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Early-onset myopathy-areflexia-respiratory distress-dysphagia syndrome

EMARDD (early-onset myopathy-areflexia-respiratory distress-dysphagia syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive congenital myopathy caused by MEGF10 mutations on 5q23, a satellite cellopathy with neonatal weakness, diaphragmatic paralysis, dysphagia, and areflexia.

Early-onset obesity-hyperphagia-severe developmental delay syndrome

Early-onset obesity-hyperphagia-severe developmental delay syndrome (OBHD, OMIM 613886) is a rare autosomal dominant syndromic obesity caused by NTRK2/TrkB mutations, with hyperphagia, short-term memory and language impairment, and fewer than 10 reported cases.

Early-onset parkinsonism-intellectual disability syndrome

Early-onset parkinsonism-intellectual disability syndrome, or Waisman syndrome (OMIM 311510), is a rare X-linked recessive RAB39B-related disorder with infantile intellectual disability, macrocephaly, and parkinsonism before age 45, mainly in males.

Early-onset spastic ataxia-myoclonic epilepsy-neuropathy syndrome

Early-onset spastic ataxia-myoclonic epilepsy-neuropathy syndrome, also called SPAX5 or autosomal recessive spastic ataxia type 5 (OMIM 614487), is a rare biallelic AFG3L2 mitochondrial m-AAA protease disorder causing childhood spastic ataxia, neuropathy, and myoclonic epilepsy.

Early-onset X-linked optic atrophy

Early-onset X-linked optic atrophy, or optic atrophy type 2 (OPA2), is a rare X-linked recessive disorder in which boys develop progressive vision loss beginning in early childhood.

Early-type galaxy

An early-type galaxy (ETG) is an elliptical or lenticular galaxy with smooth, featureless morphology and mostly old stars, a name dating to Edwin Hubble's 1926 classification that once implied an evolutionary stage.

Early–late gate synchronizer

The early–late gate synchronizer is a symbol-timing recovery method that compares samples taken before and after a pulse's peak to steer the receiver's sampling clock.

Earlybird Health

Earlybird Health is the healthcare-focused venture capital arm of European firm Earlybird Venture Capital, based in Cologne, Germany. Its €173 million second fund closed in 2024.

Earlybird VC

Earlybird VC is a European venture capital firm founded in 1997, based in Berlin, with €2.5 billion under management across software, deep tech, and life science.

Earlybird Venture Capital

Earlybird Venture Capital is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Berlin, managing about €2.5 billion across technology and health funds.

EARLYDEXCoV2 trial

EARLYDEXCoV2 (EARLY-DEX COVID-19, NCT04836780) was a Spanish randomized open-label trial testing early dexamethasone 6 mg daily for 7 days in hospitalized COVID-19 pneumonia patients without oxygen needs but at high ARDS risk; it found no reduction in ARDS.

EarlySalary

EarlySalary, legally Social Worth Technologies Pvt Ltd, is a Pune-based consumer lending fintech founded in 2015 by Akshay Mehrotra and Ashish Goyal, rebranded as Fibe in 2022.

Earned income tax credit

The earned income tax credit (EITC) is a refundable US federal tax credit for low- and moderate-income workers that rises with earnings, enacted in 1975.

Earned It

Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) is a 2015 waltz-time single by the Weeknd from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack; it peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100, won a Grammy for Best R&B Performance, and was Oscar-nominated.

Earned run average

Earned run average (ERA) is a baseball statistic measuring how many earned runs a pitcher allows per nine innings, credited to Henry Chadwick and officially adopted in 1912.

Earned schedule

Earned schedule (ES) is a time-based extension of earned value management created by Walt Lipke in 2003, expressing progress in time units and forecasting duration reliably through project completion.

Earned value management

Earned value management, or Earned Value Analysis, is a project performance measurement technique that integrates work scope, schedule, and cost into a single baseline used widely by the US government.

Earnest Gloyna

Earnest Gloyna (1921–2019) was an American environmental engineer and dean of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Earnest Hooton

Earnest Hooton (1887–1954) was an American physical anthropologist at Harvard, its first professor of the subject, who trained most of a generation of American physical anthropologists.

Earnest W. Deavenport Jr.

Earnest W. Deavenport Jr. is an American chemical engineer who served as chairman and CEO of Eastman Chemical Company from 1994 until his retirement in 2002.

Earnie Shavers

Earnie Shavers (Earnie Dee Shaver, 1944-2022), "The Acorn," Alabama-born American heavyweight boxer, 74-14-1 with 68 knockouts, twice a title challenger (Ali 1977, Holmes 1979), famed as one of boxing's hardest punchers.

Earnings before interest and taxes

Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) is a profit measure that strips out interest and income tax, letting analysts compare companies independent of capital structure and tax situation.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization

EBITDA, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, is a non-GAAP measure of operating profitability, widely used in valuation and lending and heavily criticized for ignoring capital costs.

Earnings management

Earnings management is the use of judgment in financial reporting and transaction structuring to alter reported earnings, to mislead stakeholders about performance or influence contracts, without necessarily breaking accounting rules.

Earnings per share

Earnings per share (EPS) is the portion of a company's profit allocated to each share of common stock, calculated as income available to common stockholders divided by weighted-average shares outstanding.

Earnings surprise

An earnings surprise is the gap between a company's reported earnings per share and the analyst consensus before the announcement, driving price reactions and post-earnings drift.

Earnings yield

Earnings yield is a valuation ratio expressing earnings per share as a percentage of share price, the inverse of the P/E ratio; a P/E of 20 equals a 5% yield.

Earnix

Earnix is an Israeli software company, founded in 2001 and headquartered near Tel Aviv, selling AI-driven pricing, rating, and underwriting software to insurers and banks.

Earnshaw's theorem

Earnshaw's theorem of electrostatics states that charges or magnets governed by inverse-square force laws cannot be held in stable static equilibrium by those forces alone.

Earp Vendetta Ride

Earp Vendetta Ride (1882): 26-day hunt by Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp's federal posse for Cowboys suspected of maiming Virgil and killing Morgan Earp; four killed, Stilwell first, ending in Colorado.