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Rescript on the Launch of the Diet
The Rescript on the Launch of the Diet (国会開設の勅諭) is an 1881 imperial edict of Emperor Meiji promising a national assembly by 1890, setting a fixed deadline for constitutional government in Japan.
Rescue Agreement
The Rescue Agreement (1968) is the UN space treaty obliging states to notify, rescue, and return astronauts in distress and return space objects; opened for signature April 22, 1968, in force December 3, 1968, elaborating Outer Space Treaty Articles V and VIII.
Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center
The rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was the emergency response and debris removal at Ground Zero from 2001 to 2002.
Rescue of Jessica McClure
Rescue of Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica"), the October 1987 recovery of an 18-month-old girl trapped 22 feet deep in an 8-inch-wide abandoned well in Midland, Texas, for about 58 hours, freed via a parallel shaft on live television.
Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews
The rescue of the Bulgarian Jews was the failed 1943 attempt to deport Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews, though 11,343 Jews from occupied territories were sent to Treblinka.
Rescue of the Danish Jews
Rescue of the Danish Jews: October 1943 evacuation of about 7,200 Danish Jews and 700 relatives to Sweden after Georg Duckwitz leaked the Nazi deportation order; 470 were deported to Theresienstadt.
Research
Research: systematic investigation producing new knowledge, organized through academies and learned societies (Royal Society 1660, Académie des sciences 1666), funded by states, and communicated via journals, peer review, and open access publishing.
Research & Analysis Wing (अनुसंधान और विश्लेषण विंग)
Research and Analysis Wing (अनुसंधान और विश्लेषण विंग), or RAW/R&AW: India's external intelligence agency, founded 21 September 1968 under Indira Gandhi by R. N. Kao after 1962 and 1965 war intelligence failures; reports to the Prime Minister via the Cabinet Secretariat, has no statute or parliamentary oversight, and is known for 1971 Bangladesh and 1975 Sikkim operations.
Research and development accounting
Research and development accounting determines whether R&D spending is expensed or capitalized as an intangible asset, with IFRS allowing development-cost capitalization and US GAAP generally expensing it.
Research fellow
Research fellow: a doctoral-level researcher in a time-limited, research-focused post; also called postdoctoral fellow. Title varies by country, from NIH trainee appointments (8-year cap) to senior UK research-only grades, often fixed-term and grant-funded.
Research Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy, Academy of Sciences of Abkhazia
Research Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy (НИИЭПиТ), also known as the Sukhum monkey nursery, is a primate research institute in Sukhum, Abkhazia, founded 24 August 1927, reorganized 1957, and now the leading institution of the Abkhazian Academy of Sciences.
Research interview
A research interview is a conversation a researcher guides, records, and treats as data to answer a research question, ranging from structured to unstructured formats.
Research programme
A research program, in Imre Lakatos's 1970 methodology of scientific research programs, is a sequence of related theories developed and evaluated as a single unit rather than hypothesis by hypothesis.
Research report
Research report is the Health Effects Institute's serial (ISSN 1041-5505, since 1985) publishing HEI-funded air pollution studies, each with an Investigators' Report, independent Review Committee Commentary, and a plain-language Statement.
Research Society of International Law
Research Society of International Law (RSIL), Pakistani international-law think tank founded 1993 by Ahmer Bilal Soofi, based in Lahore and Islamabad; publishes the peer-reviewed RSIL Law Review and the 2021 FATF compliance report.
Research university
Research university: institution whose core mission is original research integrated with doctoral training. Originated in Humboldt's 1810 University of Berlin; US variant began with Johns Hopkins (1876); classified in the US by Carnegie Research Activity Designations.
Réseau des sports
Réseau des sports (RDS) is a Canadian French-language sports television network in Quebec. Owned by Bell Media, it launched in 1989 and leads French-language sports broadcasting.
Resentment
Resentment is a persistent moral emotion arising from perceived injustice, distinct from envy; its philosophical history runs from Butler and Smith through Strawson's reactive attitudes to Nietzsche and Scheler's ressentiment.
Resero Bio
Resero Bio is a liquid-biopsy company in San Carlos, California, founded in 2025 around Stanford's RARE-seq cell-free RNA method, with Monica Nesselbush as chief executive.
Reservation (law)
Reservation (law): a unilateral statement by which a State excludes or modifies treaty provisions in its application to that State, governed by VCLT Articles 19–23, the object-and-purpose test, and the ICJ 1951 Genocide Convention opinion.
Reservation in India
Reservation in India, or the quota system for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs, and EWS, sets aside legislative seats, government posts, and educational places, capped at 50 percent for caste quotas under Indra Sawhney with a separate 10 percent EWS quota.
Reservation policy in Bihar
Reservation policy in Bihar: caste quotas in jobs, education and panchayats. Key facts: 1978 Karpoori Thakur sub-classified OBC quota (12% EBC, 8% BC), 2023 caste survey, 65% quota hike struck down by Patna High Court.
Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu
Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu is a system of caste-based quotas in education and public services, reserving 69 percent of seats and posts for specific communities since 1990.
Reserve Bank of Australia
The Reserve Bank of Australia is Australia's central bank, which sets the cash rate to hold inflation at 2 to 3 per cent, regulates payments, and issues banknotes from Sydney.
Reserve Bank of India (भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक)
The Reserve Bank of India (भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक, RBI) is India's central bank, established under the 1934 RBI Act and operating since 1935, setting monetary policy and issuing banknotes.
Reserve Bank of Malawi
The Reserve Bank of Malawi is the central bank of Malawi, established in 1964 and opened in Blantyre in 1965 to issue the kwacha and set monetary policy.
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is New Zealand's central bank, the first in the world to adopt inflation targeting, with a 1–3% inflation target.
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is the country's central bank, which regulates the monetary system, supervises banks, and issues the Zimbabwe dollar, relaunched in 2024 as the gold-backed ZiG.
Reserve currency
A reserve currency is a foreign currency held in large quantity by central banks as a store of value; the US dollar holds the role today.
Reserve Good Conduct Medal
Reserve Good Conduct Medals are United States military decorations recognizing enlisted reservists for drills, annual training, and other reserve service, as counterparts to the active-duty Good Conduct Medals.