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Sittwe
Sittwe (စစ်တွေမြို့), formerly Akyab until 1989, is the capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar, founded by the British on 12 January 1826 at the Kaladan River mouth; a colonial rice port, site of Rohingya displacement camps, India's Sittwe Port, and contested in the civil war.
Situ Panchen
Situ Panchen, or Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne (1700–1774), was the Eighth Tai Situpa, a Karma Kagyu hierarch who revived the Encampment style of Tibetan painting from Palpung Monastery in Kham.
Situation analysis
Situation analysis, also called situational analysis, is the structured study of a firm's internal and external marketing environments, done before strategy formulation using frameworks like SWOT.
Situation awareness
Situation awareness (SA) is a person's perception of their environment, comprehension of its meaning, and projection of its near-future status, defined by Mica Endsley in 1995.
Situation calculus
The situation calculus is a logical formalism in artificial intelligence for representing changing worlds, best known through Ray Reiter's solution to the frame problem and the Golog language.
Situation Room
The White House Situation Room is the secure West Wing complex created in 1961 by Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs; a 5,500-sq-ft, $50-million-renovated 24-hour intelligence and crisis communications hub.
Situation Room (photograph)
Situation Room photograph: iconic Pete Souza White House photo of May 1, 2011, showing Obama, Biden, and Hillary Clinton watching the live feed of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, taken in a small anteroom at 4:05 p.m.
Situational analysis (social science)
Situational analysis is a qualitative research method introduced by sociologist Adele E. Clarke in 2003 that extends grounded theory, making the entire situation of inquiry the unit of analysis.
Situational awareness
Situational awareness is the perception and understanding of factors and conditions affecting safety in an operation, together with projecting how the situation will develop, a core aviation human-factors concept.
Situational ethics
Situational ethics, also called situation ethics, is a moral theory holding that acts are right or wrong depending on their circumstances rather than on fixed rules.
Situational judgment test
A situational judgment test (SJT) is a psychometric assessment presenting hypothetical work or social scenarios with response options, scored against an expert key, used in personnel selection and research.
Situational leadership theory
Situational leadership theory, also called the Hersey–Blanchard situational theory, is a management model holding that leaders should match one of four styles, from directing to delegating, to a follower's readiness.
Situationist International
The Situationist International (Internationale situationniste) was a Marxist avant-garde group founded in 1957 at Cosio d'Arroscia, Italy, and dissolved in 1972, known for the dérive, détournement, Debord's Society of the Spectacle, and its influence on May 1968 and punk.
Situs inversus
Situs inversus (situs inversus totalis): complete mirror-image reversal of thoracic and abdominal organs, distinct from heterotaxy (situs ambiguous). Prevalence 1/6,000–1/33,000; usually asymptomatic; linked to Kartagener syndrome and primary ciliary dyskinesia.
Sitz bath
Sitz bath: warm shallow bath covering hips and buttocks, also called hip bath, used for hemorrhoids, anal fissures, and postpartum perineal care; evidence of benefit is limited.
Sium
Sium (water parsnips), Apiaceae genus of glabrous perennial wetland herbs of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, about 9-10 species including skirret (S. sisarum) and S. suave.
Sium sisarum
Sium sisarum, skirret (crummock, Zuckerwurzel), a tuberous Apiaceae perennial native from Central and Southeast Europe to SW Siberia and N Afghanistan, grown on a small scale for its sweet clustered roots, 2n=12, IUCN Least Concern.
Siuru
Siuru was an Estonian literary group active from 1917 to 1920, founded in Tallinn by six writers including Marie Under and Friedebert Tuglas, named after a mythical bird in the epic Kalevipoeg.
Śiv Dayāl Sāheb
Śiv Dayāl Sāheb (शिव दयाल साहब), born Shiv Dayal Singh, was an Agra banker who founded the Radhasoami movement in 1861, teaching surat shabd yoga until his death in 1878.
Siva (director)
Siva, also known as Siruthai Siva and born Sivakumar Jayakumar, is an Indian Tamil and Telugu film director and screenwriter, known for his mass-entertainer films with Ajith Kumar.
Siva (Shankaracharya of Puri)
Siva, recorded as Anantashri Shiv, was the 139th Shankaracharya of the Govardhan Matha at Puri, holding the seat for 21 years from 1849 to 1870.
Siva (శివ) (1989 Telugu film)
Siva (శివ), also Shiva, is Ram Gopal Varma's 1989 Telugu directorial debut starring Nagarjuna, Amala, and Raghuvaran, a college-politics mafia action film that became an all-time industry hit and redefined Telugu cinema technique.
Siva gutika (shiva gutika, afi-sivagutikalagu)
Siva Gutika (Śivā guṭikā, AFI000426) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill built on shilajit, described in Ashtanga Sangraha Uttarasthana 49, dosed 12 g (Laghu variant 6 g), used for liver, spleen, metabolic and respiratory disorders.
Siva Kaneswaran
Siva Kaneswaran, Irish singer, model, and actor born 1988 in Dublin, member of British-Irish boy band The Wanted ("All Time Low", "Glad You Came"); now performs with Max George as The Wanted 2.0.
Siva Manasula Sakthi (சிவ மனசுல சக்தி)
Siva Manasula Sakthi (SMS, சிவ மனசுல சக்தி) is a 2009 Tamil romantic comedy, M. Rajesh's directorial debut, starring Jiiva and Anuya Bhagwat with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; a hit that gained cult status and was remade in Telugu in 2012.
Siva Reddy
Siva Reddy is an Indian-born computer scientist working in natural language processing, an assistant professor at Mila and McGill University who created the CoQA question answering benchmark.
Siva S. Banda
Siva S. Banda is an Indian-American aerospace engineer who spent decades in flight control research for military aircraft at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Siva Singha
Siva Singha (স্বৰ্গদেউ শিৱ সিংহ) was king of the Ahom kingdom in Assam from 1714 to 1744, known for temple building and rule by his chief queens.
Siva-like
Siva-like (InterPro IPR022773, Pfam PF05458) is the protein family of SIVA1/Siva, a 189-aa proapoptotic CD27-binding protein on chromosome 14q32-33 with SAH, death-domain-homology, and zinc-finger domains, splice forms Siva-1 and Siva-2.
Sivaangi Krishnakumar (சிவாங்கி கிருஷ்ணகுமார்)
Sivaangi Krishnakumar (சிவாங்கி கிருஷ்ணகுமார்), known as Sivaangi, is a Tamil playback singer and actress, daughter of singers K. Krishnakumar and Binni Krishnakumar, who rose via Super Singer 7 and Cooku with Comali and debuted in film with Don.