Alexander Stubb is the president of Finland (2024– ). Stubb is the first person from Finland’s Swedish-speaking minority to be elected to that office. He is a member of the National Coalition Party and has been active in the European Parliament, European Union, and Finnish politics since 1999.

Rügen: …feet (120 metres) at the Stubbenkammer promontory. The highest point is the Piekberg (528 feet [161 metres]) in Jasmund.

agricultural technology: Mulch tillage: Mulch tillage has been mentioned already; in this system, crop residues are left on the surface, and subsurface tillage leaves them relatively undisturbed. In dryland areas, a maximum amount of mulch is left on the surface; in more humid regions, however, some of…

Clyde Stubblefield was an American drummer who was renowned for a 20-second hard-driving embellished drum solo in the 1970 James Brown single “Funky Drummer” that has been called the most sampled drum break in music. The hundreds of songs that made use of that break include “Bring the Noise” (1987)

George Stubbs was an outstanding English animal painter and anatomical draftsman. The son of a prosperous tanner, Stubbs was briefly apprenticed to a painter but was basically self-taught. His interest in anatomy, revealed at an early age, became one of the driving passions of his life. His

Philip Stubbs was a vigorous Puritan pamphleteer and propagandist for a purer life and straiter devotion whose Anatomie of Abuses (1583), his most popular work, consisted of a devastating attack on English habits in dress, food, drink, games, and especially sex. At first, Stubbs was inclined to

William Stubbs was an influential English historian who founded the systematic study of English medieval constitutional history. Stubbs was regius professor of history at the University of Oxford (1866–84), bishop of Chester (1884–88), and bishop of Oxford (1888–1901). His reputation in his day

Mira Sorvino: …appeared in the action comedy Stuber.

eBay: 2000–2020: Acquisitions and divestitures: …two years later, it acquired StubHub, an online marketplace for entertainment event tickets.

stuccowork, in architecture, fine exterior or interior plasterwork used as three-dimensional ornamentation, as a smooth paintable surface, or as a wet ground for fresco painting. In modern parlance, the term is most often applied exclusively, especially in the United States, to the rougher plaster

Glen Powell: Early onscreen career: …Dark Knight Rises and from Stuck in Love (both 2012) were named “Trader #1” and “Good Looking Frat Guy.”

Jenna Ortega: Stuck in the Middle and You: …Diaz in the Disney sitcom Stuck in the Middle. She starred as the middle child of seven siblings, who invents gadgets to deal with living in a large family. At the same time, Ortega voiced Princess Isabel in the Disney animated series Elena of Avalor (2016–20).

Wassily Kandinsky: Munich period: …Academy in the class of Franz von Stuck. Kandinsky emerged from the academy with a diploma in 1900 and, during the next few years, achieved moderate success as a competent professional artist in touch with modern trends. Starting from a base in 19th-century realism, he was influenced by Impressionism, by…

Mount McKinley: Exploration and climbing attempts: ” On June 7, 1913, Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens led a party to the South Peak, the true summit. A climbing party was first airlifted onto the mountain’s flanks in 1932; beginning in the 1950s, that became the standard way to attempt a summit climb, as it reduced the…

relativistic mechanics: Relativistic space-time: …out by the Swiss physicist Ernest C.G. Stückelberg de Breidenbach and by the American physicist Richard Feynman that a meaning can be attached to world lines moving backward in time—i.e., for those for which ordinary time t decreases as proper time τ increases. Since, as shall be shown later, the…

iron processing: History: …into the 3-metre- (10-foot-) high Stückofen, which produced blooms so large they had to be removed through a front opening in the furnace.

carpentry: …framing the vertical members (studs) extend the full height of the building from foundation plate to rafter plate. The timber used in the framing is put to various uses. The studs usually measure 1.5 × 3.5 inches (4 × 9 cm; known as a “2 × 4”) and are…

horse racing: Bloodlines and studbooks: In France the Stud Book Française (beginning in 1838) originally included two classifications: Orientale (Arab, Turk, and Barb) and Anglais (mixtures according to the English pattern), but these were later reduced to one class, chevaux de pur sang Anglais (“horses of pure English blood”). The American Stud Book…

poker: Stud poker: Each player receives one card facedown—his hole card—and one card faceup. The deal is then interrupted for a betting interval. There follow three rounds of dealing, each deal distributing one card faceup to each active player, with a betting interval after…

