SOA
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Soa or SOA can stand for:
- School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
- School of the Arts, a common name for fine arts schools
- Secondary Organic Aerosol, a kind of atmospheric aerosols formed from reactions of organic compounds with oxidants.
- Search oriented architecture, the use of search engine technology as the main integration component in an information system
- Service-oriented architecture, a computer systems architectural style for creating and using business processes, packaged as services
- Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK
- Start of Authority, a record type in the Domain Name System.
- State of the art, the highest level of development
- Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus
- Super Output Area, a geographical unit in the United Kingdom used mainly for statistical analysis
[edit] in accounting and business
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
- Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States
- Statement of Affairs, an enumeration of financial situation prepared typically by a company or individual considering insolvency or bankruptcy
[edit] in entertainment
- Siege of Avalon, a 2000 computer role-playing game
- Skies of Arcadia, a console game for the Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Gamecube
- Soldiers of Allah, an Islamic rap group
- State of Alert, a punk rock group