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SELFIES
SELFIES, short for SELF-referencIng Embedded Strings, is a string representation of molecules introduced in 2019 as a fully robust alternative to SMILES for machine learning in chemistry.
Selfishness
Selfishness: the tendency to act excessively or solely to benefit oneself even at others' disadvantage. Also called egoism-related self-focus; studied as egocentric, adaptive, and pathological forms, measured by the Selfishness Questionnaire, and distinguished from self-care and narcissism.
Selfridges
Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co, is a British chain of luxury department stores founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge, with its flagship opening on Oxford Street in London in 1909.
Selge
Selge (Σέλγη, Στλεγυς) was an ancient mountain city of Pisidia in southern Asia Minor, on the Eurymedon River near modern Altınkaya, Turkey. A Spartan-foundation tradition, coinage from the fifth century BCE, and one of Pisidia's 'big three' cities distinguish it.
Selhurst Park
Selhurst Park is the London football stadium home to Crystal Palace F.C. since 1924, designed by Archibald Leitch, capacity 25,486, undergoing a Main Stand redevelopment to over 34,000 seats.
Selichot
Selichot (סליחות) are Hebrew penitential liturgical poems, and the service built on them, recited for forgiveness of sin before and during the High Holy Days.
Selig Hecht
Selig Hecht (1892–1947) was an American biophysicist and professor at Columbia University who established the duplex retina and showed a single rod can respond to one photon.
Selige Sehnsucht
Selige Sehnsucht is an 1814 poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1819 in the West-östlicher Divan, centred on a moth drawn to a flame.
Seligenstadt
Seligenstadt, a Hessian town on the Main, grew from a Roman cohort fort (ORL 32), the northernmost fort of the Main Limes, garrisoned around 100 AD by the Cohors I Civium Romanorum equitata; later Einhard's Carolingian abbey town and a free imperial city.
Seligman Inlet
Seligman Inlet is an ice-filled inlet on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, opening into the Larsen Ice Shelf. Its 972 km² catchment basin drains glaciers from the peninsula's mountain ridge.
Seligmann Kantor
Seligmann Kantor (1857–1903) was a Bohemian-born German-Jewish mathematician who taught in Prague, never holding a professorship, and is remembered for papers on Reye's geometric configurations.
Selim A. Chacour
Selim A. Chacour is an American mechanical engineer who founded American Hydro Corporation in 1986 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
Selim Hassan
Selim Hassan (سليم حسن) was an Egyptian Egyptologist who spent a decade excavating the Giza tombs, cleared the Great Sphinx, and became the first Egyptian deputy director general of the Egyptian Antiquities Service.
Selim I
Selim I (Yavuz, "the Grim"; 1470–1520), ninth Ottoman sultan (r. 1512–1520), son of Bayezid II. Defeated Shah Ismail at Chaldiran (1514), conquered the Mamluk Sultanate (1516–17), annexed Syria, Egypt, and Hejaz, and brought the caliphate to the Ottomans.
Selim I Giray
Selim I Giray (Hacı Selim Giray) was a khan of the Crimean Khanate from the Giray dynasty who held the throne four times between 1671 and 1704.
Selim II (سليم ثانى)
Selim II (سليم ثانى, Selīm-i sānī), Ottoman sultan 1566–1574, son of Süleyman the Magnificent; first sultan never to lead campaigns; Cyprus taken, Lepanto lost, Selimiye Mosque built.
Selim III (سليم ثالث)
Selim III (سليم ثالث, 1761–1808), Ottoman sultan 1789–1807, launched the Nizam-i Cedid reform program and a new European-trained army, pursued ties with France and Prussia, and was deposed in the 1807 Kabakçı Mustafa revolt.
Selim Jochim
Selim Jochim, born 1975 in Leimen, Germany, is a German experimental physicist and professor at Heidelberg University known for the 2003 first observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in molecules.
Selimiye Mosque
The Selimiye Mosque (Selimiye Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman imperial mosque in Edirne, Turkey, commissioned by Sultan Selim II and built by Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1575.
Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex
The Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex is a UNESCO World Heritage mosque in Edirne, Turkey, designed by Sinan and built from 1568 to 1575.
Selina Bliss
Selina Bliss is an American Republican politician representing District 1, covering most of Yavapai County, in the Arizona House of Representatives, after a decades-long career as a nurse and nursing educator.
Selina Cadell
Selina Cadell (Selina Jane Cadell, born 1953, London) is an English actress and director, sister of Simon Cadell and granddaughter of Jean Cadell. Known for Mrs Tishell in Doc Martin, Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes, and directing Eddie Izzard's Hamlet.
Selina Finance
Selina Finance is a London-based fintech lender founded in 2018 that offers UK homeowners a home equity line of credit secured up to 85% of a home's value.
Selina Griffiths
Selina Griffiths (born 1969) is an English actress, daughter of Annette Crosbie, known for Janet in The Smoking Room, Pauline Maltby in Benidorm, and Connie in Cuckoo.
Selina Hossain
Selina Hossain (সেলিনা হোসেন), born 1947, is a Bangladeshi novelist and short-story writer in Bengali, known for fiction on the 1971 Liberation War and the Language Movement.
Selina Kyle (Batman Returns)
Selina Kyle as portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's Batman Returns (1992): a secretary to Max Shreck who, after being pushed out a window and revived by cats, becomes Catwoman, Batman's antagonist and love interest.
Selina Meyer
Selina Meyer is the fictional politician played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO's Veep (2012–2019): a Maryland senator, vice president, and accidental president, created by Armando Iannucci, never given a party, and famous for 'Did the President call?' and six straight Emmys.
Selina Scott
Selina Mary Scott (born 1951), English TV presenter and journalist; launched BBC Breakfast Time in 1983, hosted CBS's West 57th, and won a £250,000 ageism settlement from Channel Five in 2008.
Selina Tusitala Marsh
Selina Tusitala Marsh, born 1971, is a New Zealand poet of Samoan descent, New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019 and author of Fast Talking PI and the Mophead graphic memoirs.
Selinexor
Selinexor (XPOVIO, Nexpovio) is an oral first-in-class XPO1 nuclear export inhibitor (SINE) approved since 2019 for multiple myeloma and relapsed/refractory DLBCL, with thrombocytopenia, nausea, and hyponatremia as key toxicities.