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Focolare Movement
The Focolare Movement, officially the Work of Mary and also called Focolari, is a Catholic ecclesial movement founded by Chiara Lubich in 1943 around a spirituality of unity.
Focus (2015 film)
Focus is a 2015 American romantic con-artist caper film written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, starring Will Smith as con man Nicky Spurgeon and Margot Robbie as novice grifter Jess Barrett.
Focus (Ariana Grande song)
"Focus" is a 2015 pop single by Ariana Grande on Republic Records, produced by Max Martin and ILYA, written with Savan Kotecha and Peter Svensson. It debuted at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 but was dropped from Dangerous Woman after comparisons to "Problem."
Focus (band)
Focus is a Dutch progressive rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman, known for Hocus Pocus, Sylvia, and House of the King, with 1970s albums Moving Waves, Focus 3 and Hamburger Concerto and a 2000s revival.
Focus Features
Focus Features, also known as Universal Focus, is Universal Pictures' specialty-film production and distribution label, formed in 2002 and known for Brokeback Mountain and Lost in Translation.
Focus group
A focus group is a small, moderated group discussion in qualitative research that gathers perceptions and attitudes from several participants at once, typically 6 to 12 people.
Focus Media Information Technology
Focus Media Information Technology (分众传媒) is China's largest elevator-media company, founded by Jason Jiang in 2003, selling advertising on elevator screens and posters in buildings and on cinema screens.
Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family is a nondenominational Christian nonprofit organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado, founded in 1977 by psychologist James Dobson and known for its daily radio broadcast.
Focus reduction neutralization assay
The focus reduction neutralization assay (FRNT), or focus reduction neutralization test, is a serological assay measuring neutralizing antibodies against viruses such as dengue and SARS-CoV-2.
Focus strategy
Focus strategy is a competitive strategy in which a firm serves a narrow customer segment on cost or differentiation, introduced by Michael Porter in Competitive Strategy in 1980.
Focus variation
Focus variation is an optical surface metrology technique that uses a small depth of focus and vertical scanning to reconstruct 3D surface topography with vertical resolution down to 10 nm.
Focus-X Therapeutics
Focus-X Therapeutics was a preclinical radiopharmaceutical startup in Watchung, New Jersey, founded in 2020 and acquired by Full-Life Technologies in 2022 for up to $245 million.
Focused assessment with sonography for trauma
Focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST), also called eFAST in extended form, is a rapid bedside ultrasound protocol detecting free fluid, typically blood, in injured patients.
Focused Energy
Focused Energy is a German laser fusion startup in Darmstadt, founded in 2021 as a spin-off of Technical University Darmstadt, developing direct-drive laser inertial confinement fusion.
Focused ethnography
Focused ethnography is a qualitative research method studying a specific practice or problem through short, intensive field visits and recordings, used widely in nursing and health research.
Focused ion beam
A focused ion beam (FIB) is an instrument that directs a finely focused beam of ions, typically gallium, onto a sample to mill, image, or deposit material.
Focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy
Focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) is a volume electron microscopy technique that mills away nanometer-thin layers with a gallium ion beam and images each newly exposed surface.
Focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy tomography
FIB-SEM tomography is a destructive 3D imaging method in which a focused ion beam mills away thin sample slices while an electron microscope images each newly exposed cross-section.
Focused proof
A focused proof is a cut-free sequent calculus proof organized into alternating phases around a single formula in focus, shown complete by Andreoli's 1992 focalization theorem.
Focused ultrasound
Focused ultrasound, also known as focused ultrasound surgery, directs intersecting ultrasound beams through intact skin to ablate tissue, open the blood–brain barrier, or modulate neural activity.
Focusing (psychotherapy)
Focusing (psychotherapy): experiential method by Eugene Gendlin, from 1950s research with Carl Rogers at University of Chicago; attends to the bodily felt sense via six steps from his 1978 book, basis of Focusing-Oriented Therapy.
Foday Kaba Dumbuya
Foday Kaba Dumbuya (about 1818 to 1901), also spelled Fodé Kaba Doumbouya, was a Jakhanke marabout and warrior who built a military-religious state in the Senegambia borderlands and Casamance.
Foday Musa Suso
Foday Musa Suso was a Gambian griot and kora virtuoso, a founding member of the Mandingo Griot Society who fused Mandinka music with jazz and minimalism before his death in 2025.
Fodder
Fodder, also called stock feed or animal fodder, is plant material grown and harvested specifically to feed domestic animals, most commonly cattle, horses, sheep, and goats.
Fodder Scam (चारा घोटाला)
The Fodder Scam, known in Hindi as चारा घोटाला, was a fraud on Bihar's treasuries through fake fodder bills, from 1977 to 1996, investigated in connection with chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Fode Diallo
Fode Diallo (Fode Diallo Conde), born 2012 in Sabadell, is a Spanish-Guinean youth centre-forward at FC Barcelona's La Masia, nicknamed the new Eto'o after scoring 97 goals in one alevín season.
Fodéba Keïta
Fodéba Keïta (1921–1969) was a Guinean poet, playwright, composer, and politician who founded Les Ballets Africains in Paris and later served as minister of defense under President Sékou Touré before being executed in 1969.
FODEPOC study
FODEPOC (NCT05853081) is a Spanish observational cohort study at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón testing whether the FODE scale, replacing BMI with fat-free mass index in the BODE index, better predicts COPD exacerbations and mortality.
FODMAP
FODMAPs (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, polyols) are poorly absorbed short-chain carbohydrates; the Monash-developed low FODMAP diet treats IBS via elimination, reintroduction, and personalization phases, with RR 0.69 for global symptoms.
Foe (film)
Foe (2023) is a sci-fi drama directed by Garth Davis, co-written with Iain Reid from his 2018 novel, starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal as a 2065 farm couple facing an AI duplicate; Metascore 44, RT 25%.