SCA may refer to:
Biology and health
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Sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of inherited Hemoglobinopathy, haemoglobin-related blood disorders. The most common type is known as sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia results in an abnormality in the ...
, also known as sickle cell anaemia
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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 ...
, a neurological condition
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Statistical coupling analysis, a method to identify covarying pairs of amino acids in protein multiple sequence alignments
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Sudden cardiac arrest, a condition in which the heart suddenly stops beating, leading to sudden cardiac death
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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 t ...
, a major blood supplier to the cerebellum
Commercial entities
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Sebastian Conran Associates, a British product and brand development consultancy
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Sony Corporation of America
Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA) is the American arm of Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. Headquartered in New York City, the company manages Sony's business in the United States.
Sony's princ ...
, holding company for Sony's American companies
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Southern Cross Austereo
Southern Cross Media Group Limited, Trade name, doing business as Southern Cross Austereo, is an Australian media company which operates broadcast radio and Terrestrial television, television stations. It is the largest radio broadcaster in Au ...
, an Australian media company
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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 341 stores across Australia and New Zealand.
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, an Australian automotive parts and accessories retailer
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SCA (company)
Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget () is a Swedish timber, pulp and paper manufacturer with headquarters in Sundsvall. It has approximately 3,450 employees and a turnover of approximately SEK 20.2 billion (€1.8 billion). Its main products inclu ...
(''Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget''), a Swedish hygiene products and paper manufacturer
Computing
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SCA (computer virus), an Amiga virus referencing the Swiss Cracking Association
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Service Component Architecture
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Side-channel attack
In computer security, a side-channel attack is a type of security exploit that leverages information inadvertently leaked by a system—such as timing, power consumption, or electromagnetic or acoustic emissions—to gain unauthorized access to ...
, in cryptography
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Single Connector Attachment
A SCSI connector ( ) is used to connect computer parts that communicate with each other via the SCSI standard. Generally, two connectors, designated male and female, plug together to form a connection which allows two components, such as a comput ...
or Single Connection Attach, an 80-pin SCSI storage interface
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Software Communications Architecture
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 computers easy. For exa ...
, in Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
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Static code analysis
In computer science, static program analysis (also known as static analysis or static simulation) is the analysis of computer programs performed without executing them, in contrast with dynamic program analysis, which is performed on programs duri ...
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Strong customer authentication
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Software Composition Analysis
Software composition analysis (SCA) is a practice in the fields of Information technology and software engineering for analyzing custom-built software applications to detect embedded open-source software and detect if they are up-to-date, contain ...
Locations
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Seoul Capital Area
The Seoul Metropolitan Area (Sudogwon; , ) or Gyeonggi (region), Gyeonggi region (), is the metropolitan area of Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, located in north-western South Korea. Its population of 26 million (as of 2024) is ranked ...
, Korea
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Singapore Changi Airport
Singapore Changi Airport ( ; ) is the primary international airport that serves the country of Singapore, and is one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia. More than 100 airlines operate from the airport, with flights to destinations in A ...
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South and Central America, a
country grouping
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Southern Control Area, a Canadian airspace designation
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Soviet Central Asia
Soviet Central Asia () was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian Soviet republics declared independence. It is nearly synonymous with Russian Turkest ...
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Space Centre Australia
Organizations
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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
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Sabah Chinese Association
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Sarawak Chinese Association
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Schuylkill Canal Association
The Schuylkill Canal Association (SCA) is a non-governmental organization that maintains the Oakes Reach and Lock (water transport), Lock #60 of the Schuylkill Canal as a public recreation area and historical site. Organized in 1982 as the Schuyl ...
, an organization that maintains a section of historical canal in Pennsylvania
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Scottish Canoe Association
Paddle Scotland, formerly the Scottish Canoe Association (; ) or SCA, is the national governing body for canoeing, kayaking and other paddlesport in Scotland.
It covers all branches of the sport from recreational activities to canoe slalo ...
, the national governing body for paddlesports in Scotland
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Screen Composers of America, an organization co-founded by Jeff Alexander
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Secular Coalition for America
The Secular Coalition for America is an advocacy group located in Washington D.C. It describes itself as "protecting the equal rights of nonreligious Americans."
The Secular Coalition has chapters in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, composed of lo ...
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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 ...
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Société en commandite par actions
Groupe Lactalis S.A. (doing business as Lactalis) is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier S.A.
Lactalis is the largest dairy p ...
, a type of corporation in France
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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
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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 armor, body armour compete in mock combat, individual tournaments inspired by forms ...
, a combat sport developed by the above organization
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Society for Cultural Anthropology, a professional association for cultural anthropologists
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Student Catholic Action
The Student Catholic Action of the Philippines is a religious student organization in the Philippines. Its affiliation overseas is the International Young Catholic Students (IYCS), also known as International Young Christian Students in Asia, t ...
, a religious student organization in the Philippines
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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 movement, conservation leaders and inspire lifelong Environmental stewardship, stewardship of the ...
, a non-profit conservation service organization in the United States
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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 ...
, a state-owned authority which owns and maintains the Suez Canal
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Supreme Council of Antiquities
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA; ) was established in 1994, responsible for the conservation, protection, and regulation of all antiquities and archaeological excavations in Egypt. From 1994 to 2011, the SCA was a department of the Egyptia ...
, the Egyptian antiquities service
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Supreme Court of Albania
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Albania () is the supreme court, highest court of Albania and is the final court of appeals in the country's Judicial system of Albania, judicial system. It is composed of seventeen judges: the Chief Justice ...
, the court of last resort in the Republic of Albania
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Swedish Committee for Afghanistan
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Swiss Cricket Association
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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 ...
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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
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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 requi ...
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Senate Constitutional Amendment, the formal name for a type of California ballot proposition
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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. Both are now retired. ...
, two Boeing 747 aircraft modified to transport the Space Shuttle
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Small craft advisory
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Solar collector array, a type of solar thermal collector
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Spectrum continuation analysis
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Stored Communications Act
The Stored Communications Act (SCA, codified at 18 U.S.C. Chapter 121 §§ 2701–2713) is a law that addresses voluntary and compelled disclosure of "stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records" held by third-part ...
, Title II of the US Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
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Subsidiary communications authority
Subsidiary Communications Authorization (SCA) in the United States, and Subsidiary Communications Multiplex Operation (SCMO) in Canada, is a subcarrier on a radio station, allowing the station to broadcast additional services as part of its signa ...
, the Federal Communications Commission's name for subcarrier channels transmitted on a broadcast FM station
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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
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USC School of Cinematic Arts
The USC School of Cinematic Arts is an academic unit of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles. With a history that dates to the first years of Sound film, talkies, the school descends from America's first ...
, University of Southern California, United States
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