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Frequentist probability
Frequentist probability, also called frequentism, interprets probability as the long-run relative frequency of an event in repeated trials, underpinning the statistical methods of Fisher, Neyman, and Pearson.
Frère Jacques
Frère Jacques (Brother John, Are You Sleeping) is a French children's round about a sleeping monk who must ring matines bells. A four-voice canon first printed in 1811, possibly by Rameau; Mahler quoted it in his First Symphony.
Frere's ultimatum to Cetshwayo
Frere's ultimatum to Cetshwayo was a set of British demands requiring the Zulu king to disarm, delivered on 11 December 1878 and leading to the Anglo-Zulu War.
Fréro Delavega
Fréro Delavega is a French pop-folk duo from the Bassin d'Arcachon, formed by Jérémy Frérot and Florian Delavega, who rose to fame on The Voice in 2014.
Fresa y Chocolate
Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate), 1993 Cuban-Mexican-Spanish film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, screenplay Senel Paz; friendship between a gay artist and a communist student; first Cuban Oscar nominee.
Fresca
Fresca is a grapefruit-citrus, sugar-free, caffeine-free sparkling soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company, launched in 1967 after 1964 test marketing as its second low-calorie beverage after TaB.
Fresco
Fresco (affresco) is wall painting on plaster: buon fresco applies water-borne pigment to wet lime plaster that carbonates to calcium carbonate, locking in color; secco uses binders on dry plaster.
Frescoes of the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street
The frescoes of the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street (Спаса Преображения на Ильине улице) are a 1378 mural cycle by Theophanes the Greek in Novgorod.
Frescoes of the Ferapontov Monastery
The Frescoes of the Ferapontov Monastery are murals painted in 1502 by the Moscow master Dionisy in northern Russia, preserved almost intact and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
Fresenius (company)
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA is a German healthcare group that runs hospitals and a pharmaceutical and medical technology business, and holds a large stake in dialysis company Fresenius Medical Care.
Fresenius Kabi
Fresenius Kabi is a German healthcare company, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Bad Homburg, that makes IV drugs, clinical nutrition, and medical technology for critically and chronically ill patients.
Fresh (1994 film)
Fresh is a 1994 American crime drama written and directed by Boaz Yakin, starring Sean Nelson as a twelve-year-old Brooklyn drug courier who uses chess strategy against the dealers around him.
Fresh (2022 film)
Fresh (2022) is an American horror comedy directed by Mimi Cave, written by Lauryn Kahn, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan. Premiered at Sundance January 20, 2022; released on Hulu March 4, 2022; about a woman whose new boyfriend sells human meat.
Fresh Cream
Fresh Cream is the 1966 debut album by British rock trio Cream (Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker), released 9 December 1966 on Reaction in the UK and on Atco in the US, reaching UK No. 6, and distinct from fresh dairy cream.
Fresh frozen plasma
Fresh frozen plasma (FFP) is plasma frozen at −25°C or colder within 6–8 hours of separation, used to replace coagulation factors in bleeding, massive hemorrhage, and factor deficiencies; dose 10–20 ml/kg, thawed use within 24 hours.
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the 1980 debut album by Dead Kennedys, released on Cherry Red in the UK and Alternative Tentacles in the US, recorded at Mobius Music, San Francisco, with cover art of police cars burned in the 1979 White Night riot.
Fresh Kills (film)
Fresh Kills (2023) is Jennifer Esposito's directorial debut, a Staten Island mafia drama about the Larusso women, starring Emily Bader and Odessa A'zion; premiered at Tribeca, released theatrically June 14, 2024. Distinct from Fresh Kill (1972, 1994).
Fresh Kills Landfill
Fresh Kills Landfill was a municipal landfill on Staten Island, New York City, operating from 1948 to 2001 and once the largest in the United States.
Fresh Life (鲜生活冷链物流有限公司) (Xian Shenghuo)
Fresh Life (鲜生活冷链物流有限公司) is a Chengdu-based cold chain logistics company founded in 2016, incubated by New Hope Group's investment platform Grassroots Zhiben, which transports fresh and frozen food.
Fresh Meat (TV series)
Fresh Meat is a British Channel 4 comedy drama (2011–2016) by Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, following six Manchester university students sharing 28 Hartnell Avenue; four series, 30 episodes, starring Jack Whitehall, Zawe Ashton, and Charlotte Ritchie.
Fresh Off the Boat
Fresh Off the Boat is an American family sitcom that aired on ABC from 2015 to 2020, following a Taiwanese American family that moves to Orlando, Florida, in 1995.
Fresh Thyme
Fresh Thyme Market, formerly Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, is a Midwest-based American chain of natural and organic grocery stores, operating about 70 stores in ten states.
Fresh water
Fresh water: water with under 1,000 ppm dissolved salts (USGS; WHO <1,000 mg/L TDS), 2.5% of Earth's water, mostly in ice (68.7%) and groundwater (30.1%); renewed by ~43,000 km³/yr, ~70% withdrawn by agriculture.
Fresh-start accounting
Fresh-start accounting is the US GAAP treatment, under ASC Topic 852, under which a company emerging from Chapter 11 reorganization is treated as a new reporting entity.
Fresha
Fresha is a London-based technology company providing booking, payment, and business-management software for salons and wellness businesses. It was founded in 2015 in the UAE as Shedul.
Freshman
Freshman (plural freshmen) is the chiefly American term for a first-year high school, college, or university student; many US universities now replace it with the gender-neutral first-year, while CSU and others keep it.
Freshman 15
Freshman 15: the popular belief that first-year college students gain 15 pounds (6.8 kg). Research, including a 2015 meta-analysis, finds an average gain of about 1.36 kg (3 lbs), with only 9.3% gaining 15 pounds.
Freshwater
Freshwater is the 2018 debut novel by Akwaeke Emezi, following Ada, a young Nigerian woman born as an ogbanje, an Igbo spirit child, who carries multiple selves within her.
Freshwater aquarium snail care
Freshwater aquarium snail care is the husbandry of ornamental snails such as mystery, nerite, rabbit, and Malaysian trumpet snails, centered on hard water for shells and avoiding copper.
Freshwater Biology (journal)
Freshwater Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by John Wiley & Sons since 1971, covering freshwater ecology from rivers and lakes to groundwaters and wetlands.