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Weilai GuFen (acquiring Yuanqing & Shulin Investment)
Weilai GuFen (未来股份) is a Shanghai-listed company that in August 2021 agreed to buy an indirect 29.8658% stake in Shanghai International Medical Center for up to RMB 896 million.
Weilan Ye
Weilan Ye (叶蔚蓝) is a molecular biologist and Principal Fellow at Genentech in South San Francisco, known for work on angiogenesis and retinal vascular development.
Weili Dai
Weili Dai (戴伟立) is a Shanghai-born American businesswoman who co-founded the semiconductor company Marvell Technology Group in 1995 with her husband Sehat Sutardja, and served as its president.
Weill-Marchesani syndrome
Weill-Marchesani syndrome (Spherophakia-Brachymorphia syndrome) is a rare connective tissue disorder with microspherophakia, ectopia lentis, glaucoma, short stature, and brachydactyly, caused by ADAMTS10, ADAMTS17, LTBP2, or FBN1 variants.
Weilong
Weilong Delicious Global Holdings (卫龙美味) is a Chinese spicy-snack food company headquartered in Luohe, Henan, founded by brothers Liu Weiping and Liu Fuping, who made its first latiao in 2001.
Weilong Delicious Global Holdings (卫龙)
Weilong Delicious Global Holdings (卫龙) is a Chinese spicy snack food company headquartered in Luohe, Henan, founded by brothers Liu Weiping and Liu Fuping and best known for latiao.
Weimai (微脉)
Weimai (微脉) is a Hangzhou-based internet-healthcare company founded by Qiu Jialin in 2013, providing AI-supported whole-course disease management services in partnership with Chinese public hospitals.
Weimar
Weimar, Thuringian city of about 65,500 residents, home of Weimar Classicism (Goethe, Schiller), the Bauhaus founded 1919, and the Weimar Republic; two UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Weimar Classicism
Weimar Classicism (German: Weimarer Klassik) is a period of German literature and aesthetics built on the collaboration of Goethe and Schiller in Weimar, commonly dated 1786 to 1805.
Weimar culture
Weimar culture: the arts, media, and design of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933, centered on Berlin; known for the Bauhaus, New Objectivity, Brecht, and film, ended by Nazi cultural control in 1933.
Weimar paramilitary groups
Weimar paramilitary groups (Wehrverbände), 1918-1935: Freikorps, Einwohnerwehren, Reichsbanner, Stahlhelm, Jungdeutscher Orden, Wehrwolf, SA and Rotfrontkämpferbund; state-funded volunteer formations, party armies, Versailles constraints, Kapp Putsch roles, membership peaks and fates after 1933.
Weimar political parties
Weimar political parties: SPD, Zentrum, DDP (Weimar Coalition), DVP, BVP, DNVP, KPD, and NSDAP in Germany's 1918–1933 parliamentary democracy. Proportional representation without a threshold fragmented the Reichstag; the pro-republican coalition lost its majority in 1920, and the NSDAP became the largest party in 1932.
Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic (Weimarer Republik), Germany's first parliamentary democracy, 1918–1933: proclaimed 9 November 1918, constitution 1919, hyperinflation 1923, ended by Hitler's 30 January 1933 appointment as chancellor.
Weimaraner
Weimaraner: German versatile pointing dog (FCI Group 7, Standard No. 99), the silver-grey 'Gray Ghost', pure bred since 1900, AKC-recognized 1943; males 59–70 cm, 30–40 kg; needs 2+ hours daily exercise; prone to hip dysplasia and bloat.
Weimob (微盟)
Weimob (微盟), also known as Weimob Inc., is a Shanghai software company founded by Sun Taoyong in 2013 that sells cloud commerce and marketing SaaS to merchants on Tencent's WeChat ecosystem.
Weinan
Weinan (渭南) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Shaanxi, China, 60 km east of Xi'an on the Guanzhong Plain; 4.58 million residents (2024), a major apple and grain producer, and home to Mount Hua.
Weinbaum (Martian crater)
Weinbaum is an 82.01-km-diameter IAU-approved impact crater on Mars at 65.53°S, 114.57°E, named in 1973 for American science-fiction novelist Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902–1935), near the Wells and Wegener craters.
Weineng (Wuhan Weineng Battery Asset)
Weineng, formally Wuhan Weineng Battery Asset Co., Ltd. (武汉蔚能), is a Chinese battery-asset company founded in Wuhan in 2020 by NIO and CATL to lease NIO's swap batteries.
Weinreb ketone synthesis
The Weinreb ketone synthesis prepares ketones by treating a Weinreb amide with a Grignard or organolithium reagent; Nahm and Weinreb reported it at Penn State in 1981.
Weinstein effect
Weinstein effect: wave of sexual misconduct accusations, dismissals, and legal action following the October 2017 Harvey Weinstein exposés and viral #MeToo movement, distinct from Tarana Burke's earlier 2006 Me Too campaign.
Weintek
Weintek (威纶科技) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of Human Machine Interface products, the touch-panel terminals that let operators view and control industrial equipment. Founded in 1995, it makes cMT series HMIs and the EasyBuilder programming software.
Weipa bauxite mine
The Weipa bauxite mine is a large open-cut bauxite mine on western Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia, operated by Rio Tinto since the early 1960s.
Weiping Tang
Weiping Tang is an organic chemist and chemical biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy, where he works on targeted protein degradation and co-founded Chimergen Therapeutics.
Weiqiang Coal Mine
The Weiqiang Coal Mine (魏墙煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Hengshan District, Yulin, Shaanxi, China, opened in 2016 and producing bituminous coal for power and chemical use.
Weiqiao Aluminum power station
Weiqiao Aluminum power station (魏桥集团邹平六电), also called the Weiqiao Zouping-6 power station, is a captive coal-fired power station in Zouping, Shandong, China, built to supply the Weiqiao group's aluminum operations.
Weiqiao Binzhou Public Heating power station
Weiqiao Binzhou Public Heating power station (滨州绿动热电有限公司) is a coal-fired combined heat and power station in Binzhou, Shandong, China, with four 330 MW units operating since 2013.
Weiqiao Huji power station
Weiqiao Huji power station (魏桥胡集电厂) is a 2,640 MW coal-fired captive power station in Huji Town, Shandong, China, with eight 330 MW units supplying Weiqiao's aluminum and industrial operations.
Weiqiao Town Public Heating power station
Weiqiao Town Public Heating power station is a coal-fired combined heat and power station of at least 1,320 MW in Weiqiao Town, Zouping, Binzhou, Shandong, China, operating since 2013.
Weiqiao Yangxin power station
Weiqiao Yangxin power station (魏桥集团阳信县公共供热中心) is a coal-fired combined heat and power station in Yangxin County, Binzhou, Shandong, China, with four 330 MW units operating since 2015.
Weiqiao Zhanhua power station
Weiqiao Zhanhua power station is a captive 1,400 MW coal-fired power station in Zhanhua District, Binzhou, Shandong, China, operated by Binzhou Zhanhua Huihong New Material Co Ltd.