SCA may refer to:

Biology and health

Sickle cell disease Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of blood disorders typically inherited from a person's parents. The most common type is known as sickle cell anaemia. It results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blo ...

, also known as sickle cell anaemia *

Spinocerebellar ataxia Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) is a progressive, degenerative, genetic disease with multiple types, each of which could be considered a neurological condition in its own right. An estimated 150,000 people in the United States have a diagnosis of s ...

, a neurological condition *

Statistical coupling analysis Statistical coupling analysis or SCA is a technique used in bioinformatics to measure covariation between pairs of amino acids in a protein multiple sequence alignment (MSA). More specifically, it quantifies how much the amino acid distribution ...

, a method to identify covarying pairs of amino acids in protein multiple sequence alignments *

Sudden cardiac arrest Cardiac arrest is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. It is a medical emergency that, without immediate medical intervention, will result in sudden cardiac death within minutes. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and possib ...

, a condition in which the heart suddenly stops beating, leading to sudden cardiac death *

Superior cerebellar artery The superior cerebellar artery (SCA) is an artery of the head. It arises near the end of the basilar artery. It is a branch of the basilar artery. It supplies parts of the cerebellum, the midbrain, and other nearby structures. It is the cause of ...

, a major blood supplier to the cerebellum

Commercial entities

Sebastian Conran Associates Sebastian may refer to: People * Sebastian (name), including a list of persons with the name Arts, entertainment, and media Films and television * ''Sebastian'' (1968 film), British spy film * ''Sebastian'' (1995 film), Swedish drama film ...

, a British product and brand development consultancy *

Sony Corporation of America Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA), is the American arm of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation SONAM, headquartered in New York City, manages the company's US-based businesses. Sony's principal U.S. businesse ...

, holding company for Sony's American companies *

Southern Cross Austereo Southern Cross Media Group Limited, doing business as Southern Cross Austereo, is an Australian media company which operates broadcast radio and television stations. It is the largest radio broadcaster in Australia, operating 86 radio station ...

, an Australian media company *

Supercheap Auto Supercheap Auto is an Australian automotive parts and accessories retailer. It was founded in 1972, operating as a mail-order business and opened its first store in Brisbane in 1974. It now has 300 stores across Australia and New Zealand. H ...

, an Australian automotive parts and accessories retailer *

SCA (company) Svenska Cellulosa AB (SCA, English: ''Swedish Cellulose Ltd.'') is a Swedish forest industry company with headquarters in Sundsvall. SCA is the largest private forest owner in Europe. It owns 2.6 million hectares of forest in northern Sweden, ...

(''Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget''), a Swedish hygiene products and paper manufacturer

Computing

SCA (computer virus) The SCA virus is the first computer virus created for the Amiga and one of the first to gain public notoriety. It appeared in November 1987. The SCA virus is a boot sector virus. It features a line of text that appears at every 15th copy after a ...

, an Amiga virus referencing the Swiss Cracking Association *

Service Component Architecture Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a software technology designed to provide a model for applications that follow service-oriented architecture principles. The technology, created by major software vendors, including IBM, Oracle Corporatio ...

Side-channel attack In computer security, a side-channel attack is any attack based on extra information that can be gathered because of the fundamental way a computer protocol or algorithm is implemented, rather than flaws in the design of the protocol or algorit ...

, in cryptography *

Single Connector Attachment A SCSI connector ( ) is used to connect computer parts that use a system called SCSI to communicate with each other. Generally, two connectors, designated male and female, plug together to form a connection which allows two components, such as a c ...

or Single Connection Attach, an 80-pin SCSI storage interface *

Software Communications Architecture {{inline, date=May 2014 The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) is an open architecture Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture intended to make adding, upgrading, and swapping components with other ...

, in Software-Defined Radio (SDR) *

Static code analysis In computer science, static program analysis (or static analysis) is the analysis of computer programs performed without executing them, in contrast with dynamic program analysis, which is performed on programs during their execution. The term i ...

Strong customer authentication Strong customer authentication (SCA) is a requirement of the EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) on payment service providers within the European Economic Area. The requirement ensures that electronic payments are performed with multi-f ...

