All articles starting with K

Karoo

The Karoo is an arid region of South Africa's Eastern, Western, and Northern Cape provinces, about 395,000 km2, divided into Great and Little Karoo by the Swartberg range; it also names the Karoo Supergroup and Basin, famed for Permian-Triassic fossils.

Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden

Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden, Worcester, Western Cape: SANBI's second-oldest national botanical garden, founded 1921 at Whitehill near Matjiesfontein, moved to Worcester in 1945, renamed 2001; 154 ha garden for arid and succulent flora.

Oct 15, 2026

Karoo Supergroup

The Karoo Supergroup is a thick succession of sedimentary and volcanic rocks spanning the late Carboniferous to Early Jurassic across southern Africa, rich in fossils of mammal-like reptiles.

Oct 15, 2026

Karoon Energy Ltd

Karoon Energy Ltd is an Australian-listed oil and gas exploration and production company, listed in 2004, with producing assets offshore Brazil and in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Karori Cemetery

Karori Cemetery is a public cemetery in the Wellington suburb of Karori, New Zealand, opened in 1891 and holding the graves of roughly 83,000 people.

Karoshi (film)

Karoshi is an upcoming 2027 American action thriller, also described as a dystopian corporate thriller with a samurai twist, written and directed by Takashi Doscher, produced by Chad Stahelski's 87Eleven for Lionsgate, starring Teo Yoo, Isabel May, and Cynthia Erivo, set in a Japanese-influenced near-future Manhattan for release in early 2027.

Karoshi (過労死)

Karoshi (過労死) is the Japanese term for death from overwork, covering cardiovascular deaths and work disability from long hours, plus karojisatsu (overwork suicide); WHO/ILO attribute 745,000 deaths to 55+ hour workweeks in 2016.

Oct 15, 2026

Karp's 21 NP-complete problems

Karp's 21 NP-complete problems are the decision problems shown to be NP-complete in Richard M. Karp's 1972 paper, which used twenty polynomial-time reductions from Boolean satisfiability to prove them all hard.

Karpas-231

Karpas-231 (KARPAS-231, CVCL_1822) is a human B-cell leukemia cell line from a 71-year-old woman, classified as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, with POU2AF1-BCL6 fusion and MYC/BCL2 double-hit rearrangements.

Karpas-299

Karpas-299 (K299, CVCL_1324) is a human CD30+ ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma cell line established in 1986 from a 25-year-old man's blood, carrying the NPM-ALK fusion from t(2;5), used widely in ALK inhibitor resistance research.

Karpas-422

Karpas-422 (K422, RRID:CVCL_1325) is a human diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (GCB) cell line from a 73-year-old woman's pleural effusion, carrying t(14;18) and t(4;11) translocations, TP53 and EZH2 mutations, and chemotherapy resistance used in drug validation.

Karpas-45

Karpas-45 (KARPAS-45, K45, T-45) is a human T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell line, CVCL_1326, established in 1972 from the bone marrow of a 2-year-old boy; it carries a KMT2A-FOXO4 (MLL-AFX1) fusion and is HOXA-high.

Karpas-620

Karpas-620 (K620, CVCL_1823) is a human plasma cell leukemia cell line established in 1987 from a 77-year-old woman, IgG kappa-secreting, cyclin D1-expressing via der(8)t(8;11), with KRAS and TP53 mutations, used in myeloma drug screening.

Karpasasthyadi taila

Karpasasthyadi taila (Kārpāsāsthyādi tailam) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated sesame-and-goat's-milk oil from the Sahasrayogam, cotton-seed based, used in nasya, greeva basti, and abhyanga for Vata disorders such as facial palsy, frozen shoulder, and cervical spondylosis.

Karphi

Karphi (Karfi), Crete: large Late Minoan IIIC refuge settlement c. 1200–1000 BC in the Lasithi mountains at c. 1,100–1,150 m, spanning Karphi, Mikri Koprana, and Megali Koprana peaks; excavated by Pendlebury 1937–39 and the Karphi Revisited project since 2008.

Karpinskiy (lunar crater)

Karpinskiy is a 91.4-km floor-fractured lunar crater at 72.61°N, 166.80°E on the northern farside, named 1970 for Soviet geologist Alexander Karpinskiy; its fractured floor links to nearby magmatic intrusions.

Karpinsky Ice Cap

Karpinsky Ice Cap (Ледник Карпинского), also Karpinskiy Ice Cap, is a roughly 2,378 km² ice cap on October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Russia; the Russian Arctic's third largest glacier complex, feeding Issledovateley Glacier and the Matusevich Ice Shelf.

Karpira Rasa

Karpira Rasa, more commonly written Karpura Rasa, is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral formulation combining purified cinnabar (Shuddha Hingula) with five herbal drugs, prescribed mainly for diarrheal diseases.

Karpman drama triangle

Karpman drama triangle: Stephen Karpman's 1968 transactional analysis model of three interlocking conflict roles, Victim, Persecutor, Rescuer, with role switching and alternatives such as Choy's Winner's Triangle and Emerald's Empowerment Dynamic.

Karpoori Thakur (कर्पूरी ठाकुर)

Karpoori Thakur (कर्पूरी ठाकुर), Jannayak, 1924–1988, twice Chief Minister of Bihar and socialist leader whose 1978 sub-categorised 26 percent OBC reservation formula shaped Indian social justice politics; posthumous Bharat Ratna 2024.

Karprara Rasa

Karprara Rasa (Kharpara/Karpara, also Rasaka) is a mineral drug of Ayurvedic Rasa Shastra, an indirect source of Yashada, Pittala, and Varta bhasmas, with Katu-Kashaya rasa, Sheeta virya, and Kapha-pittaghna action.

KARPURA RASA

Karpura Rasa (कर्पूर रस), also called Rasa Karpura, is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral mercurial preparation, AFI Part-I 20:7, a mercury chloride salt (Hydrargyri subchloridum) made by Kupipakva method, listed under Schedule E(1), used for worms, syphilis and skin diseases, and linked to pediatric mercury toxicity.