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名詞

PFL (countable and uncountable, plural PFLs)

1. (uncountable) Initialism of paid family leave.
   • 2025 May, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means‎, page 14:

     This provision makes permanent the PFML tax credit and makes three modifications. First, it expands the credit allowing employers to claim the credit for a portion of paid family leave (PFL) insurance premiums. PFL insurance is a newer offering that is primarily utilized by smaller businesses to offer paid leave benefits to their employees and is available in a growing number of states. Second, it makes the credit available in all states. Third, it lowers the minimum employee work requirement from 1-year to 6-months.

2. (countable) Initialism of positive feedback loop.
   • 2015 April 24, Site Li et al., “Endogenous molecular network reveals two mechanisms of heterogeneity within gastric cancer”, in Oncotarget‎, volume 6:

     Following H. pylori eradiation in patients, intestinal-type epithelial cells do not readily revert because these intestinalized cells may be maintained by PFLs activated by the stimulation of H. pylori . […] For example, the Shh mutant mice have been shown to exhibit intestinal transformation of the gastric epithelium [87], which indicates that breaking the gastric-phenotype-related PFL Sox2-Shh changes the gastric phenotype.