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Intelligence & security agencies

• Secret Intelligence Service
  Secret Intelligence Service
  
  The Secret Intelligence Service , colloquially known as MI6 is the United Kingdom's external intelligence agency, part of the country's United Kingdom intelligence community....
  , UK intelligence agency, also known as MI6;
• Australian Secret Intelligence Service
  Australian Secret Intelligence Service
  
  The Australian Secret Intelligence Service is the government of Australia intelligence agency responsible for collecting foreign intelligence, undertaking counter-intelligence activities and cooperation with other intelligence agencies overseas....
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• Canadian Security Intelligence Service
  Canadian Security Intelligence Service
  
  The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is the primary intelligence agency of the Canadian government. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing and reporting Intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert operation and overt, within Canada and abroad....
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• New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
  New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
  
  The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service is an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government....
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• Slovenská informacná služba
  Slovenská informacná služba
  
  Slovensk? informacn? slu?ba is an intelligence agency for the government of Slovakia....
  , Slovak Intelligence Service;
• Special Intelligence Service
  Special Intelligence Service
  
  "Special Intelligence Service" is usually the name of a government intelligence apparatus that is organized for a specific purpose....
  , a secret FBI intelligence agency operating in South America during World War II;
• Schengen Information System
  Schengen Information System
  
  The Schengen Information System, also called ?SIS?, is a secure governmental database system used by several European countries for the purpose of maintaining and distributing information related to border security and law enforcement....
  , used by European police forces;
• Signals Intelligence Service
  Signals Intelligence Service
  
  The Signals Intelligence Service was the United States Army codebreaking division, headquartered at Arlington Hall. It was a part of the United States Army Signal Corps so secret that outside the office of the Chief Signal officer, it did not officially exist....
  , the former United States Army codebreaking division;
• Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova
  Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova
  
  The Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova is the principal intelligence agency of Moldova. Since 2007, its director is Artur Resetnicov....
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• Serviço de Informações de Segurança, a Portuguese intelligence agency.

Science

• Small intestinal submucosa
  Small intestinal submucosa
  
  Small Intestinal Submucosa Small intestinal submucosa is a common, non-Immunogenicity material used in several clinical applications. Some uses under investigation include a scaffold for intervertebral disc regeneration....
  , a common, non-immunogenic material used in several clinical applications.
• Second-impact syndrome
  Second-impact syndrome
  
  Second-impact syndrome is an extremely rare condition in which the brain swells rapidly and catastrophically after a person suffers a second concussion before symptoms from an earlier one have subsided....
  , a rare, deadly condition in which the brain swells as the result of a concussion received before symptoms from another concussion have gone away.
• Styrene-Isoprene-Styrene.

Business

• Sales Information System, provides Sales reports, transaction available also in SAP: Logistics -> Sales and Distribution -> Sales Information System.

Technology

• .SIS (filename), the filename extension for installation package files for the Symbian OS operating system.
• Saline Infusion Sonography
  Gynecologic ultrasonography
  
  Gynecologic ultrasonography or Gynecologic sonography refers to the application of medical ultrasonography to the female pelvic organs, specifically the uterus, the ovaries, the Fallopian tubes, as well as the Urinary bladder, the adnexa, the Pouch of Douglas, and any findings in the pelvis of relevance outside of pregnancy....
  , also called hysterosonography or sonohysterography, a technique for ultrasonic examination of the uterine cavity.
• Single Image Stereogram, another name for a Single Image Random Dot Stereogram.
• Safety instrumented system
  Safety instrumented system
  
  A Safety Instrumented System is a form of process control usually implemented in industrial processes, such as those of a factory or an oil refinery....
   or safety instrumentation system
• Satellite Information Services
  Satellite Information Services
  
  Satellite Information Services is a satellite system which broadcasts, for a fee, major sporting events such as Horse Racing and Greyhound Racing, as well as Lottery games such as Rapido and 49's, to United Kingdom betting shops....
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• Satellite Interceptor System.
• Schengen Information System
  Schengen Information System
  
  The Schengen Information System, also called ?SIS?, is a secure governmental database system used by several European countries for the purpose of maintaining and distributing information related to border security and law enforcement....
  , a database used by several European countries for border security and law enforcement.
• Schwerionensynchroton, the heavy ion synchrotron at the GSI research facility
  Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung
  
