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EfficientNet

EfficientNet is a family of convolutional neural networks for image classification that scales depth, width, and resolution together, reported by Mingxing Tan and Quoc V. Le in 2019.

Effie (musician)

Effie, also known as Kim Na-hyun, is a South Korean singer and rapper known for hyperpop. She won Musician of the Year at the 2026 Korean Music Awards.

Effie Gray

Effie Gray (Euphemia Chalmers Gray, 1828–1897), Scottish artists' model and Lady Millais. Married John Ruskin in 1848, annulled that marriage for non-consummation in 1854, then married John Everett Millais and managed his career.

Effie Gray (film)

Effie Gray is a 2014 British period drama directed by Richard Laxton, written by Emma Thompson, starring Dakota Fanning as Effie Gray, Greg Wise as John Ruskin, and Tom Sturridge as Millais; delayed by two copyright suits, released 2014 UK/2015 US, 108 minutes, mixed reviews.

Effie W. Petersdorf

Effie W. Petersdorf is a transplant physician-scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle whose registry-scale HLA matching studies established the 8/8 match standard for unrelated donor transplantation.

Effigy

Effigy: a material image or likeness of a person, from Latin effigies. Covers funeral and wax effigies (Westminster Abbey, Madame Tussaud tradition) and figures hanged or burned in effigy in protest and ritual.

Effigy mound

An effigy mound is an earthen mound shaped like an animal or spirit figure, built by Indigenous peoples of southern Wisconsin between about AD 650 and 1200.

Effigy Mounds National Monument

Effigy Mounds National Monument is a National Park Service unit in northeastern Iowa preserving more than 200 prehistoric Native American mounds, including 31 bear and bird effigies.

Efflorescence

Efflorescence is the appearance of white salt crystals on the surface of porous materials like brick, concrete, and stone, formed when dissolved salts crystallize as water evaporates.

Effluent

Effluent is wastewater that has been processed or partially processed and released into the environment, from domestic sewage, industrial discharge, or agricultural runoff, and is governed by treatment standards such as US secondary limits.

Efforts to impeach Barack Obama

Efforts to impeach Barack Obama were Republican-led calls during his presidency, peaking in 2014 with Sarah Palin's 'lawless, imperial president' charge and about one-third public support; no inquiry opened and no articles reached the House floor.

Efforts to impeach Donald Trump

Efforts to impeach Donald Trump: House impeachments of December 18, 2019 (abuse of power, obstruction of Congress) and January 13, 2021 (incitement of insurrection), Senate acquittals in 2020 and 2021, and later resolutions.

Effrakata

Effrakata is a 2001 double album by Congolese singer Koffi Olomidé and his orchestra Quartier Latin, a gold-certified set of 16 tracks that won four Kora Awards in 2002.

Effusion cooling

Effusion cooling, also called full-coverage or multi-hole film cooling, protects gas turbine combustor liners and blades by bleeding cooling air through dense arrays of small holes.

Effusion of joint

Effusion of joint (hydrarthrosis, ICD-11 FA36) is increased intra-articular synovial fluid from trauma, degeneration, inflammation, or infection. Diagnosed by ultrasound (~90% sensitive) and arthrocentesis; fluid leukocyte counts classify it, and septic arthritis must be excluded.

Effy Stonem

Effy Stonem, born Elizabeth Stonem, is a fictional character in the British teen drama Skins, played by Kaya Scodelario and featured across two generations of the show.

EFG Hermes

EFG Hermes is an Egyptian investment bank founded in 1984 and now the investment-banking arm of EFG Holding, ranked first in LSEG's 2025 MENA investment banking fees.

EFG International

EFG International is a Zurich-based, SIX-listed Swiss private banking group, one of the industry's "Big 8", known for its portable Client Relationship Officer model and its 2016 acquisition of BSI.

Efgartigimod alfa

Efgartigimod alfa, sold by argenx as VYVGART, is a neonatal Fc receptor blocker that lowers circulating IgG; the FDA approved it in 2021 for generalized myasthenia gravis.

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou is a hydrologist, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Irvine, known for multiscale precipitation methods and delta science; she won the International Hydrology Prize in 2023.

EFI Reggiani

EFI Reggiani is the textile printing brand of Electronics For Imaging, created when EFI acquired Reggiani Macchine of Bergamo, Italy, in 2015, selling digital and analog textile printers and inks.

EFI system partition

The EFI system partition (ESP) is a partition formatted with a UEFI-defined version of FAT that stores operating system loaders, drivers, and utility applications the firmware loads at startup.

EFIGRO trial

EFIGRO (NCT02258126) was a two-arm Spanish trial in Vitoria-Gasteiz testing supervised exercise added to a family-based lifestyle program in 116 children aged 8-12 with overweight/obesity; exercise raised hepatic-fat responder rates and IMAAT reduction mediated liver-fat improvement.

Efik Ekpe society praise chants

Efik Ekpe society praise chants are sung texts of the Ékpè graded society of the Cross River Basin, performed publicly and mostly in the Efik language.

Efik oral literature

Efik oral literature is the spoken verbal art of the Efik people of Cross River State, Nigeria, including storytelling, proverbs, riddles, songs, and folk drama.

EFILism

EFILism is a negative utilitarian, antinatalist philosophy treating all sentient life as a harm, created by the YouTuber Gary Mosher, known as Inmendham, in 2011.

Efim Fradkin

Efim Samoilovich Fradkin (Ефим Самойлович Фрадкин; 1924–1999) was a Soviet theoretical physicist at the Lebedev Physics Institute who helped discover the Landau pole and co-founded higher-spin field theory.

Efim Zelmanov

Efim Zelmanov is a Russian-born mathematician, born in 1955 in Khabarovsk, who won the 1994 Fields Medal for solving the restricted Burnside problem in group theory.

Efimov effect

The Efimov effect is a quantum few-body phenomenon, predicted by Vitaly Efimov in the 1970s, in which three particles form infinitely many weakly bound states despite no two binding alone.

Efimov state in helium trimer

The Efimov state in the helium trimer is a weakly bound, extended state of three helium-4 atoms, predicted by Efimov theory in 1977 and observed by Coulomb explosion imaging in 2015.