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Borderline pattern

Borderline pattern (ICD-11 code 6D11.5) is an optional specifier for personality disorder diagnoses, requiring at least 5 of 9 DSM-5-derived borderline features; added as a compromise to preserve continuity of care and access to psychotherapy.

Borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD), also called emotionally unstable personality disorder, is a mental illness of unstable relationships, self-image, emotions, and impulsivity; treated mainly with psychotherapy such as DBT.

Borders of India

Borders of India: 15,106.7 km of land boundary with seven neighbors (Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Afghanistan) plus a 7,516.6 km coastline, including the disputed LoC and LAC lines.

Borders of Israel

Borders of Israel: the country's boundaries with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian territories. Key lines are the 1949 Green Line armistice lines, treaty borders with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994), the UN Blue Line with Lebanon, and the 1974 Syria ceasefire line.

Borders of Russia

Borders of Russia: the 60,932 km state boundary of the Russian Federation, bordering 18 states including Norway, Finland, Ukraine, China, and maritime Japan and the US, with delimitation, demarcation, and disputed Ukraine sections.

Borders of the oceans

Borders of the oceans: conventional IHO limits (S-23, 1953; S-130 digital) versus physical fronts. Atlantic–Indian at Cape Agulhas 20°E, Indian–Pacific via Tasmania 146°55'E, Southern Ocean recognized 2023 at 60°S.

Bordertown (Finnish TV series)

Bordertown (Sorjonen) is a Finnish Nordic noir crime drama created by Miikko Oikkonen, aired on Yle TV1 2016–2020 in three seasons, 31 episodes, set in Lappeenranta near the Russian border, starring Ville Virtanen as detective Kari Sorjonen, sold to 180 countries.

Bordesholm

Bordesholm, a municipality in Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, north of Neumünster; about 7,855 residents (2024). Former Augustinian monastery island in the Bordesholmer See; home of Hans Brüggemann's 1521 Bordesholm Altar, now in Schleswig Cathedral.

Bordetella

Bordetella, genus of Gram-negative aerobic coccobacilli named for Jules Bordet; includes B. pertussis, cause of whooping cough, isolated 1906, with bvgAS-regulated virulence factors and pertussis vaccines.

Bordetella bronchiseptica

Bordetella bronchiseptica (Ferry 1912) Moreno-Lopez 1952, a motile Gram-negative coccobacillus of Alcaligenaceae, causes kennel cough in dogs and atrophic rhinitis in swine, occasionally infects humans, and is the evolutionary progenitor of B. pertussis.

Bordetella pertussis

Bordetella pertussis, the whooping cough bacillus isolated by Bordet and Gengou in 1906, is a strictly human Gram-negative coccobacillus causing pertussis; PT toxin, wP/aP vaccines, waning immunity, and macrolide resistance define it.

Bordj Bou Arreridj

Bordj Bou Arreridj (برج بوعريريج) is a city and wilaya capital on Algeria's eastern high plateaus, named for an Ottoman fort, besieged in the 1871 Mokrani revolt, and now known as Algeria's electronics capital with Condor.

Bordj-Hellal

Bordj-Hellal (Bordj Hallal, Henchir Bordj Hellal; modern Sidi Slama) is an archaeological ruin in Jendouba Governorate, Tunisia, possibly Roman Thunusuda, with a pre-Roman phase, a Justinianic Byzantine pentagonal fortress of fifteen towers, and medieval occupation evidence.

Sep 19, 2026

Bordrin Motor

Bordrin Motor (博郡汽车) was a Chinese electric-vehicle startup founded in Nanjing in 2016 by engineer Huang Ximing; it developed the iV6 and iV7 SUVs but produced none.

Oct 10, 2026

Bore

Bore (般若, Sanskrit Prajñā) was a Central Asian Buddhist monk active in Tang-dynasty Chang'an, granted the title Tripiṭaka Bānrě in 790 and remembered as the last great Buddhist translator of the Tang period.

Bore sighting

Bore sighting is the process of aligning a firearm's sighting system with the axis of its barrel without firing; live-fire zeroing is still required afterward.

Boreal forest of Canada

Boreal forest of Canada: the conifer-dominated forest belt across Canada's 5.5 million km² boreal zone, 29.2% of world boreal area; fire-adapted spruce-pine forests, vast peatland carbon stores, record 2023 wildfires, and mostly public, largely intact land.

Boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation

The boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation (BSISO) is a 30 to 90 day oscillation of tropical convection that governs the Asian summer monsoon's active and break cycles.

Boreales Scopuli

Boreales Scopuli: IAU-named (2006) ring of spiral troughs, 873 km across, encircling Mars's north pole in Planum Boreum, exposing North Polar Layered Deposits; distinct from southern Ultimi and Australe Scopuli.

Borealin, C-terminal

Borealin C-terminal, also called the Borealin dimerization domain (CDCA8 residues ~224–280), the homodimerization region of the CPC subunit Borealin; carries Mps1-phosphorylated T230, binds Sgo1 and HP1α, and modulates Aurora B activity.

Borealis

Borealis, Latin for northern, names an extinct Early Silurian pentamerid brachiopod genus (type species Gypidia borealis) and appears in many other taxa, including the sei whale Balaenoptera borealis and the dinosaur Albertonykus borealis.

Borealis (company)

Borealis AG was an Austrian-headquartered chemicals company producing polyolefins and base chemicals, formed in 1994 by Norway's Statoil and Finland's Neste and headquartered in Vienna since 2006.

Borealis Biosciences

Borealis Biosciences is a Vancouver, Canada-based biotechnology company developing xRNA medicines for kidney diseases, launched by Versant Ventures and Novartis in August 2024 with $150 million in funding.

Borealis Oil Field

Borealis is an onshore conventional oil field on the western edge of the Prudhoe Bay Unit on Alaska's North Slope, discovered in 1969 and producing since 2001.

Borealis Planitia

Borealis Planitia is a vast volcanic smooth plain in Mercury's northern polar region, covering about 9% of the planet and formed around 3.7 billion years ago.

BOREAS (field campaign)

BOREAS, the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study, was a large NASA-sponsored international field experiment in the boreal forests of central Canada, with main field campaigns in 1994 and 1996.

Boreas Undae

Boreas Undae is an IAU-approved dune field (unda) on Titan at −6.00°, 215.00° W, 260 km across, named for the Greek north-wind god and adopted December 5, 2011.

Bored Ape

A Bored Ape is one of 10,000 unique NFTs in the Bored Ape Yacht Club, an Ethereum collection of cartoon ape avatars launched by Yuga Labs in April 2021.

Bored pile

A bored pile, also known in North America as a drilled shaft or drilled pier, is a deep foundation made by drilling a hole and filling it with cast-in-place reinforced concrete.