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Advances in Structural Engineering
Advances in Structural Engineering is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on civil engineering structures such as bridges, buildings, and offshore platforms, established in 1997 and published by SAGE Publications.
Advantage-Weighted Regression
Advantage-Weighted Regression (AWR) is an off-policy reinforcement learning algorithm from UC Berkeley, proposed in 2019 by Peng, Kumar, Zhang, and Levine, that improves a policy via two supervised regression steps.
Advantame
Advantame is a synthetic high-intensity sweetener derived from aspartame, roughly 20,000 times sweeter than table sugar, authorized by the FDA in 2014 for general use in foods.
Advantech
Advantech Co., Ltd. (研华) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of industrial computers, embedded systems, and edge computing hardware, founded in 1981 and headquartered in Taipei, with the largest share of the global industrial PC market.
Advantest
Advantest Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of automatic test equipment for semiconductors, holding 58% of the ATE market in 2024 and supplying testers for Nvidia's AI chips.
AdvBench
AdvBench is a benchmark dataset of harmful-behavior prompts released in July 2023 alongside the GCG jailbreak attack by Zou, Wang, Kolter, and Fredrikson, and a standard testbed in jailbreak research.
Advection
Advection is the transport of a property of a fluid, such as temperature or moisture, by the fluid's bulk motion, as when wind carries warm air into a region.
Advection-dispersion equation
The advection-dispersion equation is the classical governing equation for solute transport in groundwater, describing how dissolved substances move by advection, which carries them with the fluid, and hydrodynamic dispersion, which spreads them.
Advection-dominated accretion flow
An advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) is a hot, quasi-spherical mode of accretion onto a black hole in which gas radiates under one percent of the energy it releases.
Advection–diffusion model
The advection–diffusion model is a mathematical model describing how a quantity such as heat, salinity, or pollutant concentration is carried by fluid flow while spreading by diffusion.
Advent
Advent, also known as Adventide, is the Christian liturgical season preceding Christmas. It opens the Western church year with four Sundays of preparation for Christ's birth and expected return.
Advent calendar
Advent calendar: a 24-door countdown device opened December 1-24, originating with 19th-century German Protestants; first printed commercially by Gerhard Lang in 1908, revived postwar by Richard Sellmer, now a mass market in chocolate, beauty, and toys.
Advent International
Advent International is a global private equity buyout firm founded in Boston in 1984, managing $109 billion in assets and known for control-oriented buyouts and corporate carve-outs.
Advent Life Sciences
Advent Life Sciences, formerly Advent Ventures Life Sciences Fund, is a London-based, trans-Atlantic venture capital firm investing at seed through mid-stage in drug discovery, med tech, and vaccines.
Advent Technologies
Advent Technologies is an American fuel cell and hydrogen technology company headquartered in Livermore, California, that makes high-temperature membrane electrode assemblies, complete fuel cell systems, and defense power products.
Advent wreath
An Advent wreath, or Advent crown, is a circle of evergreen branches with four candles, one lit on each Sunday of Advent as Christmas approaches.
Adventism
Adventism is a family of Protestant movements that arose in the United States in the 1840s from Millerite expectations of Christ's Second Advent, the largest being the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Adventure
Adventure: experiences involving uncertainty, challenge, and real or perceived risk, often in nature. Covers adventure recreation, education, and tourism (UNWTO/ATTA definitions, USD 683 billion market), its history from Murray's 1869 Adirondack guidebook, and ISO 21101 safety management.
Adventure Comics
Adventure Comics, begun as New Comics in the late 1930s, is a long-running DC anthology series and home to Superboy, Supergirl, and the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Adventure Consultants
Adventure Consultants is a New Zealand mountain guiding company founded by Rob Hall and Gary Ball in 1991, pioneer of commercial Everest guiding, later owned by Guy Cotter after the 1996 Everest disaster.
Adventure fiction
Adventure fiction is a genre centered on heroes overcoming obstacles and dangers on an important mission, prominent in children's literature and Victorian imperial fiction from Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, and Haggard onward.
Adventure film
Adventure film: a movie genre built on a protagonist's quest, exploration, and peril in exotic or fantastical settings; also called action-adventure (term from 1927). Distinct from pure action spectacle; subtypes include swashbuckler, pirate, sea, empire, fortune hunter.
Adventure game
An adventure game, or adventure gaming, is a video game genre in which the player explores an interactive story and solves puzzles, with emphasis on narrative rather than reflexes.
Adventure Island (video game)
Adventure Island (Takahashi Meijin no Boukenjima), Hudson Soft's 1986 NES adaptation of Sega's arcade Wonder Boy starring Master Higgins; 32 stages, hunger meter, fruit, eggs, witch doctor bosses, and a long sequel series.
Adventure of a Lifetime
Adventure of a Lifetime is a 2015 Coldplay disco-funk single, first release from A Head Full of Dreams, written with Stargate, UK peak number 7, with a chimp motion-capture video.
Adventure park Skypark
Adventure park Skypark (Мотузковий парк Skypark) is a rope adventure park at VDNH in Kyiv, Ukraine, run by the SkyPark network of five rope parks, ziplines, and kayak rentals operating since 2008.
Adventure racing
Adventure racing: a multisport, navigation-based off-road endurance sport where teams of one to four find checkpoints by map and compass across trekking, biking, and paddling stages; born from the 1989 Raid Gauloises and 1995 Eco-Challenge, now run by the ARWS and IARA.
Adventure Rupes
Adventure Rupes is a ~340 km long, ~1.3 km high lobate scarp (thrust-fault cliff) on Mercury at 65.5°S, 65.5°W, named after Cook's ship; topographically continuous with Resolution Rupes, forming one fault along a 1000 km arc with Discovery Rupes.
Adventure Time
Adventure Time is an American animated series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network (2010–2018, 10 seasons, 283 episodes) about Finn and his shape-shifting dog Jake in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo; spin-offs include Fionna and Cake and Side Quests.
Adventure Time: Distant Lands
Adventure Time: Distant Lands is a 2020-2021 HBO Max miniseries of four specials (BMO, Obsidian, Wizard City, Together Again) continuing the Cartoon Network series, created by Pendleton Ward, scoring 82 on Metacritic and 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.