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uThukela District Municipality
uThukela District Municipality, a Category C district in western KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, seat Ladysmith; comprises Okhahlamba, Alfred Duma, and Inkosi Langalibalele local municipalities; named for the uThukela River; known for Drakensberg tourism and water service challenges.
Uthumphon
Uthumphon (อุทุมพร), known as Khun Luang Ha Wat, was the 32nd king of Ayutthaya who reigned briefly in 1758, abdicated to his brother Ekkathat, and became a monk.
uThungulu District Municipality
uThungulu District Municipality (DC28) was a Category C district municipality in northeastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, seat Richards Bay, five local municipalities, 907,519 people (2011); renamed King Cetshwayo District Municipality in 2016/2018.
Uti Hiata Mons
Uti Hiata Mons is a 500-km-diameter shield volcano on Venus at 16°N, 69°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Pawnee Mother Corn deity; a large radial-flow shield about 0.75 km high.
UTIAS Snowbird
The UTIAS Snowbird is a human-powered ornithopter built by a student team at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, flying 145 meters in 2010.
Utica
Utica, also known as Utique, was a Phoenician and Punic city in northern Tunisia near Carthage, traditionally founded about 1101 BC and later capital of Roman Africa.
Utica Shale
The Utica Shale is an Upper Ordovician black shale in the Appalachian Basin, a major natural gas and oil drilling target in eastern Ohio since about 2011.
Utica, New York
Utica, New York: Mohawk Valley city in Oneida County, 11th-largest in the state, population about 64,000. Erie Canal boomtown turned refugee resettlement hub; median income $52,484, poverty 27.5%.
Utidelone
Utidelone (优替德隆, UTD1), an epothilone analogue microtubule stabilizer by Beijing Biostar, approved in China March 2021 with capecitabine for metastatic breast cancer; phase III PFS 8.44 vs 4.27 months, main toxicity peripheral neuropathy.
Utikuma
Utikuma Lake is a large, shallow lake in the Peace River drainage basin of northwestern Alberta, Canada, covering 288 km² about 65 km northeast of High Prairie.
Utilidata
Utilidata is a Providence, Rhode Island-based grid technology company that develops Karman, a distributed AI platform for orchestrating electric power on utility grids and in AI data centers.
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism, or utilitarism, is a consequentialist family of moral theories holding that an act, rule, or policy is right when it maximizes overall well-being, founded systematically by Jeremy Bentham and defended by John Stuart Mill.
Utilitarianism (book)
Utilitarianism (1863) is John Stuart Mill's classic ethics book, first serialized in Fraser's Magazine in 1861, defending the Greatest Happiness Principle, higher and lower pleasures, and utility's connection with justice.
Utility
Utility, also called economic utility, is a ranking measure in consumer theory where larger numbers correspond to preferred options, defined by choice rather than as a physical quantity.
Utility bicycle
A utility bicycle, also called a city or Dutch bike, is a bicycle built for everyday practical transport like commuting, shopping, and carrying goods or children rather than sport.
Utility frequency
Utility frequency, also called mains frequency, is the rate at which alternating current in a power grid oscillates: 50 Hz in most of the world, 60 Hz in North America.
Utility knife
Utility knife: a hand tool with a short retractable, replaceable razorlike blade for cutting cardboard, drywall, carpet, and more; also called box cutter (US) or Stanley knife (UK), with a separate 4–7 inch kitchen meaning.
Utility locating survey
A utility locating survey is a field investigation that maps the position and depth of buried pipes and cables before excavation, using geophysical instruments and records.
Utility monster
Utility monster, Robert Nozick's 1974 thought experiment from Anarchy, State, and Utopia: a being converting resources into utility far more efficiently than anyone else, a reductio of total utilitarianism.
Utility pole
A utility pole, also known as a telephone pole or power pole, is a column, most often treated wood, supporting overhead power lines, communication cables, and streetlights.
Utility Powertech Ltd.
Utility Powertech Ltd. is an Indian power-sector services company incorporated in 1995 as a 50:50 joint venture between NTPC and Reliance Infrastructure, providing operation and maintenance services for power plants.
Utility software
Utility software, or utility programs, is a category of system software that maintains and optimizes a computer rather than serving end users, covering functions like compression, disk defragmentation, and virus detection.
Utility tunnel
A utility tunnel, also called a steam tunnel or utility corridor, is an underground passage housing utility lines like water pipes and power cables for maintenance without street excavation.
Utilization of Ketone Bodies
Utilization of Ketone Bodies (ketolysis, Reactome R-HSA-77108): mitochondrial pathway in extrahepatic tissues converting D-β-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate via SCOT (OXCT1) and thiolase to acetyl-CoA for TCA oxidation; the liver lacks SCOT and cannot utilize ketones.
Utilization Review
Utilization review is the evaluation of patient care, especially in Medicare and Medicaid, to determine whether it is appropriate, medically necessary, and consistent with accepted standards.
Utkal Sabha
Utkal Sabha, also rendered Utkala Sabha or Orissa Association, was an association of Odia-speaking people founded at Cuttack in 1882 under Madhusudan Das, campaigning to unite the scattered Odia territories and protect the Odia language.
Utkal Sahitya
Utkal Sahitya (ଉତ୍କଳ ସାହିତ୍ୟ) was a monthly Odia literary magazine launched in 1897 by Biswanath Kar, a central institution of modern Odia literature that ran for over fifty years.
Utkala Bhramanam
Utkala Bhramanam (ଉତ୍କଳ ଭ୍ରମଣଂ) is a long satirical poem by Fakir Mohan Senapati, first published in 1892 and regarded as the first travelogue of Odia literature.
Utkan Demirci
Utkan Demirci is a biomedical engineer and tenured professor of radiology at Stanford University, where he leads the BAMM laboratory; his FDA-approved microfluidic sperm sorting devices are used in over 1,000 IVF clinics.
Utkarsh Ambudkar
Utkarsh Ambudkar (UTK) is an American actor, rapper, and comedian: Jay on CBS's Ghosts, Mr. K. on Never Have I Ever, Donald in Pitch Perfect, and a Freestyle Love Supreme member who originated Aaron Burr in Hamilton's developmental readings.