** SCA ( computer virus ), an Amiga virus referencing the Swiss Cracking Association

* November: The SCA virus, a boot sector virus for Amigas appears, immediately creating a pandemic virus-writer storm.

A short time later, SCA releases another, considerably more destructive virus, the Byte Bandit.

The SCA virus is the first computer virus created for the Commodore Amiga and one of the first to gain public notoriety.

" SCA " is an acronym for the Swiss Cracking Association, a group engaged in software protection removal, so the geographic origin of the virus was Switzerland.

The virus is probably authored by an SCA member known as " CHRIS ".

The " Mega-Mighty SCA " produced the first Amiga virus checker which killed the SCA virus.

Other authors inspired by the harmless SCA virus would later produce more destructive viruses known as the Byte Bandit and the Byte Warrior.

Agriculture is dealt with separately by the Special Committee on Agriculture ( SCA ).

The SCA, founded during 1959, is a nonprofit organization that offers conservation internships and summer trail crew opportunities to more than 4, 000 people each year.

The SCA mission is to build a new generation of conservation managers by inspiring lifelong stewardship of the environment and communities by engaging high school and college-age volunteers in hands-on service to the land.

SCA program is active nation-wide in the USA, including national and state parks, forests, wildlife refuges, seashores and historic sites.

SCA National Headquarters is located in Charlestown, New Hampshire with regional offices across the country.

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.

The SCA is incorporated as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit corporation in California, with its current headquarters in the city of Milpitas.

It is headed by a board of directors, each of which is nominated by the membership of the SCA, selected by sitting directors, and elected to serve for 3. 5 years.

The BoD, as it is called, is responsible for handling the corporate affairs of the SCA and is also in charge of certain disciplinary actions, such as revoking the membership status of participants who have broken Corpora regulations or modern law while participating in SCA activities.

The SCA is divided into administrative regions which it calls kingdoms.

Likewise, one is not allowed to claim the persona of a fellow SCA member, alive or dead.

A major dimension to the SCA is its internal system of Heraldry.

Each SCA kingdom is " ruled " by a king and queen chosen by winning a Crown Tournament in armoured combat.

In the David Weber science fiction novel Honor Among Enemies, main character Honor Harrington mentions that her uncle is a member of the SCA and that he taught her to shoot from the hip ( the time the SCA covers having been moved up to the 19th century in the future era in which the novel is set, to include cowboy and Civil War reenactors ).

The accepted minimum standard for attendance at an SCA event is " an attempt at pre-17th century clothing ", which leads to numerous discussions of the definition of " attempt ".

One argument in the SCA is the meaning of " Creative Anachronism ".

In 1960, the Sony Corporation of America ( SONAM, currently abbreviated as SCA ) was established in the United States.

The numerous working groups submit their reports to the Council through Coreper or SCA.

Many pagans in North America encounter the movement through their involvement in other hobbies ; particularly popular with U. S. Pagans are " golden age "- type pastimes such as the Society for Creative Anachronism ( SCA ), Star Trek fandom, Doctor Who fandom and comic book fandom.

These tests included a maiden " flight " on February 18, 1977, atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA ) to measure structural loads and ground handling and braking characteristics of the mated system.

The mated Enterprise / SCA combination was then subjected to five test flights with Enterprise unmanned and unactivated.

Enterprise underwent five free flights where the craft separated from the SCA and was landed under astronaut control.

The mobile Mate-Demate Device and cranes were transported from Dulles to the ramp at JFK and the shuttle was removed from the SCA overnight on 12 May 2012, placed on a specially designed flat bed trailer and returned to Hangar 12.

Founded in 1966, the society had about 32, 000 paid corporate members numbered within the 60, 000 total SCA participants.

In 1968, Bradley moved to Staten Island, New York and founded the Kingdom of the East, holding a tournament that summer to determine the first Eastern King of the SCA.

The SCA had produced a book for the convention called A Handbook for the Current Middle Ages, which was a how-to book for people wanting to start their own SCA chapters.

In October 1968, the SCA was incorporated as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit corporation in California.

All SCA kingdoms trace their roots to these original three.

The number of SCA kingdoms has continued to grow by the expansion and division of existing kingdoms ; for example, the Outlands, Artemisia, Ansteorra, Gleann Abhann, Meridies, and Trimaris all originally belonged to the fourth kingdom, Atenveldt, which began as a branch of the West.

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

for a dose of radiation is not like a flu virus which causes temporary discomfort and then dies.

Wound-tumor virus is a leafhopper transmitted virus not easily transmissible by mechanical inoculation ( Black, 1944 ; ;

This is due to dwindling stocks and most notably the abalone virus Ganglioneuritis which is fast spreading and lethal to abalone stocks.

This is the one part of the HIV virus outer coating that does not change, because it is the attachment point to T lymphocytes, the key cell in cell-mediated immunity.

This is an important oncolytic property of CDV, this virus is capable of killing canine lymphoma cells.

Defects in the cell cycle are thought to be responsible for certain tumor cells resisting chemotherapy or radiation, so a virus that can induce apoptosis despite defects in the cell cycle is useful for cancer treatment.

The progression of the human immunodeficiency virus infection into AIDS is primarily due to the depletion of CD4 + T-helper lymphocytes in a manner that is too rapid for the body's bone marrow to replenish the cells, leading to a compromised immune system.

Viral induction of apoptosis occurs when one or several cells of a living organism is infected with a virus leading to cell death.

Canine distemper virus ( CDV ) is known to cause apoptosis in central nervous system and lymphoid tissue of infected dogs in vivo and in vitro.

The Oropouche virus ( OROV ) is found in the family Bunyaviridae.

Abacá is vulnerable to a number of pathogens, notably abaca bunchy top virus and abaca bract mosaic virus.

It is caused by the Bluetongue virus ( BTV ).

The virus is transmitted by the midge Culicoides imicola and other culicoids.

In cattle, goats and wild ruminants infection is usually asymptomatic despite high virus levels in blood.

Bluetongue is caused by the pathogenic virus, Bluetongue virus ( BTV ), of the genus Orbivirus, of the Reoviridae family.

Of these, NS3 / NS3A is involved in the egress of the progeny virus.

It is believed that the virus somehow survives in overwintering midges or animals.