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Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry

Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry is a state-owned Chinese coal and energy group headquartered in Shaanxi Province, controlling shareholder of the Shanghai-listed Shaanxi Coal Industry.

Shaanxi ENERGY Investment

Shaanxi ENERGY Investment (陕西能源) is a state-controlled coal-electricity integration enterprise in Shaanxi Province, China, mining coal and generating power, listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 2023.

Shaanxi Gas Pipeline Network

The Shaanxi Gas Pipeline Network (陕西输气管网) is the system of natural gas pipelines in Shaanxi Province, China, combining national trunk lines to Beijing with provincial distribution.

Shaanxi Y-8

The Shaanxi Y-8, or Yun-8, is a Chinese four-engine turboprop transport developed from the Soviet Antonov An-12, serving since 1980 as the PLA's mainstay medium transport.

Shaanxi Y-9 (运-9)

The Shaanxi Y-9 (运-9), NATO reporting name Claw, is a Chinese medium tactical transport built by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation, serving with the PLAAF since 2012.

Shaanxi Youser Yulin power station

Shaanxi Youser Yulin power station (陕西有色榆林新材料集团发电分公司) is a captive coal-fired power plant in Yulin, Shaanxi, China, with five 330 MW units supplying the owner's aluminum smelter since 2012.

Shaanxi Yulin Energy Group

Shaanxi Yulin Energy Group (陕西榆林能源集团) is a Chinese state-owned energy company founded in Yulin, Shaanxi, in July 2012, active in coal mining, power generation, and coal chemicals.

SHACL

SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language) is a W3C language for validating RDF graphs against conditions called shapes, published as a W3C Recommendation on 20 July 2017.

shadcn/ui

shadcn/ui is a collection of reusable React UI components distributed as source code copied into a project by a command-line tool rather than as an npm package.

Shadegan Oil Field

The Shadegan oil field is an onshore oil field in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, about 60 km southeast of Ahvaz, discovered in 1968 and producing since 1988.

Shader

A shader is a user-defined program that runs on a specific stage of a graphics processor, supplying code for programmable rendering stages or general GPU computation.

Shadoof

A shadoof, also spelled shaduf or shadouf (شادوف), is a human-powered water-lifting lever with a counterweight and bucket, used since ancient times to raise Nile water for irrigation.

Shadow banning

Shadow banning, also known as hell banning or stealth banning, is a content moderation practice in which platforms secretly limit a user's visibility without notifying them, first described in 2001.

Shadow Copy

A shadow copy, also known as a previous version, is a point-in-time snapshot of a disk volume created by Windows' Volume Shadow Copy Service, introduced in Windows Server 2003.

Shadow detection

Shadow detection is the computer vision task of locating shadow regions in images or video. It improves object detection, tracking, and segmentation, which shadows otherwise degrade.

Shadow Dexterous Hand

The Shadow Dexterous Hand is a five-fingered tendon-driven robot hand by the Shadow Robot Company of London, with 24 movements, 20 motors, and over 100 sensors.

Shadow DOM

Shadow DOM is a web platform feature that lets an element carry a hidden DOM tree, encapsulating its structure and styles from the rest of the page and shielding them from page JavaScript and CSS.

Shadow mask

A shadow mask is a perforated metal plate in a color CRT that lets each electron beam hit only its own red, green, or blue phosphor.

Shadow mode (automated driving)

Shadow mode, also called silent testing, is a validation technique for automated driving in which a candidate function runs passively on a vehicle without controlling its actuators.

Shadow Robot Company

The Shadow Robot Company is a London-based robotics firm founded in 1997, best known for its five-fingered Shadow Dexterous Hand, used by OpenAI, Google Brain, and NASA.

Shadowsocks

Shadowsocks is a secure split proxy loosely based on SOCKS5, first shared by the developer clowwindy in 2012, that carries TCP and UDP traffic through encrypted tunnels.

ShadPS4

ShadPS4 is an early open-source PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, and macOS, written in C++ and started in 2022 by a PCSX2 founder. It can run games like Bloodborne.

Shafdan

Shafdan (Hebrew: שפדן), formally the Dan Region Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation Project, is Israel's largest wastewater treatment plant, serving about 2.5 million people near Tel Aviv.

Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser, also known as Shafrira Goldwasser (שפרירה גולדווסר), is an Israeli-American cryptographer who introduced probabilistic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, winning the 2012 Turing Award with Silvio Micali.

Shafrir

Shafrir (שפריר) is a series of Israeli infrared-homing air-to-air missiles developed by Rafael from 1959; the Shafrir 2 scored 89 kills in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Shafrira Goldwasser

Shafrira Goldwasser, known as Shafi Goldwasser, is a cryptographer who won the 2012 Turing Award with Silvio Micali for laying the complexity-theoretic foundations of modern cryptography.

Shaft collar

A shaft collar is a ring-shaped component that clamps onto a shaft to hold components in position, acting as an adjustable stop, spacer, or locating shoulder.

Shaft drive (bicycle)

A shaft drive on a bicycle is a chainless drivetrain using bevel gears and a rotating shaft to turn the rear wheel, first patented in 1890.

Shaft drive (motorcycle)

Shaft drive, also called cardan drive, is a motorcycle final drive that carries engine power to the rear wheel through an enclosed shaft instead of a chain.

Shaft generator

A shaft generator is a ship's electrical generator driven by the main propulsion engine rather than auxiliary diesels, saving 3 to 7 percent fuel while the vessel is underway.