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Bailus Walker Jr.
Bailus Walker Jr. (1934–2020) was an American environmental and occupational health scientist who led the Massachusetts and Michigan public health agencies and taught at Howard University.
Baily's beads
Baily's beads are bright pinpoints of sunlight that shine through valleys on the Moon's irregular edge in the seconds around totality during a solar eclipse.
Baima Natural Reserve
Baima Natural Reserve (白马雪山国家级自然保护区), or Baima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve, is a national protected area in Diqing, northwestern Yunnan, established 1983/1988, protecting the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey across 282,106 ha and 2343 vascular plant species.
Baimiao
Baimiao (白描, "plain drawing") is a Chinese painting technique that renders subjects entirely in ink lines, without color; Li Gonglin founded it as a genre in the Northern Song.
Baiming Xinkang (百明信康)
Baiming Xinkang (百明信康) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in Shanghai in 2018 that develops allergen-specific and autoimmune immunotherapies on its PCFiT and Apitope peptide platforms.
Bain & Company
Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston and one of the three big strategy consultancies known as MBB, founded by Bill Bain in 1973.
Bain Capital
Bain Capital is a Boston-based alternative investment firm founded by Mitt Romney in 1984, managing roughly $230 billion in private equity, credit, and real estate.
Bain Capital Asia
Bain Capital Asia is the pan-Asian private equity platform of Boston-based Bain Capital, investing across Japan, India, China, Australia, and Korea since its first fund in 2007.
Bain Capital Double Impact
Bain Capital Double Impact is the impact-investing private equity platform of Bain Capital, established in Boston in 2015 to pursue financial returns alongside measurable social and environmental impact.
Bain Capital Europe
Bain Capital Europe is the European private equity arm of Boston-based Bain Capital, which opened its London office in 2000 and has raised six Europe buyout funds.
Bain Capital Insurance
Bain Capital Insurance is the insurance-focused private equity unit of Bain Capital, based in Boston and launched in 2021 under Matt Popoli; its first fund closed at $1.15 billion in 2023.
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities is a technology-focused private equity strategy of Bain Capital, based in Boston, investing in software, fintech, security, and healthcare IT companies.
Bain Capital Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures is the multi-stage venture capital arm of Bain Capital, headquartered in Boston with offices in the Bay Area and New York, managing over $10 billion.
Bain family murders
Bain family murders: killings of Robin, Margaret, Laniet, Arawa, and Stephen Bain in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 20 June 1994. David Bain was convicted in 1995, cleared by the Privy Council in 2007, acquitted at a 2009 retrial, and denied compensation in 2016.
Bain-marie
A bain-marie, French for "Mary's bath" and historically Balneum Mariae, is a heated water bath that gently and indirectly warms food containers or laboratory vessels.
Bainbridge Island, Washington
Bainbridge Island, Washington: an island city in Kitsap County in Puget Sound, 35 minutes from Seattle by ferry. Also City of Winslow (incorporated 1947); 24,825 residents (2020), 27.61 sq mi, Suquamish ancestral land, high-income Seattle suburb.
Bainbridge reflex
Bainbridge reflex (atrial reflex): heart rate rises when venous return and atrial stretch increase, via vagal afferents to the medulla and vagal withdrawal plus sympathetic outflow. Described by F. A. Bainbridge in 1915 in dogs; weaker in humans; linked to respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
Bainbridge-Ropers syndrome
Bainbridge-Ropers syndrome, or ASXL3-related disorder (OMIM 615485), is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder from de novo truncating ASXL3 (18q12.1) variants, causing severe developmental delay, hypotonia, feeding difficulties, and distinctive facial features.
Bainite
Bainite is a steel microstructure formed when austenite decomposes at temperatures between the pearlite and martensite ranges, named for Edgar C. Bain, who characterized it in 1930.
Baintha Brakk
Baintha Brakk, the Ogre, is a 7,285 m granite peak in Pakistan's Karakoram. First climbed 1977 by Scott and Bonington, summited only three times, with a 24-year gap between the first two ascents.
Bairaag (बैराग)
Bairaag (बैराग) is a 1976 Hindi drama directed by Asit Sen, starring Dilip Kumar in a triple role with Saira Banu; music by Kalyanji-Anandji; a box-office flop that preceded Dilip Kumar's five-year sabbatical.
Bairagi Kainla
Bairagi Kainla (बैरागी काइँला) is the pen name of Til Bikram Nembang Limbu, a Nepali poet born in 1939 in Panchthar District who co-founded the Tesro Aayam movement.
Bairam Khan (محمد بیرم خان)
Bairam Khan (محمد بیرم خان), Baharlu Turkmen noble of Qara Qoyunlu origin, regent and wakil al-saltana for Akbar, victor of Panipat 1556, assassinated 1561 in Gujarat.
Bairat Mound
Bairat Mound (Viratnagar, Jaipur district, Rajasthan): ancient Matsya capital with the Mauryan circular stupa-shrine on Bijak-ki-Pahari, two Ashokan edicts, excavated by Daya Ram Sahni 1935-36, ASI-protected.
Bairavaa (பைரவா)
Bairavaa (பைரவா), also spelled Bhairava, is a 2017 Tamil action thriller directed by Bharathan, starring Vijay in his 60th film as a debt collector fighting a corrupt medical-college chairman, with Keerthy Suresh and music by Santhosh Narayanan; released 12 January 2017.
Baire property
The Baire property, also called the property of Baire, is a regularity property of subsets of a topological space: the set differs from an open set only by a meager set.
Baire space (set theory)
Baire space in set theory is the set of all infinite sequences of natural numbers with the product topology; it is homeomorphic to the irrational real numbers.
Bairiga
Bairiga, also Ruoni (若尼) or Kangri Garpo I, is the 6,882 m highest peak of the Kangri Garpo Range in southeast Tibet, China, with 2,444 m prominence and no recorded ascent.
Bairong Financial (百融金融)
Bairong Financial, also known as Bairong Yunchuang (百融云创), is a Chinese fintech company founded by Zhang Shaofeng in 2014, selling AI credit analytics to banks and insurers.
Baise
Baise Shi (百色市) is a prefecture-level city in western Guangxi, China, bordering Yunnan, Guizhou, and Vietnam. Site of the 1929 Baise Uprising led by Deng Xiaoping; major aluminum and mango center; 36,206 km², 3.57 million residents (2020).