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Sittace
Sittace (Σιττάκη, also Sittake) was an ancient city in Sittakene, near the Tigris southeast of Artemita, capital of the region per Pliny; mentioned by Xenophon and Ptolemy, now unlocated.
Sittalai Sattanar
Sittalai Sattanar (சீத்தலைச் சாத்தனார்) was a Tamil Buddhist poet, critic, and grain merchant of Madurai, author of the Manimekalai, one of the five great Tamil epics.
Sittanavasal Cave
Sittanavasal Cave (சித்தன்னவாசல்), called Arivar Koil, is a rock-cut Jain cave temple in Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu, India, celebrated for early medieval murals of the Jain Samavasarana, ranked after Ajanta.
Sittanavasal paintings
The Sittanavasal paintings are 7th- to 9th-century Jain murals in the Arivar Koil cave temple at Sittanavasal, Tamil Nadu, among South India's earliest surviving murals and principal early Jain wall painting.
Sitti Nurbaya
Sitti Nurbaya, also spelled Siti Nurbaya, is a 1922 Indonesian novel by Marah Rusli about two Minangkabau lovers whose marriage plans are destroyed by debt and forced marriage.
Sitting
Sitting, the supported resting posture of humans, spans chair history from Song dynasty China to modern ergonomics; prolonged sitting raises spinal load, reduces vascular function, and is best countered by posture variation rather than standing alone.
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull (Tatanka-Iyotanka), Hunkpapa Lakota leader born 1831–1837, resisted the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, led the non-treaty Lakota, was present at the 1876 Little Bighorn victory over Custer, and was killed December 15, 1890 during arrest amid Ghost Dance fears.
Sitting Target
Sitting Target (1972) is a British crime thriller directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, and Ian McShane, based on Laurence Henderson's 1970 novel, about an escaped convict hunting his unfaithful pregnant wife; noted for an X rating for violence and Clapham Junction filming.
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is a town in Swale, Kent, England, on Milton Creek beside Roman Watling Street (A2). Known as a pilgrim and coaching stop, then for brickmaking (Smeed Dean) and Edward Lloyd's newsprint mill, closed 2007.
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.