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Fasting in Islam
Fasting in Islam, known as sawm, is a core pillar requiring healthy adult Muslims to abstain each day of Ramadan from dawn to sunset, observed by roughly 1.8 billion people.
Fasting Siddhartha
Fasting Siddhartha, also called the Fasting Buddha, is a Gandharan sculpture type showing a skeletal, meditating Siddhartha, made between the 1st and 6th centuries CE.
Fasting, Feasting
Fasting, Feasting is a 1999 novel by the Indian writer Anita Desai, following siblings Uma in India and Arun in Massachusetts; it was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize.
FASTKD2
FASTKD2 (FAST kinase domain-containing protein 2, mitochondrial) is a mitochondrial matrix RNA-binding protein binding 16S rRNA and MT-ND6, required for mitoribosome assembly; biallelic mutations cause COXPD44 mitochondrial encephalomyopathy.
Fastlane (2015)
Fastlane (2015): WWE's inaugural Fastlane pay-per-view, Feb 22, 2015, FedExForum Memphis, replacing Elimination Chamber; Roman Reigns beat Daniel Bryan to face Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 31; 13,263 announced attendance, 46,000 buys.
Fastlane (2016)
Fastlane (2016) was a WWE pay-per-view held February 21, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio, where Roman Reigns beat Brock Lesnar and Dean Ambrose in a Triple Threat to face Triple H at WrestleMania 32.
Fastlane (2017)
Fastlane (2017), WWE Raw pay-per-view, March 5, 2017, Bradley Center, Milwaukee. Goldberg beat Kevin Owens in 22 seconds for the Universal Championship after Chris Jericho's return; Bayley and Neville retained.
Fastlane (2018)
Fastlane (2018) was WWE's SmackDown-exclusive pay-per-view on March 11, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio, where AJ Styles retained the WWE Championship in a Six-Pack Challenge and Randy Orton won the United States Title.
Fastlane (2019)
Fastlane (2019), WWE pay-per-view, March 10, 2019, Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, on the Road to WrestleMania 35. The Shield reunited in the main event; Daniel Bryan retained the WWE Title vs Kevin Owens and Mustafa Ali; Becky Lynch was added to WrestleMania's Raw Women's title match; no title changes.
Fastlane (2021)
Fastlane (2021) was a WWE pay-per-view held March 21, 2021 at the ThunderDome, Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida, the first WWE PPV on Peacock. Roman Reigns retained the Universal Championship over Daniel Bryan with Edge as enforcer, setting up the WrestleMania 37 triple threat.
Fastlane (2023)
Fastlane (2023) was a WWE Premium Live Event on October 7, 2023 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, the most-watched and highest-grossing Fastlane ever, headlined by Seth Rollins vs Shinsuke Nakamura and featuring John Cena's return.
Fastlane (TV series)
Fastlane is an American Fox action crime drama (September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003), one 22-episode season created by McG and John McNamara, starring Facinelli, Bellamy, and Thiessen, canceled after one season over high production costs.
Fastly
Fastly, Inc. is an American edge cloud platform company headquartered in San Francisco, founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman, operating a global content delivery network with security and edge computing services.
Fastone Mathew Goma
Fastone Mathew Goma is a Zambian physician-scientist and cardiologist at the University of Zambia known for tobacco control research and cardiovascular epidemiology, including the ITC Zambia surveys.
Fastpitch softball
Fastpitch softball is the high-speed underhand-pitch discipline of softball, played on a 60-foot diamond with 43-foot women's pitching distance. It debuted at the 1996 Olympics, is governed internationally by the WBSC, and differs from slowpitch by allowing bunting and stealing.
FASTQ format
FASTQ is the standard text format for raw sequencing reads, storing each read as four lines: identifier, bases, a + separator, and ASCII Phred quality scores, with Sanger (offset 33) and Illumina variants.
FasTrak
FasTrak is California's electronic toll collection system, used on tolled bridges, express lanes, and roads since 1997, letting drivers pay without stopping at toll booths.
FastRunner
FastRunner was an ostrich-inspired bipedal running robot developed at IHMC in Pensacola, Florida, with DARPA funding; its simulation ran at 35 kph, though the physical robot never ran optimally.
FastSLAM
FastSLAM is a family of simultaneous localization and mapping algorithms, introduced at Stanford in 2002, that uses a Rao-Blackwellized particle filter to estimate robot paths and landmarks efficiently.
FastSpeech / FastSpeech 2
FastSpeech is a non-autoregressive text-to-speech model introduced at NeurIPS 2019 by Microsoft Research and Zhejiang University; FastSpeech 2, from 2020, trains directly on real speech with pitch, duration, and energy predictors.
FastText
FastText is an open-source library for text classification and word embeddings developed by Facebook AI Research and released in 2016, with accuracy often on par with deep learning classifiers.
FastTracker 2
FastTracker 2, also written FastTracker II and abbreviated FT2, is a DOS music tracker by Vogue and MR H of Triton, released in the mid-1990s.
Fastway (band)
Fastway: English hard rock band formed 1982 by ex-Motörhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke and ex-UFO bassist Pete Way, with Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley and vocalist Dave King; 1983 debut hit No. 31 Billboard, broke up 1990, revived 2011.
Fasudil
Fasudil, also known as HA1077 or AT-877, is a Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) inhibitor, first approved in Japan in 1995 and later China for cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Fat
Fat (dietary fat): macronutrient of triglycerides supplying 9 kcal/g; essential fatty acids linoleic and alpha-linolenic; types saturated, unsaturated, trans; WHO limits under 10% saturated and 1% trans fat energy.
Fat acceptance movement
Fat acceptance movement: social movement against anti-fat stigma and discrimination, originating with the 1967 Central Park fat-in and NAAFA's 1969 founding by Bill Fabrey; includes the Fat Underground, Fat Liberation Manifesto (1973), and Health at Every Size.
Fat Albert (film)
Fat Albert is a 2004 American live-action comedy film, directed by Joel Zwick, in which the cartoon characters of Bill Cosby's animated series help a lonely teenage girl.
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, also known as Fat Albert and the Junkyard Gang, is an American animated series created and hosted by Bill Cosby, airing from 1972.
Fat and Thin
Fat and Thin (Толстый и тонкий) is an 1883 satirical short story by Anton Chekhov in which a chance meeting at a railway station turns sour over rank.
Fat Bastard
Fat Bastard is the obese Scottish henchman Mike Myers plays in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Goldmember (2002); he steals Austin's mojo and is known for "Get in my belly!".