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Mathias Lundholm Carl Mathias Lundholm (1785-1860) was a Swedish violinist and conductor. He studied violin in Paris with Pierre Baillot (1771-1842) from 1814 until 1816, and was teacher to both Ole Bull (1810-1880) and Otto Lindblad (1809-1864).
Mathias Ntawulikura Mathias Ntawulikura (born 14 July 1964 in Gisovu/Kibuye) is a retired Rwandan long-distance runner. He reached the World Athletics Championships final and participated in the Olympic Games in both 5000 and 10000 metres, and participated five times in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
Mathias Rust Mathias Rust (born 1968) is a German person known for his illegal landing by the Red Square in Moscow in 1987. As an amateur aviator, he flew from Uetersen, Germany to Iceland, and then via Norway and Finland to Moscow, eluding the Soviet air defences and landing on Vasilevski Spusk next to the Red Square near the Kremlin in the heart of the capital of the USSR.
Mathias Tjärnqvist Mathias Tjärnqvist (born April 15, 1979 in Umeå, Sweden) is a professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. His brother, Daniel Tjärnqvist, is a defenseman for the Edmonton Oilers.
Mathieu d'Escouchy Mathieu d'Escouchy (Le Quesnoy, Picardy, 1420 — 1482) was a French chronicler during the last stages of the Hundred Years War. His Chronique was a continuation of the chronicle of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, with manuscripts of which it occurs as a third volume; it was edited by G.
Mathieu Dandenault Mathieu Dandenault (born February 3, 1976 in Sherbrooke, Québec) plays defense for the Montréal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. He has played for the Detroit Red Wings and the Canadiens in a career that started with the 1995-96 NHL season.
Mathieu group In mathematics, the Mathieu groups are five finite simple groups discovered by the French mathematician Emile LĂ©onard Mathieu. They are usually thought of as permutation groups on n points (where n can take the values 11, 12, 22, 23 or 24) and are named Mn.
Mathieu Kassovitz Mathieu Kassovitz (born 3 August 1967 in Paris) is a French director, screenwriter, occasional actor and is considered one of contemporary France's top young film talents. He is the son of director Peter Kassovitz, a Jewish immigrant from Hungary, and a Roman Catholic French mother.
Mathieu Turgeon Mathieu Turgeon (born August 2, 1979 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. He unexpectedly won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in individual trampoline and qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics but failed to make the final.
Mathieus Hahn Philipp Matthäus Hahn, also written as Mathieus Hahn (November 25 1739 in Scharnhausen, today part of Ostfildern - May 2 1790 in Echterdingen, today part of Leinfelden-Echterdingen) was a German priest and inventor.
Mathighatta Mathighatta, centre place for most of the villages like Siddaramanahalli, Kavalipura, Kurubarahalli, Kurubarahalli thanda, Kavalipura, Cheelanahalli, Devarahalli, Banjenahalli, G.Karehalli, Beeranahalli, Dasarahalli, Madalu, Sadarahalli, Huligondi, Lakkenahalli, Lakkenalli thanda, Kariyanahalli, Kuppalu and Siddarahatti.
Mathilda Wrede Mathilda Wrede (March 8, 1864 - December 25, 1928) is known in Finland as "Friend of the inmates". She was an evangelist, a baroness, but she is most known for being a precursor in the rehabilitation of prisoners.
Mathilde Bauermeister Mathilde Bauermeister (born in 1849, in Hamburg, Germany—died on October 15, 1926, in Herne Bay, England) was an opera singer who for decades held the record for most performances by a female artist at the Metropolitan Opera, a record now held by Thelma Votipka.
Mathilde Octavie Tafna Mathilde Octavie Tafna (born March 16, 1895) is the oldest living person of a French possession since the death of Julia Sinédia-Cazour on October 6, 2005. Living in Guadeloupe, she is the 4th oldest French person and the 27th oldest person in the world as of January 2007.
Mathima Solfege Mathima Solfege (Greek script: Μάθημα σολφέζ, English translation: "Solfege Lesson") was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, performed in Greek by Pascalis, Marianna, Robert & Bessy.
