All articles starting with S

Support for Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian war

Support for Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian war: military, economic, and diplomatic backing from Iran, North Korea, China, and Belarus, including Shahed drones, millions of North Korean shells and up to 12,000 troops, Chinese technology flows, sanctions evasion, and UN abstentions.

Support polygon

The support polygon is the convex hull of all areas where a robot's wheels, tracks, or legs touch the ground, and it judges tipping stability.

SUPPORT trial (NCT00233324)

SUPPORT (NCT00233324), Surfactant Positive Airway Pressure and Pulse Oximetry Trial, a 2x2 factorial US trial of 1,316 infants born at 24-27 weeks: early CPAP versus surfactant and 85-89% versus 91-95% oxygen targets; lower targets cut severe ROP but raised mortality.

Oct 20, 2026

SUPPORT trial (NCT06264050)

SUPPORT (NCT06264050) is a single-group pre-post observational study at IRCCS San Camillo, Venice, testing whether a Psychological Support Group changes anxiety (STAI Y2), depression (BDI-II), coping (COPE-NVI 25), and outcomes (CORE-OM) in 19 neurorehabilitation inpatients.

Support vector data description

Support vector data description (SVDD) is a one-class classification method proposed by Tax and Duin in 1999 that encloses target data in a hypersphere to detect outliers.

Support vector machine

A support vector machine (SVM) is a supervised machine learning method that classifies data by finding a hyperplane maximizing the margin between classes; it is also used for regression and outlier detection.

Support vector regression

Support vector regression (SVR) is a kernel-based supervised learning method that predicts continuous values by fitting a function within an ε-tube of the training targets.

Support Your Local Sheriff!

Support Your Local Sheriff! is a 1969 American comedy Western directed by Burt Kennedy, written and produced by William Bowers, starring James Garner as a drifter sheriff in a gold-rush town, Cherokee Productions' first independent film.

Supported Employment

Supported employment (Individual Placement and Support, IPS) is an evidence-based vocational rehabilitation model that places people with severe mental illness or other disabilities in competitive jobs first, with concurrent treatment and time-unlimited on-the-job support, outperforming train-then-place programs in employment outcomes.

Supported liquid extraction

Supported liquid extraction (SLE) is a sample preparation technique, a modified form of liquid–liquid extraction, that absorbs the aqueous sample onto diatomaceous earth while an organic solvent passes through.

Supported liquid membrane

A supported liquid membrane (SLM), also called an artificial or immobilized liquid membrane, is a porous polymer support whose solvent-filled pores selectively transport solutes, mainly metal ions, between solutions.

Supported liquid membrane extraction

Supported liquid membrane extraction (SLM) is an analytical sample preparation technique that extracts analytes from an aqueous sample through an organic membrane into a second aqueous phase.

Supporters' Shield

Supporters' Shield, MLS trophy for the best regular-season record, created by fans in 1997-1998 via Nick Lawrus's proposal and Sam Pierron's committee; managed by the Independent Supporters Council, no replicas, grants a Concacaf Champions Cup berth.

Supporting cell (sensu Nematoda and Protostomia)

Supporting cell (sensu Nematoda and Protostomia) is a Cell Ontology term for non-neuronal support cells of nematode and protostome sensory organs, notably C. elegans sheath, socket, and GLR cells forming sensillum channels.

Supporting cell (sensu Nematoda)

Supporting cells (sensu Nematoda) are the glial cells of nematodes, chiefly C. elegans: 56 per hermaphrodite, comprising 24 sheath, 26 socket, and 6 GLR cells that ensheath sensory neuron endings and form sensillum channels.

Supportive and psychosocial care in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Supportive and psychosocial care in Duchenne muscular dystrophy covers cognition, behavior, education, mental health, transition to adult life, and family caregiver support rather than drug treatment.

Supportive periodontal therapy

Supportive periodontal therapy, also called periodontal maintenance, is the long-term recall phase of dental care in which patients treated for periodontitis attend regular visits to keep the disease stable.

Supportive psychotherapy

Supportive psychotherapy is a psychotherapy that strengthens coping, self-esteem, and adaptive skills rather than changing personality, and is the most widely practiced therapy among psychiatrists.

Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town

Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town (Tatoeba Last Dungeon Mae no Mura no Shounen...) is a Japanese fantasy comedy light novel by Toshio Satou and Nao Watanuki about oblivious strong boy Lloyd Belladonna, adapted into manga and a 2021 Liden Films anime.

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie: Alanis Morissette's fourth album, released November 3, 1998 on Maverick; 17 songs, 71 minutes, co-produced with Glen Ballard; US No. 1, triple platinum, led by the Grammy-nominated single "Thank U".

Supposition theory

Supposition theory (suppositio) is the medieval logic doctrine of what a term stands for in a proposition, distinct from signification. Modes include material, simple, and personal supposition; it dominated semantics for over 500 years.

Suppository

Suppository: solid single-dose medication inserted rectally, vaginally, or urethrally; melts or dissolves to release drug locally or systemically, partially bypassing liver first-pass metabolism; fatty or hydrophilic bases.