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FAST-MI 2010 study
FAST-MI 2010 was a nationwide French registry of 4169 heart attack patients in 213 centers, conducted by the French Society of Cardiology and followed for up to 10 years.
Fast-moving consumer goods
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) are low-cost, frequently repurchased products such as packaged food, beverages, personal care, and household essentials; the fastest-turnover subset of CPG, sold in high volume at thin margins.
Fast-neutron reactor
A fast-neutron reactor, or fast reactor, is a nuclear reactor that sustains fission with unmoderated high-energy neutrons, using uranium about 60 times more efficiently than conventional reactors.
FAST-PETase
FAST-PETase is an engineered variant of the PET-degrading enzyme PETase from Ideonella sakaiensis, designed in 2020 to break down PET plastic faster at higher temperatures.
Fast-Planner
Fast-Planner is an open-source quadrotor motion planning system, proposed in 2019, that combines kinodynamic search with B-spline optimization for fast autonomous flight in complex environments; it underpins projects like FUEL and ego-planner.
Fast-scan cyclic voltammetry
Fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV), also known as fast cyclic voltammetry, is an electroanalytical technique that sweeps voltage rapidly at a carbon-fiber microelectrode to detect neurotransmitters like dopamine in living tissue in real time.
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control is Errol Morris's 1997 documentary interweaving a lion tamer, topiary gardener, mole-rat specialist, and MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks, whose 1989 swarm-robots paper gave the film its title.
Fast.ai
Fast.ai is a research institute co-founded by Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas that makes deep learning accessible through its free Practical Deep Learning for Coders course and fastai library.
FASTA format
FASTA format is a plain-text format for DNA and protein sequences, with each record starting with a ">" header line followed by the sequence itself.
FASTag
FASTag is a passive RFID tag affixed to a vehicle's windshield that pays highway tolls electronically in India, mandatory for all vehicles since January 2021.
FastAPI
FastAPI is a high-performance Python web framework for building APIs, created by Sebastián Ramírez in 2018, built on Starlette and Pydantic, and known for automatic OpenAPI documentation and high throughput.
Fastback
A fastback is a car body style with a roofline descending in one continuous slope to the rear bumper, as on the 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback.
Fastball (band)
Fastball is an American power pop trio formed in Austin, Texas, in 1994, originally called Magneto U.S.A. Members Miles Zuniga, Tony Scalzo, and Joey Shuffield broke through with the million-selling 1998 album All the Pain Money Can Buy and its hits "The Way" and "Out of My Head."
Fastems
Fastems is a family-owned Finnish manufacturer of flexible automation systems for CNC machine tools, created in 1994 from Valmet Factory Automation and headquartered in Tampere.
Fastener
A fastener is a hardware device such as a bolt, screw, nut, or rivet that joins parts and can usually be taken apart without destroying them.
Faster (2010 film)
Faster (2010) is an American action thriller directed by George Tillman Jr., written by Tony and Joe Gayton, starring Dwayne Johnson as Driver, an ex-con seeking revenge, with Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Jackson-Cohen; CBS Films released it November 24, 2010.
Faster Pussycat
Faster Pussycat is an American glam metal and hard rock band formed in 1985 in Los Angeles, whose 1989 album Wake Me When It's Over was certified gold.
FASTER-LIO
Faster-LIO is a lightweight, tightly coupled LiDAR-inertial odometry system published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in 2022, using incremental voxels instead of a tree-based map.
Faster-than-light
Faster-than-light travel, also called FTL travel, means transmitting matter, energy, or information faster than the speed of light, which special relativity forbids for anything with mass.
Faster-than-light communication
Faster-than-light communication, also called superluminal signaling, is the hypothetical transmission of information faster than light in vacuum, which would allow messages to arrive before they are sent in some reference frames, violating causality in special relativity.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) is Russ Meyer's 83-minute exploitation film about three go-go dancers, starring Tura Satana, later reappraised as a feminist cult classic and often called the greatest B-movie.
FasterTransformer
FasterTransformer (FT) is an open-source NVIDIA library, written in C++ and CUDA, providing optimized transformer encoder and decoder components for GPU inference of large models.
Fastest propeller-driven aircraft
The fastest propeller-driven aircraft is the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95, a four-engine turboprop bomber first produced in the 1950s, with a record speed of 575 mph.
Fastest recorded tennis serves
Fastest recorded tennis serves: Sam Groth's 263.4 km/h (163.7 mph) 2012 Busan Challenger serve, ATP-recognized record John Isner 253 km/h (2016 Davis Cup), women's records Garcia Perez 136.7 mph and Lisicki 131 mph, and radar measurement caveats.
Fasti
The Fasti were official Roman calendars recording, for every day, its legal and religious character, festivals, and games, alongside magistrate and triumphator lists used for dating.
FastICA
FastICA is a fast fixed-point algorithm for independent component analysis that recovers independent source signals from linear mixtures, reported by Hyvärinen and Oja in 1997 and widely used in scikit-learn.
Fastify
Fastify is a fast, low-overhead web framework for Node.js that adds minimal overhead to the platform's HTTP server while providing routing, JSON Schema validation, serialization, hooks, and a plugin system.
Fasting
Fasting is abstinence from food or drink for religious, ethical, or health purposes; intermittent fasting forms include ADF, 5:2, and time-restricted eating, which trials show is roughly equal to calorie restriction for weight loss.
Fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church
Fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church are penitential practices, required by canon law on Fridays and in Lent, with both on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Fasting during Ramadan
Fasting during Ramadan, known in Arabic as sawm (صوم رمضان), is the fourth pillar of Islam, requiring Muslims to abstain from dawn to sunset for 29 or 30 days.