Mathis der Maler (symphony) The symphony Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) by Paul Hindemith is an orchestral work based upon themes from Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler, about the painter Matthias GrĂĽnewald. The symphony has three movements:
Mathiu Silverberg Mathiu Silverberg (マッシュ・シルバーバーグ, Masshu Shirubābāgu) is a character in Konami's role playing game Genso Suikoden. He was the main strategist for the Liberation Army and died at the end of the game.
MathML Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is an application of XML for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. It aims at integrating mathematical formulae into World Wide Web documents.
Mathnet Mathnet, a segment on the children's television show Square One and spoof of Dragnet, featured detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department who solved mysteries using their mathematical skills. There were two main characters: detectives Kate Monday (Beverly Leech) and George Frankly (Joe Howard).
MathNEWS mathNEWS is a bi-weekly publication created by Faculty of Mathematics students at the University of Waterloo. Although an issue of mathNEWS contains some announcements relevant to "Mathies", it is primarily meant to be a humour paper.
Mathomatic Mathomatic is a free, portable, general purpose computer algebra system (CAS) that can symbolically solve, simplify, combine, and compare algebraic equations, perform complex number and polynomial arithmetic, etc. It does some symbolic calculus (limits, derivative, extrema, Taylor series, and polynomial integration) and handles all algebra, except trigonometry and logarithms.
Mathsoc Dublin University Mathematical Society, affectionately referred to as the Mathsoc by its members, is a student society of Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1923 and has had many famous members since its foundation, including Ireland's only Nobel Physics Laureate Ernest Walton who helped found it.
Mathtutor Mathtutor is a tutorial system incorporating video tutorials, diagnostics, summary text and exercises aiming "to bridge the gap from school to university study (in mathematics), to revise or find the maths topic you missed".
MathType Design Science MathType is an interactive tool for Windows and Macintosh that allows the creation of mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents. MathType is the professional version of the Equation Editor in MS Office and many other products.
Mathunjwa High School Mathunjwa High School is a public (government-funded) school in Vryheid, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The student body is not well off (according to the Principal, some half of the students could not afford the R100 school fee), however the school has consistently good results in university matriculation examinations and had 100% pass rate and endorsement rates in 2005.
Mathura Mathura (Hindi: मथुरा, Urdu: متھرا) is a holy city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, located approximately 50 km north of Agra, and 150 km south of Delhi. It is the administrative centre of Mathura District of Uttar Pradesh.
Mathuraikkanci Mathuraikkanci, is a Tamil poetic work in the Pathinenmaelkanakku anthology of Tamil literature, belonging to the Sangam period corresponding to between 100 BCE – 100 CE. Mathuraikkanci contains 583 lines of poetry in the Achiriyappa meter.
Match cut A match cut is a cut in film editing from one scene to another, in which the two camera shots are linked visually or thematically. It can be used to underline a connection between two separate elements, or for purely visual reasons.
Match Day Match Day was a football simulation game, published by Ocean Software in 1984, on the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, Commodore 64 and BBC Micro systems. It was the creation of programmer Jon Ritman, who used modified sprites from a previous title Bear Bovver to create an almost isometric, but still ultimately side-on football title.
Match fixing Match fixing or game fixing in organized sports occurs when a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident will be referred to as race fixing.
Match II Match II (1958-1965) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse who won major races in England, France and the United States and who was voted Horse of the Year in England. Because another horse with the name Match was born registered in the United States that same year, he is sometimes recorded as "Match III.
Match magazine MATCH is a British football magazine published by Emap Active, the division of Emap Consumer Media that specialises in magazines for the sports and leisure market. Published every Tuesday and aimed at teenaged football fans, it costs ÂŁ1.
Match moving Match moving is a special effects technology to allow the insertion of virtual objects into real footage with the correct position, scale, orientation and motion in relation to the photographed objects in the scene. The term is used loosely to refer to several different ways of extracting motion information from a motion picture, particularly camera movement.
Match of the Day Match of the Day (sometimes abbreviated as MotD) is the BBC's main football television programme. It is shown on BBC One every Saturday evening during the English football season, showing highlights of Premiership (formerly Division One) matches.
