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Return to Work

Return to work (RTW): resumption of normal work after absence from injury, disability, or illness. Covers intervention types (health-focused, coordination, workplace), effectiveness evidence, and prognostic factors.

Return to Yan'an

Return to Yan'an (《回延安》) is a 1956 lyric poem by He Jingzhi, written in the Shaanbei xintianyou folk-song form and now a Chinese middle school text.

Return to Zion

The Return to Zion, or Return from the Babylonian exile (Hebrew Shivat Tziyon), was the return of Judean exiles to Yehud after Cyrus's 538 BC decree, beginning the Second Temple period.

Return-oriented programming

Return-oriented programming (ROP) is an exploitation technique that chains short instruction sequences, called gadgets, to perform arbitrary computation without injecting code, defeating defenses such as the NX bit.

Return-to-zero format

Return-to-zero (RZ) is a line coding format in optical communications in which the pulse for a binary 1 returns to zero within the bit interval.

Returner (リターナー)

Returner (リターナー) is a 2002 Japanese sci-fi action film directed by Takashi Yamazaki, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Anne Suzuki; a girl from 2084 returns to 2002 to stop the Daggra alien invasion.

Returning the jade intact to Zhao

Returning the jade intact to Zhao (完璧归赵) is a Warring States story in which Lin Xiangru outwitted the King of Qin and returned the He jade disc to Zhao.

Returning to Live in the Countryside

Returning to Live in the Countryside (Guī yuán tián jū; 歸園田居) is a cycle of five poems by the Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, written in 406.

Returning to Myself

Returning to Myself is Brandi Carlile's eighth studio album, released October 24, 2025 on Interscope/Lost Highway, produced with Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon; ten songs, no Hanseroth harmonies, first solo album in four years.

Returns to education

Returns to education measure the earnings advantage from additional schooling, an average private return of about 9 to 10% per year, including both individual wage premiums and broader social benefits.

Returns to scale

Returns to scale is the property of a production technology describing what happens to output when all inputs are scaled up by the same proportion.

Reuben (son of Jacob)

Reuben, also known as Re'uven, is the firstborn son of the patriarch Jacob by Leah in the Book of Genesis and ancestor of the tribe of Reuben.

Reuben De Melo

Reuben De Melo is an Australian singer-songwriter who won The Voice Australia in 2024. He blends indie folk, roots, and country music, and was born in Goa, India.

Reuben Foster

Reuben Foster, born 1994, is a former NFL linebacker from Alabama, Butkus Award winner, drafted 31st overall by the 49ers in 2017; released in 2018 after domestic violence arrests, career ended by knee injury with Washington.

Reuben Goodstein

Reuben Louis Goodstein (1912–1985) was a British mathematician and logician who proved Goodstein's theorem in 1944 and held the first British chair in mathematical logic.

Reuben H. Kraft

Reuben H. Kraft is an American computational biomechanics researcher who models how mechanical forces damage the human brain, and a Penn State professor since 2013 who won a Presidential Early Career Award.

Reuben J. Shaw

Reuben J. Shaw, born 1972, is an American molecular biologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for work on the LKB1–AMPK pathway in cancer.

Reuben James

Reuben James (c. 1776-1838) was a U.S. Navy boatswain's mate of the Quasi-War, Barbary Wars, and War of 1812, famed, probably wrongly, for saving Stephen Decatur at Tripoli; three Navy ships, including DD-245 sunk in 1941, bore his name.

Reuben Jonathan Miller

Reuben Jonathan Miller is an American sociologist, criminologist, and social worker at UC Berkeley who studies life after prison, known for carceral citizenship and the 2021 book Halfway Home.

Reuben Kaye

Reuben Kaye (born Reuben Krum, 1984, Melbourne) is an Australian comedian, singer and drag cabaret artist; stage name honors Danny Kaye. Known for The Butch Is Back, Live and Intimidating, Apocalipstik, and as Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2026–2027.

Reuben Kipyego

Reuben Kipyego (Reuben Kiprop Kipyego, born 1996) is a Kenyan marathon runner; won 2019 Abu Dhabi Marathon in 2:04:40 (course record), personal best 2:03:55 at Milano 2021. Distinct from Bernard, Michael, and Sally Kipyego.

Reuben Kosgei

Reuben Kosgei is a Kenyan long-distance runner, born in 1979, who won the 3000 meters steeplechase at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2001 World Championships.

Reuben Langdon

Reuben Langdon (born 1975) is an American stuntman, motion capture performer, and voice actor. He voiced and mocapped Dante in Devil May Cry 3, 4, and 5, voiced Ken Masters from 2008 to 2023, and did Chris Redfield's mocap from Code Veronica through Resident Evil 6, plus film work on Avatar.

Reuben Lovell

Reuben Lovell was an English biochemist who, with P. W. Clutterbuck and Harold Raistrick, tried in 1932 to purify penicillin and failed, concluding it was too unstable for medicine.

Reuben S Harris

Reuben S Harris, also known as Reuben Stewart Harris, is an American molecular geneticist and HHMI Investigator who chairs Biochemistry at UT Health San Antonio and studies APOBEC-driven cancer mutagenesis.

Reuben Samuels

Reuben Samuels was an American geotechnical and underground-construction engineer who spent over 30 years at Crimmins Constructors before joining Parsons Brinckerhoff in New York in 1992.

Reuben sandwich

The Reuben sandwich is a grilled American deli sandwich of corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Russian or Thousand Island dressing on rye. Its origin is disputed between Omaha's Blackstone Hotel (1925, Reuben Kulakofsky) and Arnold Reuben's New York deli (1914); its turkey-and-coleslaw cousin is the Rachel.

Reubin Askew

Reubin O'Donovan Askew, American Democratic politician, 37th governor of Florida 1971-1979, later U.S. Trade Representative; known for the 5% corporate income tax, Sunshine Amendment, 1972 busing stance, and failed 1984 presidential run.

Reuel A. Stallones

Reuel A. Stallones was an American physician-epidemiologist, founding dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, the first public health school in Texas.

Reuel Shinnar

Reuel Shinnar (1923–2011) was an Austrian-born American chemical engineer, a longtime City College of New York professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.