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