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Debra Wong Yang
Debra Wong Yang is an American lawyer and Gibson Dunn partner who was the first Asian-American woman U.S. Attorney, for the Central District of California from 2002.
Debrah Farentino
Debrah Farentino, born Deborah Mullowney, is an American actress and producer who played Devon Adair on NBC's Earth 2 and Beverly Barlowe on Syfy's Eureka, after starting on Capitol.
Debraj Ray (economist)
Debraj Ray is an Indian-born development economist and microeconomic theorist, Julius Silver Professor at New York University, known for work on inequality, coalition formation, and ethnic conflict, and author of the 1998 textbook Development Economics.
Debralee Scott
Debralee Scott (1953–2005), American actress of 1970s television comedy; played Cathy Shumway on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Hotsy Totsy on Welcome Back, Kotter; also American Graffiti and Police Academy films.
Debre Berhan Selassie
Debre Berhan Selassie, "Mount of the Light of the Trinity," is an Ethiopian Orthodox church northeast of Gondar, famed for its murals and a ceiling of winged cherub heads.
Debre Damo
Debre Damo, also called Dabra Damo, is an ancient Ethiopian Orthodox monastery in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia, about 70 km north of Axum, reached only by a leather rope.
Debre Libanos
Debre Libanos (ደብረ ሊባኖስ) is an Ethiopian Orthodox monastery in Shewa, founded by Tekle Haymanot around 1284 on Mount Asbo; from the 15th century its abbot, titled echege, headed all Ethiopian monasteries.
Debrecen
Debrecen, Hungary's second-largest city and seat of Hajdú-Bihar county, is the "Calvinist Rome" of the Reformed College (1538), twice a national capital (1849, 1944), home of the University of Debrecen, and since 2022 the center of Hungary's CATL and BMW battery and electric-vehicle industry.
Debridement
Debridement is the removal of dead tissue, slough, biofilm, and foreign material from a wound so healing can proceed, using surgical, enzymatic, autolytic, or larval methods.
Debriefing
Debriefing is a structured reflective conversation held after a task, event, or simulation, in which participants review what happened and why in order to improve future learning, performance, and decision-making.
Debris (TV series)
Debris (NBC, 2021) is a science fiction drama created by Fringe showrunner J.H. Wyman, starring Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele as CIA and MI6 agents recovering alien spacecraft wreckage; cancelled after one 13-episode season.
Debris disk
A debris disk is a tenuous, dust-dominated circumstellar disk around a star, continuously replenished by collisions among planetesimals left over from planet formation, analogous to the Kuiper Belt.
Debris flow
A debris flow, also called a mudslide, mudflow, or lahar, is a fast-moving landslide in which soil, rock, and water flow downslope as a slurry, often triggered by intense rainfall.
Debrisoquine
Debrisoquine, also written debrisoquin, is a guanidine-derived isoquinoline compound, formula C10H13N3, marketed by Roche as the antihypertensive Declinax and withdrawn in the 1990s; its polymorphic metabolism founded pharmacogenetics.
Debt
Debt, also known as utang, is an obligation requiring a debtor to pay money borrowed from a creditor. It may be owed by governments, companies, or individuals.
Debt bondage
Debt bondage, also called bonded labor or debt peonage, is forced labor in which work never repays a debt, classified as slavery; it persists in South Asian brick kilns.
Debt Collectors (film)
Debt Collectors (2020) is an American action sequel directed by Jesse V. Johnson, starring Scott Adkins and Louis Mandylor as collectors French and Sue, released May 29, 2020 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Debt of Honor
Debt of Honor (日米開戦) is Tom Clancy's 1994 techno-thriller, the seventh Jack Ryan novel, in which Japanese industrialist Razio Yamata wages economic and military war on the US; its Capitol jetliner crash predates 9/11.
Debt of the Korean Empire
The Debt of the Korean Empire, or 차관 문제, was a series of Japanese-controlled loans imposed on Korea from 1905 to 1910 as a tool of financial control before annexation.
Debt relief
Debt relief is any arrangement reducing what a borrower owes, by cutting principal or interest, lengthening maturities, or canceling payments, as in the IMF and World Bank HIPC Initiative.
Debt rescheduling
Debt rescheduling is a formal arrangement between a debtor and its creditors that defers debt-service payments and extends maturities, keeping the face value of the debt and the creditors unchanged.
Debt service coverage ratio
The debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) is a credit metric dividing a borrower's cash flow by debt payments due, showing how many times over debt service is covered.
Debt-to-equity ratio
The debt-to-equity ratio (D/E), also known as the gearing ratio, is a solvency measure that divides a company's debt by shareholders' equity, used in credit analysis and valuation.
Debt-to-GDP ratio
The debt-to-GDP ratio is a government's total debt expressed as a percentage of its gross domestic product, showing how large accumulated debt is relative to annual income.
Debt-trap diplomacy
Debt-trap diplomacy, a term coined by Brahma Chellaney in 2017, alleges China lends deliberately unpayable sums under the Belt and Road Initiative to seize strategic assets; the Hambantota port lease is the cited case, though most scholarship disputes the claim.
Debtor
A debtor is a person or entity that owes a debt or other obligation, usually money, to another party known as the creditor; in secured transactions the debtor pledges collateral.
Debtor nation
A debtor nation is a country whose residents' external liabilities to the rest of the world exceed their external assets, giving a negative net international investment position.
Debtors' prison
Debtors' prison: incarceration for unpaid debts, from England's Fleet and Marshalsea to US abolition (New York, 1831) and Bearden v. Georgia (1983), with modern jailings for unpaid fines and fees in Texas, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma.
Debub Region
Debub Region, also called Southern Region (Zoba Debub), is one of Eritrea's six regions. Its capital is Mendefera, and with about 1.5 million people it is Eritrea's most populous region.
Debugger
A debugger is a program that runs another program under controlled conditions, pausing it at chosen points so a developer can inspect variables, the call stack, and memory to find defects.