuban-born MLB shortstop (1964-1983) for the Kansas City/Oakland A's, six-time AL stolen-base leader, played all nine positions in one 1965 game, won three World Series with Oakland.
Bert Convy
Bert Convy (1933–1991), American actor, singer, and game show host; hosted Tattletales (1977 Daytime Emmy) and Super Password, co-created Win, Lose or Draw with Burt Reynolds, former Phillies minor leaguer.
Bert Debusschere
Bert Debusschere is a computational scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, working on uncertainty quantification and computational biology, and a 2007 PECASE winner.
Bert Duncanson
Bert Duncanson (Albert Gordon Duncanson, "Spunk", 1911-2000), Canadian ice hockey forward and Elmwood Millionaires junior star, won 1932 Olympic gold with Canada at Lake Placid, scoring against Germany.
Bert F. Sels
Bert F. Sels (born 1972) is a Belgian chemist and full professor of heterogeneous catalysis at KU Leuven, known for zeolite catalysts that convert biomass into chemicals and fuels.
Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy (Albert William Thomas Hardy, 1913–1995) was a self-taught British photojournalist and chief photographer of Picture Post, known for the Gorbals series, D-Day, and Korea.
Bert Hecht
Bert Hecht is a German physicist in nano-optics and biophotonics who leads the Nano-Optics and Bio-Photonics group at the University of Würzburg, joining in 2006.
Bert Hölldobler
Bert Hölldobler, born 1936, is a German-American behavioral biologist and myrmecologist who studies ant communication, taught at Harvard and Würzburg, and won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for The Ants.