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December murders
The December murders, or Decembermoorden, were the executions of fifteen prominent opponents of Suriname's military regime under Desi Bouterse at Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo, in December 1982.
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night): 1975 Four Seasons single by Bob Gaudio and Judy Parker, US and UK number 1 in 1976, sung mainly by drummer Gerry Polci, and a 1993 Ben Liebrand dance remix hit.
December's Children (And Everybody's)
December's Children (And Everybody's), the Rolling Stones' fifth US studio album (London PS 451, December 4, 1965), a patchwork US-only collection with Get Off of My Cloud and As Tears Go By, produced by Andrew Loog Oldham.
Decembrist poetry
Decembrist poetry (декабристская поэзия) is the civic poetry of Russian noble revolutionaries who prepared the December 1825 uprising against tsarism, its leading figure Kondraty Ryleev.
Decembrist revolt (Восстание декабристов)
Decembrist revolt (Восстание декабристов): failed army officers' uprising on Senate Square, Saint Petersburg, 14 December 1825, seeking to end autocracy and serfdom; followed by the Chernigov Regiment rising and harsh repression.
Decennovium
Decennovium, Latin "nineteen-miler": the 19-mile Via Appia stretch between Forum Appii and Terracina across the Pontine Marshes, with its parallel towing canal, attested from Trajanic milestones and Theodoric-era inscriptions.
Decentralization
Decentralization: transfer of authority and resources between tiers of government, via political, administrative, and fiscal forms and deconcentration, delegation, or devolution; a global reform movement with a mixed, largely negative empirical record.
Decentralized autonomous organization
A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is an organization whose rules are encoded in smart contracts on a blockchain, with token holders voting on decisions that execute automatically.
Decentralized clinical trial
A decentralized clinical trial is a clinical study in which activities like visits, consent, and data collection happen remotely or locally rather than at a traditional trial site.
Decentralized collision avoidance
Decentralized collision avoidance is a robotics method in which each robot in a multi-robot system independently computes collision-free motions without central coordination, used in warehouse fleets and drone swarms.
Decentralized federated learning
Decentralized federated learning, also called swarm learning, is a machine learning approach where clients train a shared model by exchanging updates directly with peers, without a central server.
Decentralized finance
Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is a set of financial services, including trading, lending, and investing, built on distributed ledgers and executed by smart contracts rather than banks, brokers, and clearinghouses.
Decentralized partially observable Markov decision process
A decentralized partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP) is a mathematical model for a team of cooperating agents under uncertainty, where each agent acts on its own local observations toward a shared reward.
Decentric Europe
Decentric Europe BV was a Netherlands-based GPU cryptocurrency mining company. Northern Data AG acquired its systems in 2021 for approximately EUR 365 million, including 223,000 GPU cards.
Decepticon
Decepticons are the villainous faction of shape-shifting robots from Cybertron in the Transformers franchise, led by Megatron against the Autobots; created by Hasbro and Marvel in 1984 across toys, comics, cartoons, and films.
Deception
Deception is the intentional misleading of others through words or behaviors. Covers its definition, its history as a method in psychology from 1887 onward, the cognitive theory of lying, truth-default theory, and modest lie-detection accuracy.
Deception (2008 film)
Deception is a 2008 American erotic thriller directed by Marcel Langenegger, starring Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, and Michelle Williams, released in April 2008 by 20th Century Fox.
Deception (2018 TV series)
Deception (2018) is an American ABC crime drama, also called the Cameron Black series, in which magician Jack Cutmore-Scott's character consults for the FBI; 13 episodes, canceled after one season.
Deception Island
Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: an active horseshoe-shaped volcano around the flooded caldera Port Foster, entered via Neptune's Bellows; site of the largest Holocene Antarctic eruption (VEI 6), 1967–1970 eruptions, and an Antarctic Specially Managed Area.
Deception of Chu over the Six-Hundred-Li Land
The Deception of Chu over the Six-Hundred-Li Land (张仪诳楚) was a Warring States stratagem in which the Qin strategist Zhang Yi promised Chu six hundred li of land.
Deception Pass
Deception Pass is a narrow, tide-swept strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island in Puget Sound, Washington, known for its fast tidal currents and 1935 bridges.
Deception Point
Deception Point is Dan Brown's 2001 techno-thriller, his third novel, in which NRO analyst Rachel Sexton verifies a NASA Arctic meteorite find that proves a staged fraud tied to a US presidential election.
Deception technology
Deception technology is a category of defensive cybersecurity tools that plants decoy assets, fake credentials, and bogus data in a network so attackers who touch them reveal their presence and waste effort.
Deceptor spp.
Deceptor Seidenf. is a monotypic orchid genus (Orchidaceae, Aeridinae) endemic to Vietnam, published by Seidenfaden in 1992; its sole species, Deceptor bidoupensis, is an endangered epiphyte from the Bidoup massif.
DECHEMA
DECHEMA, the Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, is a German non-profit professional society founded in 1926, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, and organizer of the ACHEMA trade fair.
Decheng Capital China Life Sciences USD Fund I, L.P.
Decheng Capital China Life Sciences USD Fund I, L.P. is a Cayman Islands limited partnership formed in 2011, the earliest fund of the life sciences venture firm Decheng Capital.
Decheng Capital Global Life Sciences (德诚资本)
Decheng Capital Global Life Sciences (德诚资本) is the fund series of Decheng Capital, a life-sciences venture firm founded by Min Cui around 2011–2012 and based in Menlo Park, California.
Deciana
Deciana (TP: Declana; Ptolemy: Δεκιάνα) was a Roman road station on the Gaul–Hispania road over the Pyrenees, between Iuncaria and In summo pyreneo, near modern La Jonquera; its exact site is unlocated.
Decibel
The decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit expressing ratios of power or amplitude, named for Alexander Graham Bell and used in acoustics, electronics, and audio.
Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
The Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is an annual two-day festival pairing extreme metal bands with craft breweries, organized by Decibel Magazine in Philadelphia since 2017.