Viability or viable may refer to:
Biology, medicine or ecology
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Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce
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Fetal viability
Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus. Viability depends upon factors such as birth weight, gestational age, and the availability of advanced medical care. In low-income countries, more than 90% of extr ...
, the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus
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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
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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 si ...
, a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild
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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 given ...
, a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology
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Viable count, of viable cells
Business
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Viability study, a study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business
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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
Other uses
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Viable Paradise, an annual one-week writing workshop held each autumn on Martha's Vineyard
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Viable system model, a scientific model by Stafford Beer of the organization of a viable or autonomous system
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Viable system theory, a modelling approach that enables complex strategic and operative business and financial systems to be modelled and explored.
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Viability theory, an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints to the system's state
See also
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Viability assay, an assay to determine the ability of cells or tissues to maintain or recover its viability
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Via (disambiguation)
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