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DePaul University
DePaul University: private Catholic Vincentian research university (Carnegie R2) in Chicago, founded 1898 as St. Vincent's College, first U.S. Catholic university to admit women; Lincoln Park and Loop campuses, ~14,090 undergraduates, $48,180 tuition.
DePauw University
DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana, founded in 1837 as Indiana Asbury University, enrolling about 1,900 undergraduates with no graduate programs, a 10:1 student-faculty ratio, and a three-school structure.
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode: English electronic band formed 1980 in Basildon by Gahan, Gore, Fletcher, and Clarke; 15 studio albums from Speak & Spell (1981) to Memento Mori (2023), over 100 million records sold, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020.
Depeche Mode discography
Depeche Mode discography: 15 studio albums (Speak & Spell 1981 to Memento Mori 2023), 60 singles from "Dreaming of Me" onward, compilations like The Singles 86>98, live albums including 101, and the 12" Singles reissue series, with over 100 million records sold.
Depeche Mode: M
Depeche Mode: M is a 2025 documentary-concert film by Mexican director Fernando Frías, built on Depeche Mode's three sold-out 2023 Foro Sol, Mexico City shows of the Memento Mori Tour, exploring Mexican death culture; Tribeca premiere, October 2025 IMAX release, Netflix January 2026.
Depei Liu (刘德培)
Depei Liu (刘德培), born 1950 in Anhui, is a Chinese biochemist and molecular biologist known for globin gene regulation, gene therapy, and cardiovascular disease genetics research.
Depemokimab
Depemokimab (trade name Exdensur) is a GSK monoclonal antibody that blocks interleukin-5, given twice yearly for severe eosinophilic asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.
Depend (brand)
Depend (Chinese: 得伴) is a Kimberly-Clark brand of disposable absorbent underwear, briefs, and guards for adults with incontinence, sold under that name since its 1984 launch.
Dependence analysis
Dependence analysis is a compiler technique that determines which pairs of memory accesses must keep their execution order, and which may be reordered, vectorized, or run in parallel.
Dependency grammar
Dependency grammar is an approach to syntax in which sentence structure consists of binary relations between a head and a dependent, founded by Lucien Tesnière's 1959 work.
Dependency hell
Dependency hell, also called DLL hell or classpath hell, is a colloquial software term for conflicting package dependencies that make software hard to build, install, or run.
Dependency injection
Dependency injection (DI) is a technique in object-oriented programming in which objects receive their dependencies from an external container, named by Martin Fowler in 2004.
Dependency inversion principle
The dependency inversion principle (DIP), a software design principle by Robert C. Martin from 1996, states that high- and low-level modules should depend on abstractions rather than details.
Dependency ratio
The dependency ratio expresses dependents (under 15 or 65+) per 100 people of working age (15–64); also child and old-age dependency ratios; used in demographic dividend and fiscal aging analysis.
Dependency resolution
Dependency resolution is the process by which a package manager determines, from the version constraints a project and its transitive dependencies declare, exactly which package versions to install.
Dependency theory
Dependency theory, also known as Dependencia, is a school of economic thought holding that poor countries stay poor because of their peripheral position in the world economy.
Dependent (NIP) theories
Dependent (NIP) theories, meaning theories without the independence property, are first-order theories in which no formula encodes the random bipartite graph; introduced by Shelah, they include the real field and p-adic numbers.
Dependent and independent variables
The dependent variable is the outcome a study measures, and the independent variable, or predictor, is the factor that is manipulated or treated as the explanation for changes in that outcome.
Dependent clause
Dependent clause, also called subordinate or embedded clause: a subject-and-verb group that cannot stand alone as a sentence and functions as noun, adjective, or adverb within a main clause; concept introduced by the Port Royal logicians in the 17th century.
Dependent Dirichlet process
The dependent Dirichlet process is a collection of random probability measures indexed by a covariate or time, each marginally Dirichlet-process distributed, introduced by MacEachern in 1999 to model how a distribution changes with inputs.
Dependent personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder (DPD), a Cluster C personality disorder: pervasive need to be taken care of, submissive clinging behavior, fear of separation; five of eight DSM-5-TR criteria; prevalence about 0.5–0.6%; treated with psychotherapy, no approved drugs.
Dependent random choice
Dependent random choice is a probabilistic technique in combinatorics that extracts a large vertex subset with many common neighbors from a dense graph, enabling greedy embedding of sparse bipartite graphs.
Dependent State Commandant
The Dependent State Commandant (屬國都尉) was the chief official of a Han frontier dependent state, combining military command with civil rule over surrendered non-Han peoples.
Dependent territory
Dependent territory: a geographically separate area whose political system depends on another state, also called dependency or Non-Self-Governing Territory; 17 remain on the UN list, with about one million people living in such territories today.
Dependent type
Dependent typing is the defining feature of dependent type theories: a family of types indexed by a value, so each value may yield a distinct type.
Depersonalization
Depersonalisation, also called depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPD, DPDR, ICD-11 6B66), is a dissociative disorder of feeling detached from one's self; coined 1898, affects 1-2% of the population.
Depersonalization-derealization disorder
Depersonalization-derealization disorder, also known as DPDR, is a dissociative disorder causing persistent feelings of detachment from oneself or one's surroundings, usually triggered by severe stress.
Dephasing
Dephasing is the loss of phase coherence in a quantum state when relative phases become unpredictable, the main limit on how long a qubit holds a superposition.
Depiction
Depiction, or pictorial representation, is the relation by which pictures represent objects. Key theories: resemblance (Plato, Hyman, Abell), Goodman's conventionalism, Wollheim's seeing-in, Walton's make-believe, and challenges from AI-generated synthetic images.
Depiction of Hatshepsut's birth and coronation
A relief cycle on the Portico of Birth at Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, carved c. 1473–1458 BC, showing her divine birth by Amun-Re and coronation.