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Decorrelating detector
The decorrelating detector is a linear multiuser detector for CDMA systems, developed by Ruxandra Lupas and Sergio Verdú, that removes multiple-access interference at the price of amplified noise.
Decortication
Decortication is a thoracic surgical procedure that removes the thick fibrous peel encasing a restricted lung so it can re-expand, used for organized empyema, trapped lung, and hemothorax.
Decoupage
Decoupage, from French découper (to cut out), is the decorative craft of gluing paper cut-outs to objects and sealing them under varnish; known historically as lacca povera, fashionable in 1720s Europe.
Decoupled
Decoupled is a 2021 Indian English-language Netflix comedy series, 8 episodes, created by Manu Joseph, directed by Hardik Mehta, starring R. Madhavan and Surveen Chawla as a divorcing Gurgaon couple.
Decoupled water electrolysis
Decoupled water electrolysis is a water-splitting approach in which a redox mediator separates hydrogen and oxygen production in time or space, improving safety with intermittent renewable power.
Decoupled water splitting via redox mediators
Decoupled water splitting via redox mediators is an electrolysis strategy, proposed in 2013, in which a redox mediator lets hydrogen and oxygen form in separate steps, improving safety.
Decoupling (cosmology)
In cosmology, decoupling is the moment a particle species stops interacting thermally with the rest of the universe: neutrinos about 1 second after the Big Bang, photons at recombination.
Decoupling (utility regulation)
Decoupling, also called revenue decoupling, is a utility regulatory mechanism that separates a utility's fixed-cost recovery from the volume of energy it sells, pioneered by California in 1978.
Decoupling capacitor
A decoupling capacitor, also called a bypass capacitor, is a capacitor placed near an integrated circuit to supply fast current spikes and shunt supply noise to ground.
Decoy (dog)
Decoy (Dekopin) is Shohei Ohtani's Dutch kooikerhondje, revealed December 2023 at his Dodgers introduction; famous for a 2024 first pitch, bobblehead night, and mock embassy visa.
Decoy death receptors
Decoy death receptors are TNF receptor superfamily members, such as DcR1 and DcR2, that bind death ligands like TRAIL but cannot trigger apoptosis because they lack a functional death domain.
Decoy-state method
The decoy-state method is a quantum key distribution technique in which a transmitter randomly varies pulse intensities, letting parties estimate single-photon yields and counter photon-number-splitting attacks; it was proposed by Won-Young Hwang in 2002.
Decoy-state quantum key distribution
Decoy-state quantum key distribution is a quantum cryptography technique in which Alice transmits signals at randomly chosen intensity levels to defeat photon number splitting attacks.
Decreased appetite
Decreased appetite (anorexia, ICD-11 MG43.8) is reduced desire to eat, distinct from anorexia nervosa. Caused by illness, cancer, drugs, and emotions; affects about 29% of older adults and 60-80% of cancer patients.
Decreased libido
Decreased libido, reduced sexual desire; persistent distressed forms are hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD, ICD-11 MB22.1, ICD-10-CM R68.82). Causes include medications, hormones, depression; treated with CBT, flibanserin, bremelanotide, testosterone.
Decreased white blood cell count
Decreased white blood cell count, or leukopenia, is a lower-than-normal blood leukocyte level (adults often <3,500-4,000/mcL), usually from neutropenia. Causes include drugs, chemotherapy, infection, marrow disease, and benign ethnic neutropenia; fever with agranulocytosis is an emergency.
Decree
Decree: a formal binding order issued by an executive authority (president, monarch, government) with legal force without a legislative vote; also called DNU, royal decree, or presidential decree; distinguished from executive orders and subject to constitutional review.
Decree 'On Measures for the Strengthening of the Socialist Restructuring of Agriculture'
The decree 'On Measures for the Strengthening of the Socialist Restructuring of Agriculture' was a 1930 Soviet decree abolishing land leasing and hired labor and authorizing kulak confiscation and eviction.
Decree abolishing the Hetmanate (1764)
The decree abolishing the Hetmanate (Маніфест Катерини II про скасування гетьманства) is Catherine II's 1764 manifesto eliminating the office of Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host.
Decree forbidding serfs to complain against masters (1767)
The Decree forbidding serfs to complain against masters (Указ 1767 г. о запрещении жалоб на помещиков) was a Senate decree of 22 August 1767, issued in Catherine II's name, barring serfs' petitions against masters.
Decree nisi
Decree nisi: provisional divorce order (now "conditional order" in England and Wales since 6 April 2022) showing the court sees no bar to divorce; parties stay married until the decree absolute (final order), applyable 43 days later.
Decree of 1597 on slaves
The Decree of 1597 on slaves (Указ 1597 года о холопах) was a Russian law of Tsar Fedor Ivanovich's government that converted debt bondage into service until the master's death.
Decree of 16 Pluviôse An II
The Decree of 16 Pluviôse An II was the law of 4 February 1794 by which France's National Convention abolished slavery in all French colonies, granting citizenship regardless of color.
Decree of 16 Pluviôse Year II
The Decree of 16 Pluviôse Year II (Décret du 16 pluviôse an II) was the law by which revolutionary France abolished slavery in all its colonies on 4 February 1794.
Decree of 1685 against the Old Believers (Twelve Articles)
The Decree of 1685 against the Old Believers, known as the Twelve Articles, was a Muscovite law issued by Tsarevna Sofia Alekseevna in 1685, imposing punishments up to burning alive.
Decree of 1783 enserfing Left-Bank Ukraine
The decree of 3 May 1783 was an order by Empress Catherine II forbidding peasants of Left-Bank and Sloboda Ukraine to leave their recorded place and status, enserfing about 300,000.
Decree of 23 April 1932 on the Restructuring of Literary and Artistic Organizations
A 1932 Soviet Politburo decree, published in Pravda, that dissolved RAPP and united Soviet writers into a single Union of Soviet Writers, paving the way for Socialist Realism.
Decree of 26 June 1940 on Labor Discipline
The Decree of 26 June 1940 on Labor Discipline (Указ от 26 июня 1940 года) was a Soviet decree making absenteeism and job-changing criminal offenses.
Decree of 8 June 1934 on Treason
The Decree of 8 June 1934 on Treason (Закон от 8 июня 1934 года об измене Родине) was a Soviet decree making treason punishable by execution.
Decree of Canopus
The Decree of Canopus, also called the Canopus Decree, is a trilingual priestly decree issued at Kanopos near Alexandria in 238 BC honoring Ptolemy III.