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Sesshō and Kampaku
Sesshō and Kampaku are the Japanese regent offices, held almost continuously by the Fujiwara clan from the ninth century, with sekkan seiji dated 967 to 1068.
Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟等楊)
Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟等楊, 1420–1506?), Japanese Zen monk and Muromachi ink painter; studied in Ming China in 1467; holds six National Treasures, the most of any Japanese painter, and shaped the Unkoku, Hasegawa, and Kanō schools.
Sessile drop method
The sessile drop method is a technique for measuring how well a liquid wets a solid by depositing a small drop, imaging its profile, and measuring the contact angle.
Session (computer networking)
In computer networking, a session, or communication session, is shared state between two or more endpoints that persists across exchanged messages, formalized as OSI layer 5.
Session 9
Session 9 is a 2001 American psychological horror film directed by Brad Anderson and co-written with Stephen Gevedon, about an asbestos abatement crew working in the real abandoned Danvers State Hospital, Massachusetts; released by USA Films on August 10, 2001, it grossed $374,000 and became a cult classic.
Session Description Protocol
The Session Description Protocol (SDP) is an IETF text format describing multimedia sessions, conveying media streams, addresses, and timing; its current specification, RFC 8866, was published in 2021.
Session hijacking
Session hijacking, also called cookie hijacking or sidejacking, is an attack in which a stolen session cookie lets an attacker impersonate a logged-in user without knowing their credentials.
Session Initiation Protocol
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an application-layer signaling protocol defined by the IETF for establishing, modifying, and terminating multimedia sessions, and the predominant VoIP signaling protocol.
Session layer
The session layer is layer 5 of the seven-layer OSI model, managing and synchronizing dialogue between applications through token control and synchronization points, defined by ITU-T X.225.
Session Moth Martina
Session Moth Martina, real name Karen Glennon (born 1990, Dublin), Irish indie wrestler famed for her beer-drinking party character; OTT, ICW, Stardom, ROH, and EVE champion, 2020 ROH Female Wrestler of the Year.
Session musician
Session musician: a hired instrumentalist or vocalist, also called a studio or non-featured musician, who records or performs without being a permanent band member; works per session under union agreements like AFM SRLA and BPI/MU, usually for a buy-out fee.
Session types
Session types are a type discipline for verifying that concurrent programs exchange messages as a protocol prescribes, introduced by Kohei Honda at CONCUR 1993 and expanded at ESOP 1998.
Sessions House
Sessions House: English quarter sessions courthouse buildings; the best known is the Grade I listed 1676-8 Sessions House on George Row, Northampton, attributed to Henry Bell, with plaster ceilings by Edward Goudge; other examples at Clerkenwell, Lincoln, Boston, and Spalding.
Sessiz Gemi
"The Silent Ship" is a 1921 Turkish poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı that portrays death as a sea voyage, and is regarded as his signature work.
Sesson Shūkei
Sesson Shūkei (雪村周継, 1504–after 1589) was a Japanese Zen monk-painter who worked in eastern Japan and created some of the most individualistic ink paintings of his era.
Sessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawa (早川雪洲), born Hayakawa Kintarō (早川金太郎), Japanese silent-film star of The Cheat (1915), founder of Haworth Pictures, and Oscar-nominated as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
Sestamibi
Sestamibi, also called 99mTc-MIBI and marketed as Cardiolite, is a technetium-99m radiopharmaceutical approved in 1990 for myocardial perfusion imaging and used for breast imaging and parathyroid localization.
Sesterce
Sesterce is a French AI-infrastructure company founded in 2018 and based in Marseille that operates a GPU cloud and builds liquid-cooled AI factory data centers.
Sestertius
The sestertius (plural sestertii) was a Roman coin that began as a small silver piece and became, under Augustus, the standard unit for reckoning Roman money.
Sestigers
Die Sestigers, "Those of the Sixties," were a group of Afrikaans writers of the 1960s who broke literary conventions and became that literature's most influential movement of the twentieth century.
Sestina
A sestina is a fixed poetic form of thirty-nine lines in which six end-words recur in rotating order instead of rhyme, attributed to the twelfth-century troubadour Arnaut Daniel.
Sesto San Giovanni
Sesto San Giovanni, comune in the province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy; industrial town on the Lambro between Milan and Monza, home of the Falck steelworks and the MilanoSesto regeneration project.
Sestrin
Sestrin: family of three stress-inducible proteins (SESN1-3, Sestrin1/2/3) that activate AMPK, inhibit mTORC1 via GATOR2, detoxify ROS, and act as leucine sensors; Sestrin2 binds leucine with 20 µM Kd.
Sesuvium
Sesuvium, sea purslane genus of Aizoaceae; succulent C3/C4/CAM herbs of tropical coasts; S. portulacastrum is an edible facultative halophyte used for sand fixation and saline-soil bioremediation.
Set (abstract data type)
A set, also known as a set data structure, is an abstract data type that stores unique elements with no duplicates, supporting add, remove, membership, union, intersection, and difference.
Set (card game)
Set (SET) card game, invented 1974 by Marsha Jean Falco, released 1990; 81-card deck, 4 features x 3 values; find 3-card sets all-same-or-all-different; models F_3^4, cap set 20.
Set (deity)
Set (Seth, Sutekh), ancient Egyptian god of the desert, storms, chaos, and foreign lands, brother and slayer of Osiris and rival of Horus, yet also defender of Ra against Apophis and patron of Peribsen and the Ramessides.
Set (mathematics)
A set is a well-determined collection of distinct objects, called its members or elements, treated as a single mathematical object; set theory is the standard foundation of mathematics.
Set animal
Set animal (sha, Seth animal): the composite, unidentifiable totemic beast of the Egyptian god Set, with canine body, down-curved snout, squared ears, and forked upright tail; identity debated for over a century, with the aardvark the leading modern proposal.
Set construction
Set construction is the practical craft of designing and building physical scenery for theater, film, and television. It covers planning, materials, and safety for the scenic department.