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State, tribal and local wetland regulation in the United States
State, tribal, and local wetland regulation in the United States is the state, tribal, and local laws protecting wetlands outside federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction.
Stateful firewall
A stateful firewall, also called a stateful inspection or SPI firewall, is a network firewall that filters traffic using a state table it maintains about each connection.
Stateful stream processing
Stateful stream processing: continuous computation over unbounded data streams where operators maintain mutable state (windows, joins, aggregates). Key mechanisms are checkpointing, exactly-once recovery, LSM-tree or decoupled state backends, and transactional guarantees in systems like Flink and Kafka Streams.
Stateless (TV series)
Stateless is a 2020 Australian six-part drama miniseries co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres, and Elise McCredie, set in the Barton immigration detention centre and inspired by the Cornelia Rau unlawful detention case; it aired on ABC and Netflix and won AACTA awards.
Stateless nation
Stateless nation: an ethnic or national group, such as the Kurds (~30 million across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria) or Palestinians, sharing identity and homeland but lacking a sovereign state; distinct from individual statelessness.
Stateless protocol
A stateless protocol is a communications protocol in which each request is handled independently, with no session information retained by the receiver between requests. HTTP is the defining example.
Stateless society
Stateless societies are communities that maintain order, settle disputes, and organize collective life without centralized government, through kinship, custom law, mediation, and persuasion; classic examples include the Ifugao and pre-colonial African segmentary societies.
Statelessness
Statelessness: the condition of having no nationality under any state's law, defined by the 1954 Convention. At least 4.5 million people are affected worldwide; causes include discriminatory nationality laws, state succession, and missing birth registration.
Statement (computer science)
In computer science, a statement, also called a program statement, is a fragment of a program executed for its effect rather than to produce a value.
Statement (logic)
A statement in logic is a declarative sentence, or part of one, that is capable of being true or false, and the basic unit of propositional logic.
Statement of changes in equity
The statement of changes in equity is a primary financial statement reconciling each component of a company's equity, showing profit or loss, other comprehensive income, dividends, and share issues.
Statement of work
A statement of work (SOW) is the contract document describing the work a supplier must perform, its deliverables, and acceptance criteria; in US federal contracting it measures contractor performance.
Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act
Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, often shortened to Statements, is a 1972 play by Athol Fugard about an illegal interracial affair in apartheid South Africa.
Staten Island
Staten Island, coextensive with Richmond County, is New York City's southernmost and least populous borough (476,143 residents). Known for the free Staten Island Ferry, the former Fresh Kills landfill, now Freshkills Park, and its suburban, politically distinct character.
Staten Island Ferry
The Staten Island Ferry is a free passenger ferry between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan, run by New York City since 1905, carrying 16 million riders a year.
Staten Island Railway
The Staten Island Railway, also known as Staten Island Rapid Transit, is the only rapid transit line on Staten Island, running 24/7 between St. George and Tottenville.
Staten Island Yankees
Staten Island Yankees, the "Baby Bombers": New York–Penn League short-season Class A affiliate of the New York Yankees, 1999–2020, six league titles, played at Richmond County Bank Ballpark, eliminated in MLB's 2020 minor league reorganization and replaced by the independent FerryHawks.
Staten Island Zoo
Staten Island Zoo, also called New York's biggest little zoo, is an 8-acre AZA-accredited zoo in West Brighton's Barrett Park, opened June 10, 1936 as America's first educational zoo, known for rattlesnakes and Staten Island Chuck.
Statens vegvesen
Statens vegvesen (Norwegian Public Roads Administration, NPRA) is the Norwegian government agency responsible for national and European roads, traffic safety, and driver and vehicle licensing.
Statera Energy
Statera Energy is a London-headquartered UK company developing grid-scale battery storage, flexible generation, pumped hydro, and green hydrogen, founded in 2015 and owned by EQT Infrastructure since 2024.
States and federal territories of Malaysia
Malaysia's first-level divisions: 13 states (negeri) and 3 federal territories (wilayah persekutuan), Kuala Lumpur, Labuan, Putrajaya; nine hereditary Rulers, Sabah and Sarawak holding special MA63 autonomy.
States and territories of Australia
Australia's states and territories: six states (NSW, Victoria, Queensland, WA, SA, Tasmania) plus the ACT, Northern Territory, and external territories, their constitutional basis, self-government acts, and federal representation.
States and union territories of India
States and union territories of India: the country's 28 states and 8 union territories, their constitutional basis under Articles 239-241, the 1956 linguistic reorganization, and the 2019 Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh reorganization.
States associated with artificial menopause
States associated with artificial menopause (ICD-11 GA30.3; ICD-10-CM N95.3) covers conditions caused by surgically or pharmacologically induced cessation of menstruation, including surgical menopause after bilateral oophorectomy and menopause from chemotherapy, pelvic radiation, or hormone therapy.
States General of the Netherlands
States General (Staten-Generaal), the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, dating to 1464 under Philip the Good and the confederal government of the Dutch Republic 1588-1795; since 1815 it comprises the 150-seat House of Representatives and the 75-member Senate.
States of emergency in India
States of emergency in India are constitutional regimes under Part XVIII (Articles 352, 356, 360): national emergency, President's Rule, and financial emergency. Proclaimed 1962, 1971, 1975; reshaped by the 44th Amendment and the 1994 Bommai judgment.
States of Germany
States of Germany (Länder, singular Land): the 16 constituent states of the Federal Republic, including three city-states (Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen). Five eastern Länder were reestablished by the Ländereinführungsgesetz of 22 July 1990 and joined on 3 October 1990.
States of Nigeria
States of Nigeria: the 36 federated states plus the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and 774 LGAs governing about 220 million people. Created in waves from 12 states in 1967 to 36 in 1996; states rely heavily on federal allocations.
States of South Sudan
States of South Sudan: the ten first-order administrative divisions (Central Equatoria, Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei, Lakes, Northern and Western Bahr el Ghazal, Unity, Upper Nile, Warrap, Western Equatoria), briefly 28 then 32 states in 2015-2020, restored to ten plus three administrative areas.
States of Venezuela
The states of Venezuela are the country's 23 first-order territorial divisions, each an autonomous entity with an elected governor and Legislative Council, alongside a Capital District and federal dependencies.