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Structured entity
A structured entity is an entity whose control is directed by contractual arrangements rather than voting rights, a term the IASB introduced in IFRS 12.
Structured illumination microscopy
Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy method that doubles lateral resolution to about 100 nm, reported by M. G. L. Gustafsson in 2000.
Structured interview
A structured interview is a standardized data-collection method in which question wording, order, and scoring are fixed in advance, so answers can be compared systematically across participants, interviewers, and sites.
Structured light
Structured light is a 3D optical measurement technique in which a projector casts a known pattern onto an object and a camera recovers depth from the distortion.
Structured outputs
Structured outputs are a foundation-model technique in which decoding is constrained so output conforms to a developer-supplied schema, typically JSON Schema, by masking invalid tokens.
Structured population model
A structured population model is a mathematical model describing how populations change over time by tracking individuals grouped by age, body size, or life-cycle stage.
Structured prediction
Structured prediction, also called structured learning or structured-output learning, is a machine learning approach that predicts structured outputs such as sequences, trees, or graphs, seen in part-of-speech tagging and image segmentation.
Structured programming
Structured programming is a programming paradigm that builds programs from sequence, selection, and iteration instead of arbitrary go to jumps, making control flow evident from the text.
Structured State Space Sequence
The Structured State Space Sequence model (S4) is a 2021 deep learning architecture for sequence modeling that computes a state space layer as a recurrence or a convolution.
Structured-light 3D scanner
A structured-light 3D scanner is a non-contact imaging device that projects a known light pattern onto an object, captures its distortion with cameras, and recovers surface shape by triangulation.
Structures for lossless ion manipulations
Structures for lossless ion manipulations (SLIM) is an ion optical technology for mass spectrometry, developed by Richard D. Smith at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and commercialized by MOBILion Systems.
Structuring
Structuring: splitting cash deposits or withdrawals to evade the $10,000 Currency Transaction Report threshold under the Bank Secrecy Act; criminalized by 31 U.S.C. 5324, subject to same-day aggregation rules and civil forfeiture.
Strudel
Strudel: Central European pastry of paper-thin stretched dough (Strudelteig) rolled around sweet or savory fillings; German for "whirlpool"; oldest recipe a 1696 Viennese Milchrahmstrudel; apple strudel is an Austrian national dish.
Struga (Струга)
Struga (Струга; Strugë) is a town in southwestern North Macedonia on the northern shore of Lake Ohrid, known as a city of poetry for its Struga Poetry Evenings festival.
Struga Poetry Evenings
The Struga Poetry Evenings (Струшки вечери на поезијата) is an international poetry festival held each August in Struga, North Macedonia, since 1961 and host of about 4,000 poets from 95 countries.
Struggle for existence
Struggle for existence: Darwin's term (Origin of Species, Chapter 3, 1859) for competition among organisms when more are born than survive, rooted in Malthus, later formalized by Gause and critiqued by Kropotkin's mutual aid.
Struggle for the Wey throne between Duke Chu of Wey and Kuai Kui
The struggle for the Wey throne between Duke Chu of Wey and Kuai Kui (卫出公与蒯聩父子争国) was a father-son contest for the Wey rulership in the late Spring and Autumn period.
Struggle Jennings
Struggle Jennings, stage name of William Curtis Harness Jr. (born 1980, Nashville), is a country rap artist, step-grandson of Waylon Jennings, ex-prisoner, Jelly Roll collaborator, and Angels & Outlaws label owner.
Struggle of Shawar and Dirgham
The Struggle of Shawar and Dirgham (صراع شاور وضرغام) was the 1163 to 1164 fight for the Fatimid Egyptian vizierate, which drew Nur al-Din's Zengids and Crusader Jerusalem into Egypt.
Struggle of the Two Palaces
The Struggle of the Two Palaces (二宫之争) was a succession conflict in Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, fought between Crown Prince Sun He and Sun Ba from about 242 to 250.
Struggle session (批斗大会)
Struggle session (批斗大会, pidou), also denunciation rally, was a CCP mass denunciation ritual used in land reform (1946–1952) and the Cultural Revolution, where targets were publicly humiliated, beaten, and forced to confess.
Strukton
Strukton is a Dutch construction and engineering group headquartered in Utrecht, founded in 1921 as the railways' construction arm, that builds and maintains rail, road, water, and energy infrastructure.
Strung
Strung (formerly Help) is a 2026 psychological thriller directed by Malcolm D. Lee, written by Alan B. McElroy, starring Chloe Bailey as a violinist tutoring a wealthy family's daughter; a Blumhouse-Tyler Perry Peacock film.
Strut-and-tie method
The strut-and-tie method is a design procedure for reinforced and prestressed concrete used where beam theory fails, such as deep beams, corbels, and pile caps.
Struther Arnott
Struther Arnott (1934–2013) was a Scottish molecular biologist and X-ray crystallographer who determined DNA, RNA, and carbohydrate structures, developed linked-atom least-squares refinement, and served as Principal of the University of St Andrews.
Struthio
Struthio is the ostrich genus (Linnaeus, 1758) of large flightless African ratites, with two living species, common and Somali ostrich, a rich Eurasian-African fossil record, and record running speed and egg size among birds.
Strutt's Park Roman fort
Strutt's Park Roman fort: earliest Roman fort of Derby, Derbyshire, on the west bank of the River Derwent, established c. AD 50 and abandoned c. AD 80 for the Derventio fort at Little Chester.
Struve (lunar crater)
Struve is a 164.34 km IAU-named lava-flooded lunar crater at 23.41°N, 76.65°W on the Moon's western limb, named for astronomer Otto Struve, conjoined with Russell and part of the Russell-Struve shield volcano complex.
Struve Geodetic Arc
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey points from Norway to the Black Sea, measured 1816 to 1855 under Friedrich Struve and listed by UNESCO in 2005.
Struvite crystallization
Struvite crystallization is a precipitation method that recovers magnesium, ammonium, and phosphate from wastewater and urine as magnesium ammonium phosphate crystals, sold as slow-release fertilizer.