Jackie Collins: Collins’s next effort, The Stud (1969; film 1978), chronicles the exploits of a licentious London nightclub manager and his nominally married female employer. She picked up their torrid saga in The Bitch (1979; film 1979). The film versions of The Stud and The Bitch were vehicles for her…

chain: …the coil chain is the stud-link chain, each of whose links has a bar or stud across its inside width. These studs add weight, keep the chain from fouling or kinking, and help prevent deformation; stud-link chains are preferred for use as anchor and cable chains on ships. (See Figure…

studbook, official record of the pedigree of purebred animals, particularly horses and dogs, usually published by a national breed association or similar regulating organization. Most studbooks are patterned after the British General Stud Book for Thoroughbred horses, first published in 1791 by

American Idol: Winners: Other winners included Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Jordin Sparks, David Cook, and Kris Allen.

tire: Snow tires: …regular tires; tire chains or studded tires are best for ice surfaces. Studded tires usually have about 100 studs tipped with tungsten carbide which contact the road as the tire rotates. Because of the damage they are said to cause road surfaces, they are prohibited in certain localities.

Studebaker family, U.S. automobile manufacturers whose firm became the world’s largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles and a leader in automobile manufacturing. In 1852 Clement Studebaker (1831–1901) started a blacksmith and wagon shop in South Bend, Ind., with his brother Henry (1826–1895). Later

Clement Studebaker was an American manufacturer who founded a family firm that became the world’s largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles and a leader in automobile manufacturing. Studebaker started a blacksmith and wagon shop in South Bend in 1852 with his brother Henry. When John Mohler

automotive industry: The industry in the United States: A merger of Studebaker and Packard in 1954 was less successful. The new company stopped production in the United States in 1964 and in Canada two years later.

Kraljevo: The famous monastery of Studenica, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986, is about 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Kraljevo, under the shadow of Golija Mountain, amid beautiful scenery; one of the oldest and best-known Serbian medieval monasteries, it comprises three churches dating from the 12th to…

student aid, form of assistance designed to help students pay for their education. In general, such awards are known as scholarships, fellowships, or loans; in European usage, a small scholarship is an exhibition, and a bursary is a sum granted to a needy student. Many awards are in the nature of

student aid, form of assistance designed to help students pay for their education. In general, such awards are known as scholarships, fellowships, or loans; in European usage, a small scholarship is an exhibition, and a bursary is a sum granted to a needy student. Many awards are in the nature of

anarchism: Contemporary anarchism: …new radicalism took root among students and the left in general in the United States, Europe, and Japan, embracing a general criticism of “elitist” power structures and the materialist values of modern industrial societies—both capitalist and communist. For these radicals, who rejected the traditional parties of the left as strongly…

Student journalism has evolved with new platforms and technologies, much like its professional media counterparts. In the 21st century, student media organizations at many U.S. higher education institutions have faced similar challenges with reduced funding, loss of advertising, and declining

millennial: The most-educated generation: …requires students to take out loans, thus compounding the difficult economic situation many graduates faced during the recession. According to the Pew Research Center, millennials have a greater share of outstanding student debt and owe more than previous generations. The number of young adult households with student debt doubled between…

Student loan debt is frequently in the news as politicians debate solutions to the rising costs of college and the crippling amount of student debt now carried by young adults. Student debt can be discharged (eliminated) through either “forgiveness”/cancellation programs or bankruptcy. There are

When it comes to paying for college, there’s a good chance you’ll need to use multiple strategies to cover the cost—and that may include taking loans to help you cover any shortfall. If you end up needing to borrow money to pay for a college education, just remember that there’s a limit to how much

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), American political organization that played a central role in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Begun as an interracial group advocating nonviolence, it adopted greater militancy late in the decade, reflecting nationwide trends in Black

