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Shuffled frog leaping algorithm
The shuffled frog leaping algorithm (SFLA) is a population-based memetic metaheuristic for discrete and combinatorial optimization, introduced by Eusuff and Lansey in 2003 for water distribution network design.
Shuffling
Shuffling randomizes a deck of playing cards. Seven riffle shuffles randomize 52 cards (Bayer-Diaconis 1992); the overhand shuffle needs about 2,500; perfect out-shuffles cycle after 8. Casino electronic shufflers are regulated under standards such as GLI-29 and Singapore GRA Version 3.1.
Shugart Associates
Shugart Associates was an American disk drive maker in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 1973 by former Memorex employees. Its SA400 Minifloppy became the model for the floppy industry.
Shugendō (修験道)
Shugendō (修験道), also called Shugendo Buddhism, is a syncretistic Japanese mountain ascetic tradition in which yamabushi practice fasting, waterfall rituals, and meditation on sacred mountains.
Shuggie Bain
Shuggie Bain is the 2020 debut novel of Douglas Stuart, set in Glasgow, following a boy and his alcoholic mother, and winner of the 2020 Booker Prize.
Shuggie Otis
Shuggie Otis, born Johnny Alexander Veliotes Jr. in 1953, son of bandleader Johnny Otis, is an American psychedelic-soul multi-instrumentalist; he wrote Strawberry Letter 23 and made the 1974 cult classic Inspiration Information before decades of obscurity and a 2001 rediscovery.
Shugo
Shugo (守護) were provincial military governors, or constables, of Japan's Kamakura and Muromachi bakufu, first authorized by the court in 1185; the office later became hereditary, and many medieval daimyo descended from its holders.
Shugo and jitō system
The shugo and jitō system (守護・地頭) was the network of local offices by which the Kamakura shogunate ruled Japan's provinces, established by Minamoto Yoritomo in 1185.
Shugo Chara! (しゅごキャラ!)
Shugo Chara! (しゅごキャラ!, My Guardian Characters) is a Peach-Pit shōjo manga serialized in Nakayoshi from 2006, collected in 12 volumes, adapted into a 51-episode Satelight anime (2007–2009), winner of the 32nd Kodansha Manga Award children's division, now continuing with the Jewel Joker sequel.
Shugo daimyō
Shugo daimyō (守護大名) were the provincial military governors of Japan's Muromachi period (1336–1573) who, unlike their Kamakura-era predecessors, became regional feudal lords, ruling provinces through vassalized local warriors until most fell after the Onin War.
Shugo Tokumaru
Shugo Tokumaru (トクマルシューゴ) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who writes, performs, records, and mixes all his music himself, debuting in 2004 and acclaimed abroad before Japan.
Shuguang Oil Field
Shuguang Oil Field (曙光油田) is an oil field in the Liaohe Basin, Liaoning Province, China, discovered in 1975 and developed chiefly for heavy oil with steam-based thermal recovery.
Shuguang Zhang
Shuguang Zhang is a molecular biologist and Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab known for discovering the first self-assembling peptide in 1990 and founding peptide nanobiotechnology.
Shuh Narumiya
Shuh Narumiya (成宮 周) is a Japanese pharmacologist at Kyoto University who identified all eight prostanoid receptors and defined the roles of Rho kinase (ROCK).
Shuhai Supply Chain (蜀海供应链)
Shuhai Supply Chain (蜀海供应链) is a Chinese restaurant food-supply-chain company, spun out of the hotpot chain Haidilao, that provides procurement, processing, cold-chain logistics, and delivery to chain restaurants like Haidilao and Mixue Bingcheng.
Shuhai Xiao
Shuhai Xiao (肖书海) is a paleobiologist and geobiologist at Virginia Tech known for research on the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition and early animals; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Shuhda bint Ahmad
Shuhda bint Ahmad (شهدة بنت أحمد) was a Baghdad hadith scholar and calligrapher who died in 1178, honored as Musnidat al-Iraq for her strong chains of transmission.
Shuhei Abe
Shuhei Abe (阿部修平), born in 1954 in Sapporo, is a Japanese asset manager who founded SPARX Group in Tokyo in 1989 after George Soros entrusted him with $100 million.
Shuhua
Shuhua (Yeh Shuhua, 슈화, born 2000) is a Taiwanese singer, the youngest member of the K-pop girl group i-dle, which she joined at its 2018 debut.
Shuhui Sun
Shuhui Sun is a materials scientist and electrochemist who holds a Chair Professorship at INRS in Montreal, Canada, and works on nanomaterials for clean energy, including fuel-cell electrocatalysts, green hydrogen production, and rechargeable batteries.
Shūi Gusō
Shūi Gusō (拾遺愚草) is the personal waka anthology that the poet Fujiwara no Teika compiled from his own poems in three volumes, completed in 1216, one of the Six Poet Collections.
Shui Long Yin: Ascending Jiankang's Shangxin Pavilion
Shui Long Yin: Ascending Jiankang's Shangxin Pavilion (水龙吟·登建康赏心亭) is a ci poem by Xin Qiji, written around 1174 after climbing the Shangxin Pavilion in Jiankang, now Nanjing.
Shui Nian Xi Feng Du Zi Liang
Shui Nian Xi Feng Du Zi Liang (谁念西风独自凉) is a 2025 Chinese 70-episode short drama directed by Li Nan, starring Liu Yuetao and Li Wenhui, about an heiress, a brain-injured construction worker, and their lost daughter; title from a Nalan Xingde poem.
Shūi Wakashū
Shūi Wakashū (拾遺和歌集, Collection of Gleanings) is the third imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, compiled around 1005 to 1007 and containing about 1,350 poems in twenty volumes.
Shuibing Chen
Shuibing Chen is a chemical biologist and stem cell researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine known for building human stem cell-derived organoids to model disease and screen drugs.
Shuibuya hydroelectric plant
Shuibuya hydroelectric plant (清江水布垭水电站) is a 1,840 MW hydroelectric plant on the Qingjiang River in Badong County, Hubei, China, whose 233 m concrete-faced rockfill dam is the world's tallest of its type.
Shuicheng Yan
Shuicheng Yan (颜水成) is a computer vision and machine learning researcher, Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for Laplacianfaces and Network in Network.
Shuichi Murayama
Shuichi Murayama (村山修一) is a shared Japanese name: a historian of Japanese religion (1914–2010), a postwar freestyle swimmer and masters relay record holder, and a theoretical physicist.
Shuichi Takayama
Shuichi Takayama is a Japanese-American bioengineer who works on microfluidic cell culture and organ-on-a-chip systems, and has been a professor at Georgia Tech and Emory since 2017.
Shuidi Huzhu (水滴互助)
Shuidi Huzhu (水滴互助) was a Beijing-based online mutual-aid platform founded by Shen Peng in May 2016, where members pooled small contributions for critical-illness payments; its plans ended on March 31, 2021.