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Progress Singapore Party
Progress Singapore Party (PSP, 新加坡前进党) is a Singapore opposition party founded by ex-PAP MP Tan Cheng Bock, registered March 2019, which won two NCMP seats in GE2020 and contested GE2025 on a 61-proposal manifesto.
Progress testing
Progress testing is a longitudinal assessment method administering equivalent comprehensive tests at regular intervals throughout a program, measuring growth against end-of-curriculum objectives; it is widely used in medical education.
Progress Wrestling
PROGRESS Wrestling, British independent promotion founded 2012 in London by Jim Smallman and Jon Briley; chaptered shows, Super Strong Style 16, Wembley 2018; owned since May 2026 by Big Damo and Nikki Cross.
PROGRESS-CTO study
PROGRESS-CTO (Prospective Global Registry for the Study of Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention), NCT02061436, is a Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation-sponsored international registry of chronic total occlusion PCI, with over 10,000 procedures since 2012 and derived technical-success and complication risk scores.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom, also translated as Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom, is a 1968 political essay by Andrei Sakharov, his first public political statement.
Progressief Nederland
Progressief Nederland (PRO) is the Dutch political party formed in 2026 by merging PvdA and GroenLinks; registered 13 April 2026, founded 13 June 2026 in Den Bosch, led by Jesse Klaver.
Progression of the bench press world record
Progression of the bench press world record: heaviest sanctioned bench presses, tracked raw versus equipped. Raw record 355 kg (Julius Maddox, 2021); equipped 659 kg (Jimmy Kolb, 2025); women's raw 207.5 kg (April Mathis).
Progression of the British football transfer fee record
Progression of the British football transfer fee record: highest fee paid by a British club, from Willie Groves £100 (1893) and Alf Common £1,000 (1905) through Trevor Francis £1.18m (1979) to Alexander Isak's £125m (2025).
Progression of the squat world record
Squat world record progression: men's raw 490.5 kg (Devonte Lewis, 2026), equipped 595 kg (Nathan Baptist, 2021), wraps 525 kg (Alhazov); women's raw 320 kg (Sonita Muluh). Records split by raw, wraps, equipped, tested and untested federations since 1964.
Progression-free survival
Progression-free survival (PFS) is a clinical trial endpoint defined as the time from the start of treatment until disease progression or death, whichever comes first.
Progressive Alliance
Progressive Alliance: political international of social democratic, socialist, labour, and progressive parties founded 22 May 2013 in Leipzig as an alternative to the Socialist International; seated in Berlin, over 140 member parties and organizations.
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D Group) is the center-left political group in the European Parliament, second largest after the EPP, tracing its origins to 1952.
Progressive ankylosis
Progressive ankylosis (ank) is a recessive mouse mutation causing joint calcification and ankylosis; its human homolog ANKH regulates pyrophosphate via ATP export, and mutations cause CPPD and craniometaphyseal dysplasia.
Progressive Artists' Group
The Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) was an artists' collective founded in Bombay in 1947, months after Indian independence, to create a modern Indian art breaking with colonial and revivalist conventions.
Progressive bifocal chorioretinal atrophy
Progressive bifocal chorioretinal atrophy (PBCRA, CRAPB; OMIM 600790) is a rare autosomal dominant chorioretinal dystrophy on chromosome 6q near PRDM13, with congenital macular and nasal atrophic foci, nystagmus, myopia, and progressive vision loss.
Progressive big band
Progressive big band is a large jazz ensemble devoted to extended, through-composed writing. It is known for its dense, modernistic arrangements and its focus on listening music.
Progressive Bloc
The Progressive Bloc (Прогрессивный блок) was a coalition of liberal and moderate conservative factions of the Fourth State Duma and State Council, formed in August 1915 during World War I.
Progressive Brothers
Progressive Brothers are an Indian EDM duo from New Delhi, made up of Sunny Sharma and Karan Bhalla, who released music on Tiësto's Black Hole Recordings.
Progressive bulbar palsy
Progressive bulbar palsy (PBP), also called progressive bulbar atrophy, is a motor neuron disease/ALS phenotype affecting lower brain stem cranial nerves, causing dysarthria, dysphagia, tongue and facial weakness, and fasciculations, usually progressing to widespread ALS.
Progressive Bulgaria (Прогресивна България)
Progressive Bulgaria (Прогресивна България) is the center-left Bulgarian party founded by ex-President Rumen Radev, registered in March 2026, which won 44.6% and 131 of 240 seats on April 19, 2026, and governs with Radev as Prime Minister.
Progressive cardiac conduction defect
Progressive cardiac conduction defect (PCCD), also called Lenègre-Lev disease, is a rare inheritable degeneration of the AV node and His-Purkinje system causing progressive PR and QRS prolongation, heart block, and sudden death; SCN5A and LMNA are key genes, pacemaker is first-line therapy.
Progressive Caucus (South Africa)
Progressive Caucus (South Africa): opposition alliance in Parliament formed June 2024 by the EFF, MK Party, ATM, NCC, and UAT against the ANC-DA Government of National Unity; distinct from the US Congressional Progressive Caucus; claims about 102 National Assembly seats.
Progressive cavitating leukoencephalopathy
Progressive cavitating leukoencephalopathy (PCL), also called progressive cavitational leukoencephalopathy, is a rare autosomal recessive childhood leukodystrophy first described by Naidu in 2005, marked by episodic neurological deterioration, cavitating white-matter lesions on MRI, and no curative treatment.
Progressive cerebello-cerebral atrophy
Progressive cerebello-cerebral atrophy (PCCA, ORPHA:247198, OMIM 615851) is an autosomal recessive disorder with postnatal developmental delay, microcephaly, spastic quadriplegia, seizures, and cerebellar then cerebral atrophy without pontine involvement; caused by SEPSECS (PCCA1) or VPS53 (PCCA2) mutations.
Progressive Christianity
Progressive Christianity is a loose strand of contemporary Christianity that reads the Bible historically and metaphorically, questions traditional doctrines like substitutionary atonement and eternal hell, and ties faith to social justice.
Progressive collapse
Progressive collapse is a structural failure mode in which an initial local failure, like loss of a column, spreads element to element, collapsing a building or disproportionately large part of it.
Progressive collapse analysis
Progressive collapse analysis is a structural engineering method that checks whether a building can absorb local damage, such as losing a column, without disproportionate collapse.
Progressive cone dystrophy
Progressive cone dystrophy (ORPHA:1871, ICD-10 H35.5) is a rare inherited retinal disease, prevalence about 1 in 30,000-40,000, causing progressive central and color vision loss from cone degeneration, with genes including GUCA1A, PRPH2, ABCA4, RPGR, GUCY2D, CRX, and CNGA3.
Progressive conservatism
Progressive conservatism combines conservative commitments with progressive social-policy ends. Key variants: British one nation conservatism (Disraeli), David Cameron's 2009 progressive conservatism, and Canada's Progressive Conservative Party (1942–2003).
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (Parti progressiste-conservateur), centre-right federal party 1867–2003, renamed in 1942 under John Bracken; peaked under Mulroney in 1984, collapsed to two seats in 1993, and merged with the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003.