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Between Tides
Between Tides (French: Entre les eaux) is a 1973 novel by Congolese writer Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, telling of a priest caught between Christianity and the Congolese rebellion.
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is a Funny or Die parody talk show (2008-2018, 21 episodes) of awkward, insulting celebrity interviews, with an Emmy-winning 2014 Obama episode and a 2019 Netflix movie.
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Between Two Ferns: The Movie is a 2019 Netflix mockumentary comedy, also called the Between Two Ferns film, directed by Scott Aukerman; Zach Galifianakis road-trips to film 10 celebrity interviews, released September 20, 2019, 82 minutes.
Between Two Fires
Between Two Fires is the shared English title of two unrelated novels: a 1937 historical novel by Azerbaijani writer Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli and a 2012 horror fantasy by Christopher Buehlman.
Between Worlds
Between Worlds is a 1997 work of historical anthropology by New Zealand scholar Anne Salmond, examining Māori and European encounters from Cook's second expedition in 1773 to 1815.
Betweenness centrality
Betweenness centrality is a graph metric that counts how often a node lies on shortest paths between other nodes, identifying brokers who control communication in networks.
Betws-y-Coed
Betws-y-Coed, a Victorian village resort at the eastern gateway to Eryri (Snowdonia) in Conwy, Wales, where the Llugwy and Conwy rivers meet amid Gwydir Forest, known for Swallow Falls, its Conwy Valley railway station, and walking and adventure tourism.
Betye Saar
Betye Saar, born Betty Irene Brown, was an American artist known for assemblage works from found objects confronting racism, stereotypes, and slavery's legacy; her 1972 Liberation of Aunt Jemima became iconic.
Betz cell
Betz cell, giant pyramidal neuron (Riesenpyramide) of layer Vb of the primary motor cortex, described by Volodymyr Betz in 1874; largest cortical neurons, projecting via the corticospinal tract, monosynaptic to spinal motoneurons in primates, absent in rodents, and implicated in ALS.
Betz's law
Betz's law, also called the Betz limit, states that no wind turbine in open flow can capture more than about 59.3 percent of the wind's kinetic energy.
Beulah Bondi
Beulah Bondi, also known as Beulah Bondy, was an American character actress who appeared in films with James Stewart, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Beulah McGillicutty
Beulah McGillicutty, ring name of Trisa Laughlin, ECW valet and wrestler 1995-1998, central to the Raven-Tommy Dreamer feud, later married Dreamer, returned at One Night Stand 2006, and wrote Gertrude the Great.
Beulgeun-Oreum Natural Recreation Forest
Beulgeun-Oreum Natural Recreation Forest (붉은오름자연휴양림) is a public recreation forest in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo, on Jeju Island, South Korea, opened in 2012 around the volcanic hill Bulgeun Oreum.
Beuron Archabbey
Beuron Archabbey, or Erzabtei St. Martin zu Beuron, is a Benedictine monastery in the upper Danube valley in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, refounded in 1863 by the brothers Maurus and Placidus Wolter.
Beurre blanc
Beurre blanc (beurre nantais) is a warm French emulsified butter sauce from the Loire Valley near Nantes: cold butter whisked into a white wine, vinegar, and shallot reduction, without egg yolks, served hot over fish.
Bev Bevan
Bev Bevan (born 1944, Birmingham) is an English rock drummer, founding member of The Move and Electric Light Orchestra, later Black Sabbath's touring drummer, ELO Part II leader, and a 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Bev Follow-On Fund I
Bev Follow-On Fund I, LLC is a Delaware pooled venture capital fund based in Boston, Massachusetts, that raised $150 million from 15 investors starting in May 2024.
Bev Francis
Bev Francis, born 1955 in Geelong, Australia, is an undefeated six-time world powerlifting champion (1980-1985), first woman to bench over 300 lbs, star of Pumping Iron II, and 1987 IFBB World Pro bodybuilding champion.
BEVAC
BEVAC is a recombinant DNA hepatitis B vaccine by Biological E. Limited, India, WHO-prequalified 16 January 2025; 10 µg HBsAg per 0.5 mL paediatric dose, non-inferior to GeneVac-B in a phase IV trial.
Bevacizumab
Bevacizumab (Avastin) is a humanized anti-VEGF-A monoclonal antibody, the first approved angiogenesis-inhibiting cancer drug (FDA 2004), used across colorectal, lung, and other cancers and widely off-label in ophthalmology, with several approved biosimilars.
Bevacizumab and erlotinib combination therapy
Bevacizumab and erlotinib combination therapy, also called erlotinib and bevacizumab, is a two-drug regimen for advanced EGFR-mutated non-squamous lung cancer that prolongs progression-free survival but not overall survival.
Bevacizumab and temozolomide regimen
The bevacizumab and temozolomide regimen is a combination drug treatment pairing bevacizumab, an anti-VEGF antibody, with temozolomide, an oral alkylating chemotherapy, used mainly in glioblastoma.
Bevacizumab gamma
Bevacizumab gamma (bevacizumab-vikg, Lytenava, ONS-5010) is an ophthalmic formulation of the anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody bevacizumab, approved in the EU, UK, and US for intravitreal treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration.
Bevacizumab monotherapy
Bevacizumab monotherapy is the use of the monoclonal antibody bevacizumab alone, without chemotherapy, to block tumor blood vessel growth; its only approved single-agent use is recurrent glioblastoma in adults.
Bevacizumab/carboplatin regimen
The bevacizumab/carboplatin regimen is a combination chemotherapy regimen pairing the antibody bevacizumab with carboplatin, used mainly as first-line treatment of advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
Bevacizumab/cetuximab regimen
The bevacizumab/cetuximab regimen is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies studied for metastatic colorectal cancer; trials showed worse survival and more toxicity, so it was never approved.
Bevacizumab/irinotecan regimen
The bevacizumab/irinotecan regimen combines bevacizumab, an antibody that starves tumors of blood supply, with irinotecan, a topoisomerase inhibitor, given intravenously every two weeks, mainly for recurrent glioblastoma.
Bevacizumab/paclitaxel regimen
The bevacizumab/paclitaxel regimen combines the anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody bevacizumab with the taxane chemotherapy paclitaxel, used to treat recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer and ovarian cancer, first approved in 2014.
Bevalac
The Bevalac was a heavy-ion accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, formed by coupling the SuperHILAC linac to the Bevatron and operated from 1974 to 1993.
Bevan George
Bevan George (Bevan Christopher George, born 1977, Narrogin, Western Australia) is an Australian field hockey fullback; Kookaburras 1999-2008, 208 caps, Olympic gold Athens 2004, bronze and captaincy Beijing 2008, OAM 2005.