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Kino's Journey (キノの旅)
Kino's Journey (Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World) is Keiichi Sigsawa's light novel series about traveler Kino and Hermes, a talking motorcycle, visiting countries for three days each; 24 volumes since July 2000, 8.2 million copies, anime in 2003 and 2017.
Kinoko Teikoku
Kinoko Teikoku (きのこ帝国) was a Japanese shoegaze and dream-pop band formed in 2007 by four university classmates, which suspended activity indefinitely in 2019 after its bassist left.
Kinome
Kinome: the complete set of protein kinase genes in a genome; the human kinome has 518 kinases, about 1.7% of genes, a major drug target class studied by kinome-wide inhibitor profiling.
Kinomica
Kinomica is a British phosphoproteomic diagnostics company spun out of the Barts Cancer Institute in 2016, developing the KScan platform that selects cancer therapy from kinase signaling activity.
Kinoprene
Kinoprene (CAS 42588-37-4; S-form 65733-20-2) is a juvenile hormone analogue insect growth regulator sold as Enstar II for greenhouse ornamental pests; not EU approved, cancelled in Canada in 2021.
Kinorhyncha
Kinorhyncha (mud dragons, kinorhynchs): phylum of microscopic segmented moulting marine meiofaunal ecdysozoans, under 1 mm, 11 trunk segments, worldwide intertidal to hadal, 360 accepted species, clades Cyclorhagida and Allomalorhagida.
Kinosaki Marine World
Kinosaki Marine World (城崎マリンワールド) is a hands-on aquarium in Toyooka, Hyogo, Japan, opened in 1934 on the Sea of Japan coast, known for its 12-meter-deep main tank, dolphin and sea lion shows, and catch-and-eat horse mackerel tempura fishing.
Kinosternon
Kinosternon, the American mud turtles (Spix, 1824), is the most speciose genus of living turtles, about 22 aquatic species from the United States to Argentina, with hinged plastrons and temperature-dependent sex determination.
Kinosternon alamosae
Kinosternon alamosae, Alamos mud turtle (casquito de Alamos), a small mud turtle described by Berry and Legler in 1980, endemic to Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico; IUCN Near Threatened, CITES Appendix II.
Kinot
Kinot (Hebrew: קינות; singular kinah) are Hebrew liturgical poems of lament recited on Tisha B'Av, mourning the destruction of the Temples, Jerusalem, and later tragedies including the Holocaust.
Kinova
Kinova is a Canadian robotics company founded in 2006 in Boisbriand, Québec, that makes lightweight robotic arms, from the wheelchair-mounted JACO assistive arm to the Gen3 research arm.
Kinova Jaco
The Kinova Jaco is a wheelchair-mounted assistive robotic arm from Kinova in Boisbriand, Quebec, letting people with upper-body disabilities eat, drink, and open doors using their wheelchair's controls.
Kinross Gold
Kinross Gold Corporation is a Toronto-based gold producer that explores for, acquires, extracts, and processes gold-bearing ore, producing about 2.1 million ounces in 2024 as doré plus some silver.
Kinsale
Kinsale (Ceann tSaile, "Head of the Sea") is a historic coastal town in County Cork, Ireland: a medieval walled port chartered in 1333, site of the 1601 Battle of Kinsale, home of Charles and James Forts, and known as Ireland's gourmet capital.
Kinsei Vallis
Kinsei Vallis (金星) is an IAU-approved lava channel on Venus, named from the Japanese word for Venus. Located at 13.8°N, 140.2°E in quad V-24, it is about 375 km across, roughly 10–12 km wide, and likely sourced from Kubebe Corona.
Kinsevere
Kinsevere is an open-pit copper and cobalt mine in Haut-Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, owned by MMG Limited and producing LME Grade A copper cathode.
Kinsey (film)
Kinsey is a 2004 American biographical drama film directed by Bill Condon, starring Liam Neeson as sex researcher Alfred Kinsey and Laura Linney as his wife Clara.
Kinsey Anderson
Kinsey Anderson (1926–2012) was an American space physicist and UC Berkeley professor who built balloon, rocket, and satellite instruments to study Earth's aurora, solar flares, and the solar wind.
Kinsey Cotton
Kinsey Cotton is an Australian options trader who co-founded the proprietary trading firm Tibra Capital near Sydney in 2006 with former Optiver colleagues, and later backed a crypto trading start-up.
Kinsey Reports
The Kinsey Reports are Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), Alfred Kinsey's 18,000-interview sex surveys, bestsellers whose nonprobability sampling drew major statistical criticism.
Kinsey scale
The Kinsey scale, or Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, is a 0-to-6 continuum plus X created by Alfred Kinsey's team, first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), rating sexual orientation from interview histories rather than any official test.
Kinshasa
Kinshasa, formerly Leopoldville, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a megacity of over 14 million on the Congo River, 515 km inland, facing flooding, service deficits, and the Kin Elenda resilience project.
Kinship
Kinship: the culturally recognized web of relationships based on descent, marriage, and created ties; central topic of anthropology from Morgan's 1871 terminology classification through Schneider's 1984 critique to new kinship studies.
Kinship care
Kinship care, also called family and friends care, is the raising of children by relatives or close family friends rather than parents. It spans informal, voluntary, and formal arrangements; about 141,000 children in England and Wales live in it, and outcomes beat unrelated foster care but trail the general population.
Kinshuk Mahajan (किंशुक महाजन)
Kinshuk Mahajan (किंशुक महाजन), born 1986 in Delhi, is an Indian television actor known for Ranveer in Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai, Gautam in Pandya Store, and Manoj in Megha Barsenge.
Kinston, North Carolina
Kinston, North Carolina: county seat of Lenoir County on the Neuse River, chartered 1762 as Kingston, renamed 1784; site of two Civil War battles and the CSS Neuse; 2020 population 19,900.
Kintap Coal Mine
The Kintap Coal Mine (Tambang Kintap) is an open-pit coal mine in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by Arutmin Indonesia and opened in 2011, producing low-sulfur ecocoal.
Kintarō (金太郎)
Kintarō (金太郎), legendary boy of Mt. Ashigara raised by a yamauba, the childhood name of Sakata no Kintoki, one of Minamoto no Yorimitsu's Four Heavenly Kings; a bear-wrestling strength figure now familiar as a Boys' Festival May doll.
Kinteroni Gas Field
Kinteroni is a gas and condensate field in Block 57 in the Cusco region of Peru, discovered in 2008 and producing since March 2014 under Repsol's operation.
Kintpuash
Kintpuash, known as Captain Jack, was a Modoc headman who led resistance in the Modoc War of 1872 to 1873 and was hanged at Fort Klamath, Oregon.