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Upen Patel
Upen Patel (born 1980, London) is a British-Indian model and actor; debut 36 China Town (2006, Filmfare Best Debut Male), films include Namastey London, I (Tamil debut), and reality shows Bigg Boss 8 and Nach Baliye.
Upendra (ಉಪೇಂದ್ರ) (actor)
Upendra (ಉಪೇಂದ್ರ), also Upendra Rao, Kannada film director and actor born 1967 or 1968; directed eight films including A, Upendra, Super; known for reverse-screenplay storytelling; founded Uttama Prajakeeya Party in 2018.
Upendra (ಉಪೇಂದ್ರ) (film)
Upendra (ಉಪೇಂದ್ರ) is a 1999 Kannada psychological thriller written, directed by, and starring Upendra as Naanu, with Raveena Tandon, Prema, and Damini; released 22 October 1999, music by Gurukiran, a box office success now considered a Kannada classic with sequel Uppi 2 (2015).
Upendra Baxi
Upendra Baxi (born 9 November 1938) is an Indian legal scholar, Emeritus Professor at Warwick and Delhi, former Delhi University vice-chancellor, Padma Shri laureate, and author of The Future of Human Rights and the term social action litigation.
Upendra Bhanja
Upendra Bhanja (ଉପେନ୍ଦ୍ର ଭଞ୍ଜ) was an Odia court poet of the Bhanja royal house of Ghumusar in southern Odisha, titled Kabi Samrat, conventionally dated c. 1670 to 1740.
Upendra Kumar
Upendra Kumar (ಉಪೇಂದ್ರ ಕುಮಾರ್) was an Indian film music director who worked chiefly in Kannada cinema, scoring films for Dr Rajkumar from Katariveera (1966) onward.
Upendra Kushwaha
Upendra Kushwaha, Bihar politician, founder of Rashtriya Lok Morcha (formerly RLSP, merged into JD(U) 2021), former Union Minister of State (2014–2018), Rajya Sabha member since August 2024, NDA ally.
Upendra Limaye (उपेंद्र लिमये)
Upendra Limaye (उपेंद्र लिमये), Marathi stage-trained Indian actor, National Film Award Best Actor winner for Jogwa (2009); films include Mukta, Chandni Bar, Page 3, Mulshi Pattern, and Freddy Patil in Animal (2023).
Upendranath Ashk
Upendranath Ashk (1910–1996) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began in Urdu in Lahore and became a major, controversial figure of 20th-century Hindi literature, best known for Girti Divarein.
Upendranath Brahmachari
Upendranath Brahmachari was an Indian physician and medical researcher in Calcutta who in 1920 synthesized urea stibamine, the first widely accepted organic antimonial drug for kala-azar.
Uperin
Uperins are antimicrobial peptides from Australian Uperoleia toadlet skin; uperin 3.5 is a 17-residue cross-α/cross-β chameleon functional amyloid with 2 µM MIC against Micrococcus luteus.
Upernavik Archipelago straits and bays
The straits and bays of the Upernavik Archipelago are the channels and inlets separating thousands of islands in northwest Greenland, centered on the deep Upernavik Isfjord.
Upernivik Ø
Upernivik Ø (Upernivik Island) is an uninhabited, heavily glaciated island in the Umanak district of northwest Greenland at 71°16'N, 52°45'W, rising above 2,100 m, about one third ice-covered, separated from Ubekendt Ejland by Igdlorssuit Sund.
UPF1
UPF1 (RENT1, HUPF1, smg-2), gene ID 5976 at 19p13.11, encodes a conserved SF1 RNA helicase and ATPase that is the central effector of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay and also acts in DNA repair, telomere maintenance, and cancer suppression.
Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket digestion
Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) digestion, invented by Gatze Lettinga in the Netherlands (1976, 1980), is a high-rate anaerobic wastewater treatment in which upward flow through self-granulating sludge (1–3 mm granules, 12–20 kg COD/m³·d) enables compact, low-cost treatment with methane recovery.
UPGMA
UPGMA (unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean) is an agglomerative average-linkage clustering algorithm that builds a rooted ultrametric tree from a distance matrix, widely used in phylogenetics.
upGrad
upGrad is a Mumbai-based online higher education and skilling company founded in 2015 by Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, and Phalgun Kompalli, and valued at $2.25 billion in 2022.
Upgrade (film)
Upgrade (2018) is a cyberpunk action-thriller written and directed by Leigh Whannell, starring Logan Marshall-Green as Grey Trace, a paralyzed widower whose AI implant STEM grants superhuman abilities for revenge; a $3 million Blumhouse film that grossed $16.7 million.
Upgraded
Upgraded is a 2024 American romantic comedy on Prime Video, directed by Carlson Young, starring Camila Mendes as intern Ana Santos, Archie Renaux, and Marisa Tomei; released February 9, 2024, rated R, 104 minutes, 76% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Upgraded metallurgical-grade silicon
Upgraded metallurgical-grade silicon (UMG-Si) is silicon purified from metallurgical-grade silicon to solar grade using metallurgical methods instead of the chemical Siemens process, for solar cells.
Uphaar Cinema fire
The Uphaar Cinema fire killed 59 and injured 103 at Green Park, Delhi, on 13 June 1997, when a DVB transformer fire filled the balcony with smoke during the film Border, leading to decades of litigation.
Upholstery
Upholstery, also called upholstering, is the soft covering and internal structure of furniture. In trade usage it means webbing, springs, stuffing, and show fabric built over a frame.
Upin & Ipin (اوڤين دان ايڤين)
Upin & Ipin (اوڤين دان ايڤين) is a Malaysian 3D animated series by Les' Copaque about five-year-old twin boys in a kampung setting, spun off from Geng in 2007 and hugely popular in Indonesia.
Upinder Singh (उपिंदर सिंह)
Upinder Singh (उपिंदर सिंह), Indian historian of ancient India, Professor of History at Ashoka University; author of A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, The Idea of Ancient India, and Political Violence in Ancient India; Infosys Prize 2009.
Upington
Upington, Northern Cape town on the Orange River (formerly Olijvenhoutsdrift, founded 1884, named for Sir Thomas Upington); center of Green Kalahari grape, raisin and wine farming, hot desert climate, and a solar-energy and airport cargo hub.
Upkar (उपकार)
Upkar (उपकार) is a 1967 Hindi patriotic drama directed, written, and starring Manoj Kumar as farmer Bharat, inspired by Shastri's 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan' slogan; it was 1967's biggest hit, winning seven Filmfare Awards and National Awards, with the anthem 'Mere Desh Ki Dharti'.
Upland
Upland: an extensive interior region of high land with low to moderate surface relief (GeoNames UPLD); in Britain, high ground typically above 300-400 m of moorland, heath, bog and rough grassland, grazed by hill farmers and rich in peat, carbon and drinking water.
Upland, California
Upland, California, also historically North Ontario or Town of Magnolia, is an Inland Empire city in San Bernardino County incorporated in 1906, population about 79,000, known for citrus heritage, Euclid Avenue, and nine historic districts.
Uplift pressure
Uplift pressure is the upward water pressure that seeping water exerts within a dam and its foundation, a destabilizing force that dam stability analysis must include.
Uplift Universe
Uplift Universe (Uplift Saga) is David Brin's hard science fiction setting of six novels, 1980-1998, where patron races genetically uplift species to sapience and own them for 100,000 years; unuplifted humanity, with neo-chimp and neo-dolphin clients, upends the galactic order.