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Organizations

  • Singapore Improvement Trust
    Singapore Improvement Trust
    -History:The Singapore Improvement Trust was a government organisation set up in 1927 by the British colonial government in Singapore in response to the housing needs of the population of Singapore. At that time, many people resided in overcrowded shophouses and squatter settlements, resulting in...

    , a government public-housing organization
  • Society of Instrument Technology, a British learned society
  • Strategic Information Technology
    Strategic Information Technology
    Strategic Information Technology Limited develops and sells banking software to banks, trust companies, credit unions, building societies, manufacturers and franchisors...

    , a banking-software company
  • Special Investigation Team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
    Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
    The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department serves as the police force for the entire Tokyo metropolis. Founded in 1874, it is headed by a superintendent general, who is appointed by the National Public Safety Commission and approved by the prime minister.The Metropolitan Police, with a staff of more...

  • Science Innovation Technology, a science and technology think tank for the British Government

Educational organizations

  • Symbiosis Institute of Technology
    Symbiosis Institute of Technology
    Symbiosis International University is a private co-educational, multi-institutional university located in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It has been given official recognition by the UGC and the AICTE. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council has conferred an 'A' grade to the University...

    , Pune, India
  • School for International Training
    School for International Training
    SIT Graduate Institute is the accredited college program of World Learning in Brattleboro, Vermont. The president and CEO is Adam Weinberg.History=SIT Graduate Institute began as the Experiment for International Living...

    , Brattleboro, Vermont
  • School of Information Technology, Kolkata, India
  • Siddaganga Institute of Technology
    Siddaganga Institute of Technology
    Siddaganga Institute of Technology is one of the premier technological institutes in the state of Karnataka,located in the town of Tumkur, Karnataka, India.It became an autonomous institution under Visveswaraiah Technological University in 2007-08 with the last VTU batch graduating in...

    , Tumkur, Karnataka, India
  • Singapore Institute of Technology
    Singapore Institute of Technology
    Singapore Institute of Technology is a publicly-funded institute of higher learning in Singapore that caters primarily to local polytechnic graduates who wish to pursue a bachelor's degree...

    , Singapore
  • Sinhgad Institute Of Technology
    Sinhgad Institute Of Technology
    Sinhgad Institute of Technology is an educational institute in Lonavala, India. It was established in 2004 and is a part of Sinhgad Technical Education Society, Lonavala campus.-Courses offered:* Computer Engineering...

    , Lonavala, India
  • Southeastern Institute of Technology
    Southeastern Institute of Technology
    Southeastern Institute of Technology , Huntsville, Alabama, was formed in 1976 as a private, not-for-profit, professional school under the provisions of Title 10 of the Code of Alabama...

    , Huntsville,Alabama
  • Southern Institute of Technology
    Southern Institute of Technology
    The Southern Institute of Technology is the most well recognised Tertiary Education Institution of the province of Southland, New Zealand....

    , Invercargill, New Zealand
  • Stevens Institute of Technology
    Stevens Institute of Technology
    Stevens Institute of Technology is a technological university located on a campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA – founded in 1870 with an 1868 bequest from Edwin A. Stevens. It is known for its engineering, science, and technological management curricula.The institute has produced leading...

    , Hoboken, New Jersey
  • Sydney Institute of TAFE, Sydney, Australia
  • Salazar Colleges of Science And Institute of technology
    Salazar Colleges of Science And Institute of technology
    Salazar Colleges of Science and Institute of Technology is an accredited school of Nursing in Cebu City, Philippines. Doroteo M. Salazar is the school principal....

    , 211 N. Bacalso Avenue, Cebu City
  • Sethu Institute of Technology
    Sethu Institute of Technology
    Sethu Institute of Technology was started in 1995 by the Sethu Educational Trust, sponsored by a committee of academicians led by educationist Thiru. S.Mohamed Jaleel. The college is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi, and is affiliated to Anna University,...

    , Pulloor, Kariapatti, Near Madurai, TamilNadu, India

Science, technology, and biology

  • SIT, or SITh
    Sith
    -Sith:The Sith is a name applied to certain characters in the Star Wars universe. In the films they are the central antagonists. They are capable of using the dark side of the Force.-The Invention of the Sith:...

    , static induction thyristor
  • Special information tones (telephony), a three beep signal indicating a call did not go through
  • Allergen-specific immunotherapy
  • Specific ion Interaction Theory
    Specific ion interaction theory
    Specific ion Interaction Theory is a theory used to estimate single-ion activity coefficients in electrolyte solutions at relatively high concentrations. It does so by taking into consideration interaction coefficients between the various ions present in solution...

    , a theory for estimation of single-ion activity coefficients
  • Sterile insect technique
    Sterile insect technique
    The sterile insect technique is a method of biological control, whereby overwhelming numbers of sterile insects are released. The released insects are normally male as it is the female that causes the damage, usually by laying eggs in the crop, or, in the case of mosquitoes, taking a bloodmeal from...

    , a technique for managing insect populations

Computers

  • Simple Internet Transition, methods of moving from IPv4 to IPv6
  • .sit, or .sitx, file extensions used for compressed files created with StuffIt
    StuffIt
    StuffIt is a family of computer software utilities for archiving and compressing files on the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms: it was originally produced for the Macintosh. An old version for Linux and Sun Solaris 2.7 or later is also available...

  • Swatch Internet Time
    Swatch Internet Time
    Swatch Internet Time is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 and marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative, decimal measure of time...

    , a system of measuring time
  • System integration testing
    System integration testing
    In the context of software systems and software engineering, system integration testing is a testing process that exercises a software system's coexistence with others. With multiple integrated systems, assuming that each have already passed system testing, SIT proceeds to test their required...

    , a process in software engineering

Psychology

  • Social identity
    Social identity
    A social identity is the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group. As originally formulated by Henri Tajfel and John Turner in the 1970s and 80s, social identity theory introduced the concept of a social identity as a way in which to...

    , a method of defining individuals
  • Structural Information Theory
    Structural information theory
    Structural information theory is a theory about human perception and in particular about perceptual organization: the way the human visual system organizes a raw visual stimulus into objects and object parts. SIT was initiated, in the 1960s, by Emanuel Leeuwenberg and has been developed further by...

    , a theory of human perception

Other uses

  • Sino-Tibetan languages
    Sino-Tibetan languages
    The Sino-Tibetan languages are a language family comprising, at least, the Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages, including some 250 languages of East Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. They are second only to the Indo-European languages in terms of the number of native speakers...

    , the ISO 639-2 code
  • Slovenian tolar
    Slovenian tolar
    The tolar was the currency of Slovenia from 1991 until the introduction of the euro on 1 January 2007. It was subdivided into 100 stotins...

    , the ISO 4217 code for the former currency of Slovenia
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