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Småland
Småland is a historical Swedish province (landskap) in Götaland, covering Jönköping, Kalmar (except Öland), and Kronoberg counties; 29,330 km², 780,700 people (2025), forested highland, Tomtabacken 377 m, glass industry, Dackefejden revolt.
Small & Mighty (正义的算法)
Small & Mighty (正義的算法) is a 2022 Taiwanese legal comedy-drama, Disney+'s first original Taiwanese series, co-produced with bilibili by Yoosonn Entertainment. Directed by Hsu Fu-hsiang, starring Chen Bo-lin and Puff Kuo; 26 episodes aired June 15 to July 21, 2022.
Small area estimation
Small area estimation (SAE) is a collection of statistical methods that produce model-based estimates for small geographic areas by combining survey data with auxiliary information.
Small Arms Survey
The Small Arms Survey is an independent research institute in Geneva, established in 1999 on Swiss government initiative, producing widely cited data on firearms holdings and armed violence.
Small Aten Temple
The Small Aten Temple, anciently called Hwt-Aten, was a major temple of the sun disk Aten in the Central City of Akhetaten, Akhenaten's capital at modern Tell el-Amarna.
Small Axe (anthology)
Small Axe is Steve McQueen's 2020 anthology of five films (Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Red White and Blue, Alex Wheatle, Education) on London's West Indian community, 1968–1984, for BBC One and Amazon Prime.
Small Baseline Subset
Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) is a differential InSAR time-series method, reported in 2002, that measures ground deformation from stacks of short-baseline SAR interferograms, producing velocity maps and displacement time series.
Small beer
Small beer: weak English beer, about 0.75–3% ABV, the staple drink from medieval times to the 19th century, brewed from second runnings of a mash; source of the idiom for something trifling.
Small Bone Innovations (SBi)
Small Bone Innovations was an American orthopedic device company founded in 2004 by Viscogliosi Brothers, best known for its S.T.A.R. total ankle replacement and acquired by Stryker in 2014.
Small bowel atresia
Small bowel atresia, also called intestinal atresia, is a birth defect in which part of the small intestine is blocked or narrowed, causing bilious vomiting in newborns within 48 hours and treated surgically.
Small business
A small business, also known as a mom-and-pop shop or small enterprise, is an independently owned firm below government size thresholds; small firms employ 45.9% of US private workers.
Small Business Administration
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is a United States federal agency that helps small businesses through loan guarantees, counseling and training, federal contracting, and disaster recovery.
Small Cajal body-specific RNA
Small Cajal body-specific RNAs (scaRNAs, SCARNA genes) are non-coding guide RNAs in Cajal bodies that direct 2'-O-methylation and pseudouridylation of spliceosomal snRNAs; at least 24 human scaRNAs exist, with CAB-box or GU-repeat localization signals.
Small caps
Small caps, also called small capitals, are capital letterforms drawn at roughly the x-height so they blend into lowercase text; true ones are specially drawn, not merely shrunken capitals.
Small cell
A small cell is a low-powered wireless base station covering a small area, used to extend coverage and add capacity where macro cell networks are weak or overloaded.
Small cell carcinoma of the bladder
Small cell carcinoma of the bladder (SCCB), a rare aggressive neuroendocrine bladder cancer under 1% of cases, first reported 1981, marked by TP53/RB1 loss, hematuria, and treatment extrapolated from small cell lung cancer.
Small cell carcinoma of the ovary
Small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (SCCOHT), a rare aggressive ovarian cancer of young women, first described 1979, causing hypercalcemia in two-thirds of cases and driven by SMARCA4 loss.
Small cell lung cancer
Small cell lung cancer is a fast-growing, aggressive lung cancer linked to smoking, making up about 15% of lung cancers; it spreads early but responds to chemotherapy and radiation.
Small Change
Small Change (L'Argent de poche, "Pocket Money") is François Truffaut's 1976 French comedy-drama about children in Thiers; also a 1976 Tom Waits album on Asylum and a Peter Gill play.
Small Changes (album)
Small Changes (2024) is Michael Kiwanuka's fourth album, released 22 November on Polydor/Geffen, produced by Danger Mouse and Inflo; 11 tracks, 40 minutes, Metascore 83, UK chart peak number 2.
Small Circular Mound
The Small Circular Mound was an Archaeological Survey of India protected monument at Lakhnu in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh, protected in 1920 and later reported destroyed.
Small Club World Cup
Small Club World Cup (Pequeña Copa del Mundo, Mundialito de Clubes): club football tournament in Caracas, Venezuela, 1952–1975, main era 1952–57; forerunner of the Intercontinental Cup; Real Madrid won 1952 and 1956.
Small Conical Mound of Ruins Called Devi Ka Sthan
Devi-ka-sthan is a small conical mound of ruins at Bairant, Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh, a centrally protected ASI monument (N-UP-S27) near the ancient fort on the Ban Ganga.
Small dendrobatid genera: Silverstoneia, Excidobates, Adelphobates and Epipedobates
Silverstoneia, Excidobates, Adelphobates, and Epipedobates are four small genera of poison dart frogs outside the familiar bright dart-frog lineages, split off in 2006 and 2008, with Epipedobates the source of the alkaloid epibatidine.
Small Down Knoll hill fort
Small Down Knoll hill fort (Small Down Camp) is a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort with a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery near Evercreech, Somerset, at 222 m on Mendip; scheduled monument 1006175, excavated by Gray in 1904.
Small Faces
Small Faces: English mod/psychedelic rock band formed in East London in 1965 by Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston (later Ian McLagan). Known for "All Or Nothing", "Itchycoo Park", and the 1968 chart-topping Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake; became Faces after Marriott left, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
Small Faces (1967 album)
Small Faces (1967) is the English mod-psych band's second album and Immediate Records debut, released June 23, 1967, recorded at Olympic Studios with Glyn Johns; distinct from the 1966 Decca debut of the same name.
Small Faces (1996 film)
Small Faces (1996) is a British coming-of-age drama directed by Gillies MacKinnon, set in 1968 Glasgow, about the Maclean brothers and gang violence; it won the 1996 Rotterdam Tiger Award.
Small files problem
Small files problem: performance degradation in HDFS and lakehouse tables (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg) when many tiny files overwhelm NameNode metadata, add per-file overhead, and require compaction (OPTIMIZE, auto compaction) into larger files.
Small finance bank
A small finance bank is a licensed Indian bank, created by the Reserve Bank of India in 2014, that lends to small businesses, farmers, and unorganized-sector borrowers.