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Posad reform of 1648–49
The posad reform of 1648–49, known as posadskoe stroenie, was a Russian reform under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, enacted through chapter XIX of the 1649 Sobornoe Ulozhenie.
Posadas, Misiones
Posadas, capital of Misiones Province, Argentina, on the Paraná River facing Encarnación, Paraguay. Founded as a 1615 Jesuit reduction, renamed in 1879; 318,861 residents (2010 census).
Posadnik
The posadnik (Посадник) was the chief urban magistrate of medieval Rus', originally a prince's deputy and from 1126 the highest elective office of the Novgorod Republic, abolished in 1478.
Posani Krishna Murali (పోసాని కృష్ణ మురళి)
Posani Krishna Murali (పోసాని కృష్ణ మురళి), also credited as Krishna Murali Posani, is a Telugu film actor, screenwriter, director and producer with over 150 film credits, known for Operation Duryodhana (2007) and Temper (2015), and a former APFTTDC chairman who quit politics in 2024.
Pöschl–Teller potential
The Pöschl–Teller potential is a one-dimensional potential in quantum mechanics, introduced in 1933, for which the Schrödinger equation can be solved exactly in closed form.
POSCO (포스코)
POSCO (포스코) is a South Korean steelmaker founded in 1968 as Pohang Iron and Steel Company, headquartered in Seoul and Pohang with works at Pohang and Gwangyang.
POSCO ENERGY
POSCO ENERGY (포스코에너지) was the energy subsidiary of South Korea's POSCO Group. Founded in 1969, it worked in power generation, fuel cells, and LNG before merging into POSCO International in 2023.
POSCO Future M
POSCO Future M (포스코퓨처엠), formerly POSCO Chemical, is a South Korean manufacturer of cathode and anode materials for rechargeable batteries and the only company in Korea producing both.
POSCO Incheon power station
POSCO Incheon power station, also known as the Incheon LNG Combined Cycle Power Plant, is a 3,412 MW LNG-fired power station in Incheon, South Korea.
Posco International
Posco International (포스코인터내셔널) is a South Korean trading and energy company headquartered in Incheon, a POSCO Group affiliate founded in 1967 as Daewoo Industry and renamed in 2019.
POSDCORB
POSDCORB, Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, Budgeting: Luther Gulick's 1937 seven-function acronym for the work of the chief executive, developed with Lyndall Urwick, rooted in Fayol, criticized by Simon, and the ancestor of POLC.
Pose (TV series)
Pose is an American FX drama series (2018 to 2021) created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Steven Canals, depicting New York City's late-1980s and 1990s ball culture.
Pose estimation (computer vision)
Pose estimation in computer vision is the task of determining from images the position and orientation of objects, cameras, or human bodies, supporting robotics, augmented reality, and motion capture.
Pose graph optimization
Pose graph optimization is a nonlinear least-squares back-end for SLAM that estimates a robot's trajectory from relative-pose constraints, serving as the standard global correction step after loop closure.
PoseBusters
PoseBusters is an Oxford Python package that checks whether predicted protein-ligand poses from docking programs or AI methods are chemically and physically plausible, introducing PB-validity.
Poseida Therapeutics
Poseida Therapeutics was a clinical-stage San Diego biotechnology company, founded in 2014 as a Transposagen spinout, that developed allogeneic CAR-T therapies and genetic medicines and was acquired by Roche in 2024.
Poseidon (film)
Poseidon is a 2006 American disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, in which a rogue wave capsizes a luxury ocean liner and survivors climb through the upside-down ship to escape.
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν)
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν), Roman Neptune, is the Olympian Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, son of Cronus, brother of Zeus, wielding the trident; attested in Linear B as Posedaon and worshipped at Corinth, Sounion, Helike, and Samikon.
Poseidon Principles
The Poseidon Principles are a framework launched in 2019 in New York under which signatory banks annually measure and disclose the climate alignment of their ship finance portfolios against IMO decarbonization trajectories.
Poseokjeong
Poseokjeong (포석정) is the site of a Unified Silla royal pavilion in Gyeongju, South Korea, known for its winding granite water channel used for floating-cup banquets.
Posey and Webster Street Tubes
The Posey and Webster Street Tubes are a pair of immersed vehicular tunnels carrying State Route 260 beneath the Oakland Estuary, linking Alameda with Oakland, California.
Poshekhon Antiquity
Poshekhon Antiquity is the last novel of the Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, written 1887–1889 and serialized in Vestnik Evropy, portraying a nobleman's childhood on a serf-owning estate before the 1861 emancipation.
Poshlaya Molly
Poshlaya Molly (Пошлая Молли) is a Russian-language pop-punk project founded in 2016 and fronted by Ukrainian performer Kirill Bledny, a key figure in the new Russian wave.
Posidonia Shale
Posidonia Shale (Posidonienschiefer): early Toarcian (~183 Ma) black bituminous shale of NW Europe, major petroleum source rock and famous Holzmaden fossil Lagerstätte of the Toarcian anoxic event.
Posidoniella
Posidoniella (Koninck, 1885) is an extinct, taxonomically doubtful Paleozoic bivalve genus in the family Myalinidae, recorded from about 359-347 Ma to 299-296 Ma; distinct from the seagrass Posidonia.
Posidonius
Posidonius of Apamea (135–c. 51 BCE), Greek Stoic philosopher, scientist, and historian of the Middle Stoa; student of Panaetius, teacher of Cicero; none of his treatises survives, known from fragments on ethics, psychology, and the sciences.
Posit arithmetic
Posit arithmetic is a format for representing and computing with real numbers, designed by John Gustafson and Isaac Yonemoto in 2017 as a drop-in replacement for IEEE 754 floating point.
Posit PBC
Posit PBC, formerly RStudio, is an American data science software company founded by J.J. Allaire in 2009, known for open-source tools like the RStudio IDE and Shiny.
Positano
Positano, comune in Salerno province on the Amalfi Coast, Italy; cliffside resort town of about 4,000 people, UNESCO-listed landscape, Steinbeck's 1953 essay, and severe landslide risk.
Position and momentum bases
In quantum mechanics, the position and momentum bases are continuous families of idealized eigenstates |x⟩ and |p⟩, existing only as distributions and linked by Fourier-transform duality.