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Resmî Gazete

The Resmî Gazete, first issued as Cerîde-i Resmiyye on 7 February 1921, is the official gazette of Türkiye, publishing laws, presidential decrees, and regulations that take effect upon publication.

Resolute desk

The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a partners' desk made from HMS Resolute timbers, presented to President Rutherford B. Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1880.

Resolute Support Mission

Resolute Support Mission (RSM), NATO's non-combat train-advise-assist mission in Afghanistan, 2015-2021, successor to ISAF under UN Resolution 2189; hub-and-spoke structure, about 16,000 troops at peak, terminated after the 2021 withdrawal and Afghan government collapse.

Resolution

In law and parliamentary practice, a resolution is a formal expression of opinion or intent voted by an official body, such as a written motion adopted by a deliberative body.

Resolution 'On Party Unity'

The Resolution 'On Party Unity' (Резолюция «О единстве партии») was a resolution adopted by the Russian Communist Party's Tenth Congress in Moscow in March 1921, on Lenin's motion, banning factions.

Resolution Life

Resolution Life is a Bermuda-headquartered insurance group founded by Clive Cowdery in 2018 that acquires life insurers and closed blocks of policies; Nippon Life bought it in 2025.

Resolution Trust Corporation

The Resolution Trust Corporation was a temporary US government corporation created in 1989 to resolve failed savings and loans, taking over 747 thrifts before closing in 1995.

Resolve Growth Partners

Resolve Growth Partners is a Baltimore, Maryland-based growth-equity venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Jit Sinha and Chris Rhodes, which invests in early-growth-stage enterprise software companies.

Resona Holdings

Resona Holdings, also known as りそなホールディングス, is a Japanese bank holding company describing itself as Japan's largest retail commercial banking group, centered on Tokyo and Kansai.

Resorts World Las Vegas

Resorts World Las Vegas, a $4.3 billion Genting Berhad integrated hotel-casino on the former Stardust site, opened June 24, 2021 as the first ground-up Strip resort in over a decade, with 3,506 rooms across three Hilton brands and a $10.5 million 2025 AML fine.

Resorts World New York City

Resorts World New York City (RWNYC) is Genting's casino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, Queens; opened October 2011 as a 415,000 sq ft VLT facility, NYC's only casino, adding live table games in 2026 and proposing a $5.5 billion integrated resort.

Resorts World Sentosa Casino

Resorts World Sentosa Casino, run by Resorts World at Sentosa Pte. Ltd. (Genting Singapore), is one of Singapore's two legal casinos, opened February 2010 on Sentosa Island, capped at 15,000 square metres of gaming area, licence renewed to February 2027.

Resource

A resource is a naturally occurring asset such as a fish stock, forest, aquifer, or mineral deposit; resource economics studies how its allocation is organized, priced, and governed.

Resource allocation

Resource allocation in microeconomics is how a society distributes scarce resources among competing uses, deciding what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom, through markets, planning, or custom.

Resource Capital Funds

Resource Capital Funds is a Denver, Colorado private equity firm specializing in mining, metals, and critical minerals, founded in 1998 by James McClements and Henderson Tuten.

Resource curse

Resource curse, or paradox of plenty: the finding that oil, gas, and mineral-rich countries often show slower growth, weaker democracy, and worse development outcomes; evidence since Sachs and Warner (1995) is mixed and conditional on institutions.

Resource depletion

Resource depletion, also called natural resource depletion, is the decrease in a natural resource stock caused by extraction faster than regeneration, covering oil, minerals, and groundwater.

Resource efficiency

Resource efficiency is the practice of creating more economic value with less input of natural resources, materials, energy, and water, decoupling growth from extraction and environmental degradation.

Resource management

Resource management is the practice of planning, scheduling, allocating, and optimizing the people, equipment, and money an organization needs to deliver its work, distinct from project management, which requests resources for a single project.

Resource mobilization

Resource mobilization theory, associated with McCarthy and Zald's 1977 paper, explains social movements through resources, organization, and political opportunity rather than grievances, displacing breakdown theories and later spawning political process and digital-era reformulations.

Resource-based view

The resource-based view (RBV) is a strategy theory holding that competitive advantage comes from resources that are valuable, rare, and costly to imitate, formalized by Barney in 1991.

Respect

Respect: an attitude of attention, deference, and acknowledgment of worth toward a person or object. Key distinction: Darwall's recognition respect (owed to all persons) versus appraisal respect (earned by merit); links to tolerance, self-respect, and dignity.

Respect for Marriage Act

The Respect for Marriage Act (Public Law 117-228, H.R. 8404), signed December 13, 2022, repeals DOMA, requires interstate and federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages, and adds religious-liberty protections, but does not require states to issue same-sex marriage licenses.

Respect Party

Respect (Respect – The Unity Coalition) was a British left-wing, anti-war party founded in January 2004 by George Galloway, the Socialist Workers Party, and anti-war activists; it won Bethnal Green and Bow in 2005 and Bradford West in 2012 before splitting in 2007 and declining.

Respectability politics

Respectability politics: strategy in which members of marginalized groups conform to dominant social norms to seek advancement; coined by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham for Black Baptist women, later applied to LGBTQ and other groups.

Response priming

Response priming is a cognitive psychology paradigm in which a brief masked prime speeds or biases a speeded choice response, studied to probe unconscious control of action.

Response to intervention

Response to intervention (RTI) is an educational framework integrating assessment with instruction in a schoolwide, multi-tiered prevention system, used for early academic support and learning disability identification.

Responsibility accounting

Responsibility accounting is an accounting system that evaluates managers on the revenues and expenses they control, dividing a firm into cost, profit, and investment centers.

Responsibility assignment matrix

A responsibility assignment matrix (RAM), best known as the RACI chart, is a project management table crossing tasks with roles and labeling each cell Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, or Informed.

Responsibility for the Holocaust

Responsibility for the Holocaust covers the Nazi leadership, SS under Himmler, Wehrmacht, German state and industry, and ordinary perpetrators like Police Battalion 101, plus postwar accountability from the Nuremberg IMT and Eichmann trial to German reparations.