what is sra

10 months ago 28
Nature

SRA can stand for various things, including:

  1. Satanic Ritual Abuse:

    • SRA refers to severe physical, sexual, and psychological abuse associated with Satanic cults and ritual worship, involving extreme violence, torture, and child abuse by multiple adult perpetrators.
    • It is a term used to describe a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.
    • Reports of SRA have involved secret multigenerational Satanic cults that form an international network, illicit drugs, and have been linked with syndicated child-sex rings and other forms of organized crime.
  2. Sequence Read Archive:

    • SRA is the Sequence Read Archive, which is a data repository that stores and provides access to raw sequence data.
    • It is available through multiple cloud providers and NCBI servers, and is the largest publicly available repository of high-throughput sequencing data.
  3. Subsidy, Reimbursement, or Allowance:

    • In an IT context, SRA refers to a subsidy, reimbursement, or allowance often used to offset the employees cost of using their personal technologies in business, such as for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs.
  4. Sale and Repurchase Agreement:

    • SRA is an open market operation by the Central Bank of Canada to affect overnight interest rates and modify the money supply.
    • It is implemented when the Bank of Canada sells securities to a chartered bank and agrees to repurchase them the following day, affecting the money supply and interest rates.

Given the context of the question, it seems that the most relevant interpretation of SRA is "Satanic Ritual Abuse."