SCA
Encyclopedia
Organizations
- Schuylkill Canal AssociationSchuylkill Canal AssociationThe Schuylkill Canal Association is a non-governmental organization that maintains the Oakes Reach and Lock #60 of the Schuylkill Canal as a public recreation area and historical site...
, a non-governmental organization that maintains a section of historical canal in Pennsylvania - Scottish Canoe AssociationScottish Canoe AssociationThe Scottish Canoe Association is the governing body for canoeing and kayaking in Scotland.It covers all branches of the sport from recreational activities to whitewater racing, slalom racing and wildwater racing; flatwater sprint racing and marathon racing; canoe sailing; canoe polo; surf...
- Secular Coalition for AmericaSecular Coalition for AmericaThe Secular Coalition for America is an advocacy group located in Washington D.C., representing atheists, humanists, freethinkers, agnostics, and other non-theistic people with a naturalistic worldview in American politics. Sean Faircloth, a five-term Maine state legislator, served as Executive...
- Sexual Compulsives AnonymousSexual Compulsives AnonymousSexual Compulsives Anonymous is an organization that describes itself as providing a twelve-step program for recovery from what it terms sexual compulsion. SCA's founding is attributed variously to 1982 in New York City and to 1973 in Los Angeles...
- Société en commandite par actions, a type of corporation in France
- Society for Creative AnachronismSociety for Creative AnachronismThe Society for Creative Anachronism is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly Medieval European cultures and their histories before the 17th century...
, a worldwide non-profit educational organization based in Milpitas, CA, USA - Student Catholic ActionStudent Catholic ActionThe Student Catholic Action is a religious student organization in the Philippines. Its affiliation overseas is the , also known as that follows the methodology of Cardinal Joseph Cardijn, the see-judge-act methodology...
, a religious student organization in the Philippines - Student Conservation AssociationStudent Conservation AssociationThe Student Conservation Association is a non-profit group in the United States whose mission is to build the next generation of conservation leaders and inspire lifelong stewardship of our environment and communities by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land through service...
, a Non-Profit Conservation Service Organization - Suez Canal AuthoritySuez Canal Authorityis a state owned authority which owns, operates and maintains the Suez Canal. It was set up by Egypt to replace the Suez Canal Company in the 1950s which resulted in the Suez Crisis...
, a state-owned authority which owns and maintains the Suez Canal - Supreme Council of AntiquitiesSupreme Council of AntiquitiesThe Supreme Council of Antiquities is the branch of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture responsible for the conservation, protection and regulation of all antiquities and archaeological excavations in Egypt...
, the Egyptian antiquities service - Svenska Cellulosa AktiebolagetSvenska Cellulosa AktiebolagetSvenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget is a Swedish consumer goods company and pulp and paper manufacturer with headquarters in Stockholm. It has approximately 45,000 employees and a turnover of approximately SEK 107 billion...
, a global hygiene and paper company - Sydney Catchment AuthoritySydney Catchment AuthorityThe Sydney Catchment Authority is a New South Wales, Australia Government agency created in 1999. The SCA manages and protects Sydney's drinking water catchments and catchment infrastructure, and supplies bulk water to its customers, including Sydney Water and a number of local councils.The SCA's...
- Sydney College of the ArtsSydney College of the ArtsThe Sydney College of the Arts in Rozelle, Sydney, Australia is the visual arts faculty of the University of Sydney. It is housed in the Kirkbride complex, a cluster of sandstone buildings designed by James Barnet, the government architect in the late 19th century...
Locations
- Southern Control Area, a Canadian airspace designation
- Soviet Central AsiaSoviet Central AsiaSoviet Central Asia refers to the section of Central Asia formerly controlled by the Soviet Union, as well as the time period of Soviet administration . In terms of area, it is nearly synonymous with Russian Turkestan, the name for the region during the Russian Empire...
Biology and health
- Sickle-cell diseaseSickle-cell diseaseSickle-cell disease , or sickle-cell anaemia or drepanocytosis, is an autosomal recessive genetic blood disorder with overdominance, characterized by red blood cells that assume an abnormal, rigid, sickle shape. Sickling decreases the cells' flexibility and results in a risk of various...
, also known as sickle cell anaemia - Spinocerebellar ataxiaSpinocerebellar ataxiaSpinocerebellar ataxia is a progressive, degenerative, genetic disease with multiple types, each of which could be considered a disease in its own right.-Classification:...
