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SOAP note
SOAP note: Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan progress-note format invented by Lawrence Weed for the problem-oriented medical record (1964/1968); APSO variant moves assessment and plan to the top; widely used in EHRs and AI note generation.
Soap opera
Soap opera: long-running serialized radio and TV drama of continuing characters and open-ended storylines; coined in the 1930s US press for soap-sponsored daytime serials; distinct from the closed, finite telenovela.
Soap Opera Digest Awards
Soap Opera Digest Awards, originally The Soapys (1977–83), were reader-voted soap opera honors from Soap Opera Digest magazine, televised on NBC from 1984 to 2000, ending with a 2005 magazine announcement.
Soap opera effect
The soap opera effect is the hyper-realistic, video-like appearance films acquire when a TV's motion smoothing artificially raises their frame rate above 24 frames per second.
Soapdish
Soapdish is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Michael Hoffman that satirizes daytime soap operas, starring Sally Field, Kevin Kline, and Robert Downey Jr.
Soapnet
Soapnet was an American basic cable channel owned by Disney/ABC, launched in 2000, that aired soap operas around the clock until Disney replaced it with Disney Junior in 2013.
Soapstone
Soapstone, also called steatite, is a soft metamorphic rock composed primarily of talc, named for its soapy feel and used since ancient times for carvings, countertops, and wood stoves.
Soapy Smith
Soapy Smith, born Jefferson Randolph Smith (1860–1898), American con man famous for the Prize Package Soap Sell, crime boss of Denver and Skagway, killed July 8, 1898 in a Skagway wharf shootout.
Soar (cognitive architecture)
Soar is a cognitive architecture, developed by John Laird at the University of Michigan, that models human cognition and intelligent agents through production rules and chunking.
SOAR-CSNI trial
SOAR-CSNI (NCT04890925) is a UBC randomized, double-masked, three-arm trial of a community support network intervention (cognitive training, aerobic exercise, mindfulness, counselling) for women with intimate partner violence-related traumatic brain injury, enrollment 78, started May 2022.
Soarin'
Soarin' (Soarin' Over California, Soarin' Around the World, Soarin' Across America) is Disney's hang-glider flying-theater attraction, opened 2001 at Disney California Adventure, with an 80-foot dome, 87 riders, Jerry Goldsmith score, and parks at EPCOT, Shanghai, and Tokyo DisneySea.
Soaring Society of America
The Soaring Society of America (SSA) is the national governing body for the sport of gliding in the United States, founded in 1932 with almost 10,000 members.
SOAS University of London
SOAS University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), founded 1916 in Bloomsbury, is a University of London specialist public research university for Asia, Africa and the Middle East, with 5,000+ students, Development Studies ranked 2nd globally (QS 2026), and the UK's National Research Library for those regions.
Sob Gangri
Sob Gangri, also called Yuzhu Peak (玉珠峰), is a 6,178 m ultra-prominent peak in Qinghai, China, the highest of the eastern Kunlun Mountains, near the Qingzang Highway and a well-known introductory high-altitude climb.
SOB-five-like
SOB-five-like (SOFL, InterPro IPR044670) is a plant-specific protein family named after Arabidopsis SOB5, defined by conserved SOFL-A and SOFL-B domains and acting as positive modulators of cytokinin levels in flowering plants.
Soba (蕎麦)
Soba (蕎麦) is a Japanese buckwheat-flour noodle, typically bound with wheat flour (nihachi soba) or funori seaweed (hegi soba). Defined by the earliest 1574 sobakiri record at Joshō-ji in Nagano, Edo-era popularity, Kanto versus Kansai broth, and mandatory allergen labeling.
Soba East
Soba East is the archaeological site of Soba, capital of the medieval Nubian Kingdom of Alwa, located on the Blue Nile about 15 km from Khartoum, Sudan.
SoBe
SoBe (South Beach Beverage) is an American herbal tea and 'healthy refreshment' drink brand founded in 1995 by John Bello and Tom Schwalm, named for South Beach, Florida, with its two-lizard logo; PepsiCo bought it in 2000 for about $370 million.
Sobek
Sobek (Sebek, Suchos), the crocodile god of ancient Egypt, worshipped from Narmer's reign to Roman times; cult centers at Kom Ombo and the Fayum; merged with Re as Sobek-Re and with Horus under Dynasty 12.
Sobekemhat
Sobekemhat, also written Sobkemhet, was a high official of Egypt's 12th Dynasty, buried in a mastaba beside King Senwosret III's pyramid at Dahshur around the 19th century BC.
Sobekemsaf (13th Dynasty official)
Sobekemsaf was an official of Egypt's 13th Dynasty, around 1700 BC, who governed Thebes and is attested by four monuments, above all a statue in Vienna.
Sobekemsaf (queen)
Sobekemsaf was a queen of the late Second Intermediate Period at Thebes, wife of King Nubkheperre Intef and, on one account, daughter of a prince of Edfu.
Sobekemsaf I
Sobekemsaf I, whose throne name was Sekhemre-Wadjkhau, was a king of Egypt's Theban 17th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, when Thebes coexisted with the Hyksos.
Sobekemsaf II
Sobekemsaf II (Sobkemsaf II), throne name Sekhemre Shedtawy, was a Theban king of the late Second Intermediate Period, conventionally of the Seventeenth Dynasty, placed between Nubkheperre Intef and Ahmose Senakhtenre.
Sobekhotep (mayor of the Faiyum)
Sobekhotep was an ancient Egyptian official bearing the honorific rank of Great Mayor of the Faiyum, an oasis region whose cult centered on the crocodile god Sobek.
Sobekhotep (New Kingdom treasurer)
Sobekhotep was an Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian treasurer, overseer of the seal under Thutmose IV, known from his Theban tomb TT63 and British Museum painting fragments.
Sobekhotep (treasurer)
Sobekhotep was a royal treasurer of Twelfth Dynasty Egypt who served under Senusret I, known from a Hatnub stela dated to Year 22 of his reign.
Sobekhotep II
Sobekhotep II, usually identified with the throne name Khaankhre, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, seated at Itjtawy near the Faiyum; the ordinal numbering of the dynasty's many kings, several named Sobekhotep, is uncertain.
Sobekhotep III
Sobekhotep III (throne name Sekhemre Sewadjtawy) was a pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, reigning during the mid-18th century BC and attested by scarabs, seals, and monuments at Elkab and Elephantine.
Sobekhotep IV
Sobekhotep IV, also known as Khaneferre Sobekhotep, was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning about ten years.