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Scam centers in Cambodia
Scam centers in Cambodia are guarded compounds, many converted from casinos after the 2019 gambling ban, holding trafficked workers forced to run online fraud. Estimated 350 compounds; government claims eradication in 2026, disputed by Amnesty.
Scam centers in Myanmar
Scam centers in Myanmar are fortified compounds, mainly in Myawaddy and northern Shan State, where trafficked workers are forced to run online fraud; the industry grew after the 2021 coup and survives crackdowns, sanctions, and repatriation drives.
Scamander Vallis
Scamander Vallis is a 269 km winding, degraded valley network in northern Terra Sabaea and Arabia Terra on Mars, IAU-named in 1982 after the river at Troy, part of the 4,700 km Naktong/Scamander/Mamers system formed by ancient running water.
Scammell
Scammell was a British manufacturer of commercial and military vehicles, based in Watford, Hertfordshire, from 1922 to 1988, known for heavy haulage tractors and the Mechanical Horse.
Scammos
Scammos, an ancient settlement on the eastern bank of the Nile between Meroe and the fifth cataract, probably modern Berber, Sudan; known from Pliny's Natural History 6.179 (Juba's list), Barrington Atlas map 82 D4, and Pleiades 805653.
SCAMPER
SCAMPER is a seven-prompt ideation checklist for improving an existing product, service, or process, asking what could be substituted, combined, adapted, modified, eliminated, or reversed; Bob Eberle devised it in 1971.
Scampi
Scampi is the trade name of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (langoustine, Dublin Bay prawn), a burrowing decapod of European muddy seabeds; landings near 60,000 t, about 300 M€ yearly, assessed by underwater TV burrow counts.
Scampton
Scampton (Scantone, 1086) is a village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, with a large 40-room Roman villa excavated in 1795 and RAF Scampton, the Dambusters' wartime base and later Blue Steel V-bomber airfield.
Scan chain
A scan chain is a shift register built from a digital chip's own flip-flops, letting test equipment control and observe internal state through a few pins.
SCAN functional
The SCAN functional is a non-empirical exchange-correlation approximation in density functional theory, proposed in 2015 and known for accurate geometries and energies across covalent, metallic, and weakly bonded systems.
Scan statistic
The scan statistic is a statistical method that detects clusters in spatial or temporal point data by moving a window of varying size across the study region.
Scan strategy control of crystallographic texture in selective laser melting
Scan strategy control of crystallographic texture is the deliberate choice of laser scan path, direction, and rotation in selective laser melting to control grain orientation and anisotropic properties.
SCAN-B study
SCAN-B (Sweden Cancerome Analysis Network - Breast), NCT02306096, is a population-based prospective Swedish breast cancer study started in 2010 in Lund, using RNA sequencing of tumors from over 20,000 enrolled patients, with molecular subtyping clinically implemented in Skåne.
Scan-rate-dependent hysteresis in perovskite solar cells
Scan-rate-dependent hysteresis in perovskite solar cells is the dependence of the measured current density–voltage curve on voltage sweep speed, widely attributed to slow ion migration in the absorber.
Scan-to-BIM
Scan-to-BIM is the process of converting 3D laser-scanned point clouds of existing structures into semantically enriched Building Information Models, used for renovation, facility management, heritage documentation, and digital twins.
Scan.com
Scan.com, originally National MRI Scan, is a London-founded medical imaging company founded in 2017 that lets patients book MRI, CT, ultrasound, and X-ray scans in the UK and US.
Scandal
Scandal: a public moral conflict in which a widely publicized norm violation becomes a matter of public concern, with media, historical, and digital dynamics distinguished by publicity, denunciation, and sanction.
Scandal (1989 film)
Scandal (1989), Michael Caton-Jones's drama about the 1963 Profumo affair, starring John Hurt as Stephen Ward, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Christine Keeler, and Ian McKellen as Profumo; Miramax's first in-house production, initially rated X in the US.
Scandal (American band)
Scandal is an American pop-rock band formed in New York City in 1981 by Zack Smith with singer Patty Smyth, known for the 1982 Columbia EP and the 1984 platinum album The Warrior; disbanded 1985, reunited 2004.
Scandal (TV series)
Scandal is Shonda Rhimes' ABC political thriller (2012-2018, seven seasons, 124 episodes) starring Kerry Washington as crisis manager Olivia Pope, loosely based on Judy Smith, and Tony Goldwyn as President Fitzgerald Grant; a landmark for Black female leads on network TV.
Scandal (スキャンダル) (Japanese band)
Scandal (スキャンダル) is a Japanese all-female rock band formed in Osaka in 2006, certified by Guinness World Records as the longest-active female rock band with the same members.
Scandal (醜聞) (1950 film)
Scandal (醜聞, Shūbun/Sukyandaru) is Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Shochiku drama in which painter Ichiro Aoye (Toshiro Mifune) and singer Miyako Saijo (Yoshiko Yamaguchi) sue a tabloid over a fabricated affair, with Takashi Shimura as the bribed lawyer Hiruta.
Scandal Makers (과속스캔들)
Scandal Makers (과속스캔들, Speedy Scandal) is a 2008 South Korean comedy-drama, Kang Hyoung-chul's directorial debut, starring Cha Tae-hyun, Park Bo-young, and Wang Seok-hyeon; it sold over 8.2 million tickets, becoming Korea's top comedy hit until 2013.
Scandia Cavi
Scandia Cavi: irregular depressions (cavi) in the northern plains of Mars, 663.80 km across near 77.55N, 209.65E, among Scandia Tholi; formed by volatile-rich eruption or glacial moraines, and hosting active dune fields and TAR growth studies.
Scandia Colles
Scandia Colles, a field of knobs and mesas (colles) in the Vastitas Borealis northern plains of Mars near Alba Mons; IAU-approved 1985, 1365 km across, centered 66.15°N 222.80°E, interpreted as eroded Scandia region unit or ancient cratered terrain remnants.
Scandia Tholi
Scandia Tholi: group of low, broad dome-like mounds on Mars in the northern plains between Alba Mons and Planum Boreum; IAU-approved 2003, diameter 480 km, interpreted as mud diapirs.
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a Northern European region comprising Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; broader English usage adds Iceland, Finland, and the Faroe Islands, a group properly called the Nordic countries. First recorded by Pliny the Elder as Scadinavia.
Scandinavia pattern
The Scandinavia pattern (SCAND), originally called the Eurasia-1 pattern, is a Northern Hemisphere teleconnection pattern whose main pressure center sits over Scandinavia, linked to Scandinavian blocking and European weather impacts.
Scandinavian Airlines
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is the flag-carrier airline group of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, formed in 1946, flying from hubs in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm to destinations in Europe and overseas.
Scandinavian Defense
Scandinavian Defense, also called Center Counter, is the chess opening 1.e4 d5 (ECO B01): Black strikes the center at once, recaptures on d5 with queen (Qa5, Qd6, Qd8) or knight (Modern); oldest recorded opening, Valencia 1475.