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Habiganj District
Habiganj District (হবিগঞ্জ), Sylhet Division, northeastern Bangladesh; named after Syed Habib Ulla. Subdivision 1867, district 1984; 2,358,886 people (2022), 9 upazilas, tea gardens and three gas fields.
Habil Khorakiwala
Habil Khorakiwala is an Indian pharmaceutical entrepreneur who founded Wockhardt in 1967 and serves as its executive chairman, later producing India's first homegrown new antibiotic.
Habilitation
Habilitation: post-doctoral qualification, the highest university degree in Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland, above the doctorate. Certifies independent research and teaching (venia legendi, Privatdozent); since 2002 alternatives such as tenure track exist.
Habima Theatre
Habima (הבימה) is Israel's national theater company, based on Habima Square in Tel Aviv. Founded in Moscow, it gained worldwide fame with the 1922 production of The Dybbuk.
Habiru
The Habiru, also written Apiru or Hapiru, were a marginalized social group in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, Syria, Canaan, and Egypt, known from texts including the 14th-century BC Amarna letters.
Habit
Habit: an automatic behavior triggered by contextual cues through learned cue-behavior associations. Also covers habit formation (18-254 days in Lally's study), striatal brain mechanisms, measurement, and critiques distinguishing habit from other behavior-change mechanisms.
Habit formation
Habit formation in economics is a preference specification in which utility depends on consumption relative to a slowly moving habit stock built from past consumption, making utility time-nonseparable.
Habit reversal training
Habit reversal training is a behavioral therapy that treats tics, nervous habits, and body-focused repetitive behaviors by training patients to detect the behavior early and perform an incompatible competing response.
Habitability of binary star systems
The habitability of binary star systems, also called life in binary star systems, asks whether planets orbiting two stars can keep stable orbits while receiving enough light for liquid water.
Habitability of red dwarf systems
Habitability of red dwarf systems, or life in red dwarf systems, is the debate over whether planets around red dwarf stars can sustain surface liquid water and life.
Habitable zone
The habitable zone, also called the Goldilocks zone, is the region around a star where a rocky planet with a suitable atmosphere could hold liquid surface water.
Habitancum
Habitancum, the Roman fort at Risingham near West Woodburn, Northumberland, on Dere Street north of Hadrian's Wall; Antonine origin, Severan stone rebuilding of AD 205-8, garrisoned by the First Cohort of Vangiones, scheduled monument.
Habitat
A habitat, also called a natural habitat, is the place and set of environmental conditions where a plant or animal normally lives, ranging from landscapes to microhabitats.
Habitat (AI benchmark)
Habitat is an open-source 3D embodied AI simulation platform and benchmark suite by Meta AI, first presented at ICCV 2019, comprising Habitat-Sim and Habitat-Lab, and known for its speed.
Habitat 67
Habitat 67, Montréal (Cité du Havre, 2600 avenue Pierre-Dupuy): Moshe Safdie's 1965–1970 Expo 67 modular housing complex of 354 prefabricated concrete modules forming 158 apartments, post-tensioned, heritage-classed in Québec since 2009.
Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction, also known as habitat loss, is the loss or degradation of natural habitat to human uses such as agriculture and urbanization, the primary cause of declining biodiversity.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International is a Christian nonprofit founded in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller in Americus, Georgia, that builds no-profit, no-interest homes via volunteer labor and sweat equity, serving over 65 million people in 70+ countries.
Habitat suitability model
A habitat suitability model, also known as a species distribution model (SDM), is an ecological method that maps where habitat suits a species by relating occurrence records to environmental variables.
Habitat-Matterport 3D
Habitat-Matterport 3D is a dataset of 1,000 photorealistic 3D reconstructions of real indoor spaces, released by Meta AI and Matterport in 2021 for training embodied AI agents.
Habitation and Logistics Outpost
The Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) was a pressurized module Northrop Grumman built as the first crew cabin, command center, and docking hub of NASA's planned Gateway lunar space station.
Habits (Stay High)
Habits (Stay High) is an electropop single by Swedish singer Tove Lo. Released in 2013, the song peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014.
Habitual residence
Habitual residence is a factual connecting factor in private international law, first used by the Hague Conference in 1902, that links a person to a legal system for divorce jurisdiction, choice of law, maintenance, succession, and child protection, replacing domicile and nationality.
Habituation
Habituation: progressive decrease of a response to repeated stimulation, not caused by sensory adaptation or fatigue; distinguished by dishabituation, stimulus specificity, and spontaneous recovery; HPA axis habituates rapidly to repeated stress.
Habitus (sociology)
Habitus (sociology): durable, transposable dispositions linking class conditions to regular conduct, defined by Pierre Bourdieu in Outline of a Theory of Practice and rooted in Aristotle's hexis, Mauss, and Elias.
Habıbuşağı (İzoli)
Habıbuşağı (İzoli, Tumiški/Tomisa) is an Urartian fortress and cremation necropolis in Baskil, Elazığ, Turkey, on the Euphrates. Known for Sarduri II's rock inscription (ca. 754-753 BC) recording the first Urartian crossing of the Euphrates; submerged by the Karakaya Dam.
Habl al-Matin
Habl al-Matin (حبل المتین) was the most important of three Persian-language newspapers published between 1893 and 1930, a Calcutta weekly that shaped opinion during Iran's Constitutional Revolution.
Hableány disaster
Hableány disaster: 29 May 2019 Danube collision in Budapest where the Viking Sigyn cruise ship sank the sightseeing boat Hableány (Mermaid), killing 27 of 35 aboard, mostly South Korean tourists; captain convicted, retrial pending.
Hablum
Ḫablum was a king of the Gutian dynasty of Babylonia, named in the Sumerian King List between Ibranum and his son Puzur-Suen, with a recorded reign of 2 years.
Haboku sansui
Haboku sansui (破墨山水図, Broken-Ink Landscape) is a 1495 hanging scroll by the Zen painter Sesshū Tōyō, the most celebrated Japanese example of the haboku broken-ink technique.
Habonde Corona
Habonde Corona is a 125 km diameter corona on Venus at 3.00°N, 81.80°E, in quad v22; IAU-approved in 1994 and named for a Danish goddess of abundance.