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), American political organization that played a central role in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Begun as an interracial group advocating nonviolence, it adopted greater militancy late in the decade, reflecting nationwide trends in Black

Roger Corman: New World Pictures: Its first film, The Student Nurses (1970), was shot in three weeks for $150,000 and grossed more than $1 million. Other New World releases included horror, blaxploitation, and women-in-prison films. The profits from these low-budget features allowed Corman to act as the American distributor for a number of…

film: Film design: …Der Student von Prag (1926; The Student of Prague) or Die Nibelungen (1924), there was a baroque beauty of architectural, woodland, and floral settings. The influence of Expressionism can be seen in later cinema in the work of directors Orson Welles and Carl Dreyer and in many gangster movies.

Alia Bhatt: Career and stardom: …played the female lead in Student of the Year, helmed by filmmaker Karan Johar, who would go on to cast her in subsequent projects directed or produced by him. The success of Student of the Year made stars of Bhatt and actors Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra, the film functioning…

Sigmund Romberg: They include the operetta The Student Prince (1924; based on the German play Alt Heidelberg by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster), with the songs “Deep in My Heart” and “Drinking Song”; The Desert Song (1926), remembered for the title song and “One Alone”; and The New Moon (1928), with “Lover, Come Back…

Christian fundamentalism: Origins: …was eventually institutionalized as the Student Volunteer Movement.

film: Film design: …Der Student von Prag (1926; The Student of Prague) or Die Nibelungen (1924), there was a baroque beauty of architectural, woodland, and floral settings. The influence of Expressionism can be seen in later cinema in the work of directors Orson Welles and Carl Dreyer and in many gangster movies.

Pablo Picasso: Collage: …much of his work (Student with a Pipe [1913]) and lead to the suggestion that one thing becomes transformed into another. Absinthe Glass (1914; six versions), for example, is in part sculpture (cast bronze), in part collage (a real silver sugar strainer is welded onto the top), and in…

Student’s t-test: ) The t distribution is a family of curves in which the number of degrees of freedom (the number of independent observations in the sample minus one) specifies a particular curve. As the sample size (and thus the degrees of freedom) increases, the t distribution approaches the bell…

Student’s t-test: The test statistic t is then calculated. If the observed t-statistic is more extreme than the critical value determined by the appropriate reference distribution, the null hypothesis is rejected. The appropriate reference distribution for the t-statistic is the t distribution. The critical value depends on the significance…

Student’s t-test, in statistics, a method of testing hypotheses about the mean of a small sample drawn from a normally distributed population when the population standard deviation is unknown. In 1908 William Sealy Gosset, an Englishman publishing under the pseudonym Student, developed the t-test

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), American student organization that flourished in the mid-to-late 1960s and was known for its activism against the Vietnam War. SDS, founded in 1959, had its origins in the student branch of the League for Industrial Democracy, a social democratic educational

Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (6–3) on June 29, 2023, that the admissions policies of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC), which incorporated the limited consideration of the

major Supreme Court cases from the end of the 2022–23 term: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina: …Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina—that challenged its earlier decision in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), which had established that significantly limited affirmative action in university admissions is neither unconstitutional nor illegal. Writing for a 5–4 majority in Grutter, Justice Sandra

Institute of World Affairs (IWA), nongovernmental organization (NGO) that develops educational and training programs in conflict analysis, conflict management, and postconflict peace building. It is headquartered in Vienna, Va. The IWA was founded in 1924 in Geneva by a group of English and

Yuri Valentinovich Trifonov: His first novel, Studenty (1950; “Students”), won the Stalin Prize in 1951. Trifonov went as a journalist to Central Asia, where he reported on the building of the Karakum Canal, the subject of his novel Utoleniye zhazhdy (1963; “Thirst Quenching”). Much of his work during the 1960s appeared…

university: Early universities: …the medieval schools known as studia generalia; they were generally recognized places of study open to students from all parts of Europe. The earliest studia arose out of efforts to educate clerks and monks beyond the level of the cathedral and monastic schools. The inclusion of scholars from foreign countries…

humanities: The term studia humanitatis (“studies of humanity”) was used by 15th-century Italian humanists to denote secular literary and scholarly activities (in grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, moral philosophy, and ancient Greek and Latin studies) that the humanists thought to be essentially humane and Classical studies rather than divine

Edith Stein: …Joannes a Cruce: Kreuzeswissenschaft (1950; The Science of the Cross), a phenomenological study of St. John of the Cross.