Match play Match play is a scoring system for golf (compare to stroke play). In the world of men's professional golf, there are a small number of notable match play tournaments including the biennial Ryder Cup for teams representing the USA and Europe; the biennial Presidents Cup for teams representing the USA and International (non-European) players; the WGC-Accenture World Matchplay Championship; and the older HSBC World Matchplay Championship, an invitational event which is now part of the European Tour.
Match Point Match Point is an Academy Award-nominated 2005 film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, and Matthew Goode. Rhys-Meyers plays Chris Wilton, a tennis pro seeking a new direction for his life, who seems to find it all (friendship, a new career, love) when he meets the members of a wealthy British family.
Match race A match race is a regatta for two sailing boats, racing each other around a course. It is differentiated from a fleet race, which almost always involves three or more competitors, by slight variations in the rules and large variations in tactics.
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish (also spelled with various transliterations as Mashipinashiwish, Me-chee-pee-nai-she-insh, Mash-i-pi-wish , Mitch-e-pe-nain-she-wish, or Mat-che-pee-na-che-wish) is the name of a chief of a Potawatomi Indian group. He signed the Treaty of Greenville, in 1795, as a Chippewa chief with the English name of Bad Bird (the Chippewa were closely allied with the Potawatomi and Ottawa).
Matchbook A matchbook is a small cardboard container that holds a quantity of matches inside and has a coarse striking surface on the exterior. A flap on the front is lifted to access the matches, which are attached to the interior base in a comb-like pattern and must be torn away before use.
Matchbox (band) Matchbox is a British rock and roll band formed in 1971 and still active as of 2006. Since 1978, the lineup consists of Graham Fenton (lead vocalist), Steve Bloomfield (lead guitar, vocals) (ex The Count Four), Gordon Scott (rhythm guitar) (ex The Rocking Phenmonia, The Cruisers), Fred Poke (bass) (ex Contraband), and Jimmy Redhead (drums) (ex The Cruisers, Contraband).
Matchbox (song) "Matchbox" is a rockabilly song credited to Carl Perkins and first recorded by the artist at Sun Records in 1957. It is one of Perkins' best-known recordings, although it gained additional notoriety through the wealth of cover versions that followed, notably the cover by The Beatles.
Matchbox (toys) Matchbox is a die cast toy brand currently owned by Mattel, Inc. Matchbox toys were so named because the original models were packed in boxes similar in size and style to boxes of matches. The series became so popular that the Matchbox name was once widely used by the public as a genericized trademark for all die cast toy cars measuring approximately 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) in length, regardless of brand. In the 1970s, Matchbox switched to the more conventional, plastic and cardboard "blister packs" used for other die cast cars such as Hot Wheels, although the box style packaging was re-introduced for the collector market in recent years, particularly successfully with the release of the "35th Anniversary of Superfast" series in 2004.
Matchbox Recordings UK Matchbox Recordings UK is an independent record label based in England and plugging company incorporating a Radio Station and worldwide A&R Agency. Founded by Dale Olivier in 2000, Matchbox has gotten some underground acclaim for their release and distribution of unsigned acts worldwide.
Matchbox twenty matchbox twenty (originally Matchbox 20) is a rock band from Orlando, Florida, who have sold in excess of 39 million albums worldwide. The current members of the band are Rob Thomas, Brian Yale, Paul Doucette, and Kyle Cook.
Matchboxes Matchboxes is a drinking game of skill played around a table. It can be played by any number of people, although if the circle is large it may be advisable to introduce a second matchbox diametrically opposite to the first to keep things active.
Matchcover A Matchcover, or "matchbook cover", is a thin cardboard covering that folds over match sticks in a "book" or "pack" of matches. Covers have been used as a form of advertising since 1894, two years after they were patented, and since then, have attracted people who enjoy the hobby of collecting.
Matched filter A matched filter is obtained by correlating a known signal, or template, with an unknown signal to detect the presence of the template in the unknown signal. This is equivalent to convolving the unknown signal with a time-reversed version of the template (cf.
Matched grip Matched grip is a method of holding drum sticks and mallets to play percussion instruments. In the matched grip each hand holds its stick in the same way, whereas in the traditional grip, each hand holds the stick differently.
