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Predators (2025 film)
Predators (2025) is David Osit's documentary about Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator (2004-07) and Chris Hansen, premiered at Sundance 2025, released by MTV Documentary Films, streaming on Paramount+, with a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Predators (film)
Predators is a 2010 American science fiction action film directed by Nimród Antal, starring Adrien Brody as a mercenary hunted on an alien game preserve.
Predators of Hemiptera
Predators of Hemiptera are the birds, mammals, and insects that eat true bugs such as cicadas, scale insects, and mealybugs, including ladybirds used in biological control.
Predatory lending
Predatory lending is a term for lending that exploits borrowers through deception, fraud, or unfair terms, such as loan flipping and asset-based loans; no federal statute defines it.
Predatory pricing
Predatory pricing is pricing goods or services below cost to weaken or eliminate competitors, unlawful in the US only with a dangerous probability of recouping losses.
Predatory publishing
Predatory publishing, also called predatory open-access publishing, is the practice of journals that solicit manuscripts, charge fees, and mimic scholarly journals while providing little or no genuine peer review.
Predecessor (video game)
Predecessor is a free-to-play third-person MOBA by Omeda Studios, successor to Epic's Paragon using its released assets; 5v5, crossplay on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, full release August 2024.
Predestination
Predestination is the Christian doctrine that God eternally decreed, before creation, who will be saved; Reformed theology adds reprobation, and traditions differ over its relation to human freedom.
Predestination (film)
Predestination (2014) is an Australian sci-fi time-travel thriller by the Spierig brothers, adapted from Heinlein's "All You Zombies", starring Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook; Metacritic 69, four AACTA Awards.
Predestination in Islam
Predestination in Islam, known as Qadar or Taqdir, is the doctrine that God has decreed all things, including each person's actions, lifespan, and provision, while humans remain morally responsible.
Prediabetes
Prediabetes: blood glucose above normal but below diabetes thresholds (A1C 5.7–6.4%, FPG 100–125 mg/dL). Affects ~97.6 million US adults; DPP lifestyle change cuts diabetes risk 58%, metformin 31%.
Predicament bondage
Predicament bondage (困境束縛) is an advanced BDSM restraint form where the bound person must continuously choose between uncomfortable positions; relieving one strain increases another. Distinct from static bondage by its built-in dilemma.
Predicate (grammar)
Grammar term for what a sentence asserts about its subject: verb or verb plus auxiliaries, complements, and modifiers. Five competing definitions span Aristotle's and Frege's traditions; non-verbal predicates and zero copula languages vary cross-linguistically.
Predicate abstraction
Predicate abstraction is a formal verification technique that converts infinite-state programs into finite Boolean models over chosen predicates, underpinning software model checkers such as SLAM, Blast, and CPAchecker.
Predicate pushdown
Predicate pushdown, or filter pushdown, is a query optimization passing WHERE-clause predicates to the data source, Spark connectors, Trino connectors, or Parquet row-group statistics, so non-matching rows, files, or blocks are never read.
Predictable process
A predictable process is a stochastic process whose value is known just before each time: it is measurable with respect to information available strictly before that time.
Predicted local distance difference test
The predicted local distance difference test (pLDDT) is a per-residue confidence score produced by AlphaFold, reported on a scale from 0 to 100, with higher values indicating higher accuracy.
Prediction
Prediction in neuroscience: predictive processing theories hold the brain minimizes prediction errors against a generative model, via predictive coding and active inference; evidence is modest but growing, spanning perception, cognition, psychosis, and machine learning.
Prediction Algorithms
A prediction algorithm is a computational procedure that uses historical or real-time data to estimate future or unknown values, spanning statistical time-series models and deep learning.
Prediction interval
A prediction interval is a statistical interval estimate that brackets a single future observation with a stated probability, and is wider than a confidence interval.
Prediction of stochastic processes
Prediction of stochastic processes is the estimation of a random process's future values from its observed past under a mean-square-error criterion, initiated independently by Kolmogorov and Wiener.
PREDICTION trial
PREDICTION (NCT06729827) is a completed single-center randomized trial at Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, testing Hypotension Prediction Index-guided norepinephrine versus standard monitoring to reduce post-spinal hypotension during elective cesarean section in 102 women.
Prediction-powered inference
Prediction-powered inference (PPI) is a statistical framework that combines machine-learning predictions on a large unlabeled dataset with a small gold-standard labeled set, yielding valid confidence intervals and p-values.
Predictive analytics
Predictive analytics is the practice of using historical data with statistical and machine-learning models to predict outcomes like demand forecasts, credit default probabilities, and customer churn scores.
Predictive coding
Predictive coding is a theoretical framework in which the brain perceives by generating top-down predictions of sensory input and minimizing prediction errors across a hierarchical generative model, applied from cortical theory to computational psychiatry.
Predictive current control
Predictive current control (PCC) is a power electronics control method that predicts the load current for each candidate switching state and applies the one minimizing the predicted error.
Predictive display
A predictive display is a teleoperation visual aid that shows the operator a real-time estimate of a remote robot's future state, compensating for communication time delay.
Predictive maintenance
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance strategy that uses condition monitoring and data analysis to predict failures, so maintenance happens just in time rather than on a fixed schedule.
Predictive modelling
Predictive modeling, also called predictive models, applies statistical models or data-mining algorithms to data to predict new or future observations, unlike explanatory modeling, which targets causal relationships.
Predictive Oncology Inc.
Predictive Oncology Inc., formerly Skyline Medical, is a Pittsburgh biotechnology company applying AI to a biobank of over 150,000 tumor samples for cancer drug discovery.