All articles starting with R

Resource mobilization

Resource mobilization theory, associated with McCarthy and Zald's 1977 paper, explains social movements through resources, organization, and political opportunity rather than grievances, displacing breakdown theories and later spawning political process and digital-era reformulations.

Resource Public Key Infrastructure

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a public key infrastructure that cryptographically attests to which entities hold which IP address blocks and Autonomous System numbers, securing BGP routing.

Resource Reservation Protocol

The Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) is an Internet control protocol, specified in RFC 2205 in 1997, that reserves network resources to provide quality of service.

Resource reserve

Resource reserve: the discovered, economically and technologically recoverable portion of a mineral or energy resource, also called mineral reserves or ore reserves; distinguished from resources by certainty and profitability, and dynamic with price, technology, and discovery.

Resource scarcity

Resource scarcity: limited availability of natural resources such as water, energy, land, and minerals relative to demand. Studied via Malthus, Ricardo, Jevons, Hotelling, the Limits to Growth debate, scarcity indicators, and the water-energy-food nexus.

Resource spread multiple access

Resource spread multiple access (RSMA) is a non-orthogonal multiple access scheme for wireless uplinks in which each user's signal is spread over all time and frequency resources.

Resource states for measurement-based quantum computation

Resource states for measurement-based quantum computation are entangled many-qubit states, like the 2D cluster state and AKLT states, that run quantum computations when consumed by single-qubit measurements.

Resource theory of quantum thermodynamics

The resource theory of quantum thermodynamics treats states out of thermal equilibrium as resources, with thermal operations as the free operations and the Gibbs state as the only free state.

Resource use

Resource use: appropriation of resources, ecosystems, and materials such as soil, wood, water, and minerals (GEMET definition). Distinct from consumption and depletion; measured by LCA, MIPS, MFA, and indicator sets; global extraction reached 89 Gt/yr by 2015.

Resource-based view

The resource-based view (RBV) is a strategy theory holding that competitive advantage comes from resources that are valuable, rare, and costly to imitate, formalized by Barney in 1991.

Resource-constrained project scheduling

Resource-constrained project scheduling (RCPSP) is the NP-hard operations research problem of scheduling project activities under precedence relations and resource limits to minimize the makespan, first formulated in 1967.

Resource-Limited Settings

Resource-limited settings, also called low resource settings, are environments where quality critical care is constrained by shortages of staff, infrastructure, and evidence, affecting over two-thirds of the world's population.

Resourcesat

Resourcesat is a series of Indian Earth observation satellites operated by ISRO for land-resource remote sensing, launched between 2003 and 2016 and carrying three cameras that combine wide coverage with fine detail.

RESOVIR-2 trial

The RESOVIR-2 trial (NCT06917001) is a Phase 2a, randomized, placebo-controlled trial sponsored by the Federal University of Minas Gerais testing oral resomelagon, an anti-inflammatory melanocortin receptor agonist, as add-on therapy for symptomatic dengue in 120 adults.

Respawn Entertainment

Respawn Entertainment: American game studio founded April 12, 2010 by Jason West and Vince Zampella (ex-Infinity Ward, Call of Duty). Known for Titanfall, Apex Legends, and Star Wars Jedi; EA subsidiary since December 2017.

ReSpeaker

ReSpeaker is an open-source modular voice interface platform from Seeed Studio that adds far-field voice capture and on-board audio processing, first launched on Kickstarter in 2016.

Respect

Respect: an attitude of attention, deference, and acknowledgment of worth toward a person or object. Key distinction: Darwall's recognition respect (owed to all persons) versus appraisal respect (earned by merit); links to tolerance, self-respect, and dignity.

Oct 3, 2026

Respect (2021 film)

Respect is a 2021 American biographical drama about singer Aretha Franklin, directed by Liesl Tommy in her feature debut and starring Jennifer Hudson, tracing Franklin's rise from Detroit to superstardom.

Respect (Aretha Franklin recording)

Respect (Aretha Franklin recording): Aretha Franklin's 1967 Atlantic reworking of Otis Redding's 1965 Stax song, recorded February 14, 1967; her version hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, won two 1968 Grammys, and became a civil rights and feminist anthem.

Respect (song)

Respect: Otis Redding's 1965 soul song, transformed by Aretha Franklin in 1967 into a two-week Billboard Hot 100 number 1, feminist and civil rights anthem, and National Recording Registry inductee.

Respect for Acting

Respect for Acting, Uta Hagen's 1973 Macmillan book written with Haskel Frankel, is a Stanislavski-based acting manual built on her object exercises, substitution, and nine character questions; a durable standard text reissued in a 2023 expanded edition.

Respect for Marriage Act

The Respect for Marriage Act (Public Law 117-228, H.R. 8404), signed December 13, 2022, repeals DOMA, requires interstate and federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages, and adds religious-liberty protections, but does not require states to issue same-sex marriage licenses.

Respect Party

Respect (Respect – The Unity Coalition) was a British left-wing, anti-war party founded in January 2004 by George Galloway, the Socialist Workers Party, and anti-war activists; it won Bethnal Green and Bow in 2005 and Bradford West in 2012 before splitting in 2007 and declining.

Respectability politics

Respectability politics: strategy in which members of marginalized groups conform to dominant social norms to seek advancement; coined by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham for Black Baptist women, later applied to LGBTQ and other groups.

Oct 22, 2026

Respected Sir

Respected Sir (Ḥaḍrat al-muḥtaram, حضرة المحترم) is a 1975 short novel by Naguib Mahfouz about an Egyptian civil servant devoted to one ambition: becoming director general.

Respicardia

Respicardia is a Minnesota medical device company, founded in 2006, that developed the implantable remedē System for central sleep apnea, approved by the FDA in 2017.

Respiration (physiology)

Respiration (physiology): gas exchange supplying oxygen and removing carbon dioxide, covering pulmonary versus cellular respiration, diffusion, ventilation–perfusion matching, Bohr and Haldane effects, breathing control, and responses to exercise and altitude.

Respirator

A respirator is a personal protective device that protects the wearer from harmful atmospheres, either by filtering contaminants from ambient air or by supplying clean air from an independent source.

Respiratory acidosis

Respiratory acidosis (primary hypercapnia): CO2 retention from alveolar hypoventilation raising PaCO2 above 45 mmHg and lowering pH below 7.35; acute versus chronic renal compensation; causes include COPD, obesity hypoventilation, opioids, and neuromuscular disease.