Software Composition Analysis Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists o ...

Locations

Seoul Capital Area The Seoul Capital Area (SCA), Sudogwon (, ) or Gyeonggi region (), is the metropolitan area of Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, located in north-west South Korea. Its population of 26 million (as of 2020) is ranked as the fifth largest me ...

, Korea *

Singapore Changi Airport Singapore Changi Airport, commonly known as Changi Airport , is a major civilian international airport that serves Singapore, and is one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia. As one of the world's busiest airports by international passen ...

South and Central America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

, a country grouping *

Southern Control Area 300px, Canadian Tu-95.html" ;"title="CF-18 escorts Soviet Tu-95">CF-18 escorts Soviet Tu-95 bomber, 1987 Canadian airspace is the region of airspace above the surface of the Earth within which Canada has jurisdiction. It falls within a region roug ...

, a Canadian airspace designation *

Soviet Central Asia Soviet Central Asia (russian: link=no, Советская Средняя Азия, Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared ind ...

Organizations

Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) is an agency within the United States Department of State that is responsible for the U.S. government's relations with countries in the South and Central Asian region. The bureau is headed by t ...

, in the U.S. Department of State *

Sabah Chinese Association The Sabah Chinese Association ( ms, Persatuan Cina Sabah, SCA) was a Chinese political party in the North Borneo and the Sabah state of Malaysia. History The party was established in October 1962 as Borneo Utara National Party, a merger of the ...

Sarawak Chinese Association The Sarawak Chinese Association ( ms, Persatuan Cina Sarawak, SCA) was a political party in the Sarawak state of Malaysia. History The party was established in July 1962 by a group of mostly English-educated Chinese businessmen, with the leaders ...

Schuylkill Canal Association The Schuylkill Canal Association (SCA) 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. Organized in 1982 as the Schuylkill Canal Advisory Boar ...

, an organization that maintains a section of historical canal in Pennsylvania *

Scottish Canoe Association The Scottish Canoe Association ( sco, Scots Canoe Associe; gd, Comann Curach na h-Alba) is the national Sport governing body, governing body for canoeing, kayaking and other paddlesport in Scotland. It covers all branches of the sport from re ...

, the national governing body for paddlesports in Scotland *

Screen Composers of America Jeff Alexander (born Myer Goodhue Alexander; July 2, 1910 – December 23, 1989) was an American conductor, arranger, and composer of film, radio and television scores. Early years Born in Seattle, Washington, Alexander began performing in hi ...

, an organization co-founded by Jeff Alexander *

Secular Coalition for America The Secular Coalition for America is an advocacy group located in Washington D.C. It describes itself as "representing the interests of atheists, humanists, freethinkers, agnostics, and other nontheistic Americans." The Secular Coalition has chap ...

Sexual Compulsives Anonymous Sexual Compulsives Anonymous (SCA) is a twelve-step program for people who want to stop having compulsive sex. SCA founding is attributed variously to 1982 in New York City and to 1973 in Los Angeles. Although the fellowship originally sought to ...

Société en commandite par actions A partnership limited by shares is a hybrid between a partnership and a limited liability company. The Capital (economics), capital and ownership of the company is divided between shareholders who have a limited liability and one or more partners w ...

, a type of corporation in France *

Society for Creative Anachronism The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) 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 quip often used within the SCA describes ...

, an international living history group **

SCA armoured combat SCA armoured combat, or informally heavy combat, is a combat sport developed by the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) in which participants in protective body armour compete in mock combat, individual tournaments inspired by forms of historic ...

, a combat sport developed by the above organization *

Society for Cultural Anthropology The Society for Cultural Anthropology (or SCA) is a professional organization for cultural anthropologists based in the United States. It was established in 1983, and is one of the largest sections of the American Anthropological Association. The o ...

, a professional association for cultural anthropologists *

Student Catholic Action The Student Catholic Action is a religious student organization in the Philippines. Its affiliation overseas is the International Young Catholic Students (IYCS), also known aInternational Young Christian Students in Asiathat follows the methodol ...

