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Resentment

Resentment is a persistent moral emotion arising from perceived injustice, distinct from envy; its philosophical history runs from Butler and Smith through Strawson's reactive attitudes to Nietzsche and Scheler's ressentiment.

Reser Stadium

Reser Stadium, Corvallis, Oregon; opened 1953 as Parker Stadium, renamed 1999 for Al and Pat Reser; home of Oregon State Beavers football; capacity 35,548 after 2023 west side rebuild.

Resero Bio

Resero Bio is a liquid-biopsy company in San Carlos, California, founded in 2025 around Stanford's RARE-seq cell-free RNA method, with Monica Nesselbush as chief executive.

Reserpine

Reserpine, an alkaloid of Rauwolfia serpentina isolated at Ciba in 1952 (brand Serpasil), was the first widely used long-term antihypertensive and an early antipsychotic; it lowers systolic pressure about 8 mmHg but is now withdrawn in the US.

Reserva de la Biosfera Archipiélago de Revillagigedo

Reserva de la Biosfera Archipiélago de Revillagigedo is a Mexican biosphere reserve comprising four remote volcanic islands in the Pacific off Baja California, inscribed by UNESCO in 2016.

Reserva de la Biosfera Los Petenes

Reserva de la Biosfera Los Petenes, a 282,857 ha biosphere reserve and Ramsar site (No. 354, 2004) on Campeche's northwest coast, Mexico, protecting petenes, forest-island wetlands found only in Yucatán, Cuba, and Florida.

Reserva Nacional de Paracas

Reserva Nacional de Paracas (Paracas National Reserve), Peru's first marine protected area, created 25 September 1975; 335,000 ha in Ica region, 65% marine; Ramsar site since 1992; managed by Sernanp.

Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria

Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria, also known as Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, is Peru's largest national reserve, covering 2,080,000 hectares of seasonally flooded rainforest in Loreto since 1972.

Reserva Natural del Estuario del Muni

Reserva Natural del Estuario del Muni, a Ramsar site (no. 1311, 2 June 2003) of 80,000 ha in Cogo district, Río Muni, Equatorial Guinea, where the Mitong, Mitemle, and Mbante rivers reach the Atlantic through mangroves and flooded forest.

Reservation (law)

Reservation (law): a unilateral statement by which a State excludes or modifies treaty provisions in its application to that State, governed by VCLT Articles 19–23, the object-and-purpose test, and the ICJ 1951 Genocide Convention opinion.

Reservation against Cancellation

Reservation against Cancellation (RAC) is a ticket status used by Indian Railways when confirmed berths are exhausted, guaranteeing a seat that two passengers share until a cancellation frees a berth.

Reservation Blues

Reservation Blues is a 1995 novel by Sherman Alexie, his first, following Coyote Springs, an all-Indian rock and blues band on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington.

Reservation Dogs

Reservation Dogs is an FX/Hulu comedy-drama (2021–2023) co-created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi about four Indigenous Oklahoma teens; the first American series with all-Indigenous writers and directors, winning two Peabody Awards.

Reservation in India

Reservation in India, or the quota system for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs, and EWS, sets aside legislative seats, government posts, and educational places, capped at 50 percent for caste quotas under Indra Sawhney with a separate 10 percent EWS quota.

Reservation policy in Bihar

Reservation policy in Bihar: caste quotas in jobs, education and panchayats. Key facts: 1978 Karpoori Thakur sub-classified OBC quota (12% EBC, 8% BC), 2023 caste survey, 65% quota hike struck down by Patna High Court.

Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu

Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu is a system of caste-based quotas in education and public services, reserving 69 percent of seats and posts for specific communities since 1990.

Reservation station

A reservation station is a buffer in an out-of-order processor that holds an instruction and its operands until they are ready, introduced in the IBM System/360 Model 91 in 1967.

Reservation-based intersection control

Reservation-based intersection control is a traffic-management method in which vehicles reserve exclusive space-time at an intersection from a manager, introduced by Dresner and Stone in 2004.

Reserve

A reserve is an area of land or water set aside for conservation, often to prevent harm to its wildlife and ecosystems, and part of the protected-area family.

Réserve Africaine de Sigean

Réserve Africaine de Sigean is a French drive-through zoological park between Narbonne and Perpignan, opened April 8, 1974 by Paul de La Panouse and Daniel de Monfreid, holding about 2,500 animals of 160 species on 360 hectares.

Reserve Bank of Australia

The Reserve Bank of Australia is Australia's central bank, which sets the cash rate to hold inflation at 2 to 3 per cent, regulates payments, and issues banknotes from Sydney.

Reserve Bank of India (भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक)

The Reserve Bank of India (भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक, RBI) is India's central bank, established under the 1934 RBI Act and operating since 1935, setting monetary policy and issuing banknotes.

Reserve Bank of Malawi

The Reserve Bank of Malawi is the central bank of Malawi, established in 1964 and opened in Blantyre in 1965 to issue the kwacha and set monetary policy.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is New Zealand's central bank, the first in the world to adopt inflation targeting, with a 1–3% inflation target.

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is the country's central bank, which regulates the monetary system, supervises banks, and issues the Zimbabwe dollar, relaunched in 2024 as the gold-backed ZiG.

Reserve clause

Reserve clause: baseball contract provision, from 1879 National League rule to 1887 standard contract, binding players to one team in perpetuity; struck down by Peter Seitz's December 23, 1975 arbitration decision, creating free agency.

Reserve currency

A reserve currency is a foreign currency held in large quantity by central banks as a store of value; the US dollar holds the role today.

Réserve de faune de Binder-Léré

Réserve de faune de Binder-Léré, a 1,350 km² faunal reserve in Mayo-Kebbi Ouest, southwestern Chad, created in 1974, Ramsar site no. 1561, home to Chad's third-largest elephant population, manatees, and the Gauthiot Falls; core zone became Zah Soo National Park in 2022.

Reserve Good Conduct Medal

Reserve Good Conduct Medals are United States military decorations recognizing enlisted reservists for drills, annual training, and other reserve service, as counterparts to the active-duty Good Conduct Medals.

Reserve granary system

The reserve granary system (预备仓) was the Ming dynasty's official network of famine-relief granaries, founded by the Hongwu Emperor around 1391, with four granaries per county stocked by state funds.