, a neurological condition - Statistical coupling analysisStatistical coupling analysisStatistical coupling analysis or SCA is a technique used in bioinformatics to measure covariation between pairs of amino acids in a protein multiple sequence alignment . More specifically, it quantifies how much the amino acid distribution at some position i changes upon a perturbation of the...
, a method to identify covarying pairs of amino acids in protein multiple sequence alignments - Sudden Cardiac DeathSudden Cardiac DeathSudden cardiac death is natural death from cardiac causes, heralded by abrupt loss of consciousness within one hour of the onset of acute symptoms. Other forms of sudden death may be noncardiac in origin...
, also known as Sudden Cardiac Arrest - Superior cerebellar arterySuperior cerebellar arteryThe superior cerebellar artery arises near the termination of the basilar artery.It passes lateralward, immediately below the oculomotor nerve, which separates it from the posterior cerebral artery, winds around the cerebral peduncle, close to the trochlear nerve, and, arriving at the upper...
, a major blood supplier to the cerebellum
Commercial entities
- Sebastian Conran Associates, a British product and brand development consultancy
- Sony Corporation of AmericaSony Corporation of AmericaSony Corporation of America , based in New York, is the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo. It is the umbrella company under which all Sony companies operate in the United States....
, holding company for Sony's American companies - Super Cheap Auto
- Svenska Cellulosa AktiebolagetSvenska Cellulosa AktiebolagetSvenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget is a Swedish consumer goods company and pulp and paper manufacturer with headquarters in Stockholm. It has approximately 45,000 employees and a turnover of approximately SEK 107 billion...
, Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer
Computing
- Service Component ArchitectureService Component ArchitectureService Component Architecture is a software technology created by major software vendors including IBM and Oracle. SCA provides a model for composing applications that follow Service-Oriented Architecture principles...
- Side-channel attack, in cryptography
- Single Connector AttachmentSingle Connector AttachmentSingle Connector Attachment, or SCA, is a type of connection for the internal cabling of SCSI systems. There are two versions of this connector: the SCA-1, which is deprecated, and SCA-2, which is currently in use in most systems...
or Single Connection Attach, an 80-pin SCSI storage interface - Software Communications ArchitectureSoftware Communications ArchitectureThe Software Communications Architecture is an open architecture framework that tells designers how elements of hardware and software are to operate in harmony within a software defined radio. SCA governs the structure and operation of the U.S...
- Static code analysisStatic code analysisStatic program analysis is the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs built from that software In most cases the analysis is performed on some version of the source code and in the other cases some form of the object code...
- Subordinate certificate authorityCertificate authorityIn cryptography, a certificate authority, or certification authority, is an entity that issues digital certificates. The digital certificate certifies the ownership of a public key by the named subject of the certificate...
- Swiss Cracking Association
- SCA (computer virus)SCA (computer virus)The SCA virus is the first computer virus created for the Commodore Amiga and one of the first to gain public notoriety. It appeared in November 1987. The SCA virus is a boot sector virus...
, an Amiga virus referencing the Swiss Cracking Association
- SCA (computer virus)
Other
- Service Contract Act
- Shuttle Carrier AircraftShuttle Carrier AircraftThe Shuttle Carrier Aircraft are two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA uses to transport Space Shuttle orbiters...
, two Boeing 747 aircraft modified to transport the Space Shuttle - Small craft advisorySmall craft advisoryA small craft advisory is a type of warning issued by the National Weather Service in the United States, most frequently in coastal areas. It is issued when winds have reached, or are expected to reach within 12 hours, a speed marginally less than gale force....
- Spectrum Continuation AnalysisSpectrum continuation analysisSpectrum continuation analysis is a generalization of the concept of Fourier series to non-periodic functions of which only a fragment has been sampled in the time domain....
- Stored Communications ActStored Communications ActThe Stored Communications Act is a law that was enacted by the United States Congress in 1986. It is not a stand-alone law but forms part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act; it is codified as 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701 to 2712...
, Title II of the US Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 - Subsidiary Communications AuthoritySubsidiary Communications AuthoritySubsidiary Communications Authorization in the United States, and Subsidiary Communications Multiplex Operation in Canada, is a subcarrier on a radio station, allowing the station to broadcast additional services as part of its signal.-Background:"Subsidiary Communications Authorization" is the...
, the Federal Communications Commission's name for subcarrier channels transmitted on a broadcast FM station - Sustainable competitive advantageSustainable competitive advantageCompetitive advantage is defined as the strategic advantage one business entity has over its rival entities within its competitive industry. Achieving competitive advantage strengthens and positions a business better within the business environment....
, in business: an advantage that is preserved over long term