Alfred Adler: …über Minderwertigkeit von Organen (1907; Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation), in which he suggested that persons try to compensate psychologically for a physical disability and its attendant feeling of inferiority. Unsatisfactory compensation results in neurosis. Adler increasingly downplayed Freud’s basic contention that sexual conflicts in early childhood…

Johan Herman Lie Vogt: His first important work, Studier over slagger (1884; “Studies on Slags”), began a series of studies on molten slags, in which he examined the crystallization of furnace slags and pointed out the close resemblance in mineral composition and texture between slags and certain igneous rocks. His principal work on…

John Neville Keynes: His first major work, Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic (1884), was popular for its clarity of expression and avoidance of mathematical symbolism. Keynes’s classic work on economic methodology, The Scope and Method of Political Economy (1891), categorized the existing approaches to economics as either inductive or deductive. With…

John Ferguson McLennan: …evolution, outlined in his book Primitive Marriage: An Enquiry into the Origin of the Form of Capture in Marriage Ceremonies (1865, reissued as Studies in Ancient History, 2nd series, 1896, and again as Primitive Marriage, 1970).

Studies in Classic American Literature, collection of literary criticism by English writer D.H. Lawrence, published in 1923. In this series of essays about great American authors, Lawrence characterized American culture as unsteady and set adrift from the stable moorings of European culture.

Israel Abrahams: Studies in Pharisaism and the Gospels, 2 vol. (1917–24), includes a series of essays based on an examination of the New Testament treatment of Judaism. Among his works on Jewish writings is Chapters on Jewish Literature (1899), a survey of the period from the fall…

John Maurice Clark: In Studies in the Economics of Overhead Costs (1923), Clark developed his theory of the acceleration principle—that investment demand can fluctuate severely if consumer demand fluctuations exhaust existing productive capacity. His subsequent study of variations in consumer demand as a source of fluctuations in total demand…

Sergey Fyodorovich Platonov: …this subject was the monumental Studies in the History of the Time of Troubles in the Muscovite State During the 16th and 17th Centuries (1899). Platonov founded a new school of historiography in Russia based on careful and exhaustive archival research and analysis. His History of Russia (1909) and Lectures…

Sigmund Mowinckel: …the Psalms,” later popularized as The Psalms in Israel’s Worship, 1962), one of the major works of biblical commentary of the 20th century. Depicting the psalms in their concrete cultural milieu, he emphasized the cultic nature of their origin and development.

Havelock Ellis: …his major work, the seven-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897–1928). Publication of the first volume resulted in a trial during which the judge hearing the case called claims for the book’s scientific value “a pretence, adopted for the purpose of selling a filthy publication.” Other volumes of the…

Franklin H. Giddings: …The Principles of Sociology (1896); Studies in the Theory of Human Society (1922), considered the best statement of his matured ideas; and The Scientific Study of Human Society (1924).

Catharine Parr Traill: …wrote Canadian Wild Flowers (1869), Studies of Plant Life in Canada (1885), and Pearls and Pebbles (1895), on birds and animals. She introduced the animal story for children into Canadian literature with the publication of Afar in the Forest (1869). Like her nature writings, these stories abound in lyrical descriptions…

Ernest Renan: Early works: …essays, Études d’histoire religieuse (1857; Studies of Religious History) and Essais de morale et de critique (1859; “Moral and Critical Essays”), first written for the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Journal des Débats. The Études inculcated into a middle-class public the insight and sensitivity of the historical, humanistic approach…