Matched-guise test The Matched-Guise Test is an indirect research technique that involves asking interviewees to evaluate the personal qualities of speakers whose voices are recorded on tape, with the same speaker using different linguistic varieties. This technique has been widely used in studies and research on language attitudes, in both international and Catalan sociolinguistics.
Matching In the mathematical discipline of graph theory a matching or edge independent set in a graph is a set of edges without common vertices. It may also be an entire graph consisting of edges without common vertices.
Matching funds Matching funds is a term used to describe the requirement or condition that a generally minimal amount of money or services-in-kind originate from the beneficiaries of financial amounts, usually for a purpose of charitable or public good.
Matching hypothesis The matching hypothesis is a popular psychological theory proposed by Goffman in 1952, it suggests why people become attracted to their partners. It claims that people are more likely to form long standing relationships with those who are equally as physically attractive as they are.
Matching law In operant conditioning, the matching law is a quantitative relationship that holds between the relative rates of response and the relative rates of reinforcement in concurrent schedules of reinforcement. It applies reliably when non-human subjects are exposed to concurrent variable interval schedules; its applicability in other situations is less clear, depending on the assumptions made and the details of the experimental situation.
Matching Mole Matching Mole was a UK progressive rock band from the Canterbury Scene best known for the song O Caroline. Robert Wyatt formed the band in 1971 after he left Soft Machine and recorded his first solo album The End of an Ear.
Matching Mole's Little Red Record Matching Mole's Little Red Record (1972) is the second album of the British Canterbury Scene band Matching Mole. Compared to their first album, Little Red Record was more of a team effort, with Wyatt taking a less involved role.
Matching principle In accounting, the matching principle indicates that when it is reasonable to do so, expenses should be matched with revenues. When expenses are matched with revenues, they are not recognized until the associated revenue is also recognized.
Matchless G80 The Matchless G80 / AJS Model 18 was a single cylinder 500 cc motorcycle built by Associated Motorcycles (AMC) from 1949 to 1966. During the 1950s and 60s the main export product for AMC was the AJS/Matchless range - the road bikes were very similar, often with only the badges distinguishing one marque from the other.
Matchless Silver Arrow In 1930 Matchless launched the Matchless Silver Arrow, a cast iron head monoblock OHC, 400 cc, narrow angle transverse 26° V-twin motorcycle with chain drive designed by Charles Collier.Is-it-a-lemon Vehicle Histories (Retrieved 21 October 2006)
Matchless Silver Hawk Matchless Silver Hawk was a Bert Collier designed Is-it-a-lemon Vehicle Histories (Retrieved 21 October 2006) motorcycle] produced by [[Matchless in 1931 and introduced at the Motorcycle Show at Olympia, London as one of two up-market four-cylinder machines from two manufacturers; the Silver Hawk whose production would last less than four yearsAuction Description (Retrieved 21 October 2006) and the Ariel Square Four], whose production lasted into the [[1950s.
Matchroom Sport Matchroom Sport is a promotions company founded by the English entrepreneur Barry Hearn. It first came to attention in the sports of snooker and boxing and is also involved in pool, tenpin bowling, golf, fishing, darts and poker.
Matchstick model Matchstick models, as the name suggests are made from matches as a hobby. Regular matches are not used, however, but a special modelling type which do not have the combustible heads, and can be bought from art and craft shops.
Matchstick Productions Match Stick Productions is a Crested Butte, Colorado based extreme sports film production company specializing in skiing videos. It was started by Steve Winter and is now partnered with Murray Wais and Scott Gaffney.
Mati Mati (Greek: Mατι meaning eye) is a small idyllic village in Greece. The small holiday resort is located at the east coast of the Attica region, 29 kilometers (18 miles) away from Athens, 18km from the Athens International Airport, 4km from the Rafina Port to the Aegean islands, close to the 2004 Summer Olympic Games installations (CANOE-KAYAK Center, the EQUESTRIAN Center) and literally on the Marathon run.
Mati Moralejo Mati Moralejo is an actor and was a recurring personality on the Nickelodeon Games and Sports television network. He is regularly seen in 60 second featurettes highlighting lesser known sports from around the world called Global GAS.
Mati O Manush Mati O Manush (Bangla: মাটি ও মানুষ) was a pioneering television programme in Bangladesh Television. Starting from the mid 1980s, it brought revolution to the agricultural sector of Bangladesh.
