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SBS Holdings
SBS Holdings is a Japanese logistics and staffing holding company founded by Masahiko Kamata in 1987, headquartered in Tokyo, which grew by acquiring manufacturers' in-house logistics subsidiaries.
SBS Power FM
SBS Power FM (SBS 파워FM) is a commercial FM radio station on 107.7 MHz run by Seoul broadcaster SBS since 1996, home to the Cultwo Show.
SBS2
SBS2 is SBS Australia's free-to-air digital multichannel on DTV channel 31. Launched 1 June 2009 as SBS TWO, relaunched for 16-39s in 2013, became SBS VICELAND in 2016 with VICE Media, and reverted to SBS2 on 21 August 2026.
SBT
SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão) is a Brazilian free-to-air television network founded in 1981 by Silvio Santos, long the audience runner-up behind Rede Globo with variety and game shows.
Sburătorul
Sburătorul was a Romanian modernist literary review and circle led by Eugen Lovinescu, published intermittently from 1919 to 1927 and known for launching interwar writers.
SBV Vitesse
SBV Vitesse (Stichting Betaald Voetbal Vitesse) is the professional football club of Arnhem, Netherlands, founded 1892. Known for GelreDome, 35 straight Eredivisie seasons, the 2017 KNVB Cup, an 18-point deduction, license loss in 2025, and the Sterkhouders takeover.
SC Bastia
SC Bastia, Sporting Club de Bastia, is a French football club in Furiani, Corsica, that reached the 1978 UEFA Cup final and won the 1981 Coupe de France.
SC Cambuur
SC Cambuur, Dutch professional football club founded 19 June 1964 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, replacing VV Leeuwarden; five Eredivisie promotions (1992, 1998, 2013, 2021, 2026), best finish ninth in 2021/22, home Kooi Stadion (15,000).
SC Freiburg
SC Freiburg (Sport-Club Freiburg e.V.), German Bundesliga football club founded 1904 in Freiburg im Breisgau; first promotion 1993 under Volker Finke, best finish third, Europa-Park Stadion (34,700), development-club youth model, record coach Streich.
SC Group
SC Group, formally SC Group-Global Limited, is a British holding company in Devon overseeing Supacat, maker of the British Army's Jackal and Coyote high-mobility vehicles.
SC Heerenveen
sc Heerenveen (Sportklup It Hearrenfean), Dutch Eredivisie football club founded 20 July 1920 in Friesland; plays at Abe Lenstra Stadion (26,100), won the 2009 KNVB Cup, reached the 2000-01 Champions League.
SC Paderborn 07
SC Paderborn 07, German football club from Paderborn founded 1907, merged 1985; three-time Bundesliga promotee (2014, 2019, 2026 via play-off vs Wolfsburg), plays at 15,000-seat Home Deluxe Arena.
Sc-1
Sc-1 (CVCL_1888, synonym Scott) is a human follicular lymphoma cell line established in 1977 from the ascites of a 67-year-old man; EBV-negative, t(8;14;18), BCL2-IGH positive, DSMZ ACC-558.
SC-FDMA
SC-FDMA, also known as DFT-spread OFDM, is a multiple access technique combining low peak-to-average power ratio with OFDMA-like flexibility, used in the LTE uplink and in 5G NR.
Scabbard
A scabbard is a stiff sheath that holds a sword, dagger, or bayonet when not in use, typically made of leather over a wooden carcass, sometimes metal.
Scabies
Scabies (Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis infestation), also called the itch or Norwegian scabies in crusted form, is a contagious mite infestation causing intense nocturnal itching, affecting about 200 million people worldwide, treated with permethrin or ivermectin.
Scabies treatment
Scabies treatment uses prescription scabicides, mainly permethrin 5% cream and oral ivermectin, plus contact treatment and environmental decontamination; crusted scabies needs combination therapy, and WHO-endorsed mass drug administration controls endemic scabies.
Scabiosa
Scabiosa (scabious, pincushion flower) is a Caprifoliaceae genus of about 67-100 species native to Eurasia, Macaronesia, North Africa, and southern Africa, sister to Sixalix, with pincushion flower heads and iridoid-rich chemistry.
SCADA
SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a control system architecture combining hardware and software to monitor and control industrial processes, typically geographically distributed ones such as power grids, pipelines, and water systems.
Scaean Gate
Scaean Gate (Σκαιαὶ πύλαι), the main gate of Troy in Homer's Iliad, opening onto the battlefield plain; scene of the teichoscopy, Hector and Andromache's meeting, and Achilles' fated death; Schliemann misidentified it in Troy II.
Scaevola
Scaevola, also called fan flower or naupaka, is a genus of about 100-130 Goodeniaceae shrubs with half-shaped fan flowers and drupes; Australian in origin, Pacific-radiated, with S. taccada invasive in Florida.
Scafell Pike
Scafell Pike, in the Lake District, Cumbria, is England's highest mountain at 978 m (3,209 ft) and a war memorial, climbed by about 250,000 people yearly, chiefly via the Hollow Stones route from Wasdale.
Scaffold hopping
Scaffold hopping is a medicinal chemistry strategy that replaces the core structure of a bioactive compound with a chemically different one that keeps its biological activity against the same target.
Scaffold protein B
Scaffold protein B, the internal scaffolding protein of bacteriophage phiX174 (Microviridae), 60 copies per procapsid, guides capsid assembly and is released on genome packaging; bypassable by D overexpression.
Scaffold protein Ste5, Fus3-binding domain
Ste5 Fus3-binding domain (FBD), residues 288-316 of the yeast scaffold Ste5, binds Fus3 bipartitely via A- and B-sites with a disordered linker, allosterically promoting Fus3 autophosphorylation and negative feedback tuning of mating pathway output.
Scaffolding
Scaffolding is a temporary elevated platform with its supporting structure, used to support workers and materials during construction, maintenance, or repair, and is either supported or suspended.
Scagliola
Scagliola is an artificial marble made from fine gypsum plaster, glue, and pigments, polished to imitate natural marble or hardstone inlay, known in Central Europe as stucco marble.
SCAIL
SCAIL (Studio-grade Character Animation via In-context Learning) is an open-weight pose-driven character-animation model built on Wan2.1 by Tsinghua University and Z.ai, released in December 2025.
Scala (programming language)
Scala is a statically typed programming language that unifies object-oriented and functional programming. Created by Martin Odersky at EPFL, it runs primarily on the Java Virtual Machine since 2004.
Scala quaranta
Scala quaranta (Scala 40), Italian rummy for 2-6 players with two 52-card decks plus 4 jokers (108 cards); opening meld must total 40 points, closer scores zero, 101 cumulative penalty points eliminates a player.