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Salesforce Tower
Salesforce Tower, also known as Transbay Tower, is a 61-story, 1,070-foot (326 m) office skyscraper at 415 Mission Street in San Francisco, the tallest building in the city.
Salesi Foketi
Salesi Foketi (Salesi Mafile'o Foketi), New Zealand rugby league second-row/lock for the Sydney Roosters; NRL debut 6 March 2025, 45 appearances, 2026 premiership winner, Auckland-born, contracted through 2027.
Salesians of Don Bosco
The Salesians of Don Bosco, formally the Society of St Francis de Sales, are a Catholic religious institute founded by John Bosco in Turin in 1859.
Salesloft
Salesloft is an Atlanta-based software company whose platform helps business-to-business sales teams manage, automate, and optimize prospecting across email, phone, and social media; it merged with Clari in December 2025.
Salesman
Salesman (1969) is a direct cinema documentary by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin following four Mid-American Bible Company door-to-door salesmen, including Paul "The Badger" Brennan, from Boston to Miami; a National Film Registry selection.
Salford
Salford: city in Greater Manchester, England, west of Manchester across the River Irwell; 37 square miles, about 220,000 people. Industrial-era canal and rail pioneer, now known for Salford Quays, MediaCityUK and large-scale regeneration.
Salford City F.C.
Salford City F.C., the Ammies, English League Two club founded 1940 as Salford Central; bought in 2014 by Manchester United's Class of '92 with Peter Lim, reaching the EFL in 2019, winning the 2020 EFL Trophy, and passing to a Beckham-Neville consortium in May 2025.
Salford Quays
Salford Quays, formerly Salford/Manchester Docks on the Manchester Ship Canal, is a regenerated Salford, Greater Manchester waterfront district, home to MediaCityUK (BBC, ITV, 250+ businesses), The Lowry, with £1.4bn GVA and a £1bn doubling expansion planned.
Salgado Filho Porto Alegre International Airport
Salgado Filho International Airport is the main airport of Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, handling more than 7.5 million passengers in 2023.
Salgado Maranhão
Salgado Maranhão, pen name of José Salgado Santos Costa, is a Brazilian poet born in 1953 in Caxias, Maranhão, known for formally demanding verse rooted in the Brazilian Northeast, and a two-time Jabuti Prize winner.
Salghurid submission to the Mongols
The Salghurid submission to the Mongols (تسلیم سلغوریان به مغولان) was the acceptance of Mongol overlordship by the Salghurid atabegs of Fars, beginning under the Great Khan Ogedei.
Salghurids
The Salghurids (سلوغریان), also called the Atabakan-e Fars, were a dynasty of Oghuz Turkmen origin that ruled Fars in southwestern Iran from 1148 to 1286.
Salgueiros
Salgueiros (Sport Comércio e Salgueiros), Portuguese football club founded 8 December 1911 in Porto's Paranhos; 24 top-flight seasons, 5th in 1990/91, 1991/92 UEFA Cup vs Cannes; financial collapse in 2004, revived as Salgueiros 08, now in Campeonato de Portugal.
Salhin
Salhin was the palace of the Sabaean kings at Marib in Yemen, where a king's formal entry probably marked his accession; its remains have never been found.
Salhoutuonuo Kruse
Salhoutuonuo Kruse is an Indian politician who in 2023 became one of the first two women elected to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly and Nagaland's first woman minister.
Sali Berisha
Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and Democratic Party leader; President 1992–1997, Prime Minister 2005–2013; barred by the US in 2021, charged with corruption in 2023, opposition leader in the 2025 election.
Salian dynasty
Salian dynasty (Salier), Rhenish-Frankish German royal house ruling 1024–1125: Conrad II, Henry III, Henry IV, Henry V; Investiture Controversy, Canossa, Concordat of Worms, Speyer Cathedral, extinction in 1125 before the Hohenstaufen.
Salian Franks
Salian Franks: a Frankish people of the lower Rhine, settled in Toxandria and Belgic Gaul from 358 as Roman foederati, ancestors of the Merovingians under Childeric I and Clovis I, and namesakes of the Lex Salica.
Salic law
Salic law (Lex Salica, loi salique) is the early 6th-century legal code of the Salian Franks, attributed to Clovis, chiefly a tariff of monetary penalties, whose terra Salica land clause was later repurposed in France to bar women from royal succession.
Salicaceae
Salicaceae, the willow family (Salix, Populus), is a family of about 54 genera and over 1,400 species of trees and shrubs in the order Malpighiales, expanded from two genera to include former Flacourtiaceae, with major timber and environmental uses.
SALICE study
SALICE (NCT07624370), an Italian observational study by ASST Ovest Milanese, Ospedale di Legnano, on frailty and sarcopenia in elderly oncological and oncohematological patients, enrolling 160 participants since March 2025.
Salicin
Salicin is a phenolic glycoside, the β-D-glucoside of salicyl alcohol, found in willow and poplar bark, isolated in 1829 and serving as the chemical starting point for aspirin.
Salicornia
Salicornia (glasswort, samphire, sea asparagus) is a genus of about 35 to 64 accepted succulent halophyte species in Amaranthaceae, first published by Linnaeus in 1753, growing on temperate and subtropical coasts and saline inland areas, with optimal growth near 200 mM NaCl and uses as food, biofuel, and phytoremediation crop.
Salicylaldehyde
Salicylaldehyde (2-hydroxybenzaldehyde) is a colorless or pale yellow aromatic aldehyde with a bitter almond odor, found in plants and used in flavorings, fragrances, agricultural chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and Schiff base ligands.
Salicylate
Salicylate is the $ ext{C}{7} ext{H}{5} ext{O}{3}^{-}$ anion and conjugate base of salicylic acid, which is isolated from willow bark and acts as a plant hormone for defense.
Salicylic acid
Salicylic acid is a crystalline acid first isolated from willow bark and the parent compound of aspirin, used topically for acne and warts and as a plant defense hormone.
Salidroside
Salidroside, also called rhodioloside, is a phenylethanoid glycoside occurring in Rhodiola plants and serving as the marker compound of Rhodiola rosea extracts, studied for effects against hypoxia and fatigue.
Salience (neuroscience)
Salience (neuroscience): the prominence of stimuli that captures attention, computed by the salience network (anterior insula, dorsal ACC). Covers saliency/priority maps, the DMN/CEN switching hypothesis, incentive salience, aberrant salience in psychosis, and 2024 depression findings.
Saliency map
A saliency map is a two-dimensional map showing which locations in a visual scene stand out or, in machine learning, which inputs influence a model's prediction.
Saliency maps
Saliency maps are heatmap visualizations highlighting which parts of an input image a neural network considered most relevant to its prediction, introduced by Oxford researchers in 2013.