Vernon Lee: This work, Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy, brought to life for English readers the hitherto unexplored world of poet-librettist Pietro Metastasio and dramatists Carlo Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi. Her collections of essays Belcaro (1881), a work on aesthetics, and Euphorion (1884), which includes essays on…

Association Internationale du Congo, association under whose auspices the Congo region (coextensive with present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) was explored and brought under the ownership of the Belgian king Leopold II and a group of European investors. The Committee for Studies of the

Theodore Christian Schneirla: His “Studies on Army Ants in Panama,” published the next year, provided new insight into their behaviour. He discovered that these ants operate on a 36-day cycle consisting of a 16-day nomadic pattern followed by a 20-day stationary phase. In 1934 he reported that ants follow…

Studio 54, discotheque in New York City that was one of the most popular nightclubs in the late 1970s and a mecca for the glitterati of culture and the arts in the disco era. Tales of hedonism and excess from the heyday of Studio 54 are legion, and in its brief existence (1977–86) it came to define

Aaron Sorkin: In-demand writer for television and film: Sorkin’s next television project was Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–07), which depicted the offscreen goings-on of a TV sketch-comedy program. However, the show survived only one season. Sorkin then returned to his theatrical roots with the Broadway production The Farnsworth Invention (2007), about the historical emergence of television,…

Édouard Manet: Mature life and works of Édouard Manet: …an homage in paint, Fantin-Latour’s A Studio at Batignolles, which served as a kind of manifesto on his behalf. This large canvas shows Manet painting, surrounded by those who were his defenders at the time: Zola, the painters Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Frédéric Bazille, and the sculptor Zacharie Astruc.…

Bruno Maderna: …Luciano Berio, Maderna founded the Studio di Fonologia Musicale at Milan Radio in Italy in 1954; the studio became a major laboratory for electronic music in Europe. With Berio he also founded a review devoted to electronic and avant-garde music, Incontri Musicali (“Musical Encounters”). Maderna later taught composition in Milan,…

Jeanne Gang: Education, early career, and Studio Gang: …she opened her own firm, Studio Gang Architects, in Chicago.

Studio Ghibli is an acclaimed Japanese animation film studio that was founded in 1985 by animators and directors Miyazaki Hayao and Takahata Isao and producer Suzuki Toshio. Studio Ghibli is known for the high quality of its filmmaking and its artistry. Its feature films have won both critical and

Studio Museum, a cultural institution in Harlem, New York City, that promotes and showcases work by artists of African descent. Since its opening in 1968 the museum has offered residencies, exhibitions, and events that have helped launch the careers of leading American artists, curators, and

Studio Museum, a cultural institution in Harlem, New York City, that promotes and showcases work by artists of African descent. Since its opening in 1968 the museum has offered residencies, exhibitions, and events that have helped launch the careers of leading American artists, curators, and

Studio One: Jamaican “Academy”: Coxsone Dodd, who had encountered rhythm and blues as a migrant cane cutter in the southern United States and returned home to become one of Jamaica’s first sound-system (mobile disco) operators, founded Studio One in 1963. His crude and tiny one-track studio and pressing plant…

Coxsone Dodd, who had encountered rhythm and blues as a migrant cane cutter in the southern United States and returned home to become one of Jamaica’s first sound-system (mobile disco) operators, founded Studio One in 1963. His crude and tiny one-track studio and pressing plant produced hits for

easel painting, painting executed on a portable support such as a panel or canvas, instead of on a wall. It is likely that easel paintings were known to the ancient Egyptians, and the 1st-century-ad Roman scholar Pliny the Elder refers to a large panel placed on an easel; it was not until the 13th

film: Film directing: …the great age of the studio system (1927–48), strong directors vied with the factory conditions in which films were made. Those directors with powerful personalities (such as Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Ernst Lubitsch) were given great freedom, but they still had to work with actors and actresses…

Bryan Cranston: Other TV shows: Sneaky Pete and Your Honor: …on the first season of The Studio, for which he won an Emmy Award.

