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Dua Lipa (album)
Dua Lipa (album): self-titled 2017 debut album by English-Albanian pop singer Dua Lipa, released June 2, 2017 on Warner Bros. Dance-pop record with New Rules, IDGAF, Be the One; UK peak No. 3, Metascore 72.
Dua Lipa discography
Dua Lipa discography: three studio albums (Dua Lipa 2017, Future Nostalgia 2020, Radical Optimism 2024), Club Future Nostalgia and Moonlight Edition reissues, two live albums, and singles including four UK Number 1s (New Rules, One Kiss, Cold Heart, Dance the Night).
Dua Malaysia LNG Terminal
Dua Malaysia LNG Terminal, also known as MLNG Dua, is an onshore LNG export plant at Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, with three liquefaction trains operating since 1995.
Dua Saleh
Dua Saleh, Sudanese American non-binary singer, rapper, and actor (Cal Bowman in Sex Education); EPs Nūr, ROSETTA, CROSSOVER; albums I SHOULD CALL THEM (2024) and Of Earth & Wires (2026) on Ghostly International.
Duaenhor
Duaenhor was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, probable son of Kawab and Queen Hetepheres II and grandson of King Khufu, buried in mastaba G 7550 at Giza.
Duaenre
Duaenre was a Fourth Dynasty Egyptian prince and vizier, a son of king Khafre and queen Meresankh, buried in mastaba G 5110 in the Western Cemetery at Giza.
Dual (2022 film)
Dual (2022) is a sci-fi comedy-drama written and directed by Riley Stearns, starring Karen Gillan as a woman and her clone forced into a court-mandated duel; also with Aaron Paul, Beulah Koale, Theo James; shot in Tampere, Finland.
Dual active bridge converter
The dual active bridge converter is an isolated, bidirectional DC-DC converter in which the phase shift between two H-bridges controls power flow, introduced in 1988.
Dual Alliance (1879)
The Dual Alliance (Zweibund) of October 7, 1879 was a secret defensive treaty between Germany and Austria-Hungary, promising mutual aid with full war strength against Russian attack, signed at Vienna by Andrássy and Prince Reuß.
Dual antiplatelet therapy
Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) combines aspirin with an oral P2Y12 inhibitor, such as clopidogrel or ticagrelor, to prevent stent thrombosis and heart attack after coronary intervention.
Dual basis
A dual basis is a basis of the dual space V matched to a basis of V: each functional gives 1 on one basis vector and 0 on the others.
Dual biologic therapy
Dual biologic therapy, also called dual targeted therapy (DTT), combines two biologics blocking distinct immune pathways, used mainly for inflammatory bowel disease that has not responded to monotherapy.
Dual branch network
A dual branch network is a neural network architecture with two parallel pathways whose outputs are combined by a fusion step, in Siamese or independent-branch form.
Dual carbon goals
The dual carbon goals (双碳目标) are China's climate commitments, announced by Xi Jinping in 2020, to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality before 2060.
Dual carriageway
A dual carriageway is a road where traffic in the two directions is separated by a central reservation; in the United States it is called a divided highway.
Dual circulation
Dual circulation (双循环) is China's economic strategy, announced in May 2020, of relying mainly on domestic circulation while keeping international circulation as a supporting channel.
Dual connectivity
Dual connectivity is a mobile-network technique in which a device connects through two base stations at once; its EN-DC form underpinned most early non-standalone 5G launches.
Dual consciousness
Dual consciousness: the hypothesis that one person can contain two conscious subjects, tested mainly in split-brain (callosotomy) patients, where evidence remains divided between two-agents and single-agent split-perception models.
Dual cycle
The dual cycle, also called the limited pressure cycle or Sabathe cycle, is a thermodynamic cycle that combines the Otto and Diesel cycles by adding heat partly at constant volume and partly at constant pressure.
Dual decomposition
Dual decomposition is an optimization method that solves a large constrained problem by splitting it into subproblems coordinated through dual variables acting as prices, allowing parallel solution.
Dual deployment
Dual deployment, also called dual-event recovery, is a rocket recovery method that deploys a small drogue parachute at apogee and a full-size main parachute shortly before landing.
Dual dynamic programming
Dual dynamic programming (DDP), also called stochastic dual dynamic programming (SDDP), is an algorithm for multistage stochastic optimization that approximates future costs with Benders cuts, developed for Brazilian hydrothermal power planning.
Dual economy
A dual economy is an economy where a modern, high-productivity sector coexists with a traditional low-productivity sector, a concept formalized by W. Arthur Lewis in 1954.
Dual Energy Scanned Projection Radiography
Dual Energy Scanned Projection Radiography (MeSH D015900), also called dual-energy subtraction radiography (DESR/DES), is a projection X-ray method that digitizes and subtracts high- and low-energy images to yield bone-selective and soft-tissue-selective radiographs, mainly for chest imaging.
Dual exchange rate
A dual exchange rate is an arrangement where one currency trades at two official rates, typically a commercial rate for trade and a financial rate for capital flows.
Dual gauge
Dual gauge, also called mixed gauge or twin gauge, is railway track carrying trains of two different wheel gauges, usually by laying three rails, used in Australia, Spain, and Switzerland.
Dual Government of Bengal
The Dual Government of Bengal (দ্বৈত শাসন) was a 1765 to 1772 system in which the East India Company collected Bengal's revenue while the Nawab kept administration.
Dual gradient drilling
Dual gradient drilling (DGD) is an offshore technique, part of managed pressure drilling, that maintains two pressure gradients so wellbore pressure matches formation limits better.
Dual graph
The dual graph, or planar dual, of a planar graph has one vertex for each face and one edge for each pair of faces sharing an edge.
Dual in-line package
The dual in-line package (DIP) is an integrated circuit housing with two parallel rows of pins, introduced at Fairchild in 1965 and dominant for roughly two decades.