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Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec
The Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) is a Quebec crown corporation that licenses drivers and vehicles and runs the province's public no-fault auto insurance.
Société des Avions Marcel Bloch
The Société des Avions Marcel Bloch was a French aircraft maker founded by Marcel Bloch in Paris in 1929, nationalized in 1937 and reborn as Dassault.
Société des gens de lettres
The Société des gens de lettres is a French association, founded in Paris in 1838 by writers including Balzac, Hugo, and Dumas, that defends authors' rights.
Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad
Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad (SHT) is Chad's state-owned national oil company, created in 2006 to manage the government's oil interests, including a 25% stake in the Doba consortium acquired in 2014.
Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen
Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen (SPSE) is a French pipeline company, founded in 1958, that runs crude oil pipelines from Fos-sur-Mer near Marseille to Karlsruhe in Germany.
Société Générale
Société Générale, also known as SocGen, is a French bank founded in 1864 under Napoleon III, serving around 27 million clients in 58 countries with about 110,000 employees.
Société Géologique de France
The Société Géologique de France (SGF, Geological Society of France) is a French learned society for the earth sciences, founded in Paris in 1830 and recognized as of public utility in 1832.
Société Immobilière du Cameroun
The Société Immobilière du Cameroun (SIC) is Cameroon's state-controlled real-estate and social-housing company, created in 1952, 92% owned by the State, and the country's principal social landlord.
Société nationale d'électricité du Congo
Société nationale d'électricité du Congo, known as SNEL, is the state-owned electricity utility of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 1970 and operating the Inga dams.
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.