Matias Cammareri Matias Gabriel Cammareri (born August 5, 1978 in Buenos Aires) is a field hockey midfielder from Argentina, who made his debut for the national squad in 1996. He played in Holland for a while, at Dutch club SCHC, just like his brother Lucas Cammareri, and later choosed to play for Laren.
Matias Paredes Matias Enrique Paredes (born March 9, 1982 in Quilmes) is a field hockey midfielder from Argentina, who made his debut for the national squad in 2001, and competed for his native country in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Matias Perez Matias Perez was a Portuguese pilot, canopy maker and Cuban resident who, carried away with the ever increasing popularity of aerostatic aircraft, disappeared while attempting an aerostatic flight from Havana's "Plaza de Marte" (today, "Parque Central") on June 28, 1856.
Matias Vila Matias Damian Vila (born July 7, 1979 in Buenos Aires) is a field hockey midfielder from Argentina, who made his debut for the national squad in 1997, and competed for his native country in the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics. He started to play hockey aged seven.
Matica slovenská The Matica slovenská (translation: Slovak Matica or Slovak Foundation/Association) is Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation. It is based in the town of Martin.
Matidia Minor Vibia Matidia or Matidia Minor (Latin for ‘the younger’) or Matidia the Younger (born around 80) was related to several important ancient Roman Emperors. The modern day village of Matigge, Italy is named after her.
Matiene Matiene was the name of northwestern Iran from the time of the arrival of Iranians, who overran the Kingdom of Mannae. The Mannaeans were non-Indo-European, probably speaking either an Hurro-Urartian language like the Nairi or a Northeast Caucasian language like the Albanians to the north.
Matienians The Matienians are a people mentioned by Herodotus as located west of the Halys River (book 1), in the 18th satrapy of the Persian Empire together with the Saspeirians and the Alarodians (book 3), situated between the Armenians and the Cissians (book 5), and as related to the Ligyans, the Mariandynians and the Cappadocians (book 6).
Matienzo Matienzo is the name of a village and a karst depression some 25 km southeast of Santander in northern Spain. The limestone around Matienzo is riddled with caves (up to 43 km in length) which have been extensively explored over the last 40 years by Spanish and English cavers.
Matigan-i Hazar Datistan The Matigan-i Hazar Datistan was the judicial code of the Magistan, the imperial parliament of the Arsacid Dynasty of the Parthian Empire (150 BCE–226 CE) and, for a while, of the Sassanid Empire (226–650 CE).
Matignon Accords (1936) Also known as the "Magna Carta of French Labor", the Matignon Accords of 1936 were an agreement to help the French Labor movement during the Popular Front government. They helped set up collective bargaining, and removed all obstacles to union organization.
Matija Babić Matija Babić (English transliteration: Matija Babich) is a Croatian journalist best known for his pioneering use of the Internet in order to expose various scandals. A University of Zagreb student, Babić appeared on the Croatian media scene in 1999 when he began to publish articles for vijesti.
Matija Bećković Matija Bećković (Born November 29, 1939, Senta, Danube Banate, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer and poet. He is one of the most prominent Serbian poets of the 20th century and a full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Matija Murko Matija Murko or Mathias Murko was a scholar who worked on oral epic traditions in the Serbo-Croat language (Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian). Published in German and French, his work was little known to scholars unfamiliar with these languages, but it was an important influence on Milman Parry, who was studying for his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, under Antoine Meillet, at the time when Murko's major work appeared in French.
Matilda (novella) Mary Shelley wrote the short novel "Matilda" in 1819, but it was not published until 1959. It was initially entitled "Fields of Fancy", a story about father-daughter incest, where a female character begins to tell her story of misery to Diotima, and in the midst of that story, the story of Matilda is told.
Matilda Betham-Edwards Matilda Betham-Edwards born 1836 in Suffolk; died 1919 in Hastings) was a novelist, travel writer and francophile. She was also a prolific poet (the 'Lay of Marie' concerning Marie de France is among her best-known works) and wrote several children's books.
