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St.Lawrence
St.Lawrence, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 117, a temperate coastal rivers ecoregion in Canada and the US defined by the St. Lawrence River drainage from Lake Ontario to the Gulf, home of the endemic copper redhorse.
St1
St1 is a Finnish energy company, founded in 1997, operating across Finland, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom in oil products, biogas, sustainable aviation fuel, and renewable diesel.
ST2-IPF trial
ST2-IPF: sit-to-stand exercise testing in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, anchored by trial NCT03268915 (3-minute test reproducibility, Grenoble/Lyon) and validation studies comparing 1-min, 3-min, and 5-repetition protocols with the 6-minute walk test.
ST40
ST40 is a compact, high-field spherical tokamak built and operated by Tokamak Energy in Oxfordshire, UK, which in 2022 became the first private fusion device to reach 100 million °C.
ST6GAL1
ST6GAL1 (ST6 beta-galactoside alpha-2,6-sialyltransferase 1, gene ID 6480) encodes a Golgi enzyme adding α2,6-linked sialic acid to N-glycans; a liver-secreted blood form regulates B cells, IgG sialylation, and is amplified in cancers via 3q26.
ST88-14
ST88-14 (CVCL_8916) is a human NF1-associated malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor cell line from a 24-year-old man's retroperitoneal tumor, neurofibromin-deficient, and the genuine line behind the misidentified T265.
STA Pharmaceutical
STA Pharmaceutical (合全药业), formally Shanghai SynTheAll Pharmaceutical, is a Chinese contract development and manufacturing organization for small-molecule drugs. Founded in Shanghai in 2003, it is controlled by WuXi AppTec.
STA trial
STA trial (SPTSS, NCT01837433): a phase 4 randomized trial at Xinqiao Hospital, Chongqing, testing 1 week of prednisone plus NSAIDs versus 6-week prednisone for moderate-to-severe subacute thyroiditis, finding similar efficacy with fewer side effects.
STAAD
STAAD, also known as STAAD Pro, is a family of structural engineering software that performs 3D finite-element analysis and design of steel and concrete structures.
Staal brothers
Staal brothers: Eric, Marc, Jordan, and Jared Staal of Thunder Bay, Ontario, four siblings who all reached the NHL; Eric, Jordan, and Marc are the first brother trio with 1,000 NHL games each.
Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München
Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München, or Hofbräu München, is a brewery in Munich owned by the Bavarian state, founded in 1589 and opened to the public in 1828.
Staatstheater Stuttgart
Staatstheater Stuttgart (Württembergische Staatstheater): Germany's three-division state theatre combining Staatsoper Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Ballett, and Schauspiel Stuttgart in the 1912 Max Littmann Opernhaus; largest multi-division house in Europe, now facing a billion-euro renovation review.
Stab-in-the-back myth
Stab-in-the-back myth (Dolchstoßlegende): the false post-1918 claim that Germany lost World War I through home-front betrayal by socialists and Jews, not military defeat; promoted by Ludendorff and Hindenburg and exploited by the Nazis against the Weimar Republic.
Stabæk Fotball
Stabæk Fotball, nicknamed De Blaa, is a Norwegian football club from Bærum founded 16 March 1912. Men won the 1998 Cup and 2008 Eliteserien; women won Toppserien 2010 and 2013; both play at Nadderud.
Stabat Mater
The Stabat Mater, also known as Stabat Mater Dolorosa, is a medieval Latin sequence depicting Mary at the crucifixion, long attributed to Jacopone da Todi.
Stabbing
Stabbing: assault or homicide with a pointed or bladed weapon, counted in UK statistics as knife-enabled or sharp-instrument offences; 54,587 recorded offences in YE Dec 2024, 41% of homicides, concentrated in London.
Stabbing of George Harrison
The stabbing of George Harrison: on 30 December 1999 Michael Abram, a schizophrenic man from Liverpool, broke into Friar Park and stabbed the former Beatle, puncturing a lung; he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2000 and detained, then released in 2002.
Stabbing Westward
Stabbing Westward is an American industrial rock band founded in 1985 in Macomb, Illinois, known for the gold albums Wither Blister Burn & Peel and Darkest Days.
Stabian Baths
Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane), Pompeii insula VII 1,8: earliest known Roman-type public bath building, built after 130/120 BC, with separate men's and women's sections, hypocaust heating, well then Serino aqueduct supply, in use until AD 79.
Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stabilisation Force (SFOR), NATO-led peace enforcement force in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 20 December 1996 to 2 December 2004, under UNSCR 1088; succeeded IFOR, about 31,000 troops shrinking to 7,000, handed over to EUFOR Operation Althea.
Stability (probability)
Stability in probability theory, also called stable convergence, is a strengthening of convergence in distribution, introduced by Alfred Rényi in 1963, in which the limit holds jointly with every event.
Stability AI
Stability AI is a London-founded artificial intelligence company, established in 2019 by Emad Mostaque and best known for releasing the Stable Diffusion image-generation model in 2022.
Stability AI leadership crisis of 2024
The Stability AI leadership crisis of 2024 was the financial strain and investor pressure that ended with founder Emad Mostaque resigning as CEO in March 2024.
Stability AI rescue and restructuring
The Stability AI rescue and restructuring was a June 2024 bailout led by Sean Parker that installed Prem Akkaraju as CEO and forgave about $100 million of debt.
Stability and Growth Pact
The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) is the European Union's fiscal surveillance framework, assessing deficits against 3% of GDP and debt against 60%, with sanctions for breaches.
Stability lobe diagram
A stability lobe diagram is a machining chart whose lobed curves separate chatter-free cutting from unstable chatter by spindle speed and depth of cut, guiding machinists to speeds that maximize material removal.
Stability of planetary ring systems
The stability of planetary ring systems depends on confinement by satellite resonances and shepherding moons, since dense rings otherwise spread and vanish within a few hundred million years.
Stability of the Lagrange points
The stability of the Lagrange points: triangular points L4 and L5 are stable below Routh's mass-ratio threshold, while collinear L1, L2, and L3 are always unstable.
Stability of the Solar System
The stability of the Solar System is the question of whether planetary orbits remain stable over long times. The motion is chaotic, yet catastrophic rearrangement is improbable.
Stability selection
Stability selection is a statistical variable selection method, introduced by Meinshausen and Bühlmann in 2010, that runs the lasso on many random subsamples and keeps variables selected consistently.