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Sibugay Wetland Nature Reserve
Sibugay Wetland Nature Reserve (SWNR), Ramsar Site No. 2552, is the Philippines' ninth and largest Ramsar site: 175,551 ha of Sibugay Bay wetlands in Zamboanga Sibugay, Mindanao, holding the country's largest flying fox colony and EAAFP Flyway Network Site EAAF 160.
Sibur
Sibur (СИБУР), formally PJSC SIBUR Holding, is Russia's largest petrochemical company, founded in 1995 under Gazprom management, which processes associated petroleum gas into polymers, synthetic rubbers, and plastics at 17 production sites.
Siburapha
Siburapha (ศรีบูรพา) was the pen name of Kulap Saipradit (1905–1974), a Thai novelist, journalist, and peace activist best known for the classic Behind the Painting.
Sibutramine
Sibutramine (Meridia, Reductil), a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor for obesity approved in 1997 and withdrawn in 2010 after the SCOUT trial showed increased nonfatal heart attack and stroke risk; now a common illegal slimming-product adulterant.
Sibuyan Sea
The Sibuyan Sea is an inland sea of the central Philippine archipelago between Tablas, Panay, Masbate, and Luzon's Bicol region, linking the Pacific to the South China and Sulu Seas.
Sibyl
Sibyl (Greek Σίβυλλα): inspired prophetess of Greco-Roman antiquity, originally one figure, later ten or more by city; distinct from Delphi's Pythia; source of the Roman Sibylline Books and the Jewish-Christian Sibylline Oracles.
Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem
Sibylla (Sybil, 1160–1190) was queen regnant of the Kingdom of Jerusalem 1186–1190, daughter of Amalric I, sister of Baldwin IV, wife of Guy of Lusignan; she lost Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 and died of epidemic at the siege of Acre in 1190.
Sibylle Bergemann
Sibylle Bergemann, born Sibylle Emma Luise Pohl, was a German photographer (1941–2010) known for East German fashion photography and her series Das Denkmal on the Marx-Engels Monument.
Sibylle Loibl
Sibylle Loibl is a German gynecologic oncologist who chairs the German Breast Group, leading over 115 breast cancer studies, and is an associate professor at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Sibylline Oracles
The Sibylline Oracles (Oracula Sibyllina) are pseudepigraphic prophecies in Greek hexameter verse, composed from the 2nd century BCE onward by Jewish and later Christian authors voicing the legendary Sibyl.
Sic
Sic (Latin "so" or "thus"), from sic erat scriptum, is the bracketed editorial marker [sic] showing an apparent error in quoted text reproduces the original; distinct from the verb sic (attack) and Scottish sic (such).
SiC MOSFET gate-oxide reliability
SiC MOSFET gate-oxide reliability is the ability of the silicon dioxide gate dielectric in silicon carbide power MOSFETs to withstand field, temperature, and switching stress over service life without breakdown.
SiC power modules for rail traction
SiC power modules for rail traction are semiconductor packages built on silicon carbide chips that switch the converters driving electric trains, cutting losses and shrinking equipment.
Sic semper tyrannis
Sic semper tyrannis, Latin for "thus always to tyrants," is the motto of Virginia since 1776, appearing on the state seal and flag, and was shouted by John Wilkes Booth after shooting Abraham Lincoln; the Brutus attribution lacks ancient attestation.
Sic transit gloria mundi
Sic transit gloria mundi, "thus passes the glory of the world," is a Latin formula spoken at papal coronations as burning flax reminded the new pope of power's transience.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Yellowjackets)
"Sic Transit Gloria Mundi" is the tenth and final episode of Yellowjackets season 1, aired January 16, 2022; written by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, directed by Eduardo Sánchez; title is Latin for "thus passes the glory of the world."
SIC-POVM
A SIC-POVM (symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measure) is a quantum measurement of d² equiprobable outcomes whose statistics completely determine any quantum state, used in tomography and QBism.
SiC/SiC composite
A SiC/SiC composite is a ceramic matrix composite of silicon carbide fibers reinforcing a silicon carbide matrix, used in jet engine hot sections and nuclear fuel cladding.
Sicalis
Sicalis (Saffron Finches, Yellow Finches), a genus of Neotropical yellow-plumaged tanagers (Thraupidae) established by Friedrich Boie in 1828; 10-13 South American species, polyphyletic, including the Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola.
sICAM-1 study
sICAM-1 studies measure soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1, an endothelial activation marker, in obese children and adolescents; levels are higher than in healthy controls, correlate with carotid IMT and insulin resistance, and respond inconsistently to exercise.
Sicán ceremonial masks
Sicán ceremonial masks are hammered sheet-gold funerary masks made by the Lambayeque culture of Peru's north coast, chiefly between 900 and 1100 CE, and sewn onto mummy bundles rather than worn.
Sicana
Sicana Naudin (1862) is a genus of four accepted climbing cucurbit species in Cucurbitaceae, tribe Cucurbiteae, native from the Caribbean to Peru and Bolivia; its best-known species, Sicana odorifera (cassabanana, musk cucumber), is the sister group of Cucurbita with 2n = 40, and S. trinitensis of Trinidad is IUCN Endangered.
Sicarii
Sicarii, first-century CE Jewish dagger-assassins named from the Latin sicarius and the curved sica dagger; active before and during the First Jewish–Roman War, killed the high priest Jonathan, held Masada; known almost solely through Josephus.
Sicario (2015 film)
Sicario (2015) is a Denis Villeneuve crime thriller written by Taylor Sheridan, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin as an FBI agent drawn into a covert US task force against Mexican cartels; 121 minutes, Metascore 82, followed by Day of the Soldado (2018).
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Sicario: Day of the Soldado, also known as Sicario 2, is a 2018 action crime thriller directed by Stefano Sollima and written by Taylor Sheridan, the sequel to Sicario (2015).
Sicasica Fluctus
Sicasica Fluctus is a 175-km-wide lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 52.0° S, 180.4° E, IAU-named in 1994 after an Aymara mountain goddess and serving as the type locality of Venusian lobate plains material.
Sicca rupee of Bengal
The Sicca rupee of Bengal (سکہ روپیہ) was the silver rupee of the Bengal Presidency, struck by the East India Company in the name of Shah Alam II until 1838.
Sicca Veneria
Sicca Veneria (Colonia Iulia Veneria Cirta Nova Sicca) was an ancient Punic, Numidian, and Roman city at modern El Kef, Tunisia, in Africa Proconsularis, known for its Venus cult, its Octavianic veteran colony, and bishops Arnobius and Castus.
Sicels
Sicels (Sikeloi, Siculi): indigenous people of eastern Sicily, traditionally of Italic origin per Thucydides, driven from Italy by the Opici; source of the island's name Sicily, held the interior under Greek rule; Sicel language not provably Italic.
Sich Riflemen
The Sich Riflemen (Ukrainian: Українські Січові Стрільці, USS) were Ukrainian volunteer military formations active from 1914 to 1920, first as the only Ukrainian unit in the Austro-Hungarian army and later in the UNR army.