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High Tide (2024 film)
High Tide (2024) is Marco Calvani's feature directorial debut drama, starring his husband Marco Pigossi as Lourenço, an undocumented Brazilian immigrant in Provincetown who romances Maurice (James Bland). Premiered SXSW 2024; released October 18, 2024 by Strand Realing/LD Entertainment; also with Marisa Tomei and Bill Irwin.
High tide water
High tide water (high water, German Tidehochwasser) is the water level at a tide's highest point. Most coasts see two high tides per 24 h 50 min tidal day; spring and perigean tides raise the highest levels.
High treason in the United Kingdom
High treason in the United Kingdom is the statutory crime of disloyalty to the Crown, defined by the Treason Act 1351, punishable by life imprisonment since 1998, last prosecuted against William Joyce in 1946.
High Treason Incident
The High Treason Incident (大逆事件, Taigyaku Jiken) was a Japanese state prosecution of 1910–1911 in which 26 socialists and anarchists were tried for plotting to assassinate Emperor Meiji.
High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam
High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam is a 2026 TNT eight-episode political thriller limited series starring Joel Kinnaman as CIA analyst John Nixon and Waleed Zuaiter as Saddam Hussein, based on Nixon's memoir Debriefing the President, shot in Cairo, and covering the December 2003 capture and interrogation.
High voltage
High voltage, also called high tension, is an engineering and safety category for electrical systems exceeding 1,000 volts AC or 1,500 volts DC under IEC standards.
High Voltage (1975 album)
High Voltage (1975) is AC/DC's Australian-only debut album, released 17 February 1975 on Albert Productions, recorded in six days in November 1974 at Albert Studios, Sydney, produced by Harry Vanda and George Young; distinct from the 1976 international album of the same name.
High Voltage (1976 album)
High Voltage (1976) is AC/DC's first international album on Atlantic: a compilation of the 1975 Australia-only High Voltage and T.N.T., sharing only Little Lover and She's Got Balls with the Australian debut.
High Water
High Water (Wielka woda) is a 2022 Polish six-episode Netflix limited drama directed by Jan Holoubek and Bartłomiej Ignaciuk, dramatizing the July 1997 Millennium Flood threatening Wrocław, starring Agnieszka Żulewska, Tomasz Schuchardt, and Ireneusz Czop.
High Willhays
High Willhays is the highest point on Dartmoor and in Devon, England, at 621 meters (2,039 feet) above sea level, near Yes Tor and Okehampton on northern Dartmoor.
High Windows
High Windows is the fourth and final poetry collection Philip Larkin published in his lifetime, released in 1974 with 24 poems including "This Be the Verse" and "Annus Mirabilis."
High Wycombe
High Wycombe (Wicumun, first recorded 970) is a Buckinghamshire market town, Britain's historic chair-making centre: 4,700 chairs a day by 1875, home of G-Plan, Parker Knoll, Ercol, chair arches, the Mayor Weighing, and RAF High Wycombe.
High- and low-affinity hemoglobin variants
High- and low-affinity hemoglobin variants are inherited mutations in alpha- or beta-globin genes that change how tightly hemoglobin binds oxygen, causing erythrocytosis or cyanosis; most run a benign course.
High-affinity choline transporter
High-affinity choline transporter (CHT1, SLC5A7): Na+- and Cl−-dependent presynaptic transporter that recycles choline for acetylcholine synthesis; rate-limiting step, HC-3-sensitive, mutated in DHMN7A and CMS20.
High-altitude balloon
A high-altitude balloon, also called a stratospheric balloon or stratostat, is an unpowered lighter-than-air craft carrying instruments into the stratosphere, typically reaching 20 to 40 kilometers.
High-altitude cerebral edema
High-altitude cerebral edema (HACE), the severe end-stage form of acute mountain sickness, is hypoxia-induced brain swelling with ataxia and altered mental status above roughly 4,000 m, treated by descent, oxygen, and dexamethasone.
High-altitude military parachuting
High-altitude military parachuting, also called HALO or HAHO, inserts personnel by free-fall parachute from up to 35,000 feet; in HAHO the jumper glides tens of miles under canopy.
High-altitude nuclear explosion
High-altitude nuclear explosion (HANE): detonation of a nuclear weapon tens to hundreds of kilometers up, producing EMP, artificial auroras, and radiation belts; tested by US Operation Fishbowl (Starfish Prime, 1962) and Soviet Project K, banned by the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty.
High-altitude pulmonary edema
High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is noncardiogenic lung edema after rapid ascent above about 2,500 m, driven by exaggerated hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction; treated by descent, oxygen, and nifedipine.
High-amylose cornstarch
High-amylose cornstarch (high-amylose maize starch, HAMS, amylomaize starch) is cornstarch with over 50 percent amylose versus 25 to 30 percent normally, from the ae (SBEIIb) mutation; a resistant starch source, GRAS-notified by Yale for oral rehydration solutions at 50 g/L (GRN 000615).
High-amylose cornstarch acetate
High-amylose cornstarch acetate (acetylated HAMS, CAS 9045-28-7) is a resistant-starch food ingredient, GRAS via FDA GRN 616 (Yale, 2016) for oral rehydration solutions at 50 g/L.
High-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy
High-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) is an imaging mode where heavier atomic columns scatter more electrons and appear brighter, giving Z-contrast images.
High-assay low-enriched uranium
High-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) is uranium enriched to between 5 and 20 percent uranium-235, above today's reactor fuel; most U.S. advanced reactors are built around it.
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is an Intel-developed link encryption specification, licensed by Digital Content Protection LLC, protecting copyrighted video over HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort, and other links; versions 1.0 through 2.3, broken academically in 2001.
High-bay warehouse
A high-bay warehouse is a very large warehouse with storage heights of about 12 to 50 meters, designed for high density and usually automated retrieval by stacker cranes.
High-burnup fuel
High-burnup fuel is nuclear reactor fuel discharged at a burnup of 45 GWd/MTU or more, a level the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission treats as high, pursued mainly for economic reasons.
High-concentration electrolytes
High-concentration electrolytes (HCEs) are battery electrolytes with salt levels typically 3 to 5 M, where anions enter the cation's solvation shell and change interphase chemistry.
High-content screening
High-content screening is a cell biology method combining automated microscopy and image analysis to measure many features of individual cells, introduced in 1997 for drug discovery.
High-context and low-context cultures
High-context and low-context cultures: Edward T. Hall's framework distinguishing communication that relies on implicit contextual cues (Asia, South America) from explicit verbal messages (Germany, US, Scandinavia); widely cited but empirically contested.
High-damping rubber bearing
A high-damping rubber bearing is a seismic isolation device made of rubber and steel layers, with the rubber formulated to dissipate earthquake energy without separate dampers.