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Blind analysis
Blind analysis is a measurement performed so experimenters cannot see the result until the analysis procedure is fully specified and frozen, preventing experimenter bias; it became widely used in nuclear and particle physics.
Blind Beast (盲獣)
Blind Beast (盲獣, Moju) is a 1969 Daiei film directed by Masumura Yasuzo, adapted from Edogawa Ranpo, starring Eiji Funakoshi and Mako Midori; a blind sculptor imprisons a model in a warehouse of giant female body-part sculptures.
Blind carbon copy
Blind carbon copy, abbreviated Bcc, is an email header field listing recipients whose addresses are not revealed to other recipients; it has been standard since the 1970s.
Blind Channel
Blind Channel is a Finnish band from Oulu whose "violent pop" mix of metal, pop, and rap placed sixth at Eurovision 2021 with "Dark Side".
Blind channel estimation
Blind channel estimation is the estimation of a communication channel's response using only the statistical properties of the received signal, without known pilot or training symbols, trading slower convergence for full bandwidth efficiency.
Blind Date (1959 film)
Blind Date (1959 film), released as Chance Meeting, is a British black-and-white crime thriller directed by Joseph Losey. Hardy Krüger plays a painter accused of killing a diplomat's mistress.
Blind Date (1987 film)
Blind Date, also known as Blake Edwards' Blind Date, is a 1987 American romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards, starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger, and released by Tri-Star Pictures in March 1987.
Blind deconvolution
Blind deconvolution is a signal and image processing method that recovers both an unknown sharp image and the unknown blur that degraded it, using only the observed blurred data.
Blind detection
Blind detection is a signal processing method that estimates transmitted symbols or channel parameters directly from received data, without training sequences, saving the channel capacity that pilots consume.
Blind Detective (盲探)
Blind Detective (盲探) is a 2013 Hong Kong crime comedy film directed by Johnnie To, starring Andy Lau as a blind former detective and Sammi Cheng.
Blind equalization
Blind equalization is the recovery of a transmitted data signal from a distorted received signal without a known training sequence, relying instead on the signal's statistical properties; its principal algorithm is the Constant Modulus Algorithm.
Blind experiment
A blind experiment is a clinical research design that withholds treatment assignment from participants, care providers, or outcome assessors so expectations cannot bias results, as in double-blind drug trials.
Blind Faith
Blind Faith, the 1969 English blues-rock supergroup of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech from Cream and Traffic; one album, a 100,000-person Hyde Park debut, a seven-week US tour, then breakup.
Blind Faith (Blind Faith album)
Blind Faith (1969), the sole album by the supergroup Blind Faith of Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech; six tracks, produced by Jimmy Miller, topped US and UK album charts.
Blind Fury
Blind Fury (1989) is a Phillip Noyce action comedy starring Rutger Hauer as blind Vietnam veteran swordsman Nick Parker, an American remake of Zatoichi Challenged (1967), released in US theaters March 16, 1990, grossing $2,692,037.
Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian, formerly Lucifer's Heritage, is a German power metal band formed in 1984 in Krefeld, led by Hansi Kürsch and André Olbrich, known for Tolkien-based concept albums such as Nightfall in Middle-Earth and The God Machine (2022).
Blind interference alignment
Blind interference alignment (BIA) is a wireless interference management technique introduced by Syed A. Jafar in 2012 that aligns interference using channel coherence patterns alone, removing the need for costly channel knowledge at transmitters.
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson (Lemon Jefferson, c. 1893-1929) was a blind Texas country blues singer-guitarist from Couchman, the first commercially successful self-accompanied male blues recording artist, best known for "Matchbox Blues" and "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean."
Blind Melon
Blind Melon: American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1990, also called Blind Melon (self-titled debut). Multi-platinum 1992 debut, 1993 hit "No Rain", singer Shannon Hoon's 1995 death, 2008 reunion with Travis Warren.
Blind men and an elephant
Blind men and an elephant: an Indian parable (Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 1317) in which blind men each touch one part of an elephant and mistake it for the whole; found in Buddhist Udāna 6.4, Jain anekāntavāda texts, Sanai, Rumi, and Saxe's poem.
Blind Mountain
Blind Mountain (盲山, aka 回家路) is Li Yang's 2007 Chinese drama about college graduate Bai Xuemei, sold as a wife to a remote village; it played Cannes Un Certain Regard and has domestic and original endings.
Blind multiuser detection
Blind multiuser detection is a set of CDMA receiver techniques that suppress multiple-access interference without training sequences or knowledge of interferers, introduced by Honig, Madhow, and Verdú in 1995.
Blind phase search
Blind phase search (BPS) is a blind, feedforward carrier phase estimation algorithm for coherent optical communication receivers, introduced in 2009 to recover phase noise in high-order QAM signals.
Blind quantum computing
Blind quantum computing is a family of protocols letting a client run a quantum computation on a remote, untrusted server while hiding the input, algorithm, and output.
Blind River refinery
The Blind River refinery is a Cameco-owned uranium refinery in Blind River, Ontario, opened in 1983, that refines uranium ore concentrates from mines worldwide into purified uranium trioxide.
Blind River, Ontario
Blind River, Ontario: a town in Algoma District on the North Channel of Lake Huron, halfway between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie. Former logging town, incorporated 1906, home to Cameco's uranium refinery.
Blind Shaft (盲井)
Blind Shaft (盲井) is Li Yang's 2003 Chinese-German crime drama adapted from Liu Qingbang's novella Shen Mu, about miners who murder coworkers for compensation. It won the 2003 Berlin Silver Bear and is banned in China.
Blind signature
A blind signature is a digital signature scheme, introduced by David Chaum in 1982, that lets a user obtain a signature on a message the signer never sees.
Blind source separation
Blind source separation (BSS) is a family of signal processing methods that recover unknown source signals from observed mixtures, as in the cocktail party problem.
Blind spectrum sensing
Blind spectrum sensing is a family of cognitive radio detection methods that decide whether a licensed primary user is transmitting without knowing the signal or noise power.