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SR1 RNA (Bacillus)
SR1 is a 205-nt dual-function small RNA of Bacillus subtilis: it base-pairs with ahrC mRNA to inhibit arginine catabolism gene translation and encodes the peptide SR1P, which stabilizes gapA mRNA via GapA.
Sr2RuO4
Sr2RuO4, or strontium ruthenate, is a layered perovskite metal that superconducts below about 1.5 K; discovered in 1994, it has for three decades served as the principal test case for theories of unconventional superconductivity.
Sr3Ir2O7
Sr3Ir2O7, known as strontium iridate, is a bilayered perovskite iridate studied as a candidate spin-orbit Mott insulator; it orders antiferromagnetically along the c axis at 285 K.
Sr3Ru2O7
Sr3Ru2O7 is a quasi-two-dimensional bilayer ruthenate metal, tuned through a quantum critical point by a c-axis magnetic field of about 7.9 tesla, with an electronically nematic high-field phase.
Sra Ghundai, Ghazni
Sra Ghundai, Ghazni: ruins of a walled ancient city 2 km north of Nawa, Afghanistan, south of Ab-i Istada; a fortified settlement occupied in the Sassanian-Turki Shahi (6th-9th c.) and Early Islamic (10th-12th c.) periods, distinct from a Pakistani mountain of the same name.
Sra Private Equity Portfolio
SRA Private Equity Portfolio, formally SRA Private Equity Portfolio V LP, is a Delaware pooled private equity fund managed by New York firm Summit Rock Advisors, with about $788 million sold.
Srabanti Chatterjee
Srabanti Chatterjee (শ্রাবন্তী চট্টোপাধ্যায়), born 1987 in Calcutta, is a Bengali film actress who debuted as a child artist in Mayar Bandhon (1997), led Champion (2003), contested the 2021 West Bengal election for the BJP from Behala Paschim, lost, quit the party, and later joined Trinamool Congress.
Sraffian economics
Sraffian economics is the school of thought built on Piero Sraffa's 1960 book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, which determines prices and the division of income between wages and profits.
Srah Srang
Srah Srang (ស្រះស្រង់), the "royal bath" of Angkor, Cambodia: a 700 by 300 m sacred reservoir begun in the 10th century under Rajendravarman II and remodeled by Jayavarman VII, with a sandstone landing terrace, central island temple, and famous sunrise views.
Sram (Croatian TV series)
Sram is the Croatian adaptation of the Norwegian teen series Skam, produced by CGM Films for HRT since October 2024. Its four seasons follow different Zagreb high schoolers (Eva, Nora, Lovro, Vanessa), released through real-time social media clips plus weekly HRT1 episodes, surpassing 300 million digital views.
Śramaṇa (श्रमण)
Śramaṇa (श्रमण), Pali samaṇa, is the Sanskrit word for an ascetic who left household life in ancient India, a category including Buddhists, Jains, and Ājīvikas.
SRAS
SRAS (spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy) is a non-destructive laser ultrasonic technique that maps surface acoustic wave velocity to image grain structure and crystallographic orientation, developed at the University of Nottingham and patented in 2005.
Srav3R
Srav3R is a Japanese UK hardcore and bass music producer from Sapporo, Japan, active since 2013 and a member of the hardcore collective HARDCORE TANO*C.
SRCR domain
The SRCR (scavenger receptor cysteine-rich) domain is an ancient protein module of about 100 amino acids, defined by 6 to 8 cysteines, found in immune receptors.
SRD5A2
SRD5A2 (steroid 5 alpha-reductase 2, Gene ID 6716, 2p23.1) encodes the NADPH-dependent enzyme converting testosterone to DHT; mutations cause autosomal recessive 5α-reductase type 2 deficiency with 46,XY undervirilization, and finasteride inhibits the enzyme.
SRD5A3-CDG
SRD5A3-CDG (formerly CDG type Iq, OMIM 612379) is a rare autosomal recessive glycosylation disorder from SRD5A3 gene variants blocking polyprenol-to-dolichol conversion, causing early vision loss, intellectual disability, hypotonia, and ataxia.
Srđan Amidžić
Srđan Amidžić (born 1980) is a Bosnian politician of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats serving as Minister of Finance and Treasury of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Srđan Verstovšek
Srdan Verstovsek (Srđan Verstovšek) is a hematologist-oncologist, Chief Medical Officer of Kartos Therapeutics since 2023, formerly of MD Anderson, known for leading the COMFORT-I and MOMENTUM trials of the first myelofibrosis drugs.
SREBF1
SREBF1 (SREBP1) is a human gene at 17p11.2 encoding SREBP-1, a bHLH-Zip membrane-bound transcription factor regulating fatty acid and sterol synthesis; isoforms SREBP-1a and SREBP-1c are released by sterol-regulated proteolysis and linked to diabetes and cancer.
SREBF2
SREBF2 (SREBP-2, bHLHd2), human gene at 22q13.2, encodes a bHLH-Zip transcription factor regulating cholesterol synthesis and uptake genes via SCAP/INSIG sterol sensing, with intronic miR-33a; central to statin action and linked to SREBF2-related developmental disease.
Srebrenica
Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia's Republika Srpska on the Drina river, was a medieval silver-mining center and is now known for the July 1995 genocide of over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys and the Potočari memorial.
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre: July 1995 mass killing of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces after the fall of a UN-declared safe area; ruled genocide by the ICTY and ICJ.
Srečko Katanec
Srečko Katanec, born 1963 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian football manager and former Sampdoria midfielder who coached Slovenia to Euro 2000 and the 2002 World Cup, later leading Macedonia, UAE, Iraq, and Uzbekistan.
Srečko Kosovel
Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) was a Slovenian poet, a central figure of Slovenian modern poetry and the avant-garde, who left over 1,000 poems before dying at 22.
Sredinny Range
Sredinny Range (Sredinnyi, Middle Range), the metamorphic backbone of Kamchatka, Russia: high-grade gneiss and migmatite, Eocene (52 Ma) arc-continent collision granites, and a nearly extinct, back-arc Holocene volcanic belt.
Sredne-Nazymskoye Oil and Gas Field
Sredne-Nazymskoye (Средне-Назымское) is an oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Western Siberia, discovered in 1990, serving as LUKOIL's main testing ground for hard-to-recover reserves.
Srednebotuobinskoye field
The Srednebotuobinskoye field is a large oil and gas condensate field in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), discovered in 1970 and producing commercially since 2013.
Sredneuralskaya GRES power plant
Sredneuralskaya GRES (Среднеуральская ГРЭС, also Sredneuralsk GRES) is a gas-fired thermal power and cogeneration plant in Sredneuralsk near Yekaterinburg, Russia, opened in 1936 with an installed capacity of roughly 1,600 MW.
Srednevilyuiskoye gas field
Srednevilyuiskoye gas field (Средневилюйское месторождение) is a large gas condensate field in Vilyuysky ulus, Yakutia, Russia, the main source of natural gas for central Yakutia, operated by PJSC YATEK.
Sree Vishnu (శ్రీ విష్ణు)
Sree Vishnu (శ్రీ విష్ణు), born Rudraraju Vishnuvardhan, is a Telugu cinema actor known for Appatlo Okadundevadu, Mental Madhilo, and the comedy hits Samajavaragamana, Om Bheem Bush, Swag, and #Single; birth year reported as 1984 or 1985.