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Running Scared (1986 film)
Running Scared is a 1986 American buddy cop comedy directed by Peter Hyams, starring Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal as two Chicago detectives pursuing a drug kingpin.
Running Scared (2006 film)
Running Scared is a 2006 neo-noir crime thriller written and directed by Wayne Kramer, starring Paul Walker as a mobster who must recover a gun held by a ten-year-old boy.
Running script
Running script (行書, xingshu), also called semicursive script, is a Chinese calligraphy style between regular and cursive script, still the most popular form of everyday Chinese handwriting.
Running Shaadi
Running Shaadi (रनिंग शादी), originally RunningShaadi.com, is a 2017 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Amit Roy, starring Amit Sadh, Taapsee Pannu, and Arsh Bajwa as founders of an elopement-help website in Amritsar; produced by Shoojit Sircar, retitled after a Shaadi.com court case, and a box office failure.
Running the gauntlet
Running the gauntlet, formerly gantlope, is a corporal punishment in which an offender runs between two rows of men armed with sticks or ropes who strike him.
Running Up That Hill
Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) is a 1985 Kate Bush song from Hounds of Love, built on Fairlight CMI and LinnDrum sounds, which peaked at UK Number 3 originally and returned to Number 1 in 2022 after Stranger Things, setting three UK chart records.
Running up the score
Running up the score: continuing to score after victory is secure in sport. Central to the Dixon versus Hardman et al. anti-blowout thesis debate in the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, with mercy rules as the practical response.
Running wild
Running wild describes domesticated animals or plants living without human control; the resulting state is called feral. Covers the definition, Darwin's usage, top feral species, ecological damage, and legal management.
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
Running Wild with Bear Grylls (also Bear Grylls Is Running Wild) is a reality adventure series, launched on NBC July 28, 2014, in which Bear Grylls takes a celebrity on a 48-hour wilderness trek; it later moved to Nat Geo and FOX, with an Obama Alaska special.
Running with Scissors ("Weird Al" Yankovic album)
Running with Scissors is "Weird Al" Yankovic's tenth studio album, released June 29, 1999 on Volcano; 12 tracks including The Saga Begins, Pretty Fly for a Rabbi, and Albuquerque; Billboard #16, US platinum.
Running with Scissors (company)
Running With Scissors (RWS), Tucson, Arizona studio founded by Vince Desi in 1996, developer of the controversial Postal shooter series (1997, Postal 2, Postal 4), distinct from the 2006 film Running With Scissors.
Running with Scissors (film)
Running with Scissors is a 2006 American comedy-drama directed by Ryan Murphy, adapted from Augusten Burroughs' bestselling 2002 memoir, starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, and Brian Cox.
Running with the Devil
Running with the Devil (2019), also released as Caminando con el diablo, is a Jason Cabell crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Laurence Fishburne as cartel enforcers auditing a cocaine supply chain; it scored 25% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $60,868 internationally.
Running-in
Running-in, also called break-in or wearing-in, is the transient initial period during which friction, wear rate, and surface roughness of sliding surfaces change until they stabilize.
Runnymede
Runnymede is a Thames water-meadow in Surrey, England, where King John sealed Magna Carta on 15 June 1215; now a National Trust estate with the Magna Carta, Kennedy and Air Forces memorials, paired with Ankerwycke.
Runoff coefficient
The runoff coefficient (C) is a dimensionless number expressing what fraction of rainfall becomes direct runoff, most familiar from the Rational Method for estimating peak discharge.
Runoff curve number
The runoff curve number, or curve number, is an empirical index, developed in 1954 by the USDA Soil Conservation Service, that converts soil and land cover into storm runoff estimates.
Runoff generation
Runoff generation is the set of physical processes turning precipitation into streamflow, conventionally distinguished as infiltration-excess overland flow, saturation-excess overland flow, subsurface stormflow, and groundwater flow.
Runoff model (reservoir)
A runoff model (reservoir) is a rainfall-runoff model representing a catchment as storage reservoirs that delay and release water, as in the linear reservoir, Nash cascade, and Tank model.
Runpeng Semiconductor (润鹏半导体（深圳）有限公司)
Runpeng Semiconductor (润鹏半导体) is a Shenzhen-based power and analog chip manufacturer founded by China Resources Microelectronics in 2022, operating a 12-inch fab in Bao'an District that began production in 2024.
Runrig
Runrig, a Scottish Celtic rock band formed in 1973 on the Isle of Skye as the Run Rig Dance Band, fused rock with Gaelic language and Highland themes; fourteen studio albums, Donnie Munro then Bruce Guthro on vocals, farewell concerts at Stirling in 2018.
Runs test
The runs test, also called the Wald–Wolfowitz runs test, is a non-parametric statistical test that checks whether a two-valued sequence was produced in random order, comparing observed runs with the expected count.
rUNSWift
rUNSWift is the robot soccer team of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, which has won the RoboCup world championship five times since first competing in 1999.
Runt
Runt: an undersized animal, especially the smallest of a litter, and a derogatory word for a small person. English word attested c. 1500 as "tree stump," of obscure origin; litter sense from 1841.
Runt (2020 film)
Runt is a 2020 teenage thriller about bullying, the directorial debut of William Coakley, starring Cameron Boyce as a neglected senior in his final film role.
Runt domain
Runt domain: the conserved 128-amino-acid DNA-binding and CBFβ-heterodimerization domain of Runx transcription factors (RUNX1/2/3), named after Drosophila runt, central to hematopoiesis, osteogenesis, and core-binding-factor leukemias.
Runtime assurance
Runtime assurance (RTA), also called run-time assurance, lets an unverified primary controller operate in safety-critical systems while a verified monitor and backup controller intervene to ensure safety.
Runtime monitoring
Runtime monitoring, also known as runtime verification, observes a running program's execution against formally specified properties and produces verdicts, alarms, or recovery actions, with monitors able to steer the system into a safe state.
Runtime system
A runtime system, often simply called a runtime or run-time environment, is software that assists in program execution, supplying services such as memory management and exception handling.
Runtime verification
Runtime verification is a lightweight formal-methods technique in which a monitor checks a system's execution trace against a formal specification; the field was named at the RV'01 workshop.