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Documentary photography
Documentary photography is a genre of still photography recording people, places, and social conditions, exemplified by Jacob Riis's slum photos and Lewis Hine's child labor images.
Documentary television by country and era
Documentary television by country and era: the history of nonfiction TV programming across national traditions (British, American, Japanese, African, MENA) and four eras, from 1950s public service pioneers through 1970s formats to streaming-era financing and audiences.
Documentation
Software documentation is written or generated information describing a system for its users or maintainers, from tutorials and API references to design docs, runbooks, and architecture decision records.
Documents (magazine)
Documents was a Parisian illustrated avant-garde magazine, subtitled Doctrines, archéologie, beaux-arts, ethnographie, edited by Georges Bataille from 1929 and the principal organ of what scholars call ethnographic surrealism.
Documentum
Documentum is an enterprise content management software platform founded in 1990, acquired by EMC in 2003 for $1.7 billion and now sold by OpenText as Documentum Content Management.
Docusate
Docusate (Dulcoease, Dioctyl, Colace) is an anionic surfactant stool softener laxative for constipation, given orally or as an enema; trials show it is no more effective than placebo and inferior to psyllium.
Docusate sodium (dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate)
Docusate sodium (dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, DSS, CAS 577-11-7) is an anionic surfactant used as a wetting agent, emulsifier, food additive (E480), and stool softener laxative, though clinical reviews find little evidence of constipation benefit.
DocuSign
Docusign is an American software company, founded in Seattle in 2003, that provides electronic signature services and agreement management software for preparing, signing, and managing contracts.
Doda Betta
Doda Betta (Doddabetta), 'big mountain' in Badaga, is the highest peak of the Nilgiris and Tamil Nadu at about 2,623-2,637 m, 10 km from Ooty, with a TTDC Telescope House opened in 1983.
Dodd–Frank Title VII
Dodd–Frank Title VII, formally the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act, is the 2010 law establishing federal regulation of over-the-counter derivatives, requiring clearing, margin, dealer registration, and reporting.
Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or Dodd–Frank Act, is a 2010 US federal law reorganizing financial regulation after the 2007–2009 financial crisis.
Doddie Weir
Doddie Weir (George Wilson Weir, 1970–2022), Scottish rugby union lock, 61 Scotland caps 1990–2000, 1997 British & Irish Lion, Newcastle Falcons Premiership winner, and MND research campaigner via the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation.
Doddington gang
The Doddington gang (Doddington Original Gangsters, DOG) was a Moss Side, Manchester street gang formed from the Pepperhill Mob around Doddington Close, rival of the Gooch gang in the 1990s Gunchester era.
Doddmane Hudga
Doddmane Hudga (ದೊಡ್ಮನೆ ಹುಡ್ಗ), also Dodmane Hudga, is a 2016 Kannada action drama directed by Duniya Soori, starring Puneeth Rajkumar, Radhika Pandit, and Ambareesh; released 30 September 2016, 137 minutes, Ajay Pictures.
Dodecagon
A dodecagon is a polygon with 12 sides and 12 vertices; in the regular case each interior angle measures 150° and the shape has 12 lines of symmetry.
Dodecagonal quasicrystal in block copolymers
A dodecagonal quasicrystal in block copolymers is a soft-matter phase in which spherical micelles form a quasiperiodic tiling with 12-fold symmetry, first seen in polymers in 2007.
Dodecahedron
A dodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve faces, and in everyday use usually means the regular dodecahedron, a Platonic solid of twelve pentagonal faces, 30 edges, and 20 vertices.
Dodecan 1 ol
Dodecan-1-ol (1-dodecanol, lauryl alcohol, dodecyl alcohol), C12H26O, CAS 112-53-8, is a saturated C12 fatty alcohol used as a surfactant intermediate, EU-approved moth mating-disruption pheromone, and feed flavoring additive.
Dodecane
Dodecane, also called n-dodecane, is the straight-chain alkane with the formula C₁₂H₂₆, a colorless combustible liquid that boils at about 216 °C and is a component of gasoline.
Dodecanese (Δωδεκάνησα)
The Dodecanese (Δωδεκάνησα), meaning "twelve islands", are a Greek island group in the southeastern Aegean Sea near Turkey, with 18 large islands and Rhodes as capital and largest island.
Dodecyl acetate
Dodecyl acetate (lauryl acetate, acetate C-12, CAS 112-66-3) is the C12 fatty alcohol acetate ester, C14H28O2, a waxy citrus-rose odor liquid used as a flavoring agent, fragrance ingredient, and EU-approved low-risk insect attractant pheromone.
Dodecylamine
Dodecylamine, also called 1-dodecanamine or laurylamine, is a waxy long-chain primary amine with formula C12H27N, produced from lauronitrile and used chiefly as a cationic collector in froth flotation of quartz and potash.
Dodecylbenzene
Dodecylbenzene is a colorless liquid aromatic hydrocarbon, benzene bearing a C12 alkyl chain, produced commercially as mixtures and used chiefly to make the LAS detergent surfactant.
Dodekaschoinos
The Dodekaschoinos was a district of Lower Nubia stretching from Aswan's First Cataract to Maharraqa, the contested frontier between Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and the kingdom of Kush.
Dodemorph
Dodemorph (CAS 1593-77-7), 4-cyclododecyl-2,6-dimethylmorpholine, the first morpholine fungicide, introduced by BASF in 1965 as Meltatox acetate; an ergosterol biosynthesis inhibitor used against powdery mildews, later restricted in the EU to glasshouse ornamentals and withdrawn from approval.
Dodes'ka-den (どですかでん)
Dodes'ka-den (どですかでん, Dodesukaden) is Akira Kurosawa's 1970 first color film, a vignette portrait of slum dwellers on a Tokyo dump, made by the Yonki-no-kai collective, Oscar-nominated, and a box-office failure followed by Kurosawa's suicide attempt.
Dodge
Dodge is an American automobile brand founded by John and Horace Dodge in Michigan in 1900, now owned by Stellantis and known for performance cars like the Charger and Challenger.
Dodge 600
The Dodge 600 is a mid-size front-wheel-drive car sold by Dodge from 1983 through 1988 as a sedan, coupe, and convertible, Dodge's version of the Chrysler E-Class on the K platform.
Dodge Avenger
The Dodge Avenger is a Dodge nameplate covering two vehicles: a front-wheel-drive coupe sold from 1995 to 2000, and a midsize sedan sold from 2008 to 2014.
Dodge Caliber
The Dodge Caliber was a compact five-door hatchback produced by Chrysler from 2006 to 2011 as the replacement for the Dodge Neon, replaced itself by the Dodge Dart.