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Glasgow prognostic score
The Glasgow prognostic score (GPS) is a clinical scoring system combining C-reactive protein and albumin to grade systemic inflammation and predict survival in cancer and other diseases.
Glasgow razor gangs
Glasgow razor gangs were 1920s–1930s territorial street gangs, notably the Protestant Billy Boys under Billy Fullerton and the Catholic Norman Conks, who fought with open razors until Percy Sillitoe's 1931 crackdown; No Mean City (1935) fixed their notoriety.
Glasgow Shields Road TMD
Glasgow Shields Road TMD, also called Shields Depot, is a railway electric traction maintenance depot in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 1967 to serve the electrified suburban network.
Glasgow Subway
The Glasgow Subway, also called the Glasgow Underground and nicknamed the Clockwork Orange, is a 10 mile underground metro loop in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 1896.
Glasgow Warriors
Glasgow Warriors, professional rugby union club from Glasgow, Scotland, founded 1872 as Glasgow District, professional since 1996; two league titles (2015 PRO12, 2024 URC), home ground Scotstoun Stadium.
Glashallen
Glashallen (Glass Hall) is the 130-metre glass-and-steel terminal at Malmö Central Station, Sweden, built 2008–2010 by NCC for Jernhusen to link the station with the City Tunnel's underground Malmö C Nedre platforms; inaugurated 1 November 2010, with a stainless steel wire-supported glass facade and the 2013 Malmö urban planning prize.
Glashaus
Glashaus is a German soul and R&B band founded in 1999 in Frankfurt am Main by singer Cassandra Steen, rapper Moses Pelham, and producer Martin Haas.
Glashow resonance
The Glashow resonance is the resonant formation of a W⁻ boson when a high-energy electron antineutrino strikes an electron, peaking at an antineutrino energy of 6.3 petaelectronvolts.
Glasnost (гласность)
Glasnost (гласность, "openness") was Gorbachev's Soviet policy of loosened censorship and public disclosure from 1985, paired with perestroika; it transformed the Soviet press, opened archives, and contributed to the USSR's 1991 collapse.
Glass
Glass is an amorphous solid whose atoms lack the order of a crystal but which is rigid; most glass is a silicate used for windows, containers, and optical fibers.
Glass (2019 film)
Glass is a 2019 American superhero thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, and Samuel L. Jackson as the conclusion to the Unbreakable trilogy, grossing $247 million worldwide.
Glass Animals
Glass Animals: English indie band formed in Oxford in 2010 (Bayley, MacFarlane, Irwin-Singer, Seaward), known for Zaba, Dreamland, and 'Heat Waves', which took a record 59 weeks to top the Billboard Hot 100.
Glass Beach (Fort Bragg, California)
Glass Beach at Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California: a shore of wave-smoothed sea glass formed from town refuse dumped over bluffs from 1906 to 1967; its main cove lies in MacKerricher State Park, where collecting is prohibited and the glass has visibly thinned.
Glass Beams
Glass Beams: masked Melbourne psychedelic trio formed in 2020 around Indian-Australian producer Rajan Silva, blending Indian classical and Bollywood influences with Western psych rock; EPs Mirage (2021) and Mahal (2024, Ninja Tune).
Glass ceiling
Glass ceiling: metaphor for invisible barriers blocking women and minorities from top management, coined circa 1978-1986 in the US; related to glass cliff, sticky floor, labyrinth; tested empirically and addressed via board quotas.
Glass cliff
Glass cliff: term coined by Ryan and Haslam (2005) for women and minorities being more likely to be appointed to risky, precarious leadership positions during crises; evidence is mixed, with small meta-analytic effects.
Glass cockpit
A glass cockpit is an aircraft flight deck using computer-driven electronic displays instead of analog gauges, standard on commercial, military, and general aviation aircraft since the 1980s.
Glass delusion
Glass delusion, also called glass disease, a psychiatric condition of 15th–17th century Europe in which sufferers believed their bodies were made of glass and would shatter; famous case King Charles VI of France; now rare.
Glass electrode
A glass electrode, or pH electrode, is a pH-sensitive electrode with a special glass membrane that is the standard sensing element of the pH meter.
Glass fiber
Glass fiber, also called fibrous glass, is a filament of inorganic glass drawn from molten glass, used to reinforce composites, insulate buildings, and transmit light in optical fiber.
Glass fiber filter
A glass fiber filter is a depth filter made of fine borosilicate glass fibers that removes suspended particles from liquids and gases in laboratory and industrial filtration.
Glass fiber reinforced concrete
Glass fiber reinforced concrete, also called GRC, is a cementitious composite in which alkali-resistant glass fibers are dispersed in fine mortar, producing thin, strong, lightweight cladding panels and architectural elements.
Glass frog
Glass frog (family Centrolenidae), Neotropical tree frog with transparent ventral skin; hides ~89% of red blood cells in its liver while resting to become transparent; lays eggs on leaves over streams; ~150-163 species, mostly Andean.
Glass Gem Corn
Glass Gem corn: modern open-pollinated flint/popcorn maize bred by Carl Barnes in Oklahoma from Pawnee and Osage corns; named by Greg Schoen, spread via Native Seeds/SEARCH, famous for translucent rainbow kernels after a 2012 viral photo.
Glass harmonica
Glass harmonica (armonica, Glasharmonika): friction idiophone of nested spinning glass bowls played with wet fingers, invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761; 37 bowls, three octaves, Mozart and Donizetti repertoire, small modern revival.
Glass House
The Glass House, also known as the Philip Johnson Glass House, is a glass-and-steel residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Philip Johnson and completed in 1949.
Glass Houses (album)
Glass Houses is Billy Joel's seventh studio album (Columbia, March 12, 1980), a New Wave-influenced rock turn produced by Phil Ramone, featuring "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me," his first No. 1 hit, and a 7x Platinum, Grammy-winning record.
Glass insulator
A glass insulator is a glass component that electrically isolates and mechanically supports the conductors of overhead telegraph, telephone, and power lines, usually in cap-and-pin disc form.
Glass ionomer cement
Glass ionomer cement is a dental material, first described in 1971, that sets by an acid-base reaction between polyacrylic acid and fluoroaluminosilicate glass and releases fluoride.
Glass Key Award
The Glass Key Award (Swedish Glasnyckeln) is an annual literary prize for the best crime novel by a Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, or Swedish author, awarded since 1992.