Matilda Coxe Stevenson Matilda Coxe Stevenson (née Evans) (1855-1915) was an American ethnologist, born at San Augustine, Tex. In 1872 she was married to James Stevenson, an ethnologist (died 1888), with whom she spent 13 years in explorations of the Rocky Mountain region.
Matilda FitzRoy Matilda FitzRoy was an illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England and Isabel de Beaumont, sister of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. She was the abbess at the Abbey Church of Notre-Dame, Montivilliers.
Matilda Howell Lida Scott Howell (August 28, 1859 - December 20, 1939) was a American female archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won three gold medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri in the double national and columbia rounds and for the US team.
Matilda Joslyn Gage Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression". Though born in Cicero, New York, Gage maintained residence in Fayetteville, New York for the majority of her life.
Matilda Mk I The Tank, Infantry, Mk I, Matilda I (A11) was a British infantry tank of the Second World War. It is not to be confused with the later model Tank, Infantry Mk II (A12), also known as the 'Matilda II' which took over the 'Matilda' name after the early part of the war when the first Matilda was withdrawn from combat service.
Matilda Mother "Matilda Mother" is a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). Written by Syd Barrett from a surrealistic perspective, the song is essentially a fairy tale that is being read to a child by his mother.
Matilda of Tuscany Matilda, countess of Tuscany (1046 – July 24, 1115), called La Gran Contessa, was the principal Italian supporter of Pope Gregory VII during the investiture controversy, and is one of the few medieval women to be remembered for her military accomplishments. She is sometimes called Matilda of Canossa, after the ancestral family castle of Canossa.
Matilda tank The Tank, Infantry, Mk II, Matilda II (A12) (sometimes referred to as Senior Matilda or Matilda II) was a British tank of World War II. In a somewhat unorthodox move, it shared the same name as the Tank, Infantry, Mk I (A11).
Matilda, Countess of Angus Matilda of Angus was the daughter of Maol Choluim, Earl or Mormaer of Angus and as his only child, heir and countess of the province in her own right. It was arranged that she should marry John Comyn, but his death in France in 1242 meant that a new husdand was needed to control the dispersed Earldom.
Matilde Hidalgo Matilde Hidalgo de Procel (1889–1974) became the first woman to graduate from a high school in Ecuador, the first woman to vote in an election in South America and the first woman to hold elected office in her country. She was born in Loja, to a family of six children born to Juan Manuel Hidalgo and Carmen Navarro.
Matilde Zimmermann Matilde Zimmermann (born 6 September 1943) is an author and professor who ran as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Vice President in 1980. The party had three different Presidential candidates that year, Andrew Pulley, Richard H.
Matilla de los Caños del Río Matilla de los Caños del Río is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 34 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of only 705 people.
Matinal Matinal is a term used in the life sciences, apparently only in entomology, where it describes an insect that is only or primarily active in the pre-dawn hours or early morning, and is most often used in literature on the natural history and ecology of bees. There are numerous genera and species of bees which exhibit this behavior, presumably to escape from competition for resources, and many flowers (e.
Matinée Club Matinée Club (formerly called The Modern) are an emerging British Electro band, signed to Planet Clique. They play music variously described as "electro-pop" or "synth-pop" by reviews [http://www.
Mating In biology, mating is the pairing of opposite-sex or hermaphroditic internal fertilization animals for copulation and, in social animals, also to raise their offspring. In some birds, for example, it includes nest-building and feeding offspring.
Mating connection A mating connection is any method of assembling of two or more parts with mutually complementing shapes that, with some imagination, resembles the way two animals, male and female, are physically connected during the act of mating. In such connections one of the two parts is usually acting as male and another as female, although more complex relationships exist.
Mating of yeast The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a simple single celled eukaryote with both a diploid and haploid mode of existence. The mating of yeast only occurs between haploids, which can be either the a or α (alpha) mating type and thus display simple sexual differentiation.
Mating pool While evolutionary computation mainly treats the population as a whole, an equivalent approach is to separate from the current population those individuals that will have children. These are placed into a mating pool.
Mating system In sociobiology and behavioural ecology, the term mating system is used to describe the ways in which animal societies are structured in relation to sexual behaviour. The mating system specifies what males mate with what females under what circumstances.

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