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Ember.js

Ember.js is an open-source JavaScript front-end framework for building websites with rich user interactions, grown out of SproutCore and released as version 1.0 in 2013.

Emberiza

Emberiza, the Old World buntings, is a genus of about 44 passerine species in Emberizidae, including the Yellowhammer, Corn Bunting, and Critically Endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting.

Emberizidae is a family of passerine birds containing the Old World buntings, small seed-eating songbirds found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica; New World sparrows were split into the separate family Passerellidae in 2017.

Embeth Davidtz

Embeth Davidtz, American-born South African-raised actress (Schindler's List, Matilda's Miss Honey), later writer-director of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2024), adapted from Alexandra Fuller's memoir.

Embezzlement

Embezzlement, also called theft by conversion or abus de confiance, is the fraudulent appropriation of entrusted property, distinct from larceny because the original taking was lawful; a specific-intent statutory crime under 18 U.S.C. § 666 and § 641.

Embibe

Embibe, legally Indiavidual Learning Private Limited, is an Indian edtech company founded in 2012 by Aditi Avasthi that offered AI-based exam preparation before Reliance acquired it in 2018.

Embioptera

Embioptera (webspinners, Embiidina, Embiodea) is an order of gregarious tropical insects that spin silk from foreleg tarsal glands to build galleries; about 450 species, sister to Zoraptera within Polyneoptera.

Embla Coronae

Embla Coronae is a 132 km diameter corona on Venus at 28.9°N, 205.4°E in quad V-14, IAU-named in 2006 after the Scandinavian Earth goddess Embla, creator of life.

Embla Matilde Njerve

Embla Matilde Njerve (born 2007) is a Norwegian pole vaulter from Bergen, Bergens TF. U18 European silver medallist 2024, Norwegian indoor champion, personal best 4.30 m, Norwegian U20 and U18 records.

Emblem

Emblem: a words-and-picture symbolic mark, from Greek emblêma via Latin emblema. Covers the Renaissance emblem book (Alciato 1531, motto–pictura–subscriptio), state and heraldic emblems, and modern logo usage.

Oct 22, 2026

Emblem book

An emblem book is a collection of emblems, each combining a motto, a symbolic picture, and an explanatory verse, invented by Andrea Alciato in 1531.

Oct 20, 2026

Emblema

Emblema is a monotypic estrildid finch genus (Gould, 1842) containing the Painted Finch, Emblema pictum, of arid inland Australia; named from Latin for mosaic, after its mottled red-and-white underparts.

Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The red cross, red crescent, and red crystal emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, their protective and indicative uses under the Geneva Conventions, history from 1864, misuse rules, and the digital emblem project.

Embodied (company)

Embodied, Inc. was a Pasadena, California robotics and AI company founded in 2016, best known for Moxie, a social-emotional companion robot for children ages 5 to 10.

Embodied benchmarks and simulation suites

Embodied benchmarks and simulation suites are evaluation infrastructures that measure how well multimodal AI agents perceive, reason, and act in simulated 3D environments, where top models still score far below humans.

Embodied carbon

Embodied carbon is the total greenhouse gas emissions from producing, transporting, and assembling building materials, one of the two halves of a building's carbon account alongside operational carbon.

Embodied chain-of-thought reasoning

Embodied chain-of-thought reasoning (ECoT) is a training method for vision-language-action robot policies, introduced in July 2024 by Michał Zawalski and colleagues, in which the model generates structured reasoning before acting.

Embodied cognition

Embodied cognition: a cognitive-science research program holding that cognition depends causally or constitutively on the body beyond the brain; spans Lakoff-Johnson, enactivism, robotics, education, and replication-crisis debates.

Embodied conversational agent

An embodied conversational agent is a computer-generated character, virtual or robotic, that converses with a person using verbal and nonverbal human face-to-face behaviors like speech, gestures, and facial expressions.

Embodied Moxie social robot

Moxie is a social robot for children made by Embodied, a Pasadena robotics company, launched in 2020 to build social and emotional skills through play.

Sep 19, 2026

Embolada

Embolada is an improvised sung-poetry genre of northeastern Brazil, performed by duos of emboladores who trade comic challenge verses over pandeiro accompaniment, popularized nationally in the 1950s by Jackson do Pandeiro.

Sep 29, 2026

Embolectomy

Embolectomy is the removal of an embolus, a blood clot that formed in one vessel and lodged elsewhere, done by open surgery, balloon catheter, or aspiration.

Embolic Protection Devices

Embolic protection devices capture or deflect dislodged debris during angioplasty, stenting, and TAVR. Three classes: distal occlusion balloons, distal filters, proximal occlusion. Class I indication in vein grafts; TAVR benefit unproven in RCTs.

Embolic stroke of undetermined source

Embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS), a 2014-defined subset of cryptogenic ischemic stroke: non-lacunar, embolic-appearing, no atrial fibrillation, no ≥50% stenosis, no cardioembolic source after workup; anticoagulation trials failed.

Embolism

Embolism: sudden vessel blockage by a detached mass (embolus), a term coined by Virchow. Most common form is pulmonary embolism from deep vein thrombosis; other types include fat, air, tumor, and amniotic fluid emboli.

Embolization

Embolization (embolotherapy): minimally invasive transcatheter occlusion of blood vessels using particles, liquids, coils, or gels to stop bleeding, starve tumors, or treat AVMs and aneurysms.

Embolotherium

Embolotherium (battering ram beast) is an extinct late Eocene Mongolian brontothere, named by Osborn in 1929, with a single ram-like nasal-frontal bony process that likely supported a hugely enlarged nose, possibly for loud vocalizations.

Embolus

Embolus: material (usually a thrombus fragment, also fat, air, tumor, amniotic fluid, septic matter) traveling in blood and blocking a vessel; Virchow coined the term in the 1850s; pulmonary embolism is the most common form.

Emborcação hydroelectric plant

The Emborcação hydroelectric plant, officially Usina Hidrelétrica Theodomiro Carneiro Santiago, is a 1,192 MW dam on the Paranaíba River in Minas Gerais, Brazil, operated by Cemig since 1982.