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Balance Point Capital Partners
Balance Point Capital Partners is a Westport, Connecticut firm managing private credit and equity funds for US lower-middle-market companies, with about $2 billion in assets.
Balance shaft
A balance shaft, also known as a silent shaft, is a rotating shaft with counterweights that cancels vibrations in engines, most commonly inline four- and three-cylinder engines.
Balance sheet
A balance sheet, also called a statement of financial position, is a financial statement reporting a company's assets, liabilities, and owners' equity at a point in time.
Balance spring
The balance spring, also called the hairspring, is a fine spiral spring that makes a watch's balance wheel oscillate at a regular period, introduced by Christiaan Huygens in 1675.
Balance wheel
The balance wheel is the oscillating wheel and hairspring that regulate mechanical watches, beating thousands of times per hour to divide time into equal beats.
Balanced anesthesia
Balanced anesthesia, also called multimodal anesthesia, combines small doses of several drugs so each anesthetic component (unconsciousness, analgesia, muscle relaxation) is covered without large doses of one agent; developed in 1950s veterinary practice by Hall and Weaver.
Balanced budget amendment
A balanced budget amendment, or balanced-budget constitutional amendment, is a proposed US constitutional amendment barring federal deficits unless Congress overrides by elevated majority; it has never passed.
Balanced budget multiplier
The balanced budget multiplier, or Haavelmo's theorem, is the ratio of output change to an equal change in government spending and taxes, equal to 1 in the Keynesian model.
Balanced cantilever construction
Balanced cantilever construction is a bridge erection method in which segments are added alternately on opposite sides of a pier to keep the cantilever balanced, typically for spans of 50 to 200 meters.
Balanced Dental Occlusion
Balanced dental occlusion (bilateral balanced occlusion, BBO): denture tooth arrangement with simultaneous working- and balancing-side contacts in centric and eccentric positions; evidence shows no superiority over lingualized occlusion or canine guidance for complete dentures.
Balanced design
Balanced design is a statistical experimental design in which every combination of factor levels receives the same number of experimental units, making treatment comparisons equally precise.
Balanced detection
Balanced detection is an optical measurement technique in which two matched photodetectors receive signal and reference beams, and their subtracted photocurrents cancel laser intensity noise common to both.
Balanced growth
Balanced growth is an economics term meaning either coordinated expansion of several sectors in development economics, or a growth path with output and capital growing at constant rates.
Balanced incomplete block design
A balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) is a statistical design assigning v treatments to blocks too small to hold all, with every pair occurring equally often.
Balanced line
A balanced line is a two-conductor transmission line whose conductors have equal impedances to a common reference, making it more resistant to interference than unbalanced lines.
Balanced mixer
A balanced mixer is a frequency converter using two or more identical mixing elements so that local oscillator noise cancels at the output while signal products add.
Balanced repeated replication
Balanced repeated replication, also called balanced half-sample replication, is a resampling method for estimating the sampling variance of statistics from stratified surveys with two primary sampling units per stratum.
Balanced sampling
Balanced sampling is a probability sampling method in which weighted sample totals of chosen auxiliary variables exactly match known population totals, reducing the variance of estimators of correlated variables.
Balanced scorecard
The balanced scorecard (BSC) is a performance management framework measuring organizations across financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth perspectives, introduced by Kaplan and Norton in 1992.
Balanced ternary
Balanced ternary is a base-3 numeral system whose digits are −1, 0, and +1, so negative numbers need no separate sign; it drove the Soviet Setun computer of 1958.
Balanchine ballet premieres
Balanchine ballet premieres are the first performances of the ballets of George Balanchine, who created over 425 works from about 1920 until his death in 1983.
Baland Jalal
Baland Jalal, Harvard Department of Psychology neuroscientist and Cambridge PhD, leading sleep paralysis researcher; creator of Meditation-Relaxation therapy, 5-HT2A hallucination theory, and cross-cultural sleep paralysis studies.
Balang Formation
Balang Formation (杷榔组), Cambrian Stage 3-4 shale unit in Guizhou and Hunan, South China, host of the Burgess Shale-type Balang Biota, transitional between the Chengjiang and Kaili biotas, with oryctocephalid trilobites, chancelloriids, and the Huayuan biota.
Balangan Beach
Balangan Beach (Pantai Balangan) is a white-sand, cliff-flanked beach on Bali's Bukit Peninsula in Badung Regency, known for its long left-hand reef surf break, warungs, sunset views, and 1970s surfing history.
Balangay
The balangay, also spelled balanghai, is a precolonial Philippine wooden boat used for trade and settlement, with the oldest examples excavated at Butuan from 1976.
Balangiga bells
The Balangiga bells are three church bells seized by US troops in 1901 from Balangiga, Eastern Samar, during the Philippine-American War and returned by the United States to the Philippines on December 11, 2018, after 117 years, two from Cheyenne, Wyoming, one from South Korea.
Balangiga Massacre
The Balangiga Massacre (Insidente sa Balangiga) was a surprise attack by Filipino townspeople and guerrillas on an American infantry company at Balangiga, Samar, on September 28, 1901.
Balanites
Balanites (desert date genus, Agialid synonym) is a genus of nine spiny Zygophyllaceae trees and shrubs from Africa to Myanmar; type species Balanites aegyptiaca yields edible fruit, cooking oil, and steroidal saponins.
Balanites aegyptiaca
Balanites aegyptiaca (desert date, heglig, Ingudi), a Zygophyllaceae tree of African and Arabian drylands, up to about 10 m, with edible fruit, oil-rich kernels (19.8–49.4% oil), saponins, and IUCN Least Concern status.
Balanitis
Balanitis, with balanoposthitis, is inflammation of the glans penis and foreskin from infection, dermatoses, or premalignancy; common in uncircumcised males and boys, linked to diabetes, treated with antifungals, steroids, hygiene, or circumcision.