realism: Painting: After his huge canvas The Studio (1854–55) was rejected by the Exposition Universelle of 1855, the artist displayed it and other works under the label “Realism, G. Courbet” in a specially constructed pavilion. Courbet was strongly opposed to idealization in his art, and he urged other artists to instead…

John Gregory Dunne: The Studio (1969) is a telling portrait of the motion-picture industry as seen through the eyes of the movie studio executives. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season (1974) describes the narrator’s nervous breakdown in a story about…

art market: The 15th century: …of rooms, known as a studiolo. The most celebrated example was created by Isabella d’Este, wife of Francesco Gonzaga III, at the ducal palace in Mantua (see also House of Este; Gonzaga dynasty). Decorated with paintings by Andrea Mantegna and other court artists, d’Este’s

calligraphy: Earliest minuscule, 8th to 10th century: …lives of the abbots of Stoudion of that time, and the first dated manuscript written in true minuscule) point to its development from a certain type of documentary hand used in the 8th century and to the likelihood that the monastery of the Stoudion in Constantinople had a leading part…

Christianity: Missions and monasticism: …Byzantium was centred upon the Studites, who came to be a faction against the court. A remoter and otherworldly asceticism developed with the foundation of monasteries on Mount Athos (Greece) from 963 onward. A distinctive feature of Athonite monasticism was that nothing female was to be allowed on the peninsula.

Italy: Cultural developments: The incipient Dominican studium in Naples produced Thomas Aquinas, arguably the greatest thinker of the age. Frederick, however, did not continue the rich Norman tradition of mosaic art and architecture, best represented by the Palatine Chapel in Palermo and the cathedrals of Cefalù and Monreale. Instead, Frederick was…

University of Rome: …for a time alongside the studium curiae (“place of study of the [papal] court”), founded 1244–45. Under Pope Leo X (1513–21), the two institutions were fused into one University of Rome, housed in a building called Sapienza (“Wisdom”), which for centuries gave its name to the university.

university: Early universities: …the medieval schools known as studia generalia; they were generally recognized places of study open to students from all parts of Europe. The earliest studia arose out of efforts to educate clerks and monks beyond the level of the cathedral and monastic schools. The inclusion of scholars from foreign countries…

University of Rome: …the university, known as the studium urbis (“place of study of the city”), operated for a time alongside the studium curiae (“place of study of the [papal] court”), founded 1244–45. Under Pope Leo X (1513–21), the two institutions were fused into one University of Rome, housed in a building called…

Harrogate: Studley Royal Water Garden, just southwest of Ripon and containing the ruins of Fountains Abbey, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986. Area borough, 505 square miles (1,308 square km). Pop. (2001) town (including Knaresborough), 85,128; borough, 151,336; (2011) town, 73,576; borough, 157,869.

Studs Lonigan, trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell about life among lower-middle-class Irish Roman Catholics in Chicago during the first third of the 20th century. The trilogy consists of Young Lonigan: A Boyhood in Chicago Streets (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment

Studs Terkel: Studs’s Place, Terkel’s nationally broadcast television show, ran from 1949 to 1952. The program comprised songs and stories and used a fictional bar as its backdrop. Its cancellation was due to Terkel’s leftist leanings, which got him blacklisted in the early 1950s. He returned to…

Francis Bacon: …he converted Diego Velázquez’s famous Portrait of Pope Innocent X into a nightmarish icon of hysterical terror.

smart drug, any of a group of pharmaceutical agents used to improve the intellectual capacity of persons suffering from neurological diseases and psychological disorders. The use of such drugs by healthy individuals in order to improve concentration, to study longer, and to better manage stress is

ProCon Debates: Should TikTok Be Banned?; Is Social Media Good for Society? ProCon Issue in the News: When it comes to mental health issues, young people are increasingly calling “Dr. TikTok,” and turning to social media in general, for help. Self-diagnosing for mental health conditions such as

Jean Tinguely: …two self-destroying machines, entitled “Study for an End of the World,” performed more successfully, detonating themselves with considerable amounts of explosives. In the 1960s and ’70s he went on to create less aggressive and more playful kinetic constructions that combined aspects of the machine with those of found objects,…