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Apodization

Apodization, also called windowing or tapering, is the alteration of transmission across an optical aperture or signal to reduce sidelobes, trading resolution for contrast in imaging and spectral analysis.

ApoE-mediated uptake of lipid nanoparticles

ApoE-mediated uptake is the process by which serum apolipoprotein E adsorbs onto lipid nanoparticles and directs them to hepatocytes via the LDL receptor, driving their liver tropism.

APOEL FC

APOEL FC (ΑΠΟΕΛ), Nicosia club founded 1926, Cyprus's most successful football side with 25 league titles; reached the 2011/12 Champions League quarter-finals; rivals Omonia.

Apogamy and apospory in ferns

Apogamy and apospory in ferns bypass the normal life cycle: apogamy grows a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization, and apospory grows a gametophyte without spores.

Apogee Stadium

Apogee Stadium, renamed DATCU Stadium in 2023, is the 30,850-seat on-campus football stadium of the University of North Texas Mean Green in Denton, Texas. Opened 2011, $78 million, first newly built collegiate football stadium with LEED Platinum certification.

Apogee Therapeutics

Apogee Therapeutics was a US clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2022 to develop extended-half-life antibodies for atopic dermatitis, asthma, and COPD; AbbVie acquired it in 2026 for about $10.9 billion.

Apogonidae

Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes, is a large family of small nocturnal reef fishes, about 40 genera and 367 species, marked by two separate dorsal fins and paternal mouthbrooding.

APOH

APOH, apolipoprotein H, also called beta-2-glycoprotein I (β2GPI), is a human chromosome 17 gene encoding a 50-kDa liver-derived plasma glycoprotein, the main autoantigen of antiphospholipid syndrome, distinct from APOO apolipoprotein O.

Apoha (अपोह)

Apoha (अपोह, anyāpoha, exclusion of the other) is Dignāga's Buddhist theory of word meaning, developed normatively by Dharmakīrti: a word like 'cow' means by excluding all non-cows, solving the problem of universals nominalistically; realist rivals Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā (Kumārila) objected.

Apoidea

Apoidea: superfamily of Hymenoptera containing bees (Anthophila) and apoid/sphecoid wasps; bees evolved from crabronid wasps in the Early Cretaceous; ~20,000 bee species in seven families.

Apokolips

Apokolips is a DC Comics planet created by Jack Kirby in the Fourth World saga (name first in Jimmy Olsen #135, fully depicted in New Gods #1, 1971), the hellish twin of New Genesis, ruled by Darkseid, whose war with Highfather was paused by an exchange of sons, Orion and Scott Free.

Apolemia

Apolemia is a genus of physonect siphonophores (family Apolemiidae, string jellyfish) with five described species including A. uvaria, A. lanosa, and A. rubriversa; long colonial hydrozoans with nectosome and siphosome, sister to all other codonophoran siphonophores.

Apolinario Mabini

Apolinario Mabini (1864–1903), the Sublime Paralytic, was Prime Minister and foreign secretary of the First Philippine Republic, Aguinaldo's chief adviser, author of the True Decalogue, and a U.S. exile on Guam 1901–1903.

Apolinário Passos

Apolinário Passos is a Brazilian machine learning researcher and engineer at Hugging Face in Barcelona, co-author of LCM-LoRA and LEDITS++, methods for faster and text-editable image generation.

Apolipoprotein A-I deficiency

Apolipoprotein A-I deficiency (APOA1, 11q23-q24) is a rare autosomal disorder with undetectable plasma apoA-I, HDL cholesterol near 2 mg/dL, xanthomas, corneal opacities, and premature coronary heart disease; distinct from Tangier and LCAT deficiency.

Apolipoprotein B

Apolipoprotein B (apoB, apoB-100, apoB-48) is the structural protein of atherogenic lipoproteins, encoded by APOB on chromosome 2; one copy per LDL, VLDL, and Lp(a) particle, LDL receptor ligand, structurally resolved by cryo-EM in 2024.

Apolipoprotein E

Apolipoprotein E (apoE), APOE gene on chromosome 19, a 299-amino-acid lipid-transport protein with isoforms E2, E3, E4; E2 causes type III hyperlipoproteinemia, E4 raises Alzheimer disease and cardiovascular risk.

Apolitical Romance

Apolitical Romance (對面的女孩殺過來) is a 2012 Taiwanese romantic comedy directed by Hsieh Chun-yi, starring Huang Lu and Bryan Chang as a Beijing woman and a Taipei civil servant searching for her grandmother's long-lost first love.

Apollinaris Mons

Apollinaris Mons (formerly Apollinaris Patera) is an extinct, isolated shield volcano on Mars, ~296 km wide near 9°S 174°E, an explosive-volcanism candidate and proposed Medusae Fossae source.

Apollinaris of Laodicea

Apollinaris of Laodicea (Ἀπολινάριος), c. 310 to c. 390, was bishop of Laodicea in Syria whose teaching that the divine Logos replaced Christ's human mind was condemned at Constantinople in 381.

Apollinaris Sulci

Apollinaris Sulci, a named sulcus region on Mars near Apollinaris Mons and Gusev Crater, consists of yardangs in the Medusae Fossae Formation and hosts a lithified Hesperian paleodune field recording ancient northerly paleo-winds.

Apollinariya Panfilova

Apollinariya Panfilova (Аполлинария Панфилова) is a Russian pair skater who won the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics and 2020 World Junior Championships with partner Dmitry Rylov.

Apollo (Baidu)

Apollo (百度Apollo) is an open-source autonomous driving platform developed by the Chinese technology company Baidu, first announced in April 2017 and underlying its Apollo Go robotaxi service.

Apollo (crater)

Apollo is a large multi-ring impact basin on the far side of the Moon, about 500 km across and named in 1970 for NASA's Apollo program.

Apollo (spacecraft)

Apollo was NASA's three-part crewed spacecraft, with a command module, service module, and lunar module, that carried astronauts to the Moon between 1968 and 1975.

Apollo (Ἀπόλλων)

Apollo (Ἀπόλλων), Greek Olympian god of prophecy, music, healing, and archery, son of Zeus and Leto, twin of Artemis, born on Delos, worshipped above all at Delphi, where the Pythia delivered his oracle.

Apollo 1

Apollo 1, officially AS-204, was planned as NASA's first crewed Apollo flight until a fire during a pre-launch rehearsal at Cape Canaveral killed its three astronauts in 1967.

Apollo 10

Apollo 10, also known as Apollo X, was a May 1969 NASA mission and dress rehearsal for the first Moon landing, flown by Stafford, Young, and Cernan.

Apollo 11

Apollo 11 was the 1969 NASA mission on which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first crewed landing on the Moon, while Michael Collins orbited above.

Apollo 11 (2019 film)

Apollo 11 (2019) is Todd Douglas Miller's archival documentary about the first Moon landing, built from newly discovered 65/70mm footage and 11,000 hours of audio, released by NEON and CNN Films.