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Stratford Hall
Stratford Hall is a historic plantation house in Westmoreland County, Virginia, built in the 1730s by Thomas Lee and best known as Robert E. Lee's birthplace.
Stratford High School (Houston)
Stratford High School (Houston) is a Spring Branch ISD public high school for grades 9-12 at 14555 Fern Drive, Houston, Texas; the Spartans enroll about 2,400 students and hold a TEA A rating of 92/100. Distinct from Stratford ISD's Elks in the Texas Panhandle and Stratford, Connecticut's high school.
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon: Warwickshire market town on the River Avon, chartered 1196, birthplace and burial place of William Shakespeare; major heritage tourism center with about 2.5 million annual visitors.
Stratford, London
Stratford is an east London district in the borough of Newham, host of the London 2012 Olympics, home to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Westfield Stratford City, and one of the UK's busiest railway stations.
Stratford, Ontario
Stratford, Ontario, a city of 33,232 on the Avon River and Perth County's separated seat, grew from a Grand Trunk Railway repair-shop junction into the home of the Stratford Festival, Canada's classical theatre, with manufacturing and arts-led diversification.
Strathaven
Strathaven, a market town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, means "Valley of the Avon"; chartered in 1450, it lies about 18 miles from Glasgow on the A71.
Strathclyde Country Park
Strathclyde Country Park: 400-hectare free-access country park at Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, around man-made Strathclyde Loch (filled 1975). 8-lane 2 km rowing course, Commonwealth Games rowing venue, built over the demolished village of Bothwellhaugh.
Strathcona Resources
Strathcona Resources is a Calgary-based Canadian heavy oil producer formed in 2020 by Waterous Energy Fund, which became a public company in October 2023 through acquiring Pipestone Energy.
Stratheden Gas Field
The Stratheden Gas Field is an Arrow Energy coal seam gas field in Queensland's Surat Basin, about 20 km north-west of Dalby, with 285 PJ of reserves in 2013.
Stratification (quality tools)
Stratification, in quality management, is the technique of sorting data, people, and objects into distinct groups so that patterns hidden in combined data become visible; it is one of the seven basic quality tools.
Stratification score
The stratification score is the estimated probability of case status given confounders, used in retrospective studies to form strata balancing cases and controls, the case-control analog of the propensity score.
Stratified analysis (statistics)
Stratified analysis is a statistical method for controlling confounding by splitting data into subgroups sharing a confounder's level, then pooling stratum-specific estimates into an adjusted overall effect.
Stratified randomization
Stratified randomization is a restricted form of randomization that first sorts trial participants into subgroups defined by pre-specified baseline variables, then allocates treatments randomly within each stratum to promote balance.
Stratified sampling
Stratified sampling, or stratified random sampling, is a probability sampling method that divides a population into homogeneous subgroups called strata, sampling independently within each to improve precision.
Stratified squamous epithelium
Stratified squamous epithelium, keratinized or non-keratinized, is a multilayered protective epithelium with flattened surface cells, lining skin, esophagus, vagina, cornea, and oral mucosa, renewed by basal cell mitosis.
Stratigraphic analysis (archaeology)
Stratigraphic analysis is the archaeological method of ordering excavated deposits into a relative sequence, typically represented by a Harris matrix, devised by Edward Harris in 1973.
Stratigraphic column
A stratigraphic column is a diagram showing the vertical succession of rock units in a region, with the oldest formation at the bottom and the youngest at the top.
Stratigraphic correlation
Stratigraphic correlation is the demonstration of correspondence in character or stratigraphic position between rock units at different localities, by lithology, fossils, or time, to build regional and global frameworks of layered rocks.
Stratigraphic section measuring
Stratigraphic section measuring is the field practice of measuring the thickness and succession of exposed rock layers, producing a measured section that records lithology, fossils, and structures in vertical order.
Stratigraphic trap
A stratigraphic trap is a petroleum trap where migrating oil or gas is stopped by changes in the reservoir rock itself, rather than by folding or faulting.
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy, also called stratigraphic geology, is the branch of geology that organizes the rock layers of the Earth's crust into mappable units, using principles like superposition to interpret geologic history.
Stratio (company)
Stratio is a Portuguese predictive-maintenance technology company founded in 2017 in Coimbra and headquartered in Lisbon, serving bus and truck fleet operators like Arriva and Ford Trucks.
Stratiomyidae
Stratiomyidae (soldier flies) is a cosmopolitan family of lower Brachycera flies with 375 genera and over 2,800 species in 12 subfamilies; larvae are aquatic or decomposer scavengers, and Hermetia illucens is farmed for waste bioconversion.
Stratiotes aloides
Stratiotes aloides, water soldier or water aloe, is the sole living species of the monotypic genus Stratiotes (Hydrocharitaceae), a dioecious Eurasian aquatic perennial with spiny rosette leaves that floats in summer and sinks in winter, invasive in Ontario.
Stratis Myrivilis
Stratis Myrivilis was the pseudonym of Evstratios Stamatopoulos, a Greek novelist born on Lesbos in 1892, best known for the anti-war novel Life in the Tomb.
Strato I
Strato I (Στράτων) was an Indo-Greek king of the late second and early first century BCE, linked to Menander I's dynasty and known almost entirely from coins.
Stratocracy
Stratocracy: rule by the armed forces themselves, from Greek stratos; distinct from military dictatorship, junta, praetorianism, and garrison state; Myanmar post-2021 is the most cited modern example.
Stratocumulus cloud
Stratocumulus cloud is a low, gray or whitish cloud layer of rounded masses or rolls, the most common cloud type on Earth, covering about one-fifth of the planet.
Stratolaunch Systems
Stratolaunch Systems is an American aerospace company founded by Paul Allen in 2011 at Mojave, California, which built the Roc and now flies reusable hypersonic Talon-A testbeds.
Stratoni
Stratoni (Greek: Στρατώνι) is a coastal village of about 1,200 people at the head of the bay of Ierissos on the Halkidiki Peninsula in northern Greece, and the site of an underground silver-lead-zinc mine.