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Ascent Solar Technologies
Ascent Solar Technologies is a Thornton, Colorado company, founded in 2005, that makes lightweight flexible CIGS thin-film solar modules for satellites, spacecraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
ASCENT trial
ASCENT (NCT02574455): global phase 3 trial of sacituzumab govitecan versus physician's-choice chemotherapy in relapsed/refractory metastatic triple-negative breast cancer; 529 patients, median OS 11.8 vs 6.9 months, basis for Trodelvy approval.
Ascent Venture Partners
Ascent Venture Partners, formerly Pioneer Capital Corporation, is a Boston-area venture capital firm founded in 1985 that invests $2 to $8 million in early-stage B2B technology companies.
Ascenta Capital
Ascenta Capital is a United States venture capital firm founded in 2023 by Evan Rachlin and Lorence Kim that invests in biotech companies in Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials.
Ascenty
Ascenty is a Brazilian data center provider founded in 2010 by Chris Torto and headquartered in Vinhedo, São Paulo, now Latin America's largest data center operator.
Ascertis Credit
Ascertis Credit, formerly BPEA Credit, is an India-based performing private credit fund manager with offices in Mumbai and Delhi, investing in mid-market businesses since 2011.
Asceticism
Asceticism: voluntary, sustained self-discipline and self-denial (from Greek askēsis, athletic training) practiced across Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism to attain a valued spiritual or mental state.
Asch conformity experiments
Asch conformity experiments: Solomon Asch's 1951–1956 line-judgment studies (Asch paradigm) showing unanimous confederate majorities led subjects to give obviously wrong answers in 36.8% of trials; dissent, group size, and culture moderate the effect.
Aschehoug Prize
The Aschehoug Prize (Aschehougprisen) is an annual honorary Norwegian literary prize awarded by the publisher Aschehoug since 1973, carrying 100,000 kroner and a statuette regardless of the winner's publisher.
Ascher H. Shapiro
Ascher H. Shapiro (1916–2004) was an American mechanical engineer at MIT known for the standard treatise on compressible flow and as a founder of biomedical engineering.
Ascher syndrome
Ascher syndrome (Laffer-Ascher syndrome), rare benign disorder combining blepharochalasis, double upper lip, and nontoxic goiter in 10-50% of cases; onset at puberty, OMIM 109900, usually sporadic.
Aschoff body
Aschoff body, also called Aschoff nodule or Aschoff-Talalaev granuloma, is the pathognomonic myocardial granuloma of rheumatic carditis, with fibrinoid necrosis, Aschoff and Anitschkow cells, histiocytic origin, and healing by scarring.
Aschwin Wildeboer
Aschwin Wildeboer Faber, Spanish backstroke swimmer born 1986 in Sabadell; three-time Olympian, 2009 world bronze medalist, and former 100 m backstroke world record holder in long course (52.38) and short course (49.20).
Ascidae
Ascidae (Voigts & Oudemans) is a family of predatory soil and plant mites in Mesostigmata, Phytoseioidea; formerly included Blattisociidae and Melicharidae, now 372 species in 17 genera, many nematode predators.
Ascidiacea
Ascidiacea, commonly called sea squirts or ascidians, is a class of about 3,000 sessile, filter-feeding marine invertebrates in the subphylum Tunicata, found from tropical shallows to trenches at 8,400 m.
Ascidian anatomy and physiology
Ascidian anatomy and physiology describes the sea squirt's body, built around a perforated pharyngeal basket that pumps water for feeding and respiration, enclosed in a living cellulose-containing tunic with a heart that reverses flow.
Ascidian reproduction and life cycle
Ascidian reproduction and life cycle describes how sea squirts, hermaphroditic marine chordates, develop from egg through a swimming tadpole larva into sessile filter feeders, with colonial species also budding asexually.
ASCII
ASCII, or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a 7-bit character code assigning numeric values to 128 characters, first approved as an American standard in 1963.
ASCII art
ASCII art: pictures built from printable ASCII characters (strictly the 95 printable glyphs of the 1963 standard), also called text art. Roots in typewriter art and line printers; flourished on BBSes alongside ANSI art; now studied as an AI perception benchmark and accessibility challenge.
ASCII Media Works (アスキー・メディアワークス)
ASCII Media Works (アスキー・メディアワークス) was a Japanese publisher formed April 1, 2008 when MediaWorks absorbed ASCII under Kadokawa Group Holdings, combining Dengeki light-novel and game publishing with ASCII's IT media; it was absorbed into KADOKAWA in 2013.
Ascites
Ascites, free fluid in the peritoneal cavity, most often from cirrhosis; also called abdominal dropsy (Greek askos, bag). Diagnosed by SAAG ≥1.1 g/dL; treated with sodium restriction, diuretics, paracentesis, TIPS, or transplant.
ASCL1
ASCL1 (ASH1, HASH1, MASH1) is a human bHLH pioneer transcription factor on chromosome 12 that drives neuronal and neuroendocrine differentiation and defines the SCLC-A subtype of small cell lung cancer.
Asclepiades of Samos
Asclepiades of Samos (Ἀσκληπιάδης, also called Sicelidas) was a Greek poet active around 300–270 BCE, credited as the inventor of the Alexandrian erotic epigram and an influence on Callimachus.
Asclepias
Asclepias, commonly known as milkweeds, is a genus of about 130 plants in the dogbane family. These herbaceous perennials are a major host plant for monarch butterflies.
Asclepias curassavica
Asclepias curassica, or tropical weed, is a flowering plant native to Mexico. It is grown as an ornamental and serves as a host for the monarch butterfly.
Asclepias syriaca
Asclepias syriaca, common milkweed (silkweed, Virginia silkweed), a rhizomatous perennial Apocynaceae herb native to central-eastern North America, monarch larval host, cardenolide-defended, a cropland weed and invasive in Europe.
Asclepias tuberosa
Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed, pleurisy root) is a tuberous-rooted North American milkweed with clear sap and orange flowers, a monarch larval host, and a former official medicinal root.
Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός)
Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός, Aesculapius), Greek god of medicine, son of Apollo; deified mortal healer worshipped at Asclepieia such as Epidaurus through dream incubation, with over 300 sanctuaries across the Greco-Roman world.
Ascletis Pharma
Ascletis Pharma is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded and led by Jinzi Jason Wu, known for the hepatitis C drug Ganovo and the oral GLP-1 obesity drug ASC30.
Ascó nuclear power plant
The Ascó nuclear power plant (Central Nuclear de Ascó) is a two-unit nuclear power station in Ascó, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, on the Ebro River, operating since 1983.