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Bitty Schram
Bitty Schram (born 1968), American actress best known as Sharona Fleming on Monk (2002–2009) and Evelyn Gardner in A League of Their Own (1992); left Monk in a 2004 contract dispute, returned for one 2009 episode.
Bitumen
Bitumen, or asphaltic bitumen, is a highly viscous hydrocarbon mixture found chiefly in Alberta's oil sands, also the refinery binder, mostly used in road paving, that holds asphalt pavement together.
Bitumen emulsion
A bitumen emulsion is an oil-in-water mixture dispersing bitumen droplets in water with an emulsifier, letting road binders be sprayed and mixed at ambient temperature in treatments like chip seals and cold recycling.
Bituminous coal
Bituminous coal is a middle rank of coal between subbituminous coal and anthracite, and the most abundant rank in the United States, used chiefly for electricity and coke.
Bitung
Bitung (Kota Bitung), North Sulawesi, Indonesia: coastal port city, home of PPS Bitung oceanic fishing port and a 534-ha Special Economic Zone; major tuna landing, canning, and export center nicknamed Kota Cakalang.
Bitvavo
Bitvavo is a cryptocurrency exchange based in Amsterdam, founded in 2018, with over 2 million users across Europe and a leading share of euro spot trading.
Bitwarden
Bitwarden is an open-source password manager founded by Kyle Spearrin in 2016 that stores passwords and passkeys in a zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted vault, with free and paid plans.
Bitwise Asset Management
Bitwise Asset Management is a San Francisco-based crypto-specialist asset manager offering crypto index funds, ETFs, and staking, known for its Bitwise 10 index fund and spot Bitcoin ETF.
Bitwise operation
A bitwise operation, also known as a bit operation, acts on the individual bits of binary numerals rather than on the numbers those bits represent, using operators like AND, OR, XOR, and shifts.
Bitwise operations in C
Bitwise operations in C manipulate individual bits of integer values with operators such as AND, OR, XOR, complement, and shifts, letting C work close to the hardware.
Bitwoded
The Bitwoded (ቢትወደድ), meaning "beloved" of the king, was a senior dignity of the Solomonic Ethiopian court held by the emperor's principal advisor, attested from the mid-fifteenth century.
Bitzailu
Bitzailu (比特智路) is a Beijing startup founded in June 2023 by Guo Chuanxiong and Layong Luo that develops RDMA network chips and infrastructure for large AI computing clusters.
Bitzer
Bitzer is a German manufacturer of compressors and electronic controls for refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pumps, founded by Martin Bitzer in Sindelfingen in 1934.
Biurakn Hakhverdian
Biurakn Hakhverdian (Բյուրակն Հախվերդյան), born 1985 in Leiden, is a Dutch water polo defender of Iranian Armenian descent who won gold with the Netherlands at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and bronze at the 2010 European Championships.
Biuret test
Biuret test, also called Piotrowski's test, detects peptide bonds: CuSO4 in alkaline solution with tartrate gives a violet complex absorbing at 540–560 nm, and is the standard clinical serum total protein assay.
Biutiful
Biutiful (2010) is a Mexico-Spain drama by Alejandro González Iñárritu, starring Javier Bardem as Uxbal, a dying Barcelona criminal middleman; Cannes Best Actor winner and double Oscar nominee.
BIVA-Bolsa Institucional de Valores
BIVA-Bolsa Institucional de Valores is Mexico's second stock exchange, a private variable-capital company whose trading began on 25 July 2018, ending the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores' four-decade monopoly.
Bivalent (genetics)
Bivalent (genetics): also called a tetrad, the four-chromatid unit of paired homologous chromosomes formed in prophase I of meiosis, held by the synaptonemal complex, requiring at least one crossover for proper segregation.
Bivalent type 1 & 3 Oral Poliomyelitis vaccine, IP
Bivalent type 1&3 Oral Poliomyelitis vaccine, IP (bOPV1&3), Haffkine's WHO-prequalified live oral polio vaccine with Sabin types 1 and 3 from Bio Farma bulks, prequalified 19 March 2010 for routine immunization and campaigns in children 0–5 years.
Bivalirudin
Bivalirudin is a synthetic peptide drug that directly inhibits thrombin; approved in the United States in 2000 as Angiomax, it is used as an anticoagulant during coronary intervention.
Bivalve anatomy
Bivalve anatomy is the body plan of two-shelled molluscs: a laterally flattened body between hinged valves, a water-filled mantle cavity, and ciliated gills that pump and filter food.
Bivalve aquaculture health and sustainability management
Bivalve aquaculture health and sustainability management is the set of practices and monitoring programs controlling disease, algal biotoxins, and water-quality risks in farmed oysters, mussels, clams, and scallops.
Bivalve fossil record
The bivalve fossil record is the documented history of clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops from their first appearance roughly 520 million years ago in the Cambrian to the present.
Bivalve shell
A bivalve shell is the external skeleton of a mollusk in the class Bivalvia, made of two calcified valves joined by a hinge ligament, as in clams, mussels, oysters, and scallops.
Bivalves of Asia
Bivalves of Asia surveys the continent's exceptionally rich clam, oyster, and mussel faunas, including East Asia's world-leading 375 freshwater mussel species and China's vast shellfish farming.
Bivalves of Australia
The bivalves of Australia are the clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops recorded from Australian marine and fresh waters, with more than 2,000 coastal species and endemism reaching 90% in the temperate south.
Bivalves of Europe
Bivalves of Europe are the clams, mussels, oysters, and related two-shelled molluscs living in Europe's seas, estuaries, and freshwaters, with 93 native freshwater species and heavy conservation pressure.
Bivalves of Hawaii
Bivalves of Hawaii: about 150 Indo-Pacific-derived clam, oyster, and mussel species, 37% endemic, documented by Dall, Bartsch & Rehder (1938) and Kay (1979), now used in native-oyster water-quality restoration in Pearl Harbor.
Bivalves of New Zealand
Bivalves of New Zealand: 765 described bivalve species in the NZ EEZ, including Greenshell mussels, Pacific oysters, pipi, cockles, and scallops, supporting major aquaculture, fisheries, and estuarine ecosystems.
Bivalves of North America
Bivalves of North America is a regional survey of the continent's clams, mussels, and oysters, spanning about 300 freshwater mussel species and hundreds more marine ones.