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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (Ontario PC Party), centre-right provincial party led by Doug Ford, governing with 79 of 124 seats after its 2025 majority (82 seats); its 42-year reign ended in 1985 and it returned to office in 1995.
Progressive Corporation
Progressive Corporation, also known as Progressive Auto Insurance, is an American insurance holding company headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio, and one of the two largest US private passenger auto insurers.
Progressive deafness with stapes fixation
Progressive deafness with stapes fixation (ORPHA:3235, stapediovestibular ankylosis, Thies-Reis syndrome): childhood-onset, autosomal recessive conductive hearing loss from stapes immobilization, mainly in otosclerosis, also tympanosclerosis, Paget's disease, and osteogenesis imperfecta.
Progressive Democrats of America
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), also registered as Progressive Vote, is a grassroots PAC founded July 2004 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, from Dean and Kucinich campaign activists, pursuing an inside/outside strategy with the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Medicare for All and antiwar issues.
Progressive design–build
Progressive design–build (PDB) is a project delivery method in which an owner selects a design-builder on qualifications, then collaborates on scope and budget before the price is fixed.
Progressive distillation
Progressive distillation is a diffusion model training method that repeatedly halves sampling steps. Introduced in 2022, it reduces steps from 8192 down to 4 while maintaining near-optimal quality.
Progressive education
Progressive education: child-centered, experience-based schooling tradition from romanticism, Pestalozzi, Froebel, and John Dewey; formalized by the 1919 Progressive Education Association, spread worldwide by 1930, and assessed today through meta-analyses of student-centered teaching.
Progressive encephalopathy with leukodystrophy due to DECR deficiency
Progressive encephalopathy with leukodystrophy due to DECR deficiency (2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase deficiency, DECRD, OMIM 616034) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive mitochondrial disease from NADK2 loss of function, causing neonatal hypotonia, leukodystrophy, lactic acidosis, hyperlysinemia, and elevated C10:2 carnitine.
Progressive encephalopathy-severe neurodegeneration-lipodystrophy syndrome
Progressive encephalopathy-severe neurodegeneration-lipodystrophy syndrome (PELD, Celia's encephalopathy, ORPHA:363400, MIM 615924) is a fatal autosomal recessive BSCL2/seipin disorder of infancy with psychomotor regression, refractory epilepsy, and variable lipodystrophy.
Progressive enlargement
Progressive enlargement is a construction in stochastic calculus that enlarges a reference filtration so a random time becomes a stopping time, developed from the late 1970s.
Progressive Era
The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) was a period of American social activism and reform responding to industrialization; key reforms include the Federal Reserve, Clayton Antitrust Act, FTC, Pure Food and Drugs Act, and the Nineteenth Amendment.
Progressive failure
Progressive failure is a failure process in soil, rock, or structures in which local strength loss spreads step by step as overstressed zones transfer load to neighbors.
Progressive failure analysis
Progressive failure analysis is a computational method in structural engineering that models damage initiation and growth in composite laminates under increasing load, used to predict ultimate strength and support certification of composite aircraft structures.
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is a group of rare autosomal recessive liver disorders of childhood, presenting in infancy with jaundice, cholestasis, and severe itching.
Progressive Federal Party
Progressive Federal Party (PFP), South African liberal party formed 5 September 1977 from the Progressive Reform Party and UP dissidents; official opposition 1977–1987; merged into the Democratic Party in April 1989.
Progressive Field
Progressive Field (Jacobs Field, "The Jake") is the Cleveland Guardians' downtown MLB ballpark, opened 1994, capacity 33,530, renamed 2008, host of three World Series and a 455-game sellout streak.
Progressive house
Progressive house: house music subgenre from early-1990s UK club culture, named by Dom Phillips in Mixmag 1992; long 122–128 BPM tracks built on gradual layering, defined by Sasha, Digweed, Renaissance, later split with festival EDM.
Progressive lens
A progressive lens, also called a progressive addition lens (PAL), is a spectacle lens whose power changes smoothly from distance vision at the top to near correction below.
Progressive Liberal Party
The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) is a Bahamian political party founded in 1953 that brought Majority Rule in 1967 and led The Bahamas to independence in 1973.
Progressive metal
Progressive metal, often shortened to prog metal, is a genre of heavy metal fusing progressive rock's complexity with metal's intensity, established in the late 1980s by bands like Queensrÿche and Dream Theater.
Progressive movement in Gujarati literature
The progressive movement in Gujarati literature, or Pragativad, was the Gujarati branch of the Progressive Writers' Movement; its association formed in Ahmedabad in 1936 and poets like Sundaram and Umashankar Joshi wrote of workers and peasants.
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), JC virus (JCPyV) demyelinating brain disease of immunocompromised people; AIDS-defining, linked to natalizumab, no antiviral treatment, high mortality.
Progressive muscle relaxation
Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) is a relaxation technique developed by Edmund Jacobson in 1924 that reduces anxiety and stress by tensing and releasing muscle groups in a fixed order.
Progressive muscular atrophy
Progressive muscular atrophy (PMA), also called the lower motor neuron variant of ALS, is a rare sporadic adult-onset motor neuron disease with pure LMN signs, slower course, TDP-43 pathology, and 22% later UMN conversion.
Progressive music
Progressive music: ambitious rock music, chiefly progressive rock (prog) and art rock, from late-1960s Britain, marked by long multi-part forms, classical and jazz influence, virtuosic playing, and concept albums.
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 1
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 1, or Unverricht-Lundborg disease (EPM1), is a rare autosomal recessive epilepsy beginning at 6-15 years, caused by CSTB dodecamer repeat expansions, with stimulus-sensitive myoclonus, tonic-clonic seizures, ataxia, and mild cognitive decline.
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 3
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 3 (EPM3, CLN14 disease) is a rare autosomal recessive epilepsy from KCTD7 mutations on 7q11.21, causing infantile myoclonic seizures, regression, ataxia, and often early death.
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 5
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 5 (EPM5, PME type 5, OMIM 607459) is an ultra-rare genetic epilepsy with early progressive ataxia, myoclonic and sleep-related tonic-clonic seizures, and preserved to mildly impaired cognition; PRICKLE1 mutations reported.
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 6
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 6 (EPM6, North Sea PME, GOSR2-related progressive myoclonus ataxia) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive epilepsy caused by GOSR2 mutations, with childhood ataxia, myoclonic seizures, scoliosis, elevated creatine kinase, and preserved cognition.
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 7
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 7 (EPM7, OMIM 616187), also called MEAK, is a rare genetic disorder with severe progressive myoclonus, ataxia, and seizures beginning in childhood or adolescence.