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Stanoje Glavaš
Stanoje Glavaš (Станоје Главаш), born Stanoje Stamatović (1763–1815), was a Serbian hajduk leader and vojvoda of the First Serbian Uprising, killed by Ottoman authorities at Banjica in February 1815.
Stanozolol
Stanozolol (Winstrol) is a 17α-alkylated, DHT-derived anabolic steroid first marketed in 1962, now discontinued and Schedule III in the US, WADA-prohibited, and known for cholestatic liver injury and the 1988 Ben Johnson doping case.
Stans (film)
Stans (2025) is an Eminem-produced documentary directed by Steven Leckart about the rapper's superfans, inspired by his 2000 song "Stan." It premiered at SXSW London, ran one weekend at AMC theaters from August 7, 2025, and streams on Paramount+.
Stansfield Turner
Stansfield Turner (1923–2018), US Navy admiral and Director of Central Intelligence 1977–1981 under Jimmy Carter; led CIA overhaul, cut 820 espionage slots, later proposed a Director of National Intelligence.
Stansted Express
The Stansted Express is a dedicated train service linking London Liverpool Street with Stansted Airport, operated by Greater Anglia with a journey time of about 48 minutes.
Stantec
Stantec is a Canadian consulting firm founded in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1954 by Don Stanley, providing design, engineering, and environmental services through 34,000 employees in over 450 locations.
Stanthorpe, Queensland
Stanthorpe, Queensland: Granite Belt town in the Southern Downs, elevation 811 m, founded on 1872 tin mining (stannum + thorpe), now a wine and fruit centre of about 5,286 people with recurring drought and Storm King Dam water restrictions.
Stanton (Venusian crater)
Stanton is a large ringed impact crater on Venus, 107 km in diameter, centered at 23.3°S. It was named in 1994 for the American suffragist Elizabeth C. Stanton.
Stanton A. Glantz
Stanton A. Glantz, also known as Stanton Glantz, is an American researcher and retired UCSF professor of medicine known for analyzing tobacco industry documents and shaping smoke-free air policy.
Stanton J. Peale
Stanton J. Peale (1937–2015) was an American planetary scientist at UC Santa Barbara whose 1979 tidal-heating calculations correctly predicted volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io, confirmed by Voyager 1.
Stanton number
The Stanton number (St) is a dimensionless number in convective heat transfer, defined as the heat transfer coefficient divided by density, specific heat, and flow velocity.
Stanton Segal
Stanton Segal (1927 to 2007) was an American physician and clinical biochemist who spent 41 years at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia studying galactosemia, cystinuria, and other inborn errors of metabolism.
Stanwell Corporation
Stanwell Corporation is a Queensland Government Owned Corporation that generates, trades, and retails electricity. Established in 1997, it operates coal-fired power stations at Rockhampton and the South Burnett.
Stanwell power station
Stanwell power station is a coal-fired power station 22 km west of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, owned by Queensland's Stanwell Corporation and supplying around 15% of the state's electricity.
Stanwell-Fletcher
Stanwell-Fletcher Lake, Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada: 339 km2 cold monomictic polar lake in the Boothia Arch, draining via Union River to Creswell Bay, home to Arctic char.
Stanwick
Stanwick, Northamptonshire: Iron Age and Romano-British settlement and Roman villa excavated 1984-1992 by English Heritage (Raunds Area Project) over 30 hectares; largest archaeological collection in the county, with a late 4th-century winged corridor villa and 5th-century post-Roman activity.
Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications
The Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications are the earthwork ramparts of a large Late Iron Age oppidum of the Brigantes tribe at Stanwick St John, North Yorkshire, enclosing 310 hectares.
Stanyslav Lyudkevych
Stanyslav Lyudkevych (Станіслав Людкевич, 1879–1979) was a Ukrainian composer, musicologist, and teacher who lived a hundred years and was known for the cantata-symphony Kavkaz and the opera Dovbush.
Stanza della Segnatura
Stanza della Segnatura: Vatican Palace room frescoed by Raphael 1508-1511 as Julius II's private library, containing the School of Athens, Disputa, Parnassus, and Jurisprudence frescoes; named for the Segnatura Gratiae et Iustitiae tribunal.
Stanze per la giostra
Stanze per la giostra is an unfinished narrative poem in ottava rima by Angelo Poliziano, begun in 1475 to celebrate Giuliano de' Medici's joust and abandoned in 1478 after his murder in the Pazzi conspiracy.
Stapedectomy
Stapedectomy is an operation for otosclerosis in which the stapes is removed and replaced with a prosthesis bridging the incus to the inner ear, restoring sound transmission.
Stapedotomy
Stapedotomy is a microsurgical ear procedure that treats hearing loss from otosclerosis by inserting a piston prosthesis through a small opening in the fixed stapes footplate.
Stapelia
Stapelia (carrion flowers) is a genus of about 30 southern African stem succulents in Apocynaceae, with foetid, nectarless, fly-pollinated flowers from 1 cm to 40 cm across.
Stapes
Stapes: smallest bone of the human body, the third middle-ear ossicle, footplate seated in the oval window; discovered by Ingrassia in 1546 and central to otosclerosis surgery.
Stapes Mobilization
Stapes mobilization is an operation to free the fixed stapes bone of the middle ear, relieving conductive hearing loss from otosclerosis while leaving the stapes in place.
Staphylinidae
Staphylinidae, rove beetles, largest family in Coleoptera and Metazoa with 66,464 described predatory species; short elytra, flexible abdomen, chemical defense glands, fossil record over 200 million years.
Staphylococcal complement inhibitor SCIN
Staphylococcal complement inhibitor (SCIN, SCIN-A) is a 9.8-kDa secreted Staphylococcus aureus protein that binds and stabilizes C3 convertases C4b2a and C3bBb in an inactive state, blocking C3b deposition, opsonophagocytosis, and all three complement pathways in a human-specific manner.
Staphylococcal infection
Staphylococcal infection, mainly Staphylococcus aureus (staph, MRSA/MSSA), disease from skin sores to bacteremia and sepsis; ~30% carriage, biofilm device infections, vancomycin for resistant strains.
Staphylococcal necrotizing pneumonia
Staphylococcal necrotizing pneumonia (SNP): rare, often fatal lung infection from PVL-producing Staphylococcus aureus, typically after influenza, causing hemorrhagic pneumonia, leukopenia, hemoptysis, ARDS, and about 75% mortality.
Staphylococcal nuclease (SNase-like), OB-fold
Staphylococcal nuclease (SNase-like), OB-fold (InterPro IPR016071): a five-stranded beta-barrel protein domain defined by Murzin in 1993, prototyped by the Ca2+-dependent nuclease of Staphylococcus aureus and found across all three kingdoms of life.