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States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
The states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court are the states bound by the 1998 treaty that established the ICC, numbering 125.
States Reorganisation Act, 1956
States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (राज्य पुनर्गठन अधिनियम, 1956), Act No. 37 of 1956, enacted 31 August 1956; implemented the States Reorganisation Commission's plan, creating Kerala, new Mysore and composite Bombay, and substituting the First Schedule with 13 Part A states.
States Reorganisation Commission
The States Reorganisation Commission, also known as the Fazal Ali Commission, was a body appointed by India in 1953 that recommended reorganising states along linguistic lines.
States' rights
States' rights: American constitutional and political doctrine that powers not delegated to the federal government belong to the states under the Tenth Amendment, shaping nullification, secession, the New Federalism, and anti-commandeering doctrine.
Statesboro, Georgia
Statesboro, Georgia: county seat of Bulloch County, founded 1803 as Statesborough, major Sea Island cotton and bright tobacco market, home of Georgia Southern University; population 33,438 (2020).
Stateside (song)
Stateside is a 2025 PinkPantheress song from the mixtape Fancy That, sampling Groove Armada's I See You Baby; its Zara Larsson remix topped the Billboard Global 200 and hit number 3 in the UK.
Stateville Correctional Center
Stateville Correctional Center, opened March 1925 in Crest Hill, Illinois, is a maximum-security men's prison known for its panopticon-style roundhouse, the Northern Reception and Classification Center, and its 2024 closure and $900 million replacement plan.
Statewide opinion polling for the 2024 United States presidential election
Statewide opinion polling for the 2024 US presidential election tracked Trump versus Harris state by state after Biden's July 21 withdrawal; AAPOR judged the polls largely accurate though Republican support was again underestimated, with a 16-point Iowa miss.
Statewide opinion polling for the 2028 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Statewide opinion polling for the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries, also called early-state Democratic primary polls: surveys in South Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire and other early states, with Harris leading national averages near 26% amid sparse state polling.
Statewide opinion polling for the 2028 Republican Party presidential primaries
Statewide 2028 Republican primary polling covers early-state surveys, led by JD Vance over Marco Rubio: Minnesota Big Data Poll (Vance 40%) and New Hampshire UNH polls showing a narrowing Vance lead.
Statfjord oil field
Statfjord is an oil and gas field in the northern North Sea, straddling the Norway–UK sector border, discovered by Mobil in 1974 and producing since November 1979.
Stath Lets Flats
Stath Lets Flats: British Channel 4 sitcom created by and starring Jamie Demetriou as an incompetent Greek-Cypriot letting agent at family firm Michael & Eagle; three series 2018–2021, four BAFTAs.
Statherin
Statherin (STATH) is a 43-amino-acid tyrosine-rich acidic salivary phosphoprotein that inhibits calcium phosphate precipitation, keeps saliva supersaturated, forms enamel pellicle, and gave rise to histatin genes.
Static (1985 film)
Static (1985) is Mark Romanek's independent comedy-drama debut, co-written with star Keith Gordon, about Ernie Blick, who builds a TV said to show heaven. Premiered at Chicago 1985, US release 1986; Romanek later disowned it.
Static (DC Comics)
Static (Virgil Hawkins) is a Milestone/DC superhero, first appearing in Static #1 (1993), with electromagnetic powers from Dakota's Big Bang; star of Static Shock (2000–2004) and later a Teen Titan.
Static Age
Static Age is the Misfits' debut album, recorded January–February 1978 in New York, shelved after label rejections, and released in 1996 on the box set and standalone in 1997 on Caroline Records; distinct from the Burlington, Vermont post-punk band The Static Age.
Static application security testing
Static application security testing (SAST) is a white-box testing method that analyzes source code, bytecode, or binaries without executing them to find security vulnerabilities early in development.
Static code analysis
Static code analysis examines a program's source code without executing it, to detect bugs, security vulnerabilities, and quality issues, ranging from linters to formal verifiers that prove properties.
Static electricity
Static electricity, or static charge, is an imbalance of electric charge on a material's surface, built up when two surfaces touch and separate, producing sparks, shocks, and lightning.
Static forces and virtual-particle exchange
In quantum field theory, a static force between particles can be described as the exchange of a virtual particle, most familiarly a virtual photon; the picture comes from perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams.
Static friction
Static friction is the contact force resisting sliding between solid objects at rest relative to each other; it adjusts to match applied force up to a maximum, µsN.
Static induction thyristor
The static induction thyristor (SIThy, also written SITH, Japanese 静電誘導サイリスタ) is a four-layer power semiconductor switch with gate-controlled turn-off, invented by Jun-ichi Nishizawa in 1975 and used in pulsed power and accelerator supplies.
Static induction transistor
The static induction transistor (SIT) is a voltage-controlled power field-effect transistor invented by Jun-ichi Nishizawa in 1950, known for high-power, high-frequency operation and triode-like behavior.
Static light scattering
Static light scattering (SLS), also called differential light scattering, is an optical technique that measures laser light scattered by particles in solution to determine molar mass and radius of gyration.
Static load test
A static load test is a structural engineering test that applies a gradually increasing, non-varying load to a foundation element to measure its deformation, capacity, and stiffness.
Static Major
Static Major (Stephen Ellis Garrett, 1974-2008) was a Louisville-born R&B singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer of Playa who wrote Ginuwine's "Pony" and Aaliyah's "Try Again" and won a posthumous Best Rap Song Grammy for Lil Wayne's "Lollipop".
Static perimetry
Static perimetry, also known as standard automated perimetry, is an ophthalmic test measuring visual field sensitivity at fixed grid locations, the clinical standard for glaucoma since the 1980s.
Static Poems
Static Poems (Statische Gedichte) is a 1948 poetry collection by German poet and physician Gottfried Benn that restored him to German literature after his wartime publishing ban.
Static posturography
Static posturography, also called stabilometry, is a noninvasive test that measures body sway during quiet standing on a force platform, used to assess balance in vestibular and neurological disorders.
Static pressure
Static pressure is the pressure in a fluid at rest, equal in all directions at any point, increasing with depth by the hydrostatic equation p = p0 + ρgh.