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Lop Nur
Lop Nur (Lop Nor, Luobupo) is a dried salt lake and playa at the eastern end of China's Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, terminus of the Tarim River, famous for the wandering-lake dispute, the "Ear" salt crust, the Loulan Kingdom, and the nuclear test site.
Lop Nur South Ancient City Site
The Lop Nur South Ancient City site (海头, Haitou) comprises two walled settlements, LK and LL, in the desert southwest of Lop Nur, Xinjiang, dated Han through Jin.
Lopal Technology (龙蟠科技)
Lopal Technology (龙蟠科技) is a Nanjing-headquartered chemicals company, founded in 2003, that makes lubricants, coolants, diesel exhaust fluid, and lithium iron phosphate battery cathode materials.
Lopamudra
Lopamudra (Lopāmudrā) is a Vedic woman seer credited with the first two verses of Rigveda hymn 1.179 and remembered as the wife of the sage Agastya, her historicity uncertain.
Lopamudra Raut
Lopamudra Raut, Indian model and actor from Nagpur, Miss United Continents India 2016; second runner-up at Miss United Continents 2016 in Guayaquil with Best National Costume and $15,000; Bigg Boss 10 second runner-up; electrical engineer.
Lopburi Zoo
Lopburi Zoo (สวนสัตว์ลพบุรี, Sa Kaeo Zoo) is a small military-run municipal zoo in Lopburi, Thailand, founded in 1940 under Phibunsongkhram, restored in 1977, holding about 590 animals, and renamed in 1997 to avoid confusion with Sa Kaeo Province.
Lope de Aguirre
Lope de Aguirre (c. 1510–1561) was a Basque Spanish conquistador who mutinied on the 1561 Amazon expedition in search of El Dorado, renounced allegiance to Philip II, and led his followers to Venezuela.
Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega (Félix Lope de Vega Carpio, 1562–1635), Spanish Golden Age playwright and poet, creator of the comedia nueva and author of Fuente Ovejuna and El castigo sin venganza; Cervantes's great rival, Armada veteran of 1588.
Lope García de Castro
Lope García de Castro (1516–1576) was a Spanish jurist who governed the Viceroyalty of Peru from 1564 to 1569 between viceroys, founding Lima's mint and sponsoring Mendaña's voyage.
Loperamide
Loperamide (Imodium) is a synthetic peripheral mu-opioid agonist antidiarrheal, OTC for acute diarrhea and prescription for chronic diarrhea and ileostomy; safe at ≤16 mg/day but cardiotoxic in overdose.
López (Martian crater)
López (Lopez) is an 85-km-wide impact crater on Mars at 14.57°S, 98.04°E in quadrangle MC-22, IAU-approved October 7, 2014 and named for Mexican astronomer and author Epidio López (1879–1965).
Lophelia
Lophelia, now Desmophyllum pertusum (formerly Lophelia pertusa), is a reef-forming cold-water coral of the deep Atlantic, 39–3,380 m depth, 4–8 °C waters, building biodiversity-rich reefs threatened by bottom trawling and ocean acidification.
Lophiodon
Lophiodon (Cuvier, 1822) is an extinct European Eocene tapiromorph perissodactyl, type genus of Lophiodontidae; tapir-like browsers with prominent canines, reaching 68-404 kg at Geiseltal, last representative L. lautricense.
Lophira
Lophira Banks ex C.F.Gaertn. is a genus of two African tree species in the Ochnaceae family, native from western tropical Africa to Uganda, first published in 1805.
Lophius
Lophius (monkfish, goosefish, anglerfish) is a genus of seven lophiid anglerfish species that ambush prey on the seabed using an illicium lure; commercially important in Atlantic, Mediterranean, and southern African fisheries.
Lophius budegassa
Lophius budegassa, the black-bellied anglerfish (rape negro, baudroie rousse), is a Lophiidae anglerfish of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from the British Isles to Senegal, benthic to about 500 m, fish-eating, and managed with L. piscatorius under combined ICES TACs.
Lophius piscatorius
Lophius piscatorius, the angler or monkfish (baudroie commune), is a Lophiidae anglerfish of the eastern North Atlantic and Mediterranean that lures prey with a bifid esca; grows to 2 m, IUCN Least Concern, highly commercial.
Lophodytes
Lophodytes, Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus), a monotypic North American merganser genus erected by Reichenbach in 1853, phylogenetically between Bucephala and Mergus; smallest North American merganser, cavity-nesting fish-eater.
Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps
Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, the golden tilefish or great northern tilefish, is a burrow-building western Atlantic fish from Nova Scotia to Suriname, IUCN Endangered, harvested mainly by longline.
Lophophora
Lophophora, or peyote cactus genus (Lophophora williamsii), spineless low-growing Cactaceae from Texas and Mexico; four accepted species, mescaline-bearing, IUCN Vulnerable, CITES Appendix II.
Lophura
Lophura (gallopheasants, firebacks) is a genus of Phasianidae pheasants of southern and Southeast Asia, including the silver, kalij, Siamese, crested, and crestless firebacks, Bulwer's, Swinhoe's, and Edwards's pheasants; five mitochondrial clades, several threatened species.
Lophuromys
Lophuromys (brush-furred rats, harsh-furred rats) is an African rodent genus in Muridae, subfamily Deomyinae, with 15 to 34 recognized species, two subgenera, and a major endemic radiation in the Ethiopian highlands.
Lopinavir
Lopinavir is an antiretroviral HIV-1 protease inhibitor, used almost exclusively in the fixed-dose combination with ritonavir marketed as Kaletra, which Abbott Laboratories developed and the FDA approved in 2000 for HIV-1 infection.
Lopingian
The Lopingian is the youngest epoch of the Permian, from about 259.5 to 251.9 million years ago, ending at the Permian-Triassic boundary and divided into the Wuchiapingian and Changhsingian stages.
Loquat
Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica; pipa 枇杷, biwa) is a Chinese-origin evergreen Rosaceae tree with winter flowers and spring yellow pomes; non-climacteric fruit, cold-sensitive bloom, grown in over 30 countries.
Loquillo y los Trogloditas
Loquillo y los Trogloditas were a Spanish rock band formed in Barcelona in the early 1980s and fronted by Loquillo, whose 1989 live album made 'Cadillac solitario' an anthem of rock in Spanish.
LoRa
LoRa, short for Long Range, is a proprietary chirp spread spectrum radio modulation technique for long-range, low-power wireless communication, developed by Cycleo and owned by Semtech.
LoRA (machine learning)
LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique for large language models in which frozen pre-trained weights are supplemented with small trainable low-rank matrices, introduced at Microsoft in June 2021.
LoRA adapters for generative media
LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) is a fine-tuning method, introduced by Microsoft in 2021, that freezes a pretrained model's weights and trains small low-rank update matrices instead.
LoRA fine-tuning ecosystem
LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method introduced by Microsoft researchers in 2021, which freezes a pre-trained model's weights and trains small low-rank adapter matrices instead.