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Bilevel rail car
A bilevel rail car, called a double-decker coach in Canada, is a passenger rail car with two seating levels, carrying about 21% more passengers per car.
Bilfinger
Bilfinger SE is a German industrial services provider headquartered in Mannheim, delivering engineering, maintenance, and technology services for process-industry plants such as chemical, energy, and pharmaceutical facilities.
Bilge Karasu
Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) was a Turkish writer known for experimental, densely symbolic fiction treating loneliness, fear, and death; his novel Gece (Night) won the Pegasus Literature Award.
Bilge keel
A bilge keel is a long, narrow fin fitted at the turn of a ship's hull to reduce rolling, first fitted on the steamer Parisian in 1880.
Bilge Qaghan
Bilge Qaghan (毗伽可汗) is a name borne by two rulers: an Eastern Turk khagan enthroned in 716, and a Uyghur qaghan invested by the Tang.
Bilge Yildiz
Bilge Yildiz is a Turkish-born MIT professor of nuclear science and materials science who studies solid-state ionic materials for fuel cells, batteries, and brain-inspired computing.
Bilhah (בִּלְהָה)
Bilhah (בִּלְהָה) is, in the Book of Genesis, the handmaid Rachel gave to Jacob as a surrogate wife; she bore his sons Dan and Naphtali.
Bilhana
Bilhana (बिल्हण) was an 11th-century Sanskrit poet from Kashmir who served as court poet of the Chalukya king Vikramaditya VI of Kalyani and wrote the epic Vikramankadevacharita.
Bilhari Mound
Bilhari Mound (Pushpavati Nagri) is an archaeological site in Katni district, Madhya Pradesh, with 85 temples, 13 stepwells, Kalachuri inscriptions of Yuvaraja II, and ASI-protected Vishnu Varaha and Kamakandla monuments.
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Білгород-Дністровський), also historically Akkerman and Cetatea Albă, is a Ukrainian city in Odesa Oblast on the Dniester Liman, built on ancient Greek Tyras and known for the 9-hectare Akkerman Fortress on UNESCO's tentative list.
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi fortress
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi fortress, also called Akkerman fortress or Cetatea Alba, is Ukraine's largest medieval fortress, over 9 ha with 2.5 km of walls, built 14th-15th c., Ottoman from 1484 to 1812.
Bili ape
Bili ape, or Bondo ape, a popular name for eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of the Bili-Uéré region, northern DR Congo; once rumored to be a giant gorilla-like ape, field surveys identified a large continuous chimpanzee population with distinctive tool use and ground nesting.
Biliansheng (碧莲盛)
Biliansheng (碧莲盛) is a Chinese hair-transplant and hair-health clinic chain founded in Beijing in 2005 by You Lina, counted among China's three largest hair-transplant brands.
Biliary atresia
Biliary atresia is a neonatal disease in which intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts are scarred and blocked, causing cholestasis and cirrhosis; treated by Kasai portoenterostomy, ideally before 30–90 days of life, often followed by liver transplant.
Biliary atresia with splenic malformation syndrome
Biliary atresia with splenic malformation syndrome (BASM), also called biliary atresia splenic malformation, is a syndromic form of biliary atresia with polysplenia, asplenia, situs inversus, preduodenal portal vein, and cardiac defects, affecting about 10–15% of European and American BA infants.
Biliary colic
Biliary colic: pain from the gallbladder or bile duct contracting around a gallstone; epigastric, steady pain lasting 2 to 4 hours; treated with laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Biliary drainage
Biliary drainage is a procedure that relieves bile duct obstruction by rerouting bile with endoscopic stents or percutaneous catheters, used for jaundice, cholangitis, and malignant blockage.
Biliary reconstruction
Biliary reconstruction is a surgical procedure that restores bile flow by rejoining the bile ducts to the intestine or each other after injury, resection, or transplantation.
Biliary stenting
Biliary stenting is a gastroenterology and surgery procedure that places a tube across a blocked or leaking bile duct so bile can drain again, relieving jaundice, cholangitis, and pruritus.
Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures
Biliary tract surgical procedures (MeSH D001662) are operations on the bile ducts and gallbladder, chiefly cholecystectomy, bile duct exploration, and bilioenteric reconstruction, now mostly laparoscopic.
Bilibili (哔哩哔哩)
Bilibili (哔哩哔哩) is a Chinese video-sharing and entertainment platform launched in 2009, grown from an anime, comics, and games community and known for its danmu bullet comments, with over 368 million monthly users.
Biligtü Khan
Biligtü Khan (爱猷识理达腊), son of the Yuan emperor Yuanshundi, escaped the fall of Yingchang with a few dozen horsemen and held out at Helin until his death in 1378.
Biliku Dorsa
Biliku Dorsa is a 600-km-wide ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 47°S, 138°E, named for the Andaman Islands monsoon deity and adopted by the IAU in 1997; it lies in quadrangle V-48 among 103 cataloged Venusian dorsa.
Bilinda Butcher
Bilinda Jayne Butcher (born 1961, England) is the English vocalist and guitarist of shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine, joined April 1987; co-creator of Isn't Anything, Loveless, and m b v.
Bilinear form
A bilinear form is a function on a vector space that is linear in each argument separately, generalizing the dot product and underlying quadratic forms.
Bilinear interpolation
Bilinear interpolation, also known as bilinear filtering, is a resampling method that estimates a value inside a rectangular grid cell from its four corner values, using two linear interpolations.
Bilinear model
The bilinear model is a nonlinear time series model that extends ARMA by adding cross terms between past observations and past innovations, so shocks depend on the series' state.
Biling Bio (弼领生物)
Biling Bio (弼领生物), or Shanghai Biling Biotechnology, is a Chinese biopharmaceutical startup founded in May 2021 in Shanghai that develops nano drug conjugates for oncology.
Bilingual (album)
Bilingual is the sixth studio album by Pet Shop Boys, released 2 September 1996 on Parlophone. A Latin-influenced synthpop record framed as a reaction against Britpop, it peaked at UK No. 4 and US No. 39.
Bilingual education
Bilingual education, also called dual-language or mother tongue-based instruction, teaches academic content through two languages. Covers program models (TBE, two-way immersion, ESL), U.S. policy history from the 1968 Bilingual Education Act to Proposition 227, global UNESCO policy, and meta-analytic effectiveness evidence.