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Live To Surf
Live To Surf, founded by Liz Zed in 1984, is a family owned surf shop in Tofino, British Columbia, selling and renting surf, skate, and paddleboard equipment.
Live to Tell
"Live to Tell" is a 1986 Madonna ballad co-written and co-produced with Patrick Leonard, released March 26, 1986 as the lead single from True Blue and the theme of At Close Range; it hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 in the UK.
Live Up to Your Name (명불허전)
Live Up to Your Name (명불허전) is a 2017 tvN South Korean time-travel medical drama, 16 episodes directed by Hong Jong-chan, starring Kim Nam-gil as Joseon acupuncturist Heo Im and Kim Ah-joong as modern surgeon Choi Yeon-kyung.
Live USB
A live USB is a USB flash drive containing a bootable operating system that runs directly from the drive, without installation, used for trying, repairing, and portable systems.
Live variable analysis
Live variable analysis, also called liveness analysis, is a backward data-flow analysis compilers use to determine which variables may still be needed, primarily for dead code elimination and register allocation.
Live Vol. 1 (Billy Strings album)
Live Vol. 1 is Billy Strings' first official live album, released July 12, 2024 on Reprise; a double LP compiled from 2023–2024 shows in Paris, Nashville, Austin, and Atlanta, emphasizing 20-minute bluegrass jams.
Live Your Life (T.I. song)
"Live Your Life" is a 2008 song by rapper T.I. featuring Rihanna, from the album Paper Trail, built on a sample of O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei".
Live-cell microscopy
Live-cell microscopy is the time-resolved observation of living, unfixed cells under a microscope, following processes like cell division and migration while keeping light damage low.
Live! (The Police album)
Live! (The Police album) is the Police's first official live album, a 1995 A&M two-CD set pairing a 1979 WBCN-broadcast Boston Orpheum show with a 1983 Atlanta Omni Synchronicity-tour concert; UK chart peak No. 25.
Live. Love. ASAP
Live. Love. A$AP is A$AP Rocky's debut mixtape, released free on October 31, 2011; 16 tracks of cloud-rap produced largely by Clams Casino, following a $3 million RCA deal.
Live/Dead
Live/Dead is the Grateful Dead's first official live album, a double LP released November 10, 1969 on Warner Bros., recorded on 16-track at early 1969 San Francisco shows, featuring Dark Star, St. Stephen, The Eleven, and Lovelight.
LiveBench
LiveBench is a benchmark for large language models that resists test-set contamination by refreshing its questions monthly, scoring every answer automatically against objective ground-truth values without LLM judges.
LiveCodeBench
LiveCodeBench is a continuously updated benchmark measuring how well large language models solve competitive-programming problems, created by UC Berkeley, MIT, and Cornell researchers and released in March 2024 to resist contamination.
Livedo reticularis
Livedo reticularis, also called livedo racemosa in its persistent form, is a net-like reddish-blue to purple skin discoloration from impaired cutaneous blood flow, ranging from benign cold-induced cutis marmorata to a sign of antiphospholipid syndrome.
Livedoid vasculopathy
Livedoid vasculopathy (LV), also called atrophie blanche or segmental hyalinizing vasculitis, is a rare thrombotic skin disease causing painful relapsing lower-leg ulcers, mainly in women, treated with anticoagulants such as rivaroxaban.
LiveEO
LiveEO is a Berlin-based geospatial intelligence startup founded in 2018 by Sven Przywarra and Daniel Seidel, using AI to analyze satellite data for infrastructure monitoring.
LiveJournal
LiveJournal (Russian: Zhivoy Zhurnal, or ZheZhe) is a blogging platform owned since 2007 by Russia's SUP Media, central to Russian political blogging in the 2000s.
LiveLeak
LiveLeak was a British video-sharing website founded in 2006 by Hayden Hewitt and the team behind Ogrish, hosting uncensored footage of war and violence until its 2021 shutdown.
Livent
Livent Corporation was an American lithium chemicals producer, spun off from FMC in 2019, that made battery-grade lithium compounds in Argentina before merging with Australia's Allkem in 2024 to form Arcadium Lithium.
Liveoak Venture Partners
LiveOak Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2012 by three former Austin Ventures partners to invest exclusively in Texas-based technology and tech-enabled services companies.
Liver
The liver is the body's largest internal organ and gland, a 1.2–1.5 kg wedge in the right upper abdomen with dual portal-venous and arterial blood supply, hundreds of metabolic functions, unique full-size regeneration, and a long history from Babylonian divination to transplantation.
Liver (food)
Liver (food): edible offal from cattle, pigs, sheep, and poultry; Latin ficatum from fig-fattened goose liver; extremely high in vitamin A and B12, limited in pregnancy.
Liver adenomatosis
Liver adenomatosis, also called hepatic adenomatosis, is a rare liver disease featuring ten or more hepatocellular adenomas, mostly in women, with bleeding and cancer risks.
Liver biopsy
A liver biopsy is a procedure that removes a small sample of liver tissue, typically with a needle, to diagnose and stage liver disease such as hepatitis.
Liver bird
The Liver bird is a mythical cormorant-like bird, the symbol of Liverpool, seen on the city's coat of arms and atop the Royal Liver Building since 1911.
Liver cancer
Liver cancer: primary liver malignancy, mainly hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma; sixth most common cancer, third leading cause of cancer death; driven by cirrhosis, hepatitis B/C, alcohol, MASLD.
Liver disease
Liver disease: group of conditions damaging the liver from viral hepatitis, alcohol, fat, autoimmune, or inherited causes, progressing to fibrosis and cirrhosis; diagnosed by blood tests, elastography, and biopsy, with 1.3 million hepatitis-related deaths in 2024.
Liver failure
Liver failure: loss of liver function, acute (coagulopathy plus encephalopathy without prior liver disease, often acetaminophen or viral causes) or chronic (end stage of cirrhosis); liver transplantation is the only proven therapy for acute liver failure.
Liver fluke
Liver flukes are parasitic flatworms that infect human liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts, including Clonorchis, Opisthorchis, Fasciola, and Dicrocoelium species, acquired via raw fish or watercress.
Liver function tests
Liver function tests (LFTs), better called liver chemistries, are blood panels of ALT, AST, ALP, GGT, bilirubin, albumin, and PT/INR used to screen, stage, and monitor liver disease, with injury patterns and derived fibrosis scores like FIB-4.