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Framer
Framer is a Netherlands-based no-code website builder, started by Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk, where users design pages on a visual canvas and publish them to managed hosting.
Frameshift mutation
Frameshift mutation: an insertion or deletion of DNA base pairs not a multiple of three, also called a frameshift variant, which disrupts the triplet reading frame, changes all downstream codons, and usually creates a premature stop codon and truncated protein.
Frameup
Frameup (frame-up, setup): falsely implicating someone in a crime via fabricated evidence or testimony; informal American English term from 1895–1900, documented in exoneration research on planted drugs and police perjury.
Framework analysis
Framework analysis, also called the framework method, is a qualitative research method that charts interview and focus-group data into a matrix of cases by codes for systematic analysis.
Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence
The Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence is the first international legally binding treaty on AI, adopted by the Council of Europe and opened for signature in September 2024.
Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development
Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, or the European Union's Framework programme, is an EU funding program for research and innovation running in cycles since 1984.
Framework Ventures
Framework Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Vance Spencer and Michael Anderson, an early investor in decentralized finance with $1.28 billion under management.
Framing (construction)
Framing, also called frame construction, is the structural skeleton of a building: beams, studs, and walls that carry loads to the foundation, typically wood or steel.
Framing (social sciences)
Framing (social sciences): selection and salience in constructing meaning, from Goffman's Frame Analysis to social movement framing (diagnostic, prognostic, motivational tasks; Snow and Benford) and media framing effects research.
Framing analysis
Framing analysis is a research method in communication and the social sciences that studies how selecting and highlighting aspects of an issue in media shapes how audiences interpret it.
Framing effect (psychology)
Framing effect (psychology): a cognitive bias where equivalent information presented as gains versus losses reverses preferences. Known from Tversky and Kahneman's 1981 Asian Disease Problem, explained by Prospect Theory and loss aversion, reduced by visual aids in health communication.
Framingham Heart Study
Framingham Heart Study, begun 1948 in Framingham, Massachusetts under the NHLBI: a longitudinal cohort study of 5,209 original participants, later six cohorts, that identified major cardiovascular risk factors and produced the Framingham risk score.
Framingham Risk Score
Framingham Risk Score (FRS): algorithm estimating 10-year coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease risk from age, cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking, and sex; derived from the Framingham Heart Study, most-validated CVD risk model, tends to overestimate risk without recalibration.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Framingham, Massachusetts, is a city of about 72,000 in Middlesex County, about 20 miles west of Boston, incorporated as a town in 1700 and as a city in 2018.
Framlingham
Framlingham, Suffolk: an Anglo-Saxon-origin market town in East Suffolk, England, known for Framlingham Castle where Mary Tudor was proclaimed Queen in 1553, its mere, schools, and Ed Sheeran connections.
Framos
Framos is a German imaging technology company near Munich, founded in 1981, supplying embedded vision components, camera modules, and engineering services for automation and robotics.
Frampton Comes Alive!
Frampton Comes Alive! is a 1976 live double album by Peter Frampton that reached No. 1 and became the best-selling live album of its time.
Fran Bagenal
Fran Bagenal is a British-born American planetary scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the magnetospheres of the outer planets and worked on the Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, and Juno missions.
Fran Bow
Fran Bow: 2015 point-and-click psychological horror adventure by Swedish studio Killmonday Games (Natalia and Isak Martinsson). Ten-year-old Fran escapes Oswald Asylum using Duotine pills to enter the Ultrareality; five chapters, Indiegogo-funded, Unity rebuild 2023.
Fran Drescher
Fran Drescher is an American actress, comedian, producer, and labor leader who co-created and starred in The Nanny. She served as SAG-AFTRA president and led the 118-day 2023 industry strike.
Fran García (footballer, born 1999)
Fran García (Francisco José García Torres, born 1999, Bolaños de Calatrava) is a Spanish left back. Real Madrid academy product, Rayo Vallecano 2020-23, 110 Real Madrid matches and 5 titles, joined Real Betis in July 2026; 2 Spain caps.
Fran Halsall
Fran Halsall is a retired British sprint swimmer who competed at three Olympic Games and won gold in the mixed medley relay at the 2015 World Championships.
Fran Healy (musician)
Fran Healy (Francis Healy, born 1973, Staffordshire) is the Scottish singer-songwriter and frontman of Britpop band Travis, writer of "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?", Brit Award and Ivor Novello winner, and solo artist behind Wreckorder (2010).
Fran Kirby
Fran Kirby (born 1993) is an English footballer, Chelsea's record women's scorer with 110 goals, an England midfielder-forward with 77 caps and 19 goals, Euro 2022 winner, now at Brighton & Hove Albion after a 2024 transfer.
Fran Krsto Frankopan
Fran Krsto Frankopan was a Croatian nobleman, military commander, and poet of the Frankopan family, co-organizer of the Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy against the Habsburgs, beheaded with Petar Zrinski in 1671.
Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz (Frances Ann Lebowitz, born 1951) is an American humorist and speaker, author of Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), subject of Scorsese's Public Speaking and Pretend It's a City, famous for writer's block and shunning technology.
Fran Levstik
Fran Levstik (1831–1887) was a Slovene poet, dramatist, and literary critic who was central to the literature after the March Revolution of 1848. He also wrote Popotovanje iz Litije do Čateža.
Fran McCaffery
Fran McCaffery (born 1959) is an American college basketball coach, Penn's head coach since 2025, with a 566-396 record at Lehigh, UNC Greensboro, Siena, Iowa, and Penn; he took five schools to the NCAA Tournament and is Iowa's all-time winningest coach.
Fran Supek
Fran Supek, born 1981, is a Croatian computational biologist leading the Genome Data Science lab at IRB Barcelona and, since 2024, a group at the University of Copenhagen.
Fran Tarkenton
Fran Tarkenton (Francis Asbury Tarkenton, born 1940), NFL quarterback 1961-1978 for the Vikings and Giants, nicknamed The Scrambler; retired holding passing records (47,003 yards, 342 TDs), 1975 MVP, 0-3 in Super Bowls, Hall of Fame 1986.