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Société Nationale Des Pétroles Du Congo
The Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNPC) is the Republic of the Congo's state-owned national oil company, created by law in 1998 to manage the country's petroleum interests.
Society
Society: a population sharing a territory, culture, and political authority. Covers Lenski's societal types, social institutions, cohesion and inequality research, and UN data on exclusion, aging, and labor.
Society (film)
Society (1989) is Brian Yuzna's directorial debut, a body horror satire starring Billy Warlock as a Beverly Hills teen whose elite family are parasitic monsters; famous for the Screaming Mad George shunting finale, it flopped in the US but became a cult classic in the UK.
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), founded 1989 by merger of UAEM and STEM, is the US academic emergency medicine society, headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois, publishing Academic Emergency Medicine and running grants, academies, and the SAEM annual meeting.
Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), international professional society for cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging; publishes JCMR, training levels I-III, guidelines, annual scientific sessions; headquartered East Dundee, Illinois.
Society for Classical Studies
The Society for Classical Studies (SCS), founded in 1869 as the American Philological Association, is the principal North American organization for the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization.
Society for Creative Anachronism
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), founded in Berkeley, California, in 1966, is an international nonprofit with about 60,000 participants re-creating pre-17th-century arts, combat, and culture in 20 kingdoms.
Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) is a nonprofit medical professional society founded in 1984, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose mission is improving cancer outcomes through immunotherapy.
Society for Information Display
The Society for Information Display (SID), founded at UCLA in 1962, is an international professional society for the display industry, known for its annual Display Week symposium and Display Industry Awards.
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), founded 1977, Washington, DC: nonprofit society of 6,500+ maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists and colleagues; publishes Consult Series, PREGNANCY journal, safety checklists; hosts the Pregnancy Meeting.
Society for Nautical Research
The Society for Nautical Research is a British learned society and charity, founded in 1910, that promotes research into seafaring, shipbuilding, and nautical subjects.
Society for Neuroscience
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is an international professional society for brain researchers, founded in Washington, D.C. in 1969, that runs a large annual meeting.
Society for Neuroscience Oral History Project
The Society for Neuroscience Oral History Project is an archival program of video interviews and written autobiographies of senior neuroscientists, conceived by Larry Squire during his 1993 to 1994 SfN presidency.
Society for Psychical Research
Society for Psychical Research (SPR), London learned society founded 1882, first to investigate psychic phenomena scientifically; founded by William Fletcher Barrett, first president Henry Sidgwick; published Phantasms of the Living and Journal since 1884.
Society for Social Studies of Science
The Society for Social Studies of Science, known as 4S, is an international nonprofit association founded in 1975 that fosters interdisciplinary scholarship in science and technology studies.
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
SPCA societies are independent animal welfare charities tracing to the 1824 London founding; examples include RSPCA, ASPCA, and SPCA New Zealand, which differ sharply in legal enforcement powers and funding.
Society for the Publication of Albanian Writings
The Society for the Publication of Albanian Writings, or Istanbul Society (Shoqëri e Stambollit), was a patriotic cultural society founded in Istanbul in 1879 to publish Albanian books.
Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians
The Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians was a Tiflis-based cultural organization founded in 1879 that promoted Georgian-language education, publishing, and libraries across the Caucasus.
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), founded March 1946 in St. Louis, is the international professional society of evolutionary biologists; it publishes Evolution, co-publishes Evolution Letters with ESEB, and runs the annual Evolution meeting with ASN and SSB.
Society for Vascular Surgery
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), founded July 3, 1946 in San Francisco by 31 surgeons; US professional society for vascular surgery with 6,000+ members, the Journal of Vascular Surgery, and the Vascular Quality Initiative registry.
Society Islands
The Society Islands (French: Archipel de la Société) are an archipelago of 14 islands in French Polynesia, divided into Windward and Leeward groups and containing Tahiti.
Society of Actuaries
The Society of Actuaries is a Chicago-based professional body, formed in 1949, that credentials and educates actuaries in life insurance, health, retirement, and enterprise risk management.
Society of Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1940 to promote the study and conservation of architecture, landscapes, and urbanism.
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is a not-for-profit member association and CableLabs subsidiary, founded in 1969, serving the broadband industry through standards, certification, and training.
Society of Chemical Industry
The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) is an international, multidisciplinary charity founded in London in 1881 to advance applied chemistry, known for the Perkin Medal and its journals.
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is a United States-based nonprofit professional organization for people who write, illustrate, and translate children's books.
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), founded 1970 in Los Angeles, is the largest nonprofit medical society for critical care, with 17,000+ members in over 100 countries, publishing Critical Care Medicine journal and ICU guidelines.
Society of Economic Geologists
The Society of Economic Geologists, founded in 1920, is a global nonprofit professional society advancing the geoscience of mineral resources, with over 6,000 members in more than 100 countries.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), founded in 1930, is a professional society for applied geophysics, headquartered in Houston with more than 11,000 members in over 100 countries.
Society of Friends of the Polish Language
The Society of Friends of the Polish Language (Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego, TMJP) is a Polish organization, founded in Kraków in 1920, promoting the correct use and study of Polish.