SOA

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Soa or SOA can stand for:

• Safe operating area, conditions for a semiconductor to work reliable
• 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
• Semiconductor optical amplifier, an optical amplifier which use a semiconductor to provide the gain medium
• 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

• Sons of Anarchy, a 2008 American television program
• 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
• Sons of Azrael, a death metal group