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Pore-scale simulation
Pore-scale simulation models fluid flow, solute transport, and chemical reaction directly inside the pore geometry of a porous medium, computing permeability and capillary pressure from 3D images.
Poreče
Poreče (Порече) is a rural, peripheral historical-geographical region of North Macedonia whose core area coincides with the municipality of Makedonski Brod, and is divided into Upper and Lower Poreče.
Porella
Porella is a genus of about 120 taxa of leafy liverworts in the family Porellaceae, described by Linnaeus in 1753 with Porella pinnata as the type species.
Porellales
Porellales, an order of leafy liverworts (Jungermanniidae) sister to Jungermanniales, defined by bundled rhizoids, incubous bifid leaves and watersacs; includes Lejeuneaceae, the most species-rich liverwort family, and diversified epiphytically in Cretaceous angiosperm forests.
Porencephaly
Porencephaly is a rare brain malformation with fluid-filled intracerebral cavities, genetic (COL4A1/COL4A2, autosomal dominant) or acquired from hemorrhage, ischemia, or injury, causing seizures, hemiparesis, and developmental delay.
Porepunkah police shootings
Porepunkah police shootings: 26 August 2025 killing of two Victoria Police officers and wounding of a third executing a warrant at Porepunkah, Victoria, by sovereign-citizen-associated Dezi Freeman, 56, who fled into bush and was shot dead by police near Thologolong on 30 March 2026.
Porfimer sodium
Porfimer sodium (Photofrin) is a first-generation porphyrin oligomer photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy, activated by 630 nm laser light; first approved in Canada 1993 and the US 1995 for esophageal cancer palliation.
Porfiriato
The Porfiriato was the era of Mexican history dominated by Porfirio Díaz, president for most of 1877 to 1911, marked by economic growth that ended with the Mexican Revolution.
Porfirio Barba-Jacob
Porfirio Barba-Jacob was the pen name of Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez (1883–1942), a Colombian poet of melancholy lyric meditations on death, much honored after his death.
Porfirio Díaz
Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915) was a Mexican general and politician who served as president from 1876 to 1880 and again from 1884 to 1911, the era known as the Porfiriato.
Porfirio Parra
Porfirio Parra y Gutiérrez (1854–1912) was a Mexican physician, logician, and novelist, a leading positivist who succeeded his teacher Gabino Barreda in the chair of logic at Mexico's Escuela Nacional Preparatoria.
Porfirio Rubirosa
Porfirio Rubirosa (Rubirosa Ariza, "Rubi"), Dominican diplomat, racing driver, and polo player under dictator Rafael Trujillo; five marriages including Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton; died 5 July 1965 in a Ferrari crash in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris.
Porfiromycin
Porfiromycin (methylmitomycin C, Promycin, ENT-50825, NSC-56410) is an N-methyl mitomycin C analogue from Streptomyces ardus, a hypoxia-selective bioreductive DNA-cross-linking antibiotic tested in phase III head and neck cancer trials but never FDA approved.
Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin's 1935 American folk opera with libretto by DuBose Heyward and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, premiered at the Alvin Theatre; based on Heyward's novel Porgy, set in Catfish Row, famous for Summertime.
Porgy and Bess (film)
Porgy and Bess (1959) is Otto Preminger's Columbia Pictures film of Gershwin's folk opera, starring Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, and Sammy Davis Jr., an Oscar winner now largely unavailable after Goldwyn's rights lapsed.
Porgy and Bess discography
Porgy and Bess discography: recorded history of Gershwin's 1935 folk-opera, from the 1940 Decca original cast album with Todd Duncan and Anne Brown, the 1951 Columbia first complete recording, Miles Davis/Gil Evans 1959, to the Maazel 1975 complete-score and Met 2019 Grammy-winning recordings.
Pori Moni (পরী মনি)
Pori Moni (পরী মনি), birth name Shamsunnahar Smrity, born 1992, is a Bangladeshi film actress who debuted with Bhalobasha Shimaheen (2015), signed about two dozen films that year, won CJFB and BAIFA awards, married and separated from Sariful Razz, and was jailed 27 days in a 2021 drug case later dismissed.
Pori National Urban Park
Pori National Urban Park is a protected park in Pori, Finland, confirmed in 2002 as the country's second national urban park, built around the Kokemäenjoki River.
Poria
Poria Pers. 1794, a historically broad, now illegitimate genus name for resupinate wood-inhabiting polypore fungi; type species Poria medulla-panis, current name Perenniporia; not the crustacean genus Poria Lang, 1965.
Poribacteria
Poribacteria (Candidatus Poribacteria) is an uncultivated candidate bacterial phylum living symbiotically in marine sponges, named in 2004; it belongs to the PVC superphylum, has a membrane-bound nucleoid, and degrades sponge matrix carbohydrates.
Porin PorA
Porin PorA (class 1 outer membrane protein) is the meningococcal serosubtyping antigen, a ~42 kDa cation-selective trimeric porin of Neisseria meningitidis with variable regions VR1 and VR2, subject to phase variation, and the main target of bactericidal antibodies in OMV vaccines.
Porin PorA/Polar growth factor A
PorA/PgfA: PorA is the 45-amino-acid cation-selective cell wall porin of Corynebacterium glutamicum that forms a channel with PorH; the PorA domain name also covers mycobacterial PgfA (MSMEG_0317, Rv0227c), an essential polar growth factor coordinating mycolic acid and peptidoglycan synthesis. Distinct from Neisseria PorA.
Porin PorB/PorC
PorB (PorB/PorC) is the major trimeric β-barrel outer membrane porin of pathogenic Neisseria, especially Neisseria gonorrhoeae; two alleles PorB.1A/PorB.1B, a typing antigen, TLR2 ligand, and vaccine consideration.
Porinju Mariam Jose
Porinju Mariam Jose (പൊറിഞ്ചു മറിയം ജോസ്) is a 2019 Indian Malayalam period action thriller directed by Joshiy, starring Joju George, Nyla Usha, and Chemban Vinod Jose as three childhood friends.
Porinju Veliyath
Porinju Veliyath is an Indian value investor known as the "small-cap czar", who founded the Kochi-based Equity Intelligence India in 2002 after rising from a phone operator's job to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Porites astreoides
Porites astreoides, the mustard hill coral or yellow porites, is a common brooding stony coral of the western Atlantic; massive or encrusting yellow colonies, mixed hermaphroditic/female breeding system, once a reef "winner" now declining in Florida Keys.
Porites cylindrica
Porites cylindrica (cylindrical branching Porites coral, synonym Porites andrewsi) is an Indo-West Pacific stony coral dominant in lagoons; IUCN Least Concern since 2024 and widely used in reef restoration.
Porites lobata
Porites lobata (lobe coral), Dana 1846, a massive reef-building stony coral, among the most widespread corals; includes cryptic species such as P. evermanni; CITES Appendix II.
Porites lutea
Porites lutea (pore or boulder coral) is a massive Indo-Pacific reef-building stony coral of the family Poritidae, forming helmet-shaped colonies over 4 m across and micro-atolls; synonyms include Porites arenacea; IUCN Least Concern.
Poritrin Planitia
Poritrin Planitia is a 1,900 km-wide plain in Titan's northern mid-latitudes, IAU-approved in 2014 and named after the Dune-series planet Poritrin, third planet of Epsilon Alangue.