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Empowerment scale
The Empowerment Scale, also called the Making Decisions Questionnaire, is a 28-item self-report questionnaire measuring psychological empowerment, including self-esteem and perceived control, in mental health service users.
Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado
Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE) is the state-owned railway company of Chile, created by law in 1884 to administer the country's public railways.
Empresa Nacional de Electricidad (Bolivia)
Empresa Nacional de Electricidad (ENDE) is Bolivia's state-owned electricity corporation, founded in 1962 and active across generation, transmission, distribution, and import and export of electricity.
Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos
Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH), the National Hydrocarbon Company, is Mozambique's state enterprise for petroleum exploration, production, and marketing, created in 1981 and holding stakes in the Rovuma Basin LNG projects.
Empresa Nacional del Petróleo
Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP) is Chile's state-owned energy company, created in 1950, which explores for and produces oil and gas and refines most of the country's fuels.
Empresas CMPC
Empresas CMPC, colloquially la Papelera, is a Chilean integrated forestry, pulp, paper, and tissue company founded in 1920, controlled by the Matte Group, and operating across Latin America.
Empresas Copec
Empresas Copec is a Chilean holding company in natural resources and energy, created in 2003, controlling the forestry firm ARAUCO and the fuel distributor Copec.
Empresas Penta
Empresas Penta, also known as Penta Group, is a Chilean holding company founded in the mid-1980s by Carlos Délano and Carlos Lavín, known for the 2014 Penta Case corruption scandal.
Empresas Públicas de Medellín
Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) is a Colombian public utilities company wholly owned by the Municipality of Medellín. Founded in 1955, it provides electricity, gas, water, and waste services.
Empresas Socovesa
Empresas Socovesa, or Socovesa Group, is a Chilean real estate developer founded by Eduardo Gras Díaz in Temuco in 1965 and listed on the Santiago stock exchange.
Empress Deng Sui
Empress Deng Sui (邓绥, 80–121) was the empress of Emperor He of Han and, after his death in 105, regent for about fifteen years, remembered for famine relief and scholarship.
Empress Dowager Cao's regency
Empress Dowager Cao's regency (曹太后垂帘) was Empress Dowager Cao's rule from behind the screen in the Song dynasty after Emperor Renzong died and Yingzong took the throne.
Empress Dowager Chengtian
Empress Dowager Chengtian, personal name Xiao Chuo and childhood name Yanyan, was the effective ruler of the Liao empire for roughly four decades between 969 and 1009.
Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后)
Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后), 1835–1908, Manchu consort and de facto ruler of Qing China for nearly fifty years; staged the 1861 Xinyou coup, crushed the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform, backed the Boxers, then launched the New Policies reforms.
Empress Dowager Dou
Empress Dowager Dou, or Dou Yifang, was the wife of Emperor Wen of Han and mother of Emperor Jing, dominating the Han court until her death in 135 BC.
Empress Dowager Feng's regency and reforms
Empress Dowager Feng's regency and reforms (冯太后临朝称制) was her personal rule over the Northern Wei dynasty from 476, launching the salary law, equal-field system, and three-elders reforms.
Empress Dowager Guo
Empress Dowager Guo (郭太后) was a Tang dynasty imperial consort, granddaughter of the general Guo Ziyi, who served as empress dowager through five emperors' reigns and refused the regency.
Empress Dowager Ling
Empress Dowager Ling (灵太后) was a regent of the Northern Wei dynasty who held court for the child Emperor Xiaoming, patronized Buddhism, and was twice ousted by a coup.
Empress Dowager Ling's regency and fall
Empress Dowager Ling's regency and fall (灵太后专政) was Empress Dowager Ling's personal rule over the Northern Wei dynasty from 515 to 528, ended by the Heyin massacre.
Empress Dowager Longyu (叶赫那拉·静芬)
Empress Dowager Longyu (叶赫那拉·静芬, Yehe Nara Jingfen, 1868–1913), Guangxu's empress and the last Qing empress dowager, ruled as nominal regent for Puyi and on 12 February 1912 issued the abdication edict ending imperial China.
Empress Dowager Xiang
Empress Dowager Xiang (向太后, 1046–1101) was the Song empress consort of Emperor Shenzong who, as regent in 1100, chose Emperor Huizong as successor over Zhang Dun's objection.
Empress Dowager Xiao's Regency
Empress Dowager Xiao's Regency (蕭太后攝政) was Empress Dowager Xiao's rule of the Liao dynasty: 13 years as empress, then 27 as empress dowager, about 40 years in all.
Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang
Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang (孝庄文皇后), born Bumbutai of the Borjigit clan, was a Mongol consort of Hong Taiji, mother of the Shunzhi Emperor, and grandmother of the Kangxi Emperor.
Empress Dowager Xie
Empress Dowager Xie (谢道清) was the empress of Emperor Lizong of the Southern Song dynasty, who negotiated submission to the Yuan as a vassal to preserve the state.
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi, 1837–1898), wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, Queen of Hungary from 1867, reclusive traveler, assassinated in Geneva in 1898 by anarchist Luigi Lucheni; subject of the enduring Sissi film myth.
Empress Genmei
Empress Genmei (元明天皇), also read Gemmei, was the 43rd monarch of Japan, reigning from 707 to 715 and moving the capital to Heijō-kyō (Nara) in 710.
Empress Genshō
Empress Genshō (元正天皇), 44th monarch of Japan, reigned 715–724 in the Nara period; daughter of Empress Genmei and only empress regnant to succeed another, overseeing the Yōrō Code, the Nihon Shoki (720), and the 723 Sanze-isshin-hō land law.
Empress Gi (奇皇后)
Empress Gi (奇皇后, Oljei-qutuq), a Goryeo tribute maiden who became second and then first empress of Yuan emperor Toghon Temür, mother of Northern Yuan emperor Ayushiridara, and a power broker in Yuan-Goryeo politics.
Empress Jia Nanfeng's domination of the court
Empress Jia Nanfeng's domination of the court (贾南风专政) was the period from 291 to 300 when Empress Jia Nanfeng, wife of Emperor Hui of the Western Jin dynasty, held power.
Empress Jingū
Empress Jingū (神功皇后), also recorded as Okinagatarashi-hime, is a semilegendary regent of ancient Yamato Japan who led an invasion of Silla in Korea, per the chronicles.