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BOOST trial (NCT07094711)
BOOST (NCT07094711) is a University of Virginia phase 2 randomized trial testing a single intradermal TICE BCG dose versus saline placebo in 48 adults with Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease, assessing safety, IFN-gamma immunogenicity, and sputum cultures.
BOOST-AMI trial
BOOST-AMI (NCT06746233) is a recruiting randomized, multicenter, open-label trial comparing paclitaxel drug-coated balloon alone versus drug-eluting stent in STEMI primary PCI; 598 patients, started December 2024, completion expected December 2028.
Boostback, reentry and landing operations
Boostback, reentry and landing operations are the maneuvers a launch vehicle's first stage performs after staging to shed 1.5 to 2 km/s and touch down intact, using boostback, entry, and landing burns.
Boosted fission weapon
A boosted fission weapon is a nuclear weapon in which deuterium and tritium gas in the fission core releases neutrons that raise yield and efficiency.
Booster compressor
A booster compressor is a secondary compression machine that raises the pressure of air or gas already compressed by a primary system, serving applications like pressure testing and hydrogen refueling.
Booster Gold
Booster Gold (Michael Jon Carter), DC Comics time-traveling superhero created by Dan Jurgens, debuting 1986: a disgraced 25th-century football star who uses stolen future tech and robot Skeets to pose as a hero, famed for his Blue Beetle friendship and planned DCU TV series.
Booster Robotics
加速进化, also known as Booster Robotics, is a Beijing startup founded in 2023 by Cheng Hao that develops small bipedal humanoid robots for education, research, and robot competitions.
Booster transformer
A booster transformer, also called a buck-and-boost transformer, is a transformer whose secondary is connected in series with a power line to boost or buck the voltage.
Boosteroid
Boosteroid is a cloud gaming service, established in 2016 and launched in 2019, headquartered in Austin, Texas, that streams PC games from remote GPU servers to any device.
Boosting (machine learning)
Boosting is a machine learning ensemble method that combines weak learners sequentially, each focusing on hard examples; AdaBoost, gradient boosting, and XGBoost made it dominant for tabular data.
Boot
A boot is a type of footwear covering the foot and part of the leg above the ankle, used for work, military service, riding, and, in the last century, fashion.
Boot (torture)
The boot (boots, bootikin) was a leg-crushing judicial torture device, especially in early modern Scotland, where wedges hammered into a leg sheath broke bones to extract confessions; outlawed in 1707.
Boot Barn
Boot Barn is the largest US specialty retailer of western and work-related footwear and apparel, founded in 1978 and operating 539 stores in 49 states as of March 2026.
Boot Camp (software)
Boot Camp is Apple's dual-boot utility for Intel-based Macs, introduced in 2006, which installs Windows on a partition and lets users switch between macOS and Windows at restart.
Boot Hill
Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the name of many Old West cemeteries for those who died violently 'with their boots on'; the first was at Hays, Kansas, with Dodge City's the most famous.
Boot worship
Boot worship (靴崇拜) is a consensual BDSM practice of ritualized reverence for boots, typically a dominant partner's, through kissing, licking, polishing or bootblacking, rooted in gay leather culture and distinct from footwear fetish or trampling.
Bootblacking (BDSM)
Bootblacking, in leather and BDSM communities, is the ritual care, cleaning, and polishing of boots and leather gear, often as service submission; known for bar stands since the 1970s and contests like International Mr./Ms. Bootblack (split 1998) and International Community Bootblack (2003).
Boötes (Βοώτης)
Boötes (Βοώτης), the ox-driver, also called Arctophylax, is a large northern constellation dominated by Arcturus, best known for the Boötes void, one of the universe's largest empty regions.
Boötes Dwarf Galaxy
The Boötes Dwarf Galaxy, also called Boötes I, is an ultra-faint dwarf satellite of the Milky Way in the constellation Boötes, announced in 2006 by Vasily Belokurov and collaborators.
Boötes Void
The Boötes Void is a vast, nearly empty region of space in the constellation Boötes, about 330 million light-years across, discovered by a 1981 redshift survey.
Booth
Booth, also known as booth.pm, is a Japanese online marketplace run by Pixiv Inc., launched in December 2013, where anyone can sell physical and digital creative works.
Booth Island
Booth Island (Booth-Insel, Île Wandel) is a Y-shaped Antarctic island, 5 nmi long and 980 m high, in the Wilhelm Archipelago, separated from Graham Coast by Lemaire Channel; discovered by Dallmann 1874, wintered by Charcot in 1904.
Booth's multiplication algorithm
Booth's multiplication algorithm, also known as Booth's algorithm, is a signed binary multiplication technique published by Andrew D. Booth in 1951 that handles two's complement numbers of either sign without separate correction.
Boothby Roman fort (United Kingdom)
Boothby Roman fort, or Castle Hill Boothby, is a late first to second century AD Roman fortlet on the Stanegate near Brampton, Cumberland, England; scheduled monument 1014585, excavated by Simpson in 1933.
Boothroyd Dewhurst
Boothroyd Dewhurst is a software company founded in 1983 by manufacturing engineers Geoffrey Boothroyd and Peter Dewhurst, selling DFMA software for product simplification and cost analysis.
Boothroyd–Dewhurst method
The Boothroyd–Dewhurst method is a quantitative design-for-assembly methodology developed in the 1980s by Geoffrey Boothroyd and Peter Dewhurst, applying minimum-part criteria and estimating handling and insertion times from standardized tables.
Booting
Booting, also called the boot process or bootup, is the process of starting a computer, which loads the operating system into main memory and configures devices.
Bootle
Bootle is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, recorded as Boltelai in Domesday Book and incorporated as Bootle-cum-Linacre in 1868. Known for its docks, the Strand shopping centre regeneration, and Salt and Tar events venue.
Bootleg (music)
A bootleg in music is an unofficial remix, edit, or mashup released without permission, a tolerated gray-area practice in DJ and electronic dance music culture.
Bootleg (The Garden album)
Bootleg is a 2026 studio album by the California experimental punk duo The Garden, twin brothers Wyatt and Fletcher Shears, released digitally in July and on vinyl and CD by Epitaph Records.