  The Gesellschaft f?r Schwerionenforschung mbH in the Arheilgen suburb of Darmstadt, Germany is a federally and state co-funded heavy ion research center....
   in Darmstadt, Germany.
• Selective Inverted Sink
  Selective Inverted Sink
  
  The selective inverted sink or SIS is a device used by farmers to protect plants from frost, developed by Uruguayan Rafael Guarga in the late 1990s....
  , a device that protects crops from frost.
• Sensoric Infeed System, infeed process in offset presses.
• Sequential Importance Sampling.
• Shimano Index Shifting, (as compared to friction shifting).
• Silicon Integrated Systems
  Silicon Integrated Systems
  
  Silicon Integrated Systems is a company that manufactures, among other things, motherboard chipsets. The company was founded in 1987 in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan....
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• Single Instance Store, a system for coalescing identical object instances to save space.
• Strategic information system
  Strategic information system
  
  A Strategic Information System is a system to information management and assist in strategic decision making. A strategic information system has been defined as, "The information system to support or change enterprise's strategy."...
  , an information system to support enterprises' strategy.
• Student Information System
  Student information system
  
  A student information system is a software application for educational establishments to manage student data. Student information systems provide capabilities for entering student test and other assessment scores, building student schedules, tracking student attendance, and managing many other student-related data needs in a school, college...
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• Superconductor-Isolator-Superconductor Mixer for High frequency heterodyne
  Heterodyne
  
  In radio and signal processing, heterodyning is the generation of new frequencies by mixing, or multiplying, two oscillating waveforms. It is useful for modulation and demodulation of signals, or placing information of interest into a useful frequency range....
   receivers (over 100 GHz).

Organizations

• SIS International Research
  SIS International Research
  
  SIS International Research is a global market research firm headquartered in New York City. The company provides full-service custom market research services, on-demand intelligence answering services and global research media....
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• Schlumberger Information Solutions
  Schlumberger Information Solutions
  
  Schlumberger Information Solutions is an operating unit of Schlumberger that provides consulting, software, information management, and IT infrastructure services to support the oil and gas industry....
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• Sisters in Islam
  Sisters in Islam
  
  Sisters in Islam is an organization of Muslim women in Malaysia which seeks to articulate women's rights in Islam by emphasising the need to interpret the Qur'an and the hadith in their proper historical and cultural contexts....
  , an organization based in Malaysia
• Swedish Standards Institute
  Swedish Standards Institute
  
  SIS, Swedish Standards Institute, is an independent organization, founded in 1922, with members from the private and public sector....
  , formerly Standardiseringskommissionen i Sverige.

Schools

• School of International Service
  School of International Service
  
  The School of International Service is American University's school of advanced international study in the areas of international security, communications, development, economics, peace & conflict resolution, and American foreign policy....
   at American University, Washington, D.C.
• Seoul International School
  Seoul International School
  
  Seoul International School is a secular international college preparatory school situated in Seongnam, Korea offering an United States curriculum in an English-only setting....
  , an international school in Seoul, Korea.
• Shekou International School
  Shekou International School
  
  Shekou International School is an List of international schools, located in Shekou, China.The school was opened in 1988 and originally funded by four oil companies, Amoco, ARCO, CACT and Phillips Petroleum Company....
  , an International school in Shekou, China
• Singapore International School
  Singapore International School
  
  Singapore International School is an elementary school and secondary school school situated at Nam Long Shan , Aberdeen, Hong Kong, Hong Kong....
  , an international school in Hong Kong, China.
• South Island School
  South Island School
  
  South Island School is an international school founded by the English Schools Foundation of Hong Kong, located at 50 Nam Fung Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong SAR, China....
  , an international school in Hong Kong, China.
• Stockholm International School, an international school in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Surabaya International School
  Surabaya International School
  
  The Surabaya International School in Surabaya, Indonesia, is a private, coeducational day school which offers an educational program from preschool through grade 12....
  , an international school in Surabaya, Indonesia.

See also

• Sis
  SIS
  
  The initials SIS may stand for:...