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Shore Capital Healthcare Partners
Shore Capital Healthcare Partners is the healthcare-dedicated fund series of Shore Capital Partners, a Chicago lower-middle-market private equity firm making control investments in healthcare companies.
Shore durometer
The Shore durometer, an instrument behind Shore hardness and the Shore scale, measures rubber, elastomer, and plastic hardness by pressing a spring-loaded indenter into the specimen, defined by ASTM D2240.
Shore leave
Shore leave, called liberty in the U.S. Navy, is authorized time ashore for sailors and merchant seafarers while their ship is in port, governed by DoDI/DoWI 1327.06 and MILPERSMAN 1050-290, distinct from earned leave, and declining in merchant access post-pandemic.
Shore Protection Manual
The Shore Protection Manual is a two-volume coastal engineering reference published by the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center, first issued in 1973 and last revised in 1984.
Shore Temple
The Shore Temple is an early 8th-century granite Hindu temple complex at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, India, built under the Pallava king Narasimhavarman II on the shore of the Bay of Bengal.
Shorea
Shorea (娑罗属), a Dipterocarpaceae tree genus from the Indian Subcontinent to Malesia, source of meranti and balau timber; masting, thrips pollination, 47 accepted species per Kew.
Shorea robusta
Shorea robusta (sal, साल, 娑罗双) is a large Dipterocarpaceae timber tree dominating sal forests of the Indian subcontinent; IUCN least concern, ~105,790 km2 of sal forest in India, threatened by heartwood borer epidemics, fire, and poor regeneration.
Shoreditch
Shoreditch, in south Hackney, east London, borders the City, Tower Hamlets and Islington. Known for street art, nightlife, tech start-ups, and creative industries; earliest record 'Soerditch' c. 1148 AD.
Shoreham nuclear power plant
The Shoreham nuclear power plant was a completed but never commercially operated nuclear plant on Long Island, New York, closed in a 1989 settlement after costing about $6 billion.
Shoreham, Kent
Shoreham, Kent: a Darent valley village in Sevenoaks district, population 2,041 (2011), Grade I St Peter and St Paul church, 1972 conservation areas merged 2019, aircraft museum, Mount Vineyard.
Shorehill Capital
Shorehill Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm making control investments in lower-middle-market industrial companies, targeting businesses with enterprise values of $20 million to $150 million.
Shoreline extraction
Shoreline extraction is the automated mapping of the land-water boundary from satellite imagery, used for coastal change monitoring, typically achieving about 10 m horizontal accuracy at microtidal sites.
Shoreline Mafia
Shoreline Mafia, Los Angeles trap-rap group formed 2012 by Fenix Flexin, OhGeesy, Rob Vicious, and Master Kato; Atlantic-signed, gold album Mafia Bidness (2020), disbanded, then reunited as the duo OhGeesy and Fenix Flexin in 2024.
Shoresy
Shoresy is a Canadian hockey comedy series created by, written by, and starring Jared Keeso, a spin-off of Letterkenny that premiered on Crave and Hulu in 2022.
Shoring
Shoring is a temporary or permanent structural system used to support the sides of an excavation and prevent cave-in or collapse, commonly using soldier pile, sheet pile, and diaphragm walls.
Shorkaror
Shorkaror, also written Shorakaror, was a ruler of Meroitic Kush in the first century AD, known from a rock-carved victory monument at Jebel Qeili in present-day Sudan.
Short (finance)
A short position in finance is a bet that an asset's price will fall, created by selling a borrowed security the seller does not own.
Short 330
The Short 330 (company designation SD3-30) is a twin-turboprop regional airliner built by Short Brothers of Belfast, first flown in 1974 and carrying up to 30 passengers.
Short baseline acoustic positioning
Short baseline acoustic positioning is an underwater positioning technique with transducers mounted on a vessel's hull, developed in the 1960s and used to track ROVs, rigs, and the 1963 search for USS Thresher.
Short bowel syndrome
Short bowel syndrome (SBS), also called short gut, is malabsorption after loss of small intestine length from resection or disease, causing chronic intestinal failure; treated with parenteral nutrition, teduglutide, surgery, and transplantation.
Short Brothers
Short Brothers is a British aircraft manufacturer founded in London in 1908 by Eustace, Oswald, and Horace Short, widely regarded as the first company in the world set up to manufacture aircraft.
Short chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
Short chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (SCADD, ACADS deficiency) is an autosomal recessive fatty acid oxidation condition marked by elevated C4 acylcarnitine and ethylmalonic acid but regarded as a biochemical phenotype without clinical manifestations, requiring no treatment.
Short circuit
A short circuit is an unintended low-resistance connection in an electrical circuit, causing current to rise far above normal levels and potentially damaging components or starting fires.
Short Circuit (1986 film)
Short Circuit (1986) is a John Badham sci-fi comedy, also known by its tagline "Number 5 is alive," in which a military robot gains sentience after a lightning strike; it grossed about $40 million and spawned Short Circuit 2 (1988).
Short Circuit (2020 TV series)
Short Circuit (Walt Disney Animation Studios: Short Circuit Experimental Films) is a Disney+ anthology of animated shorts directed by studio staff; begun internally in 2016, it released 14 shorts January 24, 2020, five more August 4, 2021, and later films through 2026.
Short Circuit 2
Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 American science fiction comedy directed by Kenneth Johnson. The sentient robot Johnny Five helps his creator build a toy business in New York City.
Short Code (programming language)
Short Code is an early programming language proposed by John Mauchly in 1949 and implemented on the BINAC and UNIVAC, considered the first implemented high-level programming language.
Short coiled-coil protein
Short coiled-coil protein (SCOC, SCOCO, UNC-69), UniProt Q9UIL1, a 159-aa human Golgi-localized coiled-coil protein; ARL1 effector in vesicle trafficking and positive regulator of starvation-induced autophagy via FEZ1 and UVRAG.
Short Cuts
Short Cuts is a 1993 American ensemble comedy-drama directed by Robert Altman, interweaving the lives of twenty-two Los Angeles characters and adapted from nine Raymond Carver short stories. It won the Golden Lion at Venice.
Short Empire
The Short Empire, also known as the C-class or Short S.23, was a British flying boat built by Short Brothers in the 1930s for Imperial Airways.