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Univercells
Univercells is a Belgian life-sciences group founded in 2013 by Hugues Bultot and José Castillo to make vaccines far cheaper, selling its technologies unit to Donaldson in 2023 for €136 million.
Univers
Univers is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger and released in 1957 by Deberny & Peignot, Paris, as the first type family planned as a coordinated system.
Universal (metaphysics)
In metaphysics, a universal is a mind-independent entity, such as redness, postulated to exist in many particulars at once and to ground their shared properties and resemblance.
Universal 2nd Factor
Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) is an open authentication standard from the FIDO Alliance, developed with Yubico and Google, letting hardware keys serve as phishing-resistant second factors.
Universal adversarial perturbation
A universal adversarial perturbation (UAP) is a single quasi-imperceptible noise vector that makes a deep neural network misclassify most natural images, introduced by Moosavi-Dezfooli and colleagues in 2016.
Universal algebra
Universal algebra is the branch of mathematics that studies algebraic structures themselves, treating groups, rings, and lattices uniformly; Garrett Birkhoff founded the modern subject in 1935.
Universal Animation Studios
Universal Animation Studios LLC is Universal Pictures' in-house animation unit under NBCUniversal, tied to Universal 1440 Entertainment's direct-to-video and TV output, best known for the Daytime Emmy-winning Curious George series, alongside Universal's theatrical labels Illumination and DreamWorks Animation.
Universal approximation theorem
The universal approximation theorem, or Cybenko theorem, is a result in neural network theory showing that a one-hidden-layer network of sufficient width can approximate broad function classes to any accuracy.
Universal Arabic Music (record label)
Universal Arabic Music is a record label dedicated to Arabic music, founded in 2021 by Universal Music Group and Republic Records with Wassim "SAL" Slaiby as CEO.
Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter
A universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART) is a hardware block that converts bytes to a serial bit stream over an asynchronous link with no clock line, both ends agreeing in advance on bit rate and frame layout.
Universal Basic Guys
Universal Basic Guys is a Fox adult animated sitcom (premiered September 8, 2024) by Adam and Craig Malamut about brothers Mark and Hank Hoagies living on $3,000 monthly UBI checks in Glantontown, New Jersey; renewed through season three, streaming on Hulu.
Universal basic income
Universal basic income (UBI) is a government cash payment made to everyone unconditionally and regularly. No country has one; only Mongolia and Iran ran national versions briefly.
Universal basic income by country
Universal basic income (UBI) by country, also called basic income around the world, surveys schemes worldwide, from Alaska's dividend to the Marshall Islands' 2026 national UBI.
Universal basic income pilots
Universal basic income pilots, also called basic income pilots, are time-limited experiments giving people regular unconditional cash payments to measure the effects of a universal income policy.
Universal Beijing Resort
Universal Beijing Resort (北京环球度假区) is a theme park resort in Tongzhou District, Beijing, opened on September 20, 2021, as Universal's first park in China and its largest at the time.
Universal Broadband Fund
The Universal Broadband Fund is a $3.225 billion Canadian federal grant program, launched in 2020, that funds high-speed Internet infrastructure in rural and remote communities lacking 50/10 Mbps service.
Universal buffer
A universal buffer is a solution containing several buffering agents with staggered pKa values, letting one mixture buffer across a wide pH range, typically 2 to 12, such as the Britton-Robinson buffer.
Universal Camouflage Pattern
Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP): US Army three-color gray, tan, sage-green digital camouflage on the ACU from 2004, replaced in Afghanistan by MultiCam in 2010 and Army-wide by OCP by 2019.
Universal Carrier
The Universal Carrier, often called the Bren Gun Carrier, was a small tracked vehicle built by Vickers-Armstrongs and others for British and Commonwealth forces in World War II.
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus) is a Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal church founded in 1977 by Edir Macedo.
Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Universal City Studios v. Nintendo (1982–1986), 746 F.2d 112 and 797 F.2d 70: Universal's King Kong trademark claims against Donkey Kong failed; Nintendo won counterclaim damages for vicarious infringement and tortious interference.
Universal City, California
Universal City, California: unincorporated Los Angeles County district (ZIP 91608) owned by Universal Studios, opened by Carl Laemmle March 15, 1915 on 230 acres; holds Universal Studios Hollywood lot, theme park, CityWalk, and 10 Universal City Plaza.
Universal Classic Monsters
Universal Classic Monsters is Universal Pictures' brand for its classic monster-horror films of the 1920s to 1950s, centered on Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Wolf Man, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, distinct from later reboots and the Dark Universe.
Universal composability
Universal composability is a cryptographic property meaning a protocol proven secure in isolation remains secure within any larger protocol, formalized in Ran Canetti's UC framework in 2001.
Universal conductance fluctuations
Universal conductance fluctuations (UCF) are sample-specific variations in a mesoscopic conductor's conductance, of size about the conductance quantum e²/h, arising from quantum interference among electron paths.
Universal Copyright Convention
Universal Copyright Convention (UCC), copyright treaty adopted at Geneva 6 September 1952 under UNESCO, revised at Paris 1971; © notice rule, 25-year minimum term, 100 members, bridge between Berne and non-Berne countries.
Universal cover
A universal cover of a connected space X is a simply connected space with a covering map to X, existing when X is semilocally simply connected.
Universal Credit
Universal Credit is a single monthly means-tested payment for working-age people in the United Kingdom that merged six legacy benefits; 5.0 million families received it in February 2024.
Universal Decimal Classification
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), also Classification Décimale Universelle: an analytico-synthetic, faceted bibliographic classification covering all knowledge, derived from Dewey by Otlet and La Fontaine, owned by the UDC Consortium in The Hague.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a United Nations declaration adopted in Paris in 1948, with 30 articles of fundamental human rights, the world's most translated document.