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Dot-probe task
The dot-probe task, also called the Visual Probe Task, is a reaction-time paradigm measuring attentional bias toward emotional stimuli, introduced by MacLeod, Mathews, and Tata in 1986 and used in attention bias modification.
DOT1L
DOT1L (KMT4), the sole H3K79 histone methyltransferase, a non-SET 7βS enzyme acting only on nucleosomes; misrecruited in MLL/KMT2A-rearranged leukemia, targeted by pinometostat.
Dota
Dota (Defense of the Ancients, DotA 1) was a Warcraft III custom game created by Eul in 2003, expanded by Guinsoo and IceFrog, that founded the MOBA genre and led to Valve's Dota 2.
Dota 2
Dota 2 (Defense of the Ancients 2) is Valve's free-to-play 5v5 MOBA, successor to the Warcraft III DotA mod, released July 2013; 126 heroes, denies and teleport scrolls distinguish it from League of Legends, and The International once held a $40 million crowdfunded prize pool.
Dota Auto Chess (刀塔自走棋)
Dota Auto Chess (刀塔自走棋) is Drodo Studio's January 2019 Dota 2 custom mod that invented the autobattler genre: eight players draft heroes, auto-combat resolves fights, and it peaked above 100,000 concurrent players.
Dota Underlords
Dota Underlords (刀塔霸业) is Valve's free-to-play auto battler for Steam, Android, and iOS, adapted from the Dota Auto Chess mod; announced June 13, 2019, open beta June 20, 2019, eight-player matches with shared hero pools and Underlord characters.
Dota: Dragon's Blood
Dota: Dragon's Blood, also DOTA: Dragon's Blood, is a Netflix adult animated fantasy series based on Valve's Dota 2, made with Studio Mir and Kaiju Boulevard; 3 seasons, 24 episodes, 2021–2022, following Dragon Knight Davion and Princess Mirana.
Dōtaku
Dōtaku (銅鐸) are bronze bell-shaped ritual objects made during Japan's Yayoi period and used in farming community ceremonies, with about 500 examples found nationwide, mostly in the Kinki region.
DOTATATE therapy
DOTATATE therapy is a nuclear medicine treatment delivering lutetium-177 via the radiolabeled somatostatin analog Lutathera to neuroendocrine tumors, approved in Europe in 2017 and the United States in 2018.
Dotawo
Dotawo is the native Old Nubian name of the medieval Christian Nubian kingdom that Arabic and Greek writers called Makuria, independent from the seventh to the fifteenth century.
Dotchi loop
Dotchi loop (ドッチループ, dotchirupu) is a Nikoli logic puzzle first published in Puzzle Communication Nikoli #167: draw one loop through all white circles, avoiding black circles, with uniform straight-or-turn behavior per region; ASP-complete.
DoTerra
DoTerra is a Pleasant Grove, Utah multi-level marketing company founded in 2008 by former Young Living executives, selling essential oils through independent distributors called Wellness Advocates.
Dotetem Fluctus
Dotetem Fluctus is a 530-km-wide lava flow terrain (fluctus) on Venus at 6S, 177.5E, named in 1997 after a Ketian evil spirit of Siberia's Yenisey River.
Dothan, Alabama
Dothan, Alabama: seat of Houston County in the Wiregrass region, incorporated 1885 as renamed Poplar Head, self-proclaimed Peanut Capital of the World since 1938, home of the National Peanut Festival, about 72,000 residents.
Dothistroma septosporum
Dothistroma septosporum, red band needle blight fungus, primary cause of Dothistroma needle blight of pines; Eurasian origin, worldwide distribution, dothistromin toxin, weather-driven epidemics, major plantation losses.
Dothraki language
Dothraki is a constructed language invented by linguist David J. Peterson for HBO's Game of Thrones, built from a few words in George R. R. Martin's novels. It has about 3,900 words and an official Living Language course.
Dotie Joseph
Dotie Joseph is an American Democratic politician who has represented Florida's 108th House district in South Florida for eight years and ran for governor in 2026, losing the Democratic primary.
Dotinurad
Dotinurad (ドチヌラド, Urece/Yurisu) is a selective urate reabsorption inhibitor blocking URAT1, approved in Japan 2020 and China 2024 for gout and hyperuricemia; 4 mg/day beat febuxostat 40 mg in a phase 3 trial.
Dotmatics
Dotmatics is a scientific research software company, founded in 2005 by two Merck scientists, providing a cloud platform for managing and analyzing laboratory data in the life sciences.
Dotomi
Dotomi was an internet advertising technology company co-founded by ICQ co-founder Yair Goldfinger, building personalized display advertising for retailers before ValueClick bought it in 2011 for $295 million.
Dōtonbori (道頓堀)
Dōtonbori (道頓堀) is a canal and 600-metre dining and entertainment strip in Chuo-ku, Osaka, begun 1612 by Yasui Dōton, once Japan's leading kabuki quarter, now famous for the Glico Running Man sign, Kani Doraku's moving crab, and kuidaore street food.
DotPe
DotPe is an Indian offline-to-online commerce company founded in 2019 in Gurugram by former PayU executives, giving small merchants digital payments, online ordering, point-of-sale software, and business financing.
Dots and Boxes
Dots and Boxes is a two-player pencil-and-paper game in which players draw lines between dots, and completing a box scores a point and grants an extra turn.
Dots and Loops
Dots and Loops is a 1997 studio album by Stereolab, produced by John McEntire. It was the band's first album to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Dots per inch
Dots per inch (DPI), often abbreviated dpi, is a measure of printing resolution counting the ink or toner dots a printer places in one linear inch.
Dotsero
Dotsero (Volcano Number 328010) is a maar and scoria cone complex in Eagle County, Colorado, near the Colorado-Eagle River junction. Its basaltic eruptions about 4,150 radiocarbon years ago (2200 BCE) are Colorado's youngest volcanism; USGS threat potential is Moderate.
Dottie West
Dottie West (Dorothy Marie Marsh, 1932–1991), American country singer-songwriter from McMinnville, Tennessee; first female country Grammy winner for "Here Comes My Baby," Coca-Cola "Country Sunshine" jingle writer, Kenny Rogers duet partner, 2018 Hall of Fame inductee.
Dou (volume)
The dou (斗) is a traditional Chinese unit of dry capacity for grain, equal to 10 sheng, whose value grew from about 2,000 mL in Han times to about 10,000 mL under the Ming and Qing.
Dou dizhu
Dou dizhu (斗地主, Fight the Landlord) is China's most popular card game: a three-player climbing game where one landlord with 20 cards plays against two partnered peasants, with bidding, bombs, rockets, and spring doubling.
Dou Huaizhen
Dou Huaizhen (窦怀贞), earlier named Dou Congyi, was a Tang dynasty official who became chancellor under Emperor Ruizong and died in 713 as a conspirator in Princess Taiping's plot against Emperor Xuanzong.