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  2. SRI International - Wikipedia

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    SRI International ( SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region. The organization was founded as the Stanford Research Institute.

  3. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest ...

  4. Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) - Wikipedia

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    Ravi Shankar (born 13 May 1956) is an Indian yoga guru, [1] a spiritual leader. He is referred to as Sri Sri (honorific), Guru ji, or Gurudev. [2] [3] From around the mid 1970s, he worked as an apprentice under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation. In 1981, he founded the Art of Living foundation.

  5. Romanian Intelligence Service - Wikipedia

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    The Romanian Intelligence Service ( Romanian: Serviciul Român de Informații, abbreviated SRI) is Romania 's main domestic intelligence service. Its role is to gather information relevant to national security and hand it over to relevant institutions, such as Romanian Government, presidency and law enforcement departments and agencies.

  6. System of Rice Intensification - Wikipedia

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    The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a farming methodology that aims to increase the yield of rice while using fewer resources and reducing environmental impacts. The method was developed by a French Jesuit Father Henri de Laulanié in Madagascar [1] and built upon decades of agricultural experimentation.

  7. List of SRI International people - Wikipedia

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    Douglas Engelbart, SRI's most famous alumnus, invented many features of modern computers through SRI's Augmentation Research Center. SRI International (SRI), originally known as the Stanford Research Institute, is one of the world's largest contract research institutes. SRI, based in Menlo Park, California, was established by the trustees of ...

  8. Geography of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Sri Lanka. /  7°N 81°E  / 7; 81. Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, southeast of the Indian subcontinent, in a strategic location near major sea lanes. [1] The nation has a total area of 65,610 square kilometres (25,330 sq mi), with 64,630 square kilometres (24,950 sq mi) of land and ...

  9. Shri - Wikipedia

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    Shri is an epithet of the Hindu goddesses - Lakshmi. Shri is a polite form of address equivalent to the English "Mr." or "Ms.". [7] Shri is also frequently used as an epithet of some Hindu gods, in which case it is often translated into English as Holy.