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Aksyon Demokratiko
Aksyon Demokratiko (Democratic Action) is a Philippine political party founded in 1997 by Senator Raul Roco for his 1998 and 2004 presidential runs; later led by Isko Moreno, its 2022 standard-bearer.
AKT1
AKT1 (PKBalpha, v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog 1) is a chromosome 14 serine/threonine kinase of the PI3K/AKT pathway regulating growth, survival, and metabolism; somatic AKT1 E17K variants cause Proteus syndrome and occur in some tumors.
AKT2
AKT2, also known as PKBβ or PRKBB, is a human protein-coding gene on chromosome 19 whose kinase relays insulin signaling to control glucose metabolism, cell survival, and growth.
AKT3
AKT3 (PKB gamma, RAC-gamma) is a human chromosome 1q43-q44 gene encoding the brain-enriched AKT serine/threonine kinase of the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway; gain-of-function mutations cause megalencephaly, deletions cause microcephaly.
Aktiengesellschaft
An Aktiengesellschaft (AG) is a German stock corporation under the 1965 Aktiengesetz, with a minimum capital of €50,000, a management board, and a mandatory supervisory board.
Aktion T4
Aktion T4 was the Nazi code name for the centralized murder of disabled institutionalized patients, run from Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin; six gas centers killed 70,273 people by August 1941, with about 250,000 total deaths.
Aktis Oncology
Aktis Oncology, formerly HotKnot Therapeutics, is a clinical-stage Boston biotechnology company developing targeted alpha radiopharmaceuticals, which it calls miniprotein radioconjugates, for solid tumors; it went public on Nasdaq in 2026.
Aktisanes
Aktisanes (Greek Actisanes, Ἀκτισάνης) is a king of Aethiopia, the Greek name for Kush, whom Diodorus Siculus describes as conquering Egypt and founding Rhinocolura; modern scholarship doubts the account.
Aktobe
Aktobe (Ақтөбе), formerly Aktyubinsk, a city on the Ilek River in western Kazakhstan, founded as a fortress in 1869, administrative center of Aktobe Region, about 585,000 residents in 2025, a chromium, ferroalloy, and oil and gas hub.
Aktyubinskaya Oblast’
Aktyubinskaya Oblast' (Aktobe Region, Ақтөбе облысы) is a north-western region of Kazakhstan formed in 1932, capital Aktobe. It covers 300,629 km², has about 959,000 people, and holds CIS-leading chromite deposits plus major oil, gas, and ferroalloy industries.
Aku
Aku ("Me" or "I") is a 1943 poem by the Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, a leading figure of the '45 Generation, regarded as a seminal work of modern Indonesian literature.
Aku Ingin
Aku Ingin is a short love poem by the Indonesian poet Sapardi Djoko Damono, written in 1989 and famous for its opening line, "I want to love you simply."
Akua Njeri
Akua Njeri, born Deborah Johnson, is an American activist and writer, a former Black Panther and the widow of Fred Hampton, killed in a 1969 police raid.
Akua'ba
Akua'ba, plural akua'mma, is a carved wooden fertility figure of the Akan peoples of Ghana, meaning "Akua's child," carried by women seeking pregnancy or a safe delivery.
Akuanda Dorsa
Akuanda Dorsa is an 800-km-long ridge (dorsum) on Venus at 63.5N, 232.0E in quadrangle V-5, named by the IAU in 1997 for an Adygan light deity, one of twelve linear belts in the Pandrosos Dorsa quadrangle.
Akuapem Kingdom
The Akuapem Kingdom, also called Okuapeman or the Akuapem State, is a traditional Akan paramountcy in Ghana's Eastern Region, seated at Akropong, founded around 1730.
Akuba
Akuba (AKUBA, AK 778; CVCL_W933) is a human B-cell cancer cell line from EBV-related Burkitt lymphoma of Kenyan origin, EBV-transformed, with a MYC-IGL fusion (t(8;22)), heterozygous TP53 p.Arg248Gln, 21-hour doubling time, and type II EBV latency.
Akudama Drive
Akudama Drive (アクダマドライブ) is a 2020 original cyberpunk TV anime by Studio Pierrot and Too Kyo Games, story by Kazutaka Kodaka, 12 episodes set in a post-war Kansai where criminals called Akudama carry out a heist.
Akula-class submarine
The Akula class, the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Project 971 Shchuka-B (Щука-Б), is a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines first commissioned in 1984, serving as Russia's attack submarine backbone into the 2020s.
Akuma (悪魔) (Street Fighter)
Akuma (Gouki, 悪魔/豪鬼) is Capcom's Street Fighter hidden boss and demonic shoto, debuting in Super Street Fighter II Turbo (1994). Created by Funamizu and Akiman, defined by the Satsui no Hado, the Raging Demon, low vitality, and tournament bans.
Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a privately held proprietary trading firm founded in 2011 by Andrew Killion and headquartered in Chicago, making markets in options on 16 U.S. exchanges with no clients or external investors.
Akur8
Akur8 is a Paris-based insurtech founded in 2018 by Samuel Falmagne and others that sells machine-learning actuarial pricing software, raising $180 million including a $120 million Series C in 2024.
Akure
Akure, capital of Ondo State, Nigeria since 1976, a medium-sized Yoruba city in the southwest. Seat of the Deji, home of FUTA; built-up land grew from 14% (1991) to 38% (2020).
Akureyri
Akureyri is a town in northeastern Iceland at the head of the fjord Eyjafjörður, the largest urban area outside the capital region, with about 20,000 inhabitants.
Akureyri Botanical Garden
Akureyri Botanical Garden (Lystigarður Akureyrar), Iceland's first public park (1912) with a botanic section added 1957; about 3.6 ha near the Arctic Circle in Akureyri, holding 430 native species and 6,600 alien taxa, free entry year round.
Akurgal
Akurgal of Lagash was an ensi, or city ruler, of Lagash in Early Dynastic Sumer around 2500 BC, the son of Ur-Nanshe and father of the conqueror Eannatum.
Akutagawa (Mercurian crater)
Akutagawa is a 106-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 48.25°N, 141.09°E, in quadrangle H-03, named for Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa and IAU-approved September 25, 2015.
Akutagawa Prize
The Akutagawa Prize (芥川賞), formally the Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Prize, is a Japanese literary prize for new writers, established in 1935 and awarded twice a year.
Akutan Island
Akutan Island (Akutanax̂) is a volcanic island in the eastern Aleutians' Krenitzin group, 35 miles east of Unalaska, home to Akutan Volcano (1,303 m, last eruption 1992), the City of Akutan, and North America's largest seafood plant.
Akuyaku Reijō no Naka no Hito
Akuyaku Reijō no Naka no Hito (The One Within the Villainess, Within the Villainess) is a Japanese villainess isekai web novel by Makiburo, later a two-volume light novel, a completed manga by Nazuna Shiraume, and a TV anime premiering 2027.