Viability is the ability of a thing (a living organism, an artificial system, an idea, etc.) to maintain itself or recover its potentialities. Viability or viable may refer to:

Biology, medicine or ecology

Viability selection Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations. Charle ...

, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce *

Fetal viability Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus. Medical viability is generally considered to be between 23 and 24 weeks Gestational age (obstetrics), gestational age. Viability depends upon factors such as birth weigh ...

, the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus *

Genetic viability Genetic viability is the ability of the genes present to allow a cell, organism or population to survive and reproduce. The term is generally used to mean the chance or ability of a population to avoid the problems of inbreeding. Less commonly gen ...

, chance of a population of plants or animals to avoid the problems of inbreeding *

Minimum viable population Minimum viable population (MVP) is a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild. This term is commonly used in the fields of biology, ecology, and conservation biology. MVP refers to the smallest possible siz ...

, a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild *

Population viability analysis Population viability analysis (PVA) is a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology. It is traditionally defined as the process that determines the probability that a population will go extinct within a give ...

, a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology *

Viable count Viable count is a method used in cell culture to determine the number of living cells in a culture. This is different from other cell counting, cell counting techniques because it makes a distinction between live and dead cells. Method A dilution ...

, of viable cells

Business

Viability study A Viability study is an in depth investigation of the profitability of the business idea to be converted into a business enterprise.Nieuwenhuizen, C., Le Roux, E.E. and Jacobs, H., (2004). Entrepreneurship and how to establish your own business. 2n ...

, a study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business *

Minimum viable product A minimum viable product (MVP) is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development. A focus on releasing an MVP means that developers potentially avoid ...

, in product development, a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature

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Viable Paradise Viable Paradise is an annual one-week residential writing workshop held each autumn on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and is focused on speculative fiction. The workshop began in 1997, as part of a science fiction convention pre ...

, an annual one-week writing workshop held each autumn on Martha's Vineyard *

Viable system model The viable system model (VSM) is a model of the organizational structure of any autonomous system capable of producing itself. A viable system is any system organised in such a way as to meet the demands of surviving in the changing environment. On ...

, a scientific model by Stafford Beer of the organization of a viable or autonomous system *

Viable system theory Viable system theory (VST) concerns cybernetic processes in relation to the development/evolution of dynamical systems. They are considered to be living systems in the sense that they are complex and adaptive, can learn, and are capable of maintaini ...

, a modelling approach that enables complex strategic and operative business and financial systems to be modelled and explored. *

Viability theory Viability theory is an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints on the system state. It was developed to formalize problems arising in the study of various natural and social phenomena, and has close ti ...

, an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints to the system's state

Biology, medicine or ecology

Business

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