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Perampanel
Perampanel (Fycompa, E2007) is a non-competitive AMPA glutamate receptor antagonist antiseizure drug, first FDA-approved 22 October 2012 for partial-onset seizures, later for PGTC seizures, with Schedule III status and a psychiatric boxed warning.
Peranakan Chinese in Malacca
The Peranakan Chinese in Malacca, also called Straits Chinese, are a Sino-Malay community in Malaysia, descended from Fujian migrants and regarded as Malacca's founding Straits community.
Peranakan cuisine
Peranakan cuisine, also called Nyonya cuisine (娘惹菜), is the cooking tradition of the Peranakan Chinese in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, blending Chinese and Malay elements with other influences.
Peranbu (பேரன்பு)
Peranbu (பேரன்பு, Compassion; also Resurrection) is a 2018 Tamil drama directed by Ram, starring Mammootty as a father raising a daughter with cerebral palsy, with Anjali, Sadhana, and Anjali Ameer; premiered at IFFR 2018, released theatrically 1 February 2019.
Peranmai (பெரண்மை)
Peranmai (பேராண்மை, Valour) is a 2009 Tamil action-adventure film directed by S. P. Jananathan, starring Jayam Ravi as tribal forest ranger Dhruvan, loosely based on The Dawns Here Are Quiet, released Diwali 2009.
Perariyathavar
Perariyathavar (Names Unknown, പേരറിയാത്തവർ) is a 2013 Malayalam drama by Dr Biju about a widowed sweeper and his son; it won two 61st National Film Awards, including Best Actor for Suraj Venjaramoodu.
PERASPERA
PERASPERA, a Programme Support Activity coordinated by the European Space Agency, planned and shaped the EU Horizon 2020 Strategic Research Cluster on space robotics from 2014 to 2019.
Peratech QTC
Peratech QTC, or Quantum Tunnelling Composite, is a pressure-sensitive metal-polymer composite developed by UK company Peratech, used in force-sensing touch controls and robotic tactile sensors.
Peratherium
Peratherium Aymard, 1850 is an extinct opossum-like metatherian mammal genus of the family Herpetotheriidae, known from the Early Eocene to Early Miocene of Europe and Africa; type species P. elegans, with P. africanum the only confirmed Cenozoic African marsupial.
Perazzi (shotgun manufacturer)
Perazzi is an Italian manufacturer of high-end competition and game shotguns, founded by Daniele Perazzi in 1957 in Brescia, Italy, and known for the MX8 shotgun and its detachable trigger group.
Perburuan
Perburuan (The Hunt, published in English as The Fugitive) is a 1950 novel by the Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer about a hunted former PETA soldier.
PERC (solar cell)
PERC, or Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell, is a silicon solar cell architecture invented by Martin Green's team at UNSW in 1983, dominant from 2018 until TOPCon displaced it from 2025.
Perca fluviatilis
Perca fluviatilis, the European or Eurasian perch (redfin perch), a Percidae freshwater fish native from Britain to Siberia's Kolyma River, IUCN Least Concern, highly fecund, piscivorous, invasive in Australia and New Zealand.
Percé Rock
Percé Rock (rocher Percé), a reddish limestone monolith off Percé, Quebec, at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula; 471 m long, 75–88 m high, with a sea arch, sandbar link, 1919 bird sanctuary status, and protected national park setting.
Perceived Stress Scale
The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a self-report questionnaire measuring how stressful, unpredictable, and uncontrollable a person found their life in the past month, introduced by Sheldon Cohen and colleagues in 1983.
Perceiver
Perceiver is a neural network architecture from Google DeepMind, introduced in 2021, that processes inputs of any modality via cross-attention into a small latent array.
Perçemli Sokak
Perçemli Sokak is a 1956 poetry collection by the Turkish poet Oktay Rifat, published in Istanbul, marking his turn from the Garip movement toward İkinci Yeni poetics.
Percent composition
Percent composition is the percentage by mass of each element in a chemical compound, calculated from masses or a formula and used to find empirical formulas.
Percent sign
The percent sign (%) is a symbol indicating a number or ratio as a fraction of 100. It evolved from an Italian scribal abbreviation of "per cento" around 1425.
Percent-encoding
Percent-encoding, also called URL encoding, represents special or non-ASCII characters in a URL as a percent sign followed by two hexadecimal digits, such as %20 for a space.
Percentage
A percentage, from the Latin per centum, expresses a number as a fraction of 100; 100% equals the whole, and percentages let proportions from different totals be compared.
Percentage point
A percentage point (pp or p.p.) is the unit used for the arithmetic difference between two percentages; a rate moving from 10% to 9% has fallen 1 point, but 10%.
Percentage-of-completion method
The percentage-of-completion method (PCM) is an accounting method that recognizes revenue and profit on long-term contracts in proportion to work completed, required for most long-term contracts under IRC §460.
Percentile
A percentile, also known as a centile, is a value below which a given percentage of ordered data falls; coined by Francis Galton in 1885, percentiles are widely used in child growth charts and educational testing.
Percentile rank
A percentile rank is the percentage of scores in a comparison group that fall at or below a given score; a rank of 77 means 77% scored lower.
Percept Live
Percept Live is an Indian live-entertainment company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Percept Limited established in 2012, best known for owning Sunburn, India's largest EDM festival.
Perception
Perception is the process by which the nervous system computes over sensory inputs to build models of the world, from receptor transduction through multisensory integration and predictive inference.
Perceptive Advisors
Perceptive Advisors is a New York-based hedge fund founded by Joseph Edelman in 1999 that invests in biotechnology stocks and manages about $11 billion in assets.
Perceptive Credit
Perceptive Credit is the private-credit platform of New York life-sciences investment firm Perceptive Advisors, providing debt, royalty, and convertible financing to healthcare companies since 2014.
Perceptive locomotion
Perceptive locomotion is a legged-robot control approach that fuses proprioception with external terrain sensing, such as elevation maps from lidar or depth cameras, letting the robot anticipate steps and obstacles.