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Resettlement Administration

The Resettlement Administration (Переселенческое управление) was the Russian Empire government office, founded in 1896, that organized peasant migration to Siberia, the Far East, and Central Asia.

Resettlement and villagization in Ethiopia

Resettlement and villagization were related programs of state-directed population relocation in Ethiopia, implemented most extensively under the Marxist Derg military government from 1974 to 1991.

Resettlement of Île du Coin

Île du Coin, largest island of Peros Banhos atoll, Chagos Archipelago; former copra plantation port whose Chagossian inhabitants were removed by 1973; resettlement studied, litigated, and attempted by landing in 2026.

Resettlement of Thracian refugees in Bulgaria

The resettlement of Thracian refugees in Bulgaria was the settlement of Bulgarian refugees from Thrace, mainly after the 1913 Ottoman expulsions and the 1920 cession to Greece.

Resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

The resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire was a state program of mass deportation that moved millions of people between the 9th and late 7th century BC.

Reshadat oil field

Reshadat is an offshore oil field in the Persian Gulf, about 100 km southwest of Iran's Lavan Island. It was known as Rostam before the 1979 revolution.

ReShape Lifesciences

ReShape Lifesciences Inc. is a California-based medical device company selling weight-loss and metabolic-health devices, including the Lap-Band gastric band and the Obalon swallowable balloon, formed through a 2021 merger with Obalon Therapeutics.

Reshef Tenne

Reshef Tenne is an Israeli materials scientist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for the 1992 discovery of inorganic fullerene-like nanoparticles and nanotubes of tungsten disulfide.

Reshet Patera

Reshet Patera is a large caldera-like patera on Jupiter's moon Io, on the equator at 305.48°W, about 148 km across, IAU-named in 1985 for an Aramaic sun god.

Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant

The Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant (RT-invariant) is a family of invariants of compact oriented 3-manifolds and framed links, built in 1991 from quantum group representations as a rigorous version of Witten's Chern–Simons invariants.

Reshma (ریشما)

Reshma (ریشماں), c. 1947–2013, Pakistani folk singer born in Bikaner, Rajasthan; discovered at the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine, famed for "Lambi Judai" and "Dam Mast Qalander", recipient of the Sitara-i-Imtiaz. Distinct from other singers named Reshma.

Reshma Jagsi

Reshma Jagsi is an American radiation oncologist and bioethics researcher who chairs radiation oncology at Emory University, known for studies of gender equity in academic medicine.

Reshma Shetty

Reshma Shetty (born 1977) is a British-American actress and opera-trained singer, known as Divya Katdare on Royal Pains (2009–2016) and Dr. Talaikha Channarayapatra on Pure Genius; distinct from the Ginkgo Bioworks co-founder of the same name.

Reshma Sohoni

Reshma Sohoni is a British venture capital investor, cofounder and managing partner of Seedcamp, the UK seed fund whose early investments include Wise, UiPath, and Revolut.

Reshmi Menon

Reshmi Menon (Reshmi Menon Simha), Indian actress in Tamil cinema, born 1989 in Kerala. Child role in Album (2002), lead debut in Inidhu Inidhu (2010); known for Urumeen, Maya, Kirumi, Hyderabad Love Story; married Bobby Simha in April 2016.

Reshmin Chowdhury

Reshmin Chowdhury (রেশমিন চৌধুরী, born 1977) is an English sports broadcaster for TNT Sports and talkSPORT; ex-Real Madrid TV, first to interview Ronaldo at Madrid, multilingual host of World Cup and Olympic coverage.

Reshoring

Reshoring is the relocation of production back to a company's home country after offshoring, a measurable US trend with over 2.3 million jobs announced since 2010.

Reshut

Reshut (Hebrew: רשות, "permission") is a genre of Hebrew liturgical poetry in which the cantor asks permission, from God or the congregation, to begin a prayer.

Residence Characteristics

Residence characteristics: MeSH descriptor (D012111, introduced 1968) covering elements of residence that characterize a population, including housing, home environment, neighborhood characteristics, and residential segregation, used in health services and neighborhood-effects research.

Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans

Historicist architectural ensemble in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, built 1864–1882 by Josef Hlávka for the Orthodox metropolitans of Bukovina and Dalmatia; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2011, now Chernivtsi National University.

Residence on Earth

Residence on Earth (Residencia en la tierra) is a poetry book by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, gathering poems from 1925 to 1935 and published in three volumes from 1933.

Residence superieure of Annam

The Residence superieure of Annam (Khâm sứ Trung Kỳ) was the French office heading the protectorate of central Vietnam, supervising the Nguyen court at Hue from 1886.

Residence time distribution

The residence time distribution (RTD) is the probability distribution of times fluid elements spend in a continuous flow system, introduced by P. V. Danckwerts in 1953 to predict reactor performance.

Residences of Donald Trump

The residences of Donald Trump are his homes and working retreats: Trump Tower in Manhattan, the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, and the Bedminster, New Jersey golf club.

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (1997) of 22 palaces and villas in and around Turin, built from 1562, radial 'Crown of Delights' plan, criteria (i)(ii)(iv)(v).

Residency (medicine)

Residency (medicine): supervised postgraduate hospital training after medical school, originating at Johns Hopkins in 1889 under William Osler; governed by ACGME standards, 80-hour work limits, and NRMP Match placement.

Residency-General of Korea

The Residency-General of Korea (韓国統監府) was the institution Japan established in Seoul in 1906 to control Korea, headed first by Itō Hirobumi, becoming the Government-General in 1910.

Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor is a London-based electronic music magazine and event-listings and ticketing platform founded in Sydney in 2001 by Nick Sabine and Paul Clement, now one of the most influential outlets in electronic dance music.

Resident Alien (TV series)

Resident Alien is an American sci-fi comedy-drama TV series created by Chris Sheridan for Syfy (2021–2025), adapted from Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse's Dark Horse comic; Alan Tudyk plays alien Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle in Patience, Colorado, across four seasons ending on USA Network.

Resident assistant

Resident assistant (RA), also called resident advisor or community advisor: a live-in trained student staff member in college residence halls who builds community, enforces policy, and handles on-call crisis response, typically for 25–60 residents in exchange for housing and a stipend.