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Augmentation mastopexy
Augmentation mastopexy is a combined breast operation that places an implant while lifting and reshaping a sagging breast, used when neither augmentation nor mastopexy alone suffices.
Augmentation rhinoplasty
Augmentation rhinoplasty is a surgical procedure that adds grafts or implants to the nose to increase dorsal height or tip projection, often to correct a saddle nose deformity.
Augmentative and inundative biological control
Augmentative and inundative biological control is the mass rearing and release of natural enemies to suppress crop pests temporarily, now used on about 62 million hectares worldwide.
Augmented analytics
Augmented analytics: AI, machine learning, and NLP applied to data preparation, insight generation, and explanation in BI platforms. Coined by Gartner in 2017; distinct from augmented intelligence and from full automation of decisions.
Augmented Dickey–Fuller test
The augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF) test is a statistical test in time-series econometrics of whether a series contains a unit root, extending the Dickey–Fuller test with lagged difference terms for serial correlation.
Augmented inverse probability weighting
Augmented inverse probability weighting (AIPW) is a doubly robust estimator in causal inference that stays consistent if either its treatment or outcome model is correct.
Augmented Lagrangian method
The augmented Lagrangian method (ALM), originally called the method of multipliers, is a constrained optimization algorithm combining the Lagrangian with a quadratic penalty term and Lagrange multiplier estimates.
Augmented reality
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that overlays digital content onto a real-time view of the physical world, a term attributed to Boeing researcher Tom Caudell around 1990.
Augmented Reality Concepts, Inc.
Augmented Reality Concepts, Inc., a Delaware corporation doing business as Impel, is a Syracuse, New York automotive AI and SaaS company that raised $104 million in December 2022.
Augmented sixth chord
Augmented sixth chord: a chromatic pre-dominant harmony built on the augmented sixth between lowered sixth and raised fourth scale degrees, resolving outward to the dominant. Types: Italian, French, German, Swiss sixth; German is enharmonic to a dominant seventh.
Augmenting path
An augmenting path is a path along which a maximum flow or matching can be improved, in algorithms such as Ford-Fulkerson, Edmonds-Karp, and Hopcroft-Karp; finding none certifies optimality.
Augmin complex subunit msd1
Msd1 (mitotic spindle density 1, CG13914) is a Drosophila subunit of the eight-subunit augmin complex, homolog of human HAUS2, required for spindle-templated microtubule nucleation; distinct from fission yeast Msd1, a spindle-pole-body anchoring protein.
Augsburg
Augsburg, a district-free city in Bavaria and Germany's third-largest Bavarian city with about 308,000 residents, was founded by Rome in 15 BC, hosted the 1555 Peace of Augsburg, and holds the UNESCO-listed Water Management System and the Fuggerei.
Augsburg Confession
The Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana) is the Lutheran confession of faith written mainly by Philipp Melanchthon, presented to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530.
Augurin
Augurin (ECRG4, C2orf40) is a 148-amino-acid secreted peptide hormone identified in 2007, a tumor suppressor, HPA-axis stimulator, Wnt and PI3K/Akt/mTOR inhibitor, and LOX-1/TLR4 ligand.
Augury
Augury (Latin augurium): ancient Roman divination in which augurs interpreted the gods' will from birds' flight, cries, and feeding, distinct from haruspicy; five sign classes, templum procedure, political use, decline by Cicero's time.
August
August is the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar with 31 days, named for the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 BCE, when the Senate renamed Sextilis in his honor.
August 1
August 1, the 213th day of the Gregorian year, is Swiss National Day tied to the Federal Charter of 1291 and Emancipation Day in several countries; it also marks Germany's 1914 declaration of war on Russia and MTV's 1981 launch.
August 1 (ആഗസ്റ്റ് 1) (1988 film)
August 1 (ആഗസ്റ്റ് 1) is a 1988 Malayalam political thriller directed by Sibi Malayil, starring Mammootty as DySP Perumal protecting a chief minister from a hired killer; sequel August 15 (2011).
August 10
August 10, the 222nd day of the Gregorian year, marks Cleopatra's death (30 BC), the 1792 Tuileries storming, the Louvre's 1793 museum opening, Ecuador's 1809 independence uprising, Missouri statehood (1821), Japan's 1945 surrender offer, and Magellan's 1990 Venus orbit arrival.
August 11
August 11 is a calendar date spanning events from the Battle of Maldon in 991 to DJ Kool Herc's 1973 Bronx party credited as hip-hop's birth.
August 12
August 12, the 224th day of the year, hosts International Youth Day (UN, 1999), Thailand's Mother's Day (Queen Sirikit's birthday), World Elephant Day (2012), the Glorious Twelfth, and IBM PC Day marking the 1981 model 5150 launch.
August 13
August 13, the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years), hosts Tunisia's Women's Day (Code of Personal Status, 1956), Central African Republic Independence Day, International Lefthanders Day, and commemorates the 1961 Berlin border sealing.
August 14
August 14, the 226th day of the Gregorian year, is Pakistan Independence Day, Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (India), Oued Ed-Dahab Day (Morocco), and World Lizard Day; historically it saw the Social Security Act signed in 1935 and Truman's announcement of Japan's 1945 surrender.
August 15
August 15 is the 227th day of the Gregorian year. It is the Feast of the Assumption, India's Independence Day (1947), and Liechtenstein's National Day; notable events include the Panama Canal opening (1914), Woodstock (1969), and the fall of Kabul (2021).
August 16
August 16, the 228th day of the year: Battle of Bennington (1777), first transatlantic telegraph message (1858), Cyprus and Gabon independence (1960), deaths of Elvis Presley (1977) and Aretha Franklin (2018), and Usain Bolt's 9.58-second 100 m record (2009).
August 17
August 17, the 229th day of the Gregorian year, is Indonesia's Independence Day (1945 proclamation) and Gabon's national day; notable events include the 986 Battle of Trajan's Gates, Fulton's 1807 steamboat voyage, the 1978 Double Eagle II transatlantic balloon crossing, and the first commercial CDs in 1982.
August 18
August 18, the 230th day of the Gregorian year, marks the 1920 ratification of the US 19th Amendment by Tennessee, the 1590 discovery of the deserted Roanoke Colony, the 1877 discovery of Phobos, and the 1868 discovery of helium.
August 19
August 19 is the 231st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, marking Afghanistan's independence in 1919 and observed as World Humanitarian Day and National Aviation Day.
August 1914
August 1914 (Avgust Chetyrnadtsatogo, Август Четырнадцатого) is a historical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in Paris in 1971, reconstructing Russia's first month of the First World War.