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Pre-medical
Pre-medical (pre-med) describes the undergraduate coursework, experiences, and application preparation for US medical school, including the MCAT, rather than a degree program or major of its own.
Pre-modern dam construction techniques
Pre-modern dam construction techniques built water barriers of masonry, earth, and rock without concrete or steel, from the Jawa Dam of the mid-4th millennium BC onward.
Pre-Modernism
Pre-Modernism (Pré-Modernismo) is the label for Brazilian literature from about 1902 to 1922, a period without a shared program whose writers include Euclides da Cunha and Lima Barreto.
Pre-mRNA processing factor 4 (PRP4)-like
Pre-mRNA processing factor 4 (PRP4)-like (PF08799, IPR014906) is a protein family named after spliceosomal PRPF4, a U4/U6-U5 tri-snRNP splicing factor linked to retinitis pigmentosa 70, distinct from the unrelated kinase PRPF4B.
Pre-mRNA splicing factor
Pre-mRNA splicing factor (Cwc25/CWC25, CCDC49) is a conserved spliceosomal protein promoting the first branching step of pre-mRNA splicing after Prp2 and Yju2, stabilizing the branch helix until Prp16 removes it.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) is the earliest subdivision of the Levantine Neolithic, a period of farming villages without pottery defined by Kathleen Kenyon in 1957.
Pre-production
Pre-production is the crucial planning stage of filmmaking where the script is broken down, budgets and schedules are built, and all departments prepare to ensure the shoot succeeds.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was a secret society of seven young English artists founded in London in September 1848 by Hunt, Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, rejecting Royal Academy conventions in favor of art before Raphael, detailed realism, and bright color.
Pre-Raphaelite poetry
Pre-Raphaelite poetry is Victorian verse by members and associates of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in 1848, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris, and Swinburne.
Pre-release single
A pre-release single (선공개곡) is a K-pop song released ahead of an official album to build momentum, a standard rollout step especially among fourth-generation idols.
Pre-replication complex
Pre-replication complex (pre-RC), also called prereplication complex: G1-phase assembly of ORC, Cdc6, Cdt1, and Mcm2-7 at eukaryotic replication origins that loads an inactive Mcm2-7 double hexamer to license origins once per cell cycle.
Pre-revolution pop (Golden Age of Iranian pop)
Pre-revolution pop is the Iranian popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, centered on Tehran's state radio and television, performed on Western instruments with Persian lyrics, and banned after the 1979 revolution.
Pre-salt layer
The pre-salt layer is a sequence of Aptian-age rock salt off Brazil and West Africa, beneath which lie oil reservoirs supplying most of Brazil's oil.
Pre-shared key
A pre-shared key (PSK) is a secret shared between two parties in advance and used to authenticate them during key exchanges such as IPsec VPNs.
Pre-sliding displacement
Pre-sliding displacement, also known as micro-slip or the Dahl effect, is the small tangential displacement in a contact before the whole body slides, showing hysteresis with non-local memory.
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as early Greek philosophy, is the thought of Greek thinkers of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, from Thales to the atomists.
Pre-stack depth migration
Pre-stack depth migration, or PSDM, is a seismic imaging technique that migrates unstacked traces into a depth image using a velocity-depth model, correctly positioning reflectors under salt and complex structure.
Preacher (comics)
Preacher (comics): Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's 66-issue DC Vertigo series (1995–2000) about preacher Jesse Custer, Genesis, and the search for God; 75 comics total, Eisner-winning, adapted for AMC.
Preacher (TV series)
Preacher (2016–2019) is an AMC series adapted from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Vertigo comic, developed by Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg, starring Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, a preacher possessed by Genesis who searches for God.
Preaching Evil: A Wife on the Run with Warren Jeffs
Preaching Evil: A Wife on the Run with Warren Jeffs is a 2022 four-episode Peacock documentary miniseries about FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, told through his favorite wife and scribe Naomie Jessop, with interviews of former wives, children, and law enforcement.
Preaching to the Perverted (film)
Preaching to the Perverted is a 1997 British comedy directed by Stuart Urban in which Christien Anholt's character infiltrates a London fetish club for Tom Bell's MP and falls for dominatrix Tanya Cheex (Guinevere Turner).
Preact
Preact is a small, fast JavaScript library for building user interfaces with a virtual DOM, offering an API closely modeled on React at roughly 3 kB, with React compatibility through its preact/compat layer.
Preadipocyte
Preadipocyte (CL:0002334), adipocyte precursor or adipose progenitor cell: an undifferentiated fibroblast in the adipose stromal vascular fraction that differentiates into fat cells; studied via 3T3-L1, OP9, SGBS models; impaired in obesity.
Preadolescence
Preadolescence, also called late childhood or the preteen years, is the developmental period before puberty, roughly ages 9 to 13 depending on sex. It precedes adolescence, involves growing peer focus and identity formation, and ends with pubertal onset.
Preah Khan
Preah Khan (ប្រាសាទព្រះខ័ន) is a 1191 CE Bayon-style Buddhist temple at Angkor, built by Jayavarman VII on his victory site over the Chams and dedicated to his father Dharanindra as Lokesvara.
Preah Khan inscription
The Preah Khan inscription is a four-sided Sanskrit stele of 179 stanzas, dated 1191 to 1193, recording Jayavarman VII's consecration of a Lokeshvara image honoring his father.
Preah Ko
Preah Ko (ប្រាសាទព្រះគោ, Sacred Bull), a 879 ancestor temple of King Indravarman I at Hariharalaya (Roluos), Cambodia; six brick towers in two rows, first Preah Ko style monument, part of Angkor World Heritage.
Preah Ko style
The Preah Ko style is one of the earliest Angkorian art styles of the Khmer civilization, named for the temple at Roluos built by Indravarman I and dedicated in 879.
Preakness InfieldFest
Preakness InfieldFest, commonly InfieldFest, is a one-day music festival held in the infield of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, launched in 2009.
Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes, also called the Run for the Black-Eyed Susans, is an American thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, first run in 1873.