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JOIDES Resolution
The JOIDES Resolution was a riserless scientific drillship that drilled the ocean floor for core samples, serving international ocean drilling programs from 1985 until its retirement in September 2024.
Joie de vivre
Joie de vivre, literally "joy of living," is a French phrase for a keen, carefree delight in being alive, defined by the Académie française as well-being from simply existing.
Joie Ray
Joie Ray (1894-1978), American distance runner from Kankakee, Illinois, three-time Olympian, eight-time US mile champion, and two-time indoor mile world record holder (4:12.0 in 1925, shared with Paavo Nurmi).
Joika
Joika (also released as The American) is a 2023 biographical drama directed by James Napier Robertson about American ballerina Joy Womack at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, starring Talia Ryder and Diane Kruger; the first New Zealand–Poland co-production.
Join (SQL)
A SQL join, also called a database join, combines rows from two or more tables into one result, with types such as INNER and OUTER.
Join the Club
Join the Club is The Sopranos season 6 episode 2 (2006), written by David Chase, directed by David Nutter, following comatose Tony Soprano's Kevin Finnerty alternate-reality sequences after Junior shoots him.
Join, or Die
Join, or Die: Benjamin Franklin's 1754 woodcut in the Pennsylvania Gazette, the first American political cartoon, showing a snake cut into eight colony segments to urge unity against the French.
Joincare Pharmaceutical Group (健康元)
Joincare Pharmaceutical Group (健康元) is a Chinese pharmaceutical company headquartered in Shenzhen, founded in 1992 and controlled by Zhu Baoguo, listed in Shanghai since 2001.
JOINN Biologics (昭衍生物) (Zhaoyan Biologics)
JOINN Biologics (昭衍生物, Zhaoyan Biologics) is a Chinese biologics contract development and manufacturing organization founded in 2018, headquartered in Beijing with US operations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
JOINN Laboratories (昭衍新药)
JOINN Laboratories (昭衍新药) is a Chinese preclinical contract research organization founded in Beijing in 1995, and by 2019 revenue it was China's largest CRO in non-clinical drug safety evaluation.
Joinpoint analysis
Joinpoint analysis is a statistical method that fits segmented linear regression to time-trend data such as disease rates, identifying where the trend changes; it is widely used in cancer surveillance.
Joint
A joint, or articulation, is where two or more bones, or bone and cartilage, connect in the skeleton; joints allow movement like limb swinging or provide stability like the skull.
Joint (cannabis)
Joint (cannabis): a hand-rolled cannabis cigarette in rolling paper, distinct from spliffs (with tobacco) and blunts (cigar wrapper); the most common way cannabis is smoked, with tobacco co-use in Europe and documented respiratory risks.
Joint and several liability
Joint and several liability: rule that each of multiple defendants is liable for the entire judgment, also called solidary obligation; contrasted with several (proportionate) liability and subject to contribution and tort-reform limits.
Joint application development
Joint application development (JAD), also called joint application design, is a facilitated workshop technique in which users, stakeholders, and developers agree on requirements before development begins.
Joint audit
A joint audit is a statutory audit performed by two or more independent audit firms that sign a single report, mandatory for listed companies in France.
Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems
JARUS is an international group of experts from national aviation authorities, including EASA and EUROCONTROL, that develops safety guidance for drones and created the widely adopted SORA risk assessment methodology.
Joint Aviation Authorities
The Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA), originally the Joint Airworthiness Authorities, was a body of European civil aviation regulators that harmonized safety rules from 1970 to 2009.
Joint Base Andrews
Joint Base Andrews (JB Andrews) is a US military base in Prince George's County, Maryland, formed in 2009 and best known as the home of Air Force One.
Joint Base Lewis–McChord
Joint Base Lewis–McChord (JBLM) is a U.S. joint military base near Tacoma, Washington, formed in 2010 from Fort Lewis and McChord AFB, home to I Corps, the 62nd Airlift Wing, and 40 C-17s.
Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam
Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (JBPHH) is a US military installation on Oahu, Hawaii, formed in 2010 by merging Naval Station Pearl Harbor with Hickam Air Force Base.
Joint Base San Antonio
Joint Base San Antonio is a United States military installation in San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2010 from Fort Sam Houston, Lackland, and Randolph Air Force Base.
Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) was a Department of Energy hub led by Argonne that worked on beyond-lithium-ion batteries from 2012 to 2023.
Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science
The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) is a joint University of Maryland and NIST research center in quantum information, founded in 2014.
Joint characteristic function
The joint characteristic function of a random vector is φ(t) = E[exp(i·tᵀX)], the ordinary characteristic function extended to several arguments; it always exists and uniquely determines the joint distribution.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is the U.S. body of service chiefs, headed by the Chairman, advising the President, NSC, and Secretary of Defense; founded 1942, statutory since 1947, no command authority.
Joint Commission
The Joint Commission, founded 1951 as JCAH, is the largest US healthcare accreditor, surveying over 22,000 facilities with CMS deemed status since 1965; its Accreditation 360 reform and the contested evidence base for its standards distinguish it from other accreditors.
Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology
The Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology (JCGM) is a joint committee of eight international organizations, formed in 1997, that maintains the GUM and the International Vocabulary of Metrology.
Joint Committee of the Regional Bodies
The Joint Committee of the Regional Bodies (JCRB) is the committee of regional metrology organizations that coordinates mutual recognition of calibration and measurement certificates under the CIPM Mutual Recognition Arrangement.
Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations (中华人民共和国和美利坚合众国关于建立外交关系的联合公报)
Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations (中华人民共和国和美利坚合众国关于建立外交关系的联合公报), the 1978 US-PRC agreement effective January 1, 1979, recognizing the PRC as China's sole legal government, severing ties with the ROC on Taiwan, and enabling unofficial Taiwan relations.