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Age of Ultron
Age of Ultron is a ten-issue Marvel Comics crossover storyline published in 2013, written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn principally by Bryan Hitch, in which Ultron conquers Earth.
Age restrictions on energy drinks by country
Country-by-country minimum purchase ages for high-caffeine energy drinks: England bans sales to under 16s from April 2027, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and others use 18, Norway 16, Kazakhstan 21, while the US has no federal age limit.
Age-associated cognitive decline
Age-associated cognitive decline (AACD, ICD-11 MB21.0) is normal, non-pathological cognitive aging: declines in processing speed, memory, and executive function from early adulthood, without loss of daily independence, distinct from MCI and dementia.
Age-period-cohort analysis
Age-period-cohort analysis is a statistical method for estimating the separate effects of age, time period, and birth cohort on outcomes such as disease rates in population data.
Age-related cataract
Age-related cataract (senile cataract) is lens opacification from aging, beginning around age 40 as lens proteins clump. Nuclear, cortical, and posterior subcapsular subtypes; leading cause of blindness worldwide; treated only by surgery.
Age-Well trial
Age-Well (Medit-Ageing, Silver Santé Study; NCT02977819): Caen, France RCT of 137 adults 65+ randomized to 18-month meditation, English training, or no intervention; no cognitive gains, but improved well-being and reduced loneliness.
Age–period–cohort model
The age–period–cohort (APC) model is a statistical model that decomposes trends in rates into age, calendar period, and birth cohort effects, used in demography, epidemiology, and social science.
Ageas
Ageas is a Brussels-listed Belgian insurance group serving retail and SME customers in Europe and Asia, which emerged from the collapsed Fortis conglomerate between 2010 and 2011.
Agechi Edict
The Agechi Edict (上知令) was an 1843 land-confiscation order by the Tokugawa shogunate under Mizuno Tadakuni, targeting holdings near Edo and Osaka before its quick withdrawal.
Agege
Agege, a local government area in north-west mainland Lagos, Nigeria; a former Awori railway market town, home of Agege bread, 7 wards, about 460,000 people (2006), and a Red Line rail station.
Ageing
Ageing (aging) is the accumulation of molecular and cellular damage causing declining capacity, plus the demographic rise of older populations; hallmarks framework, epigenetic clocks, and UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021–2030.
Ageing associated decline in intrinsic capacity
Ageing associated decline in intrinsic capacity (ICD-11 MG2A, formerly "old age"): WHO concept for age-related loss of physical and mental capacities across five domains, tracked by ICOPE screening and predicting frailty and disability.
Ageing test (reliability engineering)
An aging test is a reliability-engineering method that subjects products to stresses more severe than normal use, so failures occur faster and service life can be estimated.
Ageism
Ageism is stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination based on age, a term coined by Robert Butler in 1969. It affects all ages, harms older people's health, and is combated through laws, education, and intergenerational programs.
AGel amyloidosis
AGel amyloidosis (Meretoja disease, familial amyloidosis Finnish type) is a rare autosomal dominant gelsolin (GSN) amyloidosis causing corneal lattice dystrophy, facial nerve paresis, and cutis laxa, concentrated in Finland, with near-normal life expectancy and only symptomatic treatment.
Agelaius
Agelaius (Vieillot, 1816) is a genus of New World blackbirds (Icteridae) including the Red-winged Blackbird; shown polyphyletic in 1994, after which South American species moved to Agelasticus and Chrysomus.
Agelenidae
Agelenidae (funnel weavers) is a family of about 1,481 araneomorph spider species in 100 genera that build non-sticky sheet webs with funnel retreats; includes Eratigena agrestis, the hobo spider, whose necrosis reputation was disproven.
Agelenopsis
Agelenopsis (grass spiders) is a genus of 14 North American funnel-weaving spiders (Agelenidae) building sheet webs with tubular retreats; type species A. potteri, subgenus Barronopsis elevated to genus, bites generally minor.
Ägelmoos
Ägelmoos (Beinwil-Ägelmoos, site CH-AG-01) is a UNESCO-listed prehistoric pile dwelling site under Lake Hallwil, Aargau, Switzerland, discovered in 1996, occupied from about 4400 BC to the Late Bronze Age, with main Early Bronze Age layers around 1880–1620 BC.
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP), French global news agency founded 20 August 1944 by resistance journalists, heir to Havas (1835); independent under the 1957 statute, no shareholders, 2,600 staff, six languages, Paris headquarters.
Agence nationale des titres sécurisés
The Agence nationale des titres sécurisés, known as France Titres since 2024, is the French agency producing identity cards, passports, driving licenses, and vehicle registration certificates.
Agencia Estatal de Seguridad Aérea
The Agencia Estatal de Seguridad Aérea (AESA), the Spanish State Aviation Safety Agency, regulates and inspects civil aviation safety in Spain; it was created in 2008 and sits in Madrid.
Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis
The Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis (ANP) is Brazil's federal regulatory agency for the oil, natural gas, biofuels, and hydrogen industries, created in 1997.
Agency (philosophy)
Agency (philosophy): the exercise of a being's capacity to act, central to philosophy of action and free will. Covers the standard causal theory of action, event-causal, agent-causal, and volitionist frameworks, compatibilism versus libertarianism, and empirical challenges.
Agency (sociology)
Agency (sociology): the capacity of individuals to act independently and pursue goals despite social structure. Central to the structure-agency debate via Giddens's structuration, Bourdieu's habitus, Archer's morphogenesis, and Sewell's 1992 theory; distinct from principal-agent agency theory.
Agency costs
Agency costs are the costs arising when a principal delegates decision-making to an agent whose interests differ, defined by Jensen and Meckling in 1976 as monitoring, bonding, and residual loss.
Agency for Defense Development
The Agency for Defense Development (ADD; 국방과학연구소) is South Korea's central government institute for weapons research and development, established in 1970 and headquartered in Daejeon.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly AHCPR (1989), is the HHS lead federal agency for healthcare quality, patient safety, and primary care research, known for MEPS, HCUP, TeamSTEPPS, CUSP, and PSNet, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.
Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (Japan)
The Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (Shigen Enerugī Chō) is a Japanese energy policy agency under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, established in 1973.
Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators
The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) is a decentralized European Union agency, created in 2011 and headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, coordinating national energy regulators.