All articles starting with S

STOP-BANG questionnaire

The STOP-Bang questionnaire is an 8-item yes/no tool that estimates obstructive sleep apnea risk, developed for surgical patients by Frances Chung and colleagues in 2008.

STOP-COVID (Study of the Treatment and Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19), NCT04343898, a US multicenter ICU cohort of 5,154 lab-confirmed COVID-19 adults; distinct from the tofacitinib and fluvoxamine trials of the same name.

Stop-Loss (film)

Stop-Loss (2008) is Kimberly Peirce's Iraq War drama starring Ryan Phillippe as Sgt. Brandon King, a soldier ordered back to duty under the Army's stop-loss policy who goes AWOL. Paramount release, $10.9M gross, 64% on Rotten Tomatoes.

STOP-PD trial (NCT00056472)

STOP-PD (NCT00056472), Study of the Pharmacotherapy of Psychotic Depression: NIMH-funded 12-week RCT of 259 patients showing olanzapine plus sertraline achieved higher remission (41.9% vs 23.9%) than olanzapine alone for psychotic depression.

Stop-signal task

The stop-signal task is a behavioral paradigm that measures response inhibition by interrupting a go task with a stop signal, estimating covert stop-signal reaction time.

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is a 1992 American action comedy directed by Roger Spottiswoode, in which Sylvester Stallone's detective is partnered with his meddling mother, played by Estelle Getty.

Stop! That! Train!

Stop! That! Train! is a 2026 American disaster-movie spoof comedy directed by Adam Shankman, starring Ginger Minj, Jujubee, and RuPaul as President Gagwell aboard the runaway Glamazonian Express; released by Bleecker Street June 12, 2026.

Stopes Patera

Stopes Patera, a 169-km-wide volcanic patera on Venus at 42.6°N 46.5°E, IAU-named in 1991 for Marie Stopes, English paleontologist (1880–1959); fourth largest of Venus's 73 named paterae.

Stopfenreuth

Stopfenreuth, a village in Engelhartstetten, Lower Austria, on the Danube floodplains; home of the Roman bridgehead fort "Ödes Schloss" (first proven in Austria, 2024) and cradle of the Donau-Auen National Park after the 1984 occupation.

Stoping (mining)

Stoping is an underground mining method that extracts ore by opening large rooms, called stopes, in rock strong enough to stand unsupported, unlike caving methods.

Stopmotion (film)

Stopmotion (2023) is a British psychological horror film and the feature debut of director Robert Morgan, starring Aisling Franciosi as animator Ella Blake, whose puppet film blurs with reality after her mother's death; 93 minutes, Sitges Special Jury Prize, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

STOPP-CIS study

STOPP-CIS (NCT01663129), a Canadian 6-year observational cohort led by Leanne Ward at CHEO, followed 406 children starting glucocorticoids for leukemia, rheumatic disease, or nephrotic syndrome, defining pediatric steroid osteoporosis.

Oct 15, 2026

Stopped-flow kinetics

Stopped-flow kinetics is an experimental technique for fast reactions in solution, in which reactants are rapidly mixed, the flow is halted, and the reaction is followed spectroscopically.

Stopped-flow spectroscopy

Stopped-flow spectroscopy is a rapid-mixing technique in which reactants are mixed, the flow is abruptly stopped, and the reaction is followed spectroscopically in a fixed cell.

Stopper (plug)

A stopper, also known as a bottle stopper, is a closure held inside a vessel's bore rather than over it, seen in wine bottles, laboratories, pharmaceutical vials, and pipework.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost's 16-line lyric poem, written 1922, published March 7, 1923 in The New Republic and in the Pulitzer-winning collection New Hampshire; a traveler pauses to watch snow-filled woods, closing with "miles to go before I sleep."

Stopping power

Stopping power is the ability of a firearm projectile to incapacitate a target with a single hit, a concept in wound ballistics studied mainly for handgun ammunition.

Stopping power (particle radiation)

Stopping power, written -dE/dx, is the average energy lost by a charged particle per unit path length through matter, underlying dosimetry, particle detectors, and charged-particle cancer therapy.

Stopping time

A stopping time, also known as a Markov time or optional time, is a random time at which a stochastic process may be stopped, decidable from observed information alone.

STOPS 03 trial

STOPS 03 (NCT07277907) is a phase 3, open-label, randomized Chinese trial by Third Military Medical University comparing lubiprostone 24 μg twice daily with polyethylene glycol 4000 for slow-transit constipation; 346 adults, 20 sites, primary completion estimated October 2027.

Stopwatch

A stopwatch is a handheld or built-in timing device started and stopped at will to measure elapsed time, used in sport and calibrated against traceable standards.

Stoquastic Hamiltonians

A stoquastic Hamiltonian is a quantum Hamiltonian whose off-diagonal matrix elements are all real and non-positive, making it free of the sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo.

Oct 10, 2026

Stora Enso

Stora Enso is a Finnish-Swedish renewable materials company formed by the merger of Enso Oyj and STORA, and the global leader in liquid packaging board.

Storage area network

A storage area network (SAN) is a specialized high-speed network that gives servers block-level access to storage that appears locally attached, commonly built on Fibre Channel, Ethernet, or InfiniBand fabrics.

Oct 20, 2026

Storage cell

Storage cell (Cell Ontology CL:0000629): a cell specialized to store substances later released for a purpose; child of stuff accumulating cell. Also names for a one-object AFS computing location, an accelerator gas-target cell, and an oil compartment in gravity base structures.