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Baetis Chasma
Baetis Chasma is a 93-km-diameter chasma on Mars in the Valles Marineris system near Ophir and Candor Chasmata, IAU-named in 1985 (formerly Iamunae Chasma), associated with Baetis Mensa.
Baetis Labēs
Baetis Labēs is an 88.00-km-wide labēs (landslide-type) feature on Mars at 3.67°S, 288.54°E, IAU-approved February 2, 2017 from the classical albedo feature Baetis, one of seven Martian labēs.
Baetis Mensa
Baetis Mensa is a 181 km mesa, an interior layered deposit in Candor Chasma, Valles Marineris, Mars; IAU-named 1985 from a classical albedo feature, likely a remnant of proto-Candor Mensa with sulfate-bearing layers.
Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase-like
Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase-like (InterPro IPR050775) is a family of FAD- and NADPH-dependent flavoprotein monooxygenases, including CHMO and PAMO, that insert an oxygen atom into ketone C-C bonds to form esters or lactones using O2.
Bafétimbi Gomis
Bafétimbi Gomis, French centre-forward born 1985 in La Seyne-sur-Mer; played Saint-Étienne, Lyon, Swansea, Marseille, Galatasaray, Al-Hilal, Kawasaki Frontale; 12 France caps; retired 10 November 2024 at 39.
Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay, also called Baffin's Bay, is an Arctic marginal sea between Greenland and Baffin Island, about 1,130 km long and over 2,740 m deep, linking the Arctic Ocean to Davis Strait; ice-covered most of the year with rapid sea-ice decline.
Baffin Island
Baffin Island (Qikiqtaaluk), Nunavut, Canada: largest Canadian and fifth-largest world island, 507,451 km², home to Iqaluit, the Barnes and Penny ice caps, Auyuittuq National Park, and the Mary River iron mine.
Bafilomycin
Bafilomycin (bafilomycin A1, BafA1) is a plecomacrolide macrolide antibiotic from Streptomyces griseus, the first specific V-ATPase inhibitor, binding the Vo c-ring at nanomolar potency and widely used to block lysosomal acidification and autophagic flux.
Bafilomycin A1
Bafilomycin A1 is a toxic 16-membered macrolide antibiotic from Streptomyces griseus that blocks V-ATPase proton pumps, and is a standard laboratory tool for measuring autophagic flux.
Bafing
Bafing River, main headwater tributary of the Senegal River, rises in the Fouta Djallon, Guinea, and joins the Bakoye at Bafoulabé, Mali; it supplies about half the Senegal's flow and carries the Manantali Dam.
Bafing-Falémé
Bafing-Falémé: Ramsar site no. 1719 in Guinea's Labé region, designated 16 October 2007, 517,300 ha of gallery forest and savannah on the upper Bafing/Falémé rivers, home to West Africa's largest chimpanzee population and a GEF conservation landscape.
Bafing-Source
Bafing-Source (Ramsar site no. 1720) is a 317,200-hectare Ramsar wetland in Guinea's Mamou region, designated 16 October 2007, protecting the Fouta Djallon highland source area of the Bafing River, the Senegal River's major tributary.
Bafoussam
Bafoussam, capital of Cameroon's West Region and Mifi department, founded 1925 by French colonial administration; Bamiléké highland trade hub of about 373,000 people, a Communauté urbaine since 2008 with three arrondissements, mayor Roger Tafam.
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Leading Actor: annual British Academy Film Award for the best leading male film performance, one of four acting categories, six nominees since 2021, decided by Acting Chapter nominations and all-member vote; 2026 winner Robert Aramayo for I Swear.
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Film Leading Actress award: the British Academy's prize for the year's best leading actress performance, decided by chapter longlisting, chapter nominations, and an all-member final vote; Jessie Buckley won in 2026 for Hamnet.
BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design
The BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design is an annual film award given by BAFTA to costume designers for films released in the United Kingdom.
BAFTA Award for Best Film
BAFTA Award for Best Film, the top EE BAFTA Film Awards prize voted by all BAFTA film members in three rounds (10 longlist, 5 nominees, winner); requires 50+ UK screenings over 7 days or 350 screenings; recent winners include One Battle After Another (2026), Conclave (2025), Oppenheimer (2024).
Bafu (hegemon government) of the Sima clan
The bafu of the Sima clan was the office through which the Sima family ruled Cao Wei in the third century, holding real power while the Wei emperor remained in place.
Bafut
Bafut is a fondom (kingdom) of the Bafut people in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, about 22 km from Bamenda, known for resisting German rule and its palace.
Bag
A bag is a flexible container made of cloth, leather, paper, or plastic, used to carry or store items and distinguished from a basket by its pliable walls.
Bag Mitali
Bag Mitali, born 1976, is an Indian politician from West Bengal who was elected in 2024 as a Trinamool Congress member of the Lok Sabha from Arambag.
Bag of bonds
Bag of bonds (BoB) is a molecular featurization method for machine learning, introduced by Katja Hansen and colleagues in 2015 as a permutation-invariant variant of the Coulomb matrix.
Bag of Bones
Bag of Bones is Stephen King's 1998 Scribner ghost novel about widowed novelist Mike Noonan, his Maine lakeside house Sara Laughs, a custody battle, and the title's origin in Thomas Hardy.
Bag valve mask
Bag valve mask (BVM), or Ambu bag, manual resuscitator: hand-held self-inflating bag, one-way valve, and mask for positive pressure ventilation; invented 1953 by Hesse and Ruben, marketed 1956, standard in CPR and respiratory emergencies.
Bag-of-words model
The bag-of-words model represents text by the number of occurrences of each term, discarding word order and syntax; it underlies text classification and information retrieval.
BAG1
BAG1 (BAG cochaperone 1, BAG-1, RAP46, HAP) is a human chromosome 9 gene encoding a multifunctional Hsp70/Hsc70 nucleotide exchange factor and Bcl-2-binding co-chaperone with four isoforms, studied as a cancer biomarker.
BAG3
BAG3 (BAG cochaperone 3, Bcl-2-associated athanogene 3) is a human 575-aa HSP70 co-chaperone and nucleotide-exchange factor scaffolding CASA autophagy; mutations cause myofibrillar myopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy.
BAG3-related myofibrillar myopathy
BAG3-related myofibrillar myopathy (MFM6, Bag3opathy), a rare autosomal dominant muscle disease from BAG3 mutations, usually de novo p.Pro209Leu, causing childhood-onset weakness, rigid spine, cardiomyopathy, respiratory failure, and neuropathy.
Baga (king of Mauretania)
Baga was a king of the Mauri in northwest Africa around 206 BC, known from a single passage of Livy for helping Massinissa return from Spain.
Bagagem
Bagagem is the 1976 debut poetry collection of Brazilian writer Adélia Prado, endorsed by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and counted among the finest first books in Brazilian poetry.