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KORTUC INC.
KORTUC Inc. is a clinical-stage oncology biotechnology company, founded in Japan and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, developing KRC-01, an injectable radiosensitizer that makes radiotherapy more effective against solid tumors.
Korui Bio (湖南科瑞生物制药股份有限公司) (科瑞生物)
Korui Bio, formally Hunan Kerui Bio Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., is a Hunan-based Chinese pharmaceutical company producing plant-derived cholesterol, vitamin D series products, and steroid drug intermediates.
Korup Rainforest Biosphere Reserve
Korup Rainforest Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon, designated by UNESCO's MAB Programme on 14 June 2023, centers on Korup National Park (1,260 km², created 1986), borders Nigeria's Cross River National Park, and is Cameroon's fifth biosphere reserve.
Korupsi
Korupsi, Indonesian for corruption, is also the landmark 1954 novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer that made corruption a central subject of modern Indonesian fiction, translated into French and English.
KORWiN (2024)
KORWiN (Konfederacja Odnowy Rzeczypospolitej Wolność i Niepodległość) is a Polish political party founded by Janusz Korwin-Mikke, registered in 2024 and ordered deregistered in 2025 after missing its financial report deadline.
Kory Lavine
Kory J. Lavine is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine who studies how immune cells drive heart disease and repair.
Koryak Mountains
Koryak Mountains (Koryak Highlands, Корякское нагорье), mountain ranges in far northeastern Russia near the Bering Sea; highest point Ledyanaya Mountain, 2,562 m; accreted terranes, limited glaciers, and Mw 6.4 2020 earthquake.
Koryakia
Koryakia (FEOW ecoregion 612) is a temperate coastal rivers freshwater ecoregion on the Koryakiya Plateau and Northern Kamchatka, Russia, draining to the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea, with endemic whitefish Coregonus subautumnalis in the Penzhina River.
Koryaksky
Koryaksky (Koryakskii, Корякский вулкан) is a 3,456 m basaltic-andesite stratovolcano in the Avacha group, Kamchatka, near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; about 60 Holocene eruptions, historical activity in 1895, 1926, 1956–57, and a 2008–2009 activation.
Korydallos
Korydallos (Κορυδαλλός) is a municipality in Piraeus regional unit, Attica, Greece, named for an ancient Athenian deme founded by Cleisthenes in the late 6th century BC on the eastern foothills of Mount Aigaleo; distinct from Korydalla in Lycia.
Korykion Antron (Parnassos)
Korykion Antron (Corycian Cave, Κωρύκειον ἄντρον), also called Sarantavli, is a Pleistocene karst cave on Mount Parnassos, 11 km from Delphi at 1,360 m, a Neolithic-to-Roman sanctuary of Pan and the Corycian Nymphs, distinct from the Cilician cave of the same name.
Koryo-saram
Koryo-saram (고려사람, Koryo-in) are ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union, mainly Central Asia, formed by the 1937 Stalin deportation of about 172,000 Koreans from the Russian Far East; Russian-speaking, with the moribund Koryo-mar dialect and large return migration to South Korea.
Koryphas
Koryphas (Κορυφάς), also rendered Coryphas or Koryphantis, was a small coastal settlement in Aeolis, Asia Minor, founded by the Mytilenaeans opposite Lesbos and known mainly from literary sources.
Koryun
Koryun (Կորյուն, also Koriwn) was an Armenian vardapet and author, c. 380–450, whose Life of Mashtots is the earliest surviving biographical work in Armenian literature.
Körzüt
Körzüt, also known as Korzut, is an Urartian fortified complex on the north-eastern shore of Lake Van in eastern Turkey, built by King Minua around 800 BCE.
Kos (Κως)
Kos (Κως, Cos), a Greek island in the southeastern Aegean and third largest of the Dodecanese (290.3 sq km), birthplace of Hippocrates, site of the ancient Asklepieion, ruled by Knights, Ottomans, and Italy, united with Greece in 1948.
Kos Natural Park of Zia
Kos Natural Park of Zia (Natural Traditional Park of Zia), a small private nature and animal park at Zia village on Kos, Greece, under Mount Dikaios, with local animals, olive-oil exhibits, and sunset views; open 10:00 to 30 minutes after sunset, 6 euros adult admission.
KOS-MOS
KOS-MOS (コスモス) is the female battle android mascot of Monolith Soft's Xenosaga RPG series, built by Vector Industries to fight the Gnosis; Episode III reveals her as a vessel of Mary Magdalene's soul.
Kosa Pan
Kosa Pan (โกษา ปาน), formally Okphra Wisut Sunthorn, was a Siamese diplomat who led the 1686 embassy to Louis XIV and later served as phra khlang under King Phetracha.
Kosakenland
Kosakenland (Kosakenland in Nord Italien) was the 1944-45 Cossack-Caucasian settlement in Carnia and Upper Friuli, Italy, granted by Nazi Germany under Operation Ataman in exchange for anti-partisan repression, with capital Tolmezzo.
Kosaki overgrowth syndrome
Kosaki overgrowth syndrome (KOGS, OMIM 616592), a rare PDGFRB gain-of-function overgrowth disorder with tall stature, fragile skin, white matter lesions, and vascular aneurysms; distinct from CDC42-related Takenouchi-Kosaki syndrome.
Kosaku Uyeda
Kosaku Uyeda is a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who discovered fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, a potent activator of glycolysis, and ChREBP.
Kosala kingdom
Kosala (कोसल) was an ancient kingdom of northern India, one of the sixteen mahajanapadas, with its capital at Sravasti and ruled by Pasenadi and Vidudabha before being absorbed by Magadha in the fifth century BC.
Kosala-Magadha rivalry and the annexation of Kashi
The Kosala-Magadha rivalry and the annexation of Kashi (कोसल-मगध संघर्ष) were struggles among the Ganga valley kingdoms of Kashi, Kosala, and Magadha, in which Magadha received Kashi by marriage.
Kosambi–Karhunen–Loève theorem
The Kosambi–Karhunen–Loève theorem, or Karhunen–Loève theorem, represents a square-integrable stochastic process as orthogonal functions weighted by uncorrelated coefficients; developed in the 1940s, its discrete form is equivalent to principal component analysis.
Kosaraju's algorithm
Kosaraju's algorithm, also known as the Kosaraju-Sharir algorithm, is a two-pass method that finds the strongly connected components of a directed graph in O(V+E) time, devised by S. Rao Kosaraju around 1978.
Kosciusko Island
Kosciusko Island (Wyspa Kościuszki), an island in the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, near northwest Prince of Wales Island across El Capitan Passage; coordinates 56.04°N 133.54°W, elevation about 1,096 feet, Silurian geology, Tongass and Alaska DNR management.
Kosciuszko Bridge
The Kosciuszko Bridge carries the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (I-278) over Newtown Creek between Brooklyn and Queens. Two cable-stayed spans, opened in 2017 and 2019, replaced a 1939 bridge.
Kościuszko Uprising
Kościuszko Uprising (insurekcja kościuszkowska): 1794 national insurrection against Russian and Prussian domination of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Tadeusz Kościuszko; Racławice victory, Proclamation of Połaniec, defeat at Maciejowice, ending with the Third Partition of 1795.
Köse Mihal
Köse Mihal (کوسه میخال) was the Byzantine tekfur of Harmankaya in Bithynia who joined Osman Bey, converted to Islam around 1313, and fought in the conquest of Bursa.