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Lv Zuqian
Lv Zuqian (吕祖谦), courtesy name Bogong and known as Master Donglai, was a Song dynasty Neo-Confucian scholar, historian, and official who served Emperor Xiaozong and founded the Jinhua school.
LVAD therapy
LVAD therapy is a treatment for advanced heart failure in which an implanted mechanical pump moves blood from the weakened left ventricle into the aorta, used as a bridge to transplant or lifelong support.
LVIS (dataset)
LVIS is an instance segmentation benchmark dataset from Facebook AI Research, introduced at CVPR 2019, re-annotating COCO 2017 images with 1,203 categories, 2 million masks, and a long-tailed category distribution.
Lviv (Львів)
Lviv (Львів; Lwów, Lemberg), western Ukraine's largest city (717,273 in 2022), founded mid-13th century by Danylo Romanovych; UNESCO World Heritage historic center since 1998, on the in-danger list since 2023.
Lviv Dormition Brotherhood
The Lviv Dormition Brotherhood, also called the Lviv Stauropegion Brotherhood, was a lay Orthodox confraternity of Ruthenian burghers in Lviv that ran from 1586 until Austrian dissolution in 1788.
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast (Львівська область), a western Ukrainian province centered on Lviv, created 4 December 1939, area 21,831 km², population about 2.48 million (2022), 7 districts, UNESCO-listed Lviv old town, EU border gateway.
Lviv pogroms (1941)
The Lviv pogroms of 1941 were two waves of anti-Jewish violence in Lviv, then Lwów, Poland, after German capture in June 1941, killing roughly 4,000 Jews.
Lviv Polytechnic
Lviv Polytechnic National University is a state technical university in Lviv, Ukraine, dating its origin to an 1816 decree of Emperor Franz I and opened as the Technical Academy in 1844.
Lviv–Sandomierz Offensive
The Lviv–Sandomierz Offensive was a Red Army offensive fought from 13 July to 29 August 1944, in which Marshal Ivan Konev's forces liberated western Ukraine and seized a Vistula bridgehead at Sandomierz.
Lvivskyi Raion
Lvivskyi Raion (Львівський район), a district of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, created 17 July 2020; capital Lviv; about 1.15 million people, 23 territorial communities, 531 settlements, bordering Poland's Lublin Voivodeship.
LVM3
LVM3, formerly the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk III), is ISRO's heavy-lift three-stage rocket that launched Chandrayaan-2 and Chandrayaan-3 to the Moon.
Lvmama
Lvmama (驴妈妈, "Donkey Mama Travel") was a Shanghai-based online travel agency founded in 2008 by Hong Qinghua, a pioneer of online scenic-ticket sales in China that collapsed in 2024.
LVMH
LVMH, or Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is a French luxury goods group formed in 1987 and controlled by Bernard Arnault, home to Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Tiffany.
Lvmin Zhang
Lvmin Zhang (Lyumin Zhang) is a computer scientist and Stanford PhD candidate who created ControlNet, a neural network for controlling text-to-image diffusion models that won the ICCV 2023 Best Paper Award.
LVR-15
LVR-15 is a 10 MW tank-type light water research reactor at Řež near Prague, operated by Research Centre Řež and used for materials irradiation and medical isotope production.
Lvyue Group (旅悦集团)
Lvyue Group (旅悦集团) is a Beijing-based hotel group founded in 2016, incubated by Ctrip and led by Zhang Qiang, running hotel brands with local operators across Asia.
LW Bogdanka Coal Mine
LW Bogdanka Coal Mine (Kopalnia LW "Bogdanka") is an underground hard coal mine in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, the only active mine in the Lublin Coal Basin.
LW10
LW10 (LW10-1, LW10-2, Nordic LW10/LW10.5) is the most severe para sit-skiing classification: minimal or absent trunk muscle function, assessed by the FIS Board Test or Nordic test-table-test, raced with factored timing.
LW6/8
LW6/8 is a Paralympic skiing sport class (LW = Locomotor Winter) for standing athletes with one-arm impairments, competing on two skis with one pole; subcategories LW6/8-1 (above elbow) and LW6/8-2 (below elbow).
Lwa
Lwa, also spelled loa, are the spirits of Haitian Vodou, intermediaries between humanity and the remote creator Bondye, who possess devotees during ritual and are served in ceremonies ordered from Rada to Petwo nations.
Lwów Uprising
The Lwów Uprising (powstanie lwowskie) was a July 1944 Polish Home Army action against German occupation forces in Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine, part of Operation Tempest, ending in Soviet arrests.
Lwów Voivodeship
Lwów Voivodeship, in Polish województwo lwowskie, was an administrative unit of the Second Polish Republic, capital Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), created in 1920 and operating from 1921 to 1939.
LWRC M6
The LWRC M6 is a series of gas-piston self-loading rifles and carbines made by LWRC International of Cambridge, Maryland, chambered in 5.56mm NATO and 6.8mm SPC.
LX101, RPE65 AAV gene therapy for inherited retinal dystrophy
LX101 (LX-101), Innostellar Biotherapeutics' rAAV2-RPE65 subretinal gene therapy for biallelic RPE65 mutation-associated inherited retinal dystrophy; phase 3 STAR trial in China, commercialization rights held by Golden Age Health.
LXC
LXC, short for Linux Containers, is a low-level container runtime first released in 2008, built entirely on mainline Linux kernel features like namespaces and cgroups.
Ly Bi
Ly Bi (Lý Bí), known as Ly Nam De, was a Vietnamese leader who revolted against Liang China and proclaimed the independent kingdom of Van Xuan in 544.
Lý Bôn
Lý Bôn, also read Lý Bí, was a Jiaozhou strongman who proclaimed himself Emperor of Nam Việt in 544 and founded the state of Vạn Xuân.
Ly Bon's revolt and the Early Ly kingdom
Ly Bon's revolt (Khởi nghĩa Lý Bôn) was a 542 uprising against Liang rule in northern Vietnam, led by Ly Bi, who founded the Van Xuan kingdom in 544.
Ly Chieu Hoang
Ly Chieu Hoang (Lý Chiêu Hoàng), born Ly Phat Kim, was the only empress regnant of Dai Viet, reigning 1224 to 1225 before ceding the throne to her husband.
Lý Công Uẩn
Lý Công Uẩn, temple name Lý Thái Tổ, was the founding emperor of the Lý dynasty of Vietnam, reigning from 1009 to 1028 and moving the capital to Thăng Long.