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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975 film)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) is a Walt Disney live-action sci-fi family film directed by John Hough, based on Alexander Key's 1968 novel, starring Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Eddie Albert, and Ray Milland as psychic orphan siblings flee exploitation.
Escape to Witch Mountain (1995 film)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1995) is a Disney made-for-television remake of the 1975 film, directed by Peter Rader, aired on ABC April 29, 1995, starring Robert Vaughn, Elisabeth Moss, and Erik von Detten as psychic twins pursued by a tycoon.
ESCAPE trial (NCT01778335)
ESCAPE (NCT01778335), a 2015 randomized trial of endovascular thrombectomy for proximal large-vessel ischemic stroke, enrolled 316 patients and showed 53% vs 29.3% functional independence at 90 days.
Escape velocity
Escape velocity, or escape speed, is the minimum initial speed an object needs, without further propulsion, to escape the gravity of a body like Earth, where it is 11.2 km/s.
Escaped farmed fish and wild population interaction
Escaped farmed fish interact with wild populations through genetic introgression and disease transmission; hundreds of thousands to millions of farmed salmon escape from cages annually.
Escapement
The escapement, also called the escapement mechanism, is the device in a mechanical clock or watch that transfers energy from the weight or mainspring to the pendulum or balance wheel and counts its oscillations.
Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story is a 2019 Lifetime TV movie directed by Karen Moncrieff, starring Christina Ricci, Joshua Bowman, and Judith Light, a fictionalized amnesia-thriller retelling of Bly's 1887 Ten Days in a Mad-House asylum exposé.
Escapism
Escapism: the tendency to evade one's situation through diversion and distraction via media, games, or consumption; introduced in 1950s media research, defined by Katz and Foulkes (1962), and split into self-suppression and self-expansion forms in the dualistic model.
Escargot
Escargot is a prepared dish of edible land snails, most characteristically served in their shells with garlic-herb butter, a classic French appetizer eaten especially at Christmas.
Escarpment
An escarpment is a long, continuous steep slope facing one direction and separating gentler surfaces, formed by faulting or erosion, including great escarpments about a kilometer high.
Escaype Live
Escaype Live is a 2022 Hindi drama thriller web series on Disney+ Hotstar, created and directed by Siddharth Kumar Tewary, about six people competing for a 3-crore prize on a fictional social media app; nine episodes, mixed reviews, IMDb 7.5.
ESCCNCRTvNCT trial
ESCCNCRTvNCT trial (NCT03001596, CMISG1701): Chinese multicenter randomized phase III trial comparing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus chemotherapy followed by minimally invasive esophagectomy in 264 patients with cT3-4aN0-1M0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; similar safety, higher pCR, no significant survival difference.
Escena de Avanzada
Escena de Avanzada, a term coined by critic Nelly Richard, names Chilean experimental artists and writers who opposed the Pinochet dictatorship from the late 1970s, working with performance and urban intervention.
Eschar
Eschar is a layer of dead (necrotic) tissue that forms over wounds or burns, caused by burns, trauma, infections, or pressure ulcers, and must be distinguished from a scab.
Eschatology
Eschatology, also called End of Times, is the theological study of the last things: death, judgment, the afterlife, and the end of the world, from the Greek eschatos, "last".
Eschede train disaster
The Eschede train disaster, also called the Eschede derailment, was a 1998 rail crash near Eschede, Germany, in which a derailed ICE high-speed train killed 101 people.
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli (coliform, Bacterium coli commune) is a Gram-negative gut commensal bacterium discovered by Theodor Escherich in 1885; most strains are harmless, but IPEC and ExPEC pathotypes cause diarrhea, UTIs, and sepsis, and K-12 is the leading model organism.
Escherichia coli bacteriophage preparations
Escherichia coli bacteriophage preparations are lytic phage cocktails, such as EcoShield PX and PhageGuard E, applied to foods at up to 10^8 PFU/g to control STEC and E. coli O157:H7, cleared in the US mainly through FDA GRAS notices (GRN 724, 757, 827, 834).
Escherichia coli O157:H7
Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli strain causing hemorrhagic colitis and HUS; first recognized in 1982 ground beef outbreaks, with a 1-100 CFU infectious dose and cattle reservoirs.
Escherichia virus T4
Escherichia virus T4 (Tequatrovirus T4), bacteriophage T4, is a T-even dsDNA virus infecting E. coli; 168,903 bp genome, contractile tail, foundational molecular genetics model.
Eschscholzia californica
Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy or golden poppy, is an herbaceous flowering plant native from Washington to Baja California, proclaimed California's state flower in 1903 and widely grown as an ornamental.
Escitalopram
Escitalopram (Lexapro, Cipralex) is an SSRI antidepressant, the active S-enantiomer of citalopram, approved in the US in 2002 for major depressive disorder and later for generalized anxiety disorder, with dose-dependent QT prolongation.
eSCN
eSCN, or Equivariant Spherical Channel Network, is a graph neural network for 3D atomic data, introduced at Meta AI in 2023, achieving state-of-the-art catalyst results.
Escoba
Escoba (Escoba de 15, "broom") is a Spanish fishing card game for 2-4 players using a 40-card Spanish deck; captures sum to exactly 15, sweeps score escobas, and hands score cartas, oros, siete de velo, and setenta.
Escobal
Escobal is an underground silver-gold-lead-zinc mine in Guatemala, 40 km southeast of Guatemala City, producing about 20 million ounces of silver yearly from 2014 to 2017.
Escobar FSRU
Escobar FSRU, also known as GNL Escobar, is Argentina's LNG import terminal, a floating storage and regasification unit opened in 2011 on the Paraná River near Buenos Aires.
Escobar: Paradise Lost
Escobar: Paradise Lost (Escobar: Paraíso perdido) is a 2014 France-Spain-Belgium thriller, Andrea Di Stefano's directorial debut, starring Benicio del Toro as Pablo Escobar opposite Josh Hutcherson as a Canadian surfer in love with Escobar's niece.
Escoffion
Escoffion (scoffion): a medieval French women's headdress, originally a jeweled net-covered cushion, later a horned padded head-dress of the fifteenth century alongside the hennin; the word later became a burlesque term for common women's headwear.
Escola de Surf
Escola de surf (surf school): a Portuguese-language term for a business teaching surfing with certified instructors and equipment. Portugal has 138+ listed schools across 7 regions; schools hold FPS certification and follow safety ratios and accreditation schemes.
Escolar
Escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, aburasokomutsu) is a deep-sea snake mackerel sold as white tuna; about 20% of its body weight is indigestible wax esters causing keriorrhea, and its sale is banned in Japan and Italy.