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Essar Group
Essar Group is an Indian business house founded by the brothers Shashi and Ravi Ruia in 1969, which sold its core oil, steel, and port assets between 2017 and 2022.
Essar Steel
Essar Steel was an Indian steel producer based in Hazira, Gujarat, that entered insolvency in 2017 and was acquired by ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel in 2019.
Essay
Essay: short exploratory prose nonfiction, invented by Michel de Montaigne (Essais, 1580; dated March 1571 by the 1911 Britannica), from French essai, a trial. Distinguished from treatises by personal voice and tolerant, wandering form.
Essay on Nourishing Life (Yangsheng Lun)
The Essay on Nourishing Life (养生论) is a treatise on health and longevity by Ji Kang, a poet and thinker of the Wei state in the Three Kingdoms period.
Essay tradition in the Republican era
The essay tradition in the Republican era (deneme) is the rise of the essay, a personal, unproving prose form, as a mature genre in Turkish literature after 1923.
Essays (Montaigne)
Essais (Essays), Michel de Montaigne's three-book French prose collection, written over twenty years to 1592; editions of 1580, 1588 (Bordeaux Copy), and 1595 (Marie de Gournay); origin of the essay genre.
Essays in Idleness
Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa) is an early 14th-century Japanese essay collection of 244 short sections by the poet and Buddhist priest Kenkō, ranked among the three great essay collections of classical Japanese literature.
Essays of Elia
Essays of Elia, Charles Lamb's familiar essays published pseudonymously as "Elia" in the London Magazine from 1820, collected in 1823 with Last Essays of Elia in 1833, foundational works of the English personal essay.
Esse quam videri
Esse quam videri, Latin for "to be, rather than to seem," is North Carolina's state motto, adopted February 21, 1893 from Cicero's De Amicitia; also used by Frederick the Great, the Wallenberg family, and many schools.
ESSEILY
ESSEILY, the stage name of Mahmoud El Esseily (محمود العسيلي), is an Egyptian pop singer and producer born in 1982, known for "Doum Doum" and "Ya Nas".
Essel Group
Essel Group, also known as Zee Group, is an Indian family-controlled conglomerate founded in 1926, best known for Zee TV and hit by a 2019 debt crisis.
Essen
Essen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the Ruhr area, with about 590,000 residents, nine boroughs, and the UNESCO Zollverein coal mine complex; fourth largest city in NRW.
Essence
Essence (Greek to ti en einai, Latin essentia) is the philosophical notion of what a thing is in itself, grounding essentialism from Aristotle and Aquinas through Kripke, Quine's rejection, and Fine's post-modal debates.
Essence Atkins
Essence Atkins (Essence Uhura Atkins), American actress, producer, and director born 1972 in New York City, known for Smart Guy, Half & Half, Are We There Yet?, Marlon, A Haunted House, and CBS's Poppa's House, with a 2019 ABFF Best Performance by a Lead Actor award for Same Difference.
Essence Music Festival
Essence Music Festival (ESSENCE Festival of Culture), annual New Orleans festival on Fourth of July weekend at Caesars Superdome; 2026 edition July 3-5 headlined by Cardi B, Brandy & Monica, T.I.; 32nd annual, with funding negotiations ongoing.
Essendon Football Club
Essendon Football Club (the Bombers), AFL club formed 1872, equal-high 16 premierships; known for the 2012 supplements saga that brought a $2 million fine, draft sanctions, and 34 player doping notices.
Essenes
The Essenes were a strict Jewish sect of the Second Temple period, described by Josephus, Philo, and Pliny, and often linked to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Essentia Analytics
Essentia Analytics is a London-based fintech company founded in 2013 by former fund manager Clare Flynn Levy that provides behavioral data analytics and performance coaching to professional investors.
Essential AI
Essential AI is a San Francisco AI startup founded in 2023 by Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar, co-authors of the 2017 transformer paper, to build enterprise large language models.
Essential Air Service
Essential Air Service (EAS) is a US federal program, created by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, subsidizing scheduled flights to small and remote communities.
Essential amino acid
An essential amino acid, also called an indispensable amino acid, is one the human body cannot synthesize and must obtain from food; nine are essential for adults, including histidine.
Essential Climate Variables
Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) are the physical, chemical, or biological variables the Global Climate Observing System has judged critical for characterizing Earth's climate, currently 55 across atmosphere, ocean, and land.
Essential facilities doctrine
The essential facilities doctrine is an antitrust concept under which a firm controlling a facility rivals cannot practically duplicate must grant access on reasonable terms.
Essential fatty acid
Essential fatty acids are dietary fats humans cannot synthesize: linoleic acid (omega-6) and alpha-linolenic acid (omega-3), discovered by George and Mildred Burr in 1929-1930, precursors of arachidonic acid, EPA, and DHA.
Essential fatty acid deficiency
Essential fatty acid deficiency (EFAD) results from inadequate linoleic and alpha-linolenic acid, causing scaly dermatitis and elevated triene:tetraene (Holman) index; seen mainly in fat-free parenteral nutrition and fat malabsorption.
Essential Formulas Worth a Thousand Gold for Emergencies
备急千金要方 (Beiji Qianjin Yaofang, Essential Formulas Worth a Thousand Gold for Emergencies), Sun Simiao's 652 CE Tang dynasty formulary in 30 juan with about 5,300 prescriptions; China's earliest clinical encyclopedia, with the Dayi Jingcheng medical-ethics chapter and a Song-revised edition differing from the original.
Essential fructosuria
Essential fructosuria, also called hepatic fructokinase deficiency or ketohexokinase deficiency (OMIM 229800), is a benign autosomal recessive disorder caused by KHK gene mutations, causing harmless fructose in urine after fructose, sucrose, or sorbitol intake.
Essential Genes
Essential genes are genes necessary for an organism's viability and normal function, also called housekeeping genes. Key facts: bacterial minimum of about 250-300 genes, yeast 1,105 essential genes, JCVI-syn3.0 minimal genome with 473 genes, DEG and OGEE databases.
Essential hypertension
Essential hypertension, also called primary hypertension, is high blood pressure with no identifiable secondary cause, about 90–95% of cases; managed with lifestyle change and drugs to below 130/80 mm Hg.
Essential MCU regulator, mitochondrial
Essential MCU regulator, mitochondrial (EMRE, formerly C22orf32) is a 10 kDa single-pass inner mitochondrial membrane protein, metazoan-specific, required for MCU-mediated calcium uptake and proposed to bridge MICU1/2 to the MCU pore.