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Pictures at an Exhibition
Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vystavki) is an 1874 piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky, depicting ten pictures by his friend Viktor Hartmann and best known in Ravel's 1922 orchestration.
PICU study
PICU study (NCT05656950), Assessment of Oral Health Status of Patients in Pediatric Intensive Care Units: a completed Turkish observational study; 88 children, mean OAG score 8.45, published in Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing 2024.
Picumnus
Picumnus (Temminck, 1825) is a genus of piculets, tiny woodpeckers of Picidae, with about 25 Neotropical species plus one Asian species, P. innominatus; monophyletic within a paraphyletic Picumninae.
PID controller design
PID controller design means structuring a feedback controller's proportional, integral, and derivative terms and tuning their gains so the closed loop meets targets for speed, overshoot, and robustness.
Piddington
Piddington Roman villa, Northamptonshire: Iron Age settlement (c.50 BC) that became a Romano-British villa and iron-working site, found 1781, excavated by the Upper Nene Archaeological Society since 1979.
PIDE
PIDE (Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado), later DGS, was Portugal's Estado Novo political police, 1945–1969/1974, created under Salazar, renamed by Caetano, known for its 20,000 informers, torture, colonial-war intelligence role, and abolition after 25 April 1974.
Pidgeon process
The Pidgeon process is a thermal reduction process that produces magnesium metal by reducing calcined dolomite with ferrosilicon in vacuum retorts, developed commercially in 1944 and now dominant in China.
Pidgin
A pidgin is a simplified contact language with no native speakers that arises when groups with no common language need to communicate, most often for trade or labor.
Pidhaytsi Rayon
Pidhaytsi Rayon (Підгаєцький район) was a former raion of Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Pidhaitsi; created 1940, abolished 1963, restored 1991, and merged into Ternopil Raion in 2020.
Pidurutalagala
Pidurutalagala (Mount Pedro; පිදුරුතලාගල) is Sri Lanka's highest mountain, 2,524 m, north of Nuwara Eliya in the Central Highlands; its radar- and communications-hosting summit is a restricted military zone.
Pidżama Porno
Pidżama Porno, Polish punk rock band founded December 1987 in Poznań by Krzysztof "Grabaż" Grabowski and Andrzej "Kozak" Kozakiewicz; nine studio albums, 2007–2014 hiatus, trio since 2014, album "Sprzedawca jutra" (2019).
Pie
Pie (pye): baked dish of food fully or partly enclosed in dough, from Egyptian galettes and Roman placenta to English coffyn crusts and American apple pie; word attested 1303.
Pie and mash
Pie and mash is a traditional London dish of minced beef pie, mashed potato and parsley liquor, served with jellied eels in shops dating from the mid-19th century; the Cooke, Manze and Kelly families ran them, and around 30 shops remained in 2024.
Pie chart
A pie chart, also called a pie diagram or circle chart, is a circular statistical graphic divided into wedges sized in proportion to the values they represent.
Pie in the Sky (TV series)
Pie in the Sky: British BBC One police comedy-drama (1994-1997, five series, 40 episodes) created by Andrew Payne, starring Richard Griffiths as DI Henry Crabbe, a detective blackmailed into casework while running his restaurant; distinct from the 1986 children's show of the same name.
Piebald
Piebald describes an animal with unpigmented white patches on an otherwise normally colored body, a form of leucism seen in horses, dogs, cows, and people.
Piebaldism
Piebaldism (piebald trait, PBT) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder of melanocyte development caused mainly by KIT mutations, producing congenital stable white skin patches and a white forelock in 80–90% of cases.
PIEBvsPCEA trial
PIEBvsPCEA (NCT03133091) was a randomized double-blind phase 3 trial at Hospital del Rio Hortega, Valladolid, comparing levobupivacaine CEI+PIEB+PCEA versus CEI+PCEA in 200 primiparous labours; PIEB used more drug but needed fewer top-ups and gave higher satisfaction.
Piece by Piece (2024 film)
Piece by Piece (2024) is an American animated biographical documentary about musician Pharrell Williams, told entirely in LEGO animation. Directed by Morgan Neville for Focus Features, it opened October 11, 2024, earned a PG rating, grossed $9.5M in the US, and scored 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Piece by Piece (Kelly Clarkson album)
Piece by Piece is Kelly Clarkson's seventh studio album, released March 3, 2015, her first since 2011. Produced largely by Greg Kurstin, with Sia and John Legend collaborations, it closed her Idol-era RCA contract.
Piece by Piece (soundtrack)
Piece by Piece (soundtrack) is the album for the 2024 animated documentary Piece by Piece. It features new songs and Pharrell Williams hits like "Happy" and "Get Lucky."
Pièce détachée. Abdessalam;Casino
Pièce détachée. Abdessalam;Casino is a car parts shop on Rue Mohamed Khemisti in Relizane, Algeria, OSM node 4516550090, double-tagged amenity=casino and shop=car_parts.
Piece of Mind
Piece of Mind is Iron Maiden's fourth studio album, released 16 May 1983; first with drummer Nicko McBrain, produced by Martin Birch in the Bahamas, UK number three and platinum, home of The Trooper and Revelations.
Piece of My Heart
Piece of My Heart: love song by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, first recorded by Erma Franklin (1967), made famous by Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company (1968), later covered by Faith Hill, Shaggy, and Beverley Knight.
Piece of Time
Piece of Time is the 1988-recorded debut album by Florida death metal band Atheist, released in Europe in 1989 and the U.S. in 1990. Produced by Scott Burns, it fused thrash with jazz-influenced technicality and helped found technical death metal.
Piece of Your Heart
"Piece of Your Heart" is a 2019 deep house song by the Italian trio Meduza featuring the British trio Goodboys, nominated for a Grammy Award.
Piece picking
Piece picking is a warehouse order fulfillment method in which workers or robots retrieve individual items, or pieces, to complete one customer order at a time, central to e-commerce fulfillment.
Piece rate
Piece rate is a wage system paying a fixed amount per unit produced or task completed, typically used for repetitive work like garment production and fruit picking.
Pieces of a Woman
Pieces of a Woman (2020) is a Netflix drama by Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber, adapted from their stage play about losing a child, starring Vanessa Kirby, who won the Venice Volpi Cup and earned an Oscar nomination.
Pieces of Eight
Pieces of Eight is the eighth studio album by American rock band Styx, released in 1978, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard 200 and featuring "Renegade".