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Scooter Braun
Scooter Braun (Scott Samuel Braun) is an American music manager and entrepreneur who discovered Justin Bieber on YouTube in 2008, founded SB Projects, bought and sold Taylor Swift's masters via Big Machine, and sold Ithaca Holdings to HYBE in 2021.
Scooter Libby
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff in the George W. Bush administration; convicted 2007 of perjury, false statements, and obstruction in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case; sentence commuted by Bush, pardoned by Trump in 2018.
Scooter's Coffee
Scooter's Coffee is an American drive-thru coffee franchise founded in 1998 in Bellevue, Nebraska, by Don and Linda Eckles, operating more than 900 stores across 32 states.
Scopa
Scopa, Italian fishing card game (broom sweep); 40-card deck, capture by match or sum; points for cards, coins, settebello, primiera, sweeps; game to 11; Scopone is the four-player form.
Scoparia
Scoparia: two accepted genera share the name, Scoparia L. (Plantaginaceae, 20 tropical American plant species incl. medicinal S. dulcis) and Scoparia Haworth, 1811 (crambid moths, 26 Chinese species); scoparia also a broom-like species epithet.
Scopas (Mercurian crater)
Scopas is an 83.16-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 81.26 degrees south, 185.29 degrees east, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for the 4th-century B.C. Greek sculptor and architect Scopas.
Scopas of Aetolia
Scopas of Aetolia (Greek: Σκόπας) was an Aetolian general who served the Aetolian League, then commanded Ptolemaic Egypt's forces in the Fifth Syrian War, dying by execution in Alexandria in 196 BC.
Scope (computer science)
Scope, also called variable scoping, is the region of a program's source text where a name may refer to a binding, either lexically or dynamically.
Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions
Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions are the three categories into which the Greenhouse Gas Protocol divides a company's emissions, covering direct operations, purchased energy, and the value chain.
Scope 3
Scope 3 emissions are indirect greenhouse gas emissions across a company's value chain, one of three scopes defined by the GHG Protocol and typically the largest.
Scope clause
A scope clause is a provision in a major US airline's pilot union contract limiting regional carriers' flying, typically capping regional jet seats at 50 to 76.
Scope creep
Scope creep, also called kitchen sink syndrome or requirements creep, is the uncontrolled expansion of a project's features, distinguished from authorized scope change by approval.
SCOPE trial (NCT05144100)
SCOPE (NCT05144100) is a Tata Memorial Centre phase II/III randomized trial comparing primary surgery with chemoradiotherapy in 498 stage III-IV HPV-negative oropharyngeal cancer patients; registered December 2021, not yet recruiting, outcomes expected June 2031.
SCoPE-MS
SCoPE-MS, or Single Cell ProtEomics by Mass Spectrometry, is a 2018 method for quantifying over a thousand proteins in individual mammalian cells using an isobaric carrier sample.
Scope, characterization and validity in contract conflict of laws
Scope, characterization and validity in contract conflict of laws is a legal study of international contracts. It defines the scope of the chosen law under the Rome I Regulation and the 2015 Hague Principles.
Scopely
Scopely is an American mobile games company founded in 2011 in Los Angeles and headquartered in Culver City, known for Monopoly Go!, Star Trek Fleet Command, and Pokémon GO.
Scopes trial
The Scopes trial, or Scopes Monkey Trial, was the July 1925 Dayton, Tennessee case in which teacher John T. Scopes was convicted under the Butler Act for teaching evolution; the conviction was reversed in 1927.
Scophthalmus aquosus
The windowpane flounder (Scophthalmus aquosus) is a left-eyed flatfish of the northwest Atlantic, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to northern Florida, named for its nearly translucent body.
Scoping review
A scoping review is an evidence synthesis method that maps the breadth of research on a topic, identifying key concepts, evidence types, and gaps rather than answering a focused question.
Scopolamine
Scopolamine (hyoscine) is a tropane alkaloid muscarinic antagonist from Solanaceae plants, used mainly as the Transderm Scōp patch (FDA-approved 1979, first transdermal patch) to prevent motion sickness and postoperative nausea; side effects include dry mouth, drowsiness, and a 2025 FDA hyperthermia warning.
Scopoletin
Scopoletin, also known as 6-methoxy-7-hydroxycoumarin, is a phenolic coumarin (C10H8O4) found in medicinal and edible plants, where it acts as a defense phytoalexin and shows broad pharmacological activities in laboratory studies.
Scopone
Scopone (Scopone scientifico) is an Italian four-player partnership fishing card game, a harder extension of Scopa, played with a 40-card Italian deck; scoring counts cards, coins, settebello, primiera, and sweeps.
Scopophilia
Scopophilia, Freud's term for the pleasure of looking, a component sexual drive subdividing into voyeurism and exhibitionism; central to Laura Mulvey's 1975 male gaze theory of cinema.
Scopophobia
Scopophobia (scoptophobia, gaze anxiety) is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at; not a standalone DSM-5-TR diagnosis, it is classified as social anxiety disorder or situational specific phobia and treated with CBT.
Scoppieto
Scoppieto is an archaeological site in the comune of Baschi, Umbria, Italy, where a major Roman pottery workshop making terra sigillata replaced a 4th-century BC Italic sanctuary.
Scopulariopsis
Scopulariopsis (Bainier 1907), type species S. brevicaulis, a Microascaceae mold genus of soil and indoor saprobes; hyaline and dematiaceous species, opportunistic human pathogens, notably onychomycosis, with high intrinsic antifungal resistance.
Scopus
Scopus, also known as Elsevier Scopus, is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature launched by Elsevier in 2004, with records back to 1788 and metrics such as CiteScore.
SCOR model
The SCOR model, or Supply Chain Operations Reference model, is a framework for describing, standardizing, and measuring supply chain operations, established in 1996 and maintained by ASCM.
Scorbunny (ヒバニー)
Scorbunny (ヒバニー), the Rabbit Pokémon, is the Fire-type Gen 8 starter of Pokémon Sword and Shield, #0813, evolving into Raboot and Cinderace, with Blaze and the hidden ability Libero.
Scorbutic anaemia
Scorbutic anaemia (ICD-11 3A03.2) is anaemia caused by severe vitamin C deficiency in scurvy, usually normocytic or macrocytic, driven by bleeding, folate metabolism disturbance, and hemolysis, cured with vitamin C.