, a religious student organization in the Philippines *

Student Conservation Association The Student Conservation Association (SCA) 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 the environment and communities by engaging young peo ...

, a non-profit conservation service organization in the United States *

Suez Canal Authority Suez Canal Authority (SCA) is an Egyptian state-owned authority which owns, operates and maintains the Suez Canal. It was set up by the Egyptian government to replace the Suez Canal Company in the 1950s which resulted in the Suez Crisis. After th ...

, a state-owned authority which owns and maintains the Suez Canal *

Supreme Council of Antiquities The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) was a department of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture from 1994 to 2011. It was the government body responsible for the conservation, protection and regulation of all antiquities and archaeological excavatio ...

, the Egyptian antiquities service *

Supreme Court of Albania Supreme may refer to: Entertainment * Supreme (character), a comic book superhero * ''Supreme'' (film), a 2016 Telugu film * Supreme (producer), hip-hop record producer * "Supreme" (song), a 2000 song by Robbie Williams * The Supremes, Motown-e ...

, the court of last resort in the Republic of Albania *

Swedish Committee for Afghanistan The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA, sv, Svenska Afghanistankommittén, SAK) is a Swedish non-governmental foreign aid organisation active in Afghanistan. The organisation was formed in 1980, as a reaction to the Soviet invasion. The SCA ...

Swiss Cricket Association Cricket Switzerland, formerly the Swiss Cricket Association (SCA) incorporated in the Canton of Zürich, is the first governing body of cricket in Switzerland. History The inaugural meeting was held on 9 March 1980 at the Australian Embassy in ...

Sydney Catchment Authority The Sydney Catchment Authority was a statutory authority of the Government of New South Wales created in 1999 to manage and protect drinking water catchments and catchment infrastructure, and supplies bulk water to its customers, including Sydn ...

Sydney College of the Arts The Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) is a contemporary art school that was a faculty of the University of Sydney from 1990 until 2017, when it became a school of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Until the end of 2019, the campus was locat ...

Other

McNamara–O'Hara Service Contract Act The McNamara–O'Hara Service Contract Act of 1965 (SCA), codified at , is a US labor law that requires government to use its bargaining power to ensure fair wages for workers when it buys services from private contractors. Contents The Act require ...

Senate Constitutional Amendment In California, a ballot proposition is a referendum or an initiative measure that is submitted to the electorate for a direct decision or direct vote (or plebiscite). If passed, it can alter one or more of the articles of the Constitution of Cal ...

, the formal name for a type of California ballot proposition *

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) are two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters. One (N905NA) is a 747-100 model, while the other (N911NA) is a short range 747-100SR. The SCAs were used t ...

, two Boeing 747 aircraft modified to transport the Space Shuttle *

Small craft advisory A small craft advisory is a type of wind warning issued by the National Weather Service in the United States. In Canada a similar warning is issued by Environment Canada. It is issued when winds have reached, or are expected to reach within 12 h ...

Solar collector array A parabolic trough is a type of solar thermal collector that is straight in one dimension and curved as a parabola in the other two, lined with a polished metal mirror. The sunlight which enters the mirror parallel to its plane of symmetry is foc ...

, a type of solar thermal collector *

Spectrum continuation analysis Spectrum continuation analysis (SCA) 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. Recall that a Fourier series is only suitable to the analysis of peri ...

Stored Communications Act The Stored Communications Act (SCA, codified at 18 U.S.C. Chapter 121 §§ 2701–2712) is a law that addresses voluntary and compelled disclosure of "stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records" held by third-party i ...

, Title II of the US Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 * Subsidiary communications authority, the Federal Communications Commission's name for subcarrier channels transmitted on a broadcast FM station *

Sustainable competitive advantage In business, a competitive advantage is an attribute that allows an organization to outperform its competitors. A competitive advantage may include access to natural resources, such as high-grade ores or a low-cost power source, highly skilled ...

, a business advantage that is preserved over long term *

USC School of Cinematic Arts The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) houses seven academic divisions: Film & Television Production; Cinema & Media Studies; John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts; John Wells Division of Writing for Sc ...

, University of Southern California, United States {{disambiguation