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Mazda V-twin engine Mazda's first automobile engine was the V-twin family. This tiny air-cooled engine only lasted a few years in the early 1960s before Mazda moved to the standard straight-4 format used in most modern automobiles.
Mazdaspeed 3 The Mazdaspeed 3 or Mazdaspeed Axela is a 5-door sport compact station wagon introduced by Mazdaspeed for the 2007 model year, as a performance-enhanced version of the Mazda 3. Mazda unveiled the MAZDA3 MPS at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show in February.
Mazdaznan Mazdaznan is a syncretistic religious health movement based on Zoroastrianism and Christianity ideas with special focus on breathing exercises, vegetarian diet and body culture. It was founded at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century by Hanish.
Maze A maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. This is different from a labyrinth, which (strictly speaking) has an unambiguous through-route and is not designed to be difficult to navigate (despite the common uses of the word to indicate various complex, confusing structures).
Maze (HM Prison) HM Prison Maze (known colloquially as The H Blocks, Long Kesh or The Maze) is a disused prison sited at the former RAF station at Long Kesh (it is still called Long Kesh by most Irish republicans and loyalist paramilitaries) near Lisburn, nine miles outside Belfast, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The name "Maze" is taken from the village of the same name near the prison.
Maze (solitaire) Maze is a solitaire card game using 48 out of a deck of 52 playing cards. Although the words maze and labyrinth are synonymous with each other, this game and the solitaire game of Labyrinth should not be confused with each other because they are different in the manner of game play and dealing.
Maze of Games The Maze of Games is one of America's largest annual puzzlehunts, and is held at the Gen Con and Origins gaming conventions. Started in 1995 as an offshoot of LIVE/WIRE, the Maze of Games has been the largest event at one or both of those conventions every year since.
Maze procedure The maze procedure is a collection of cardiac surgery procedures intended to cure atrial fibrillation (AF), a common disturbance of heart rhythm. Recently, various methods of minimally invasive maze procedures have been developed; these procedures are collectively named minimaze - "mini" versions of the original maze surgery.
Mazen Dana Mazen Dana (1962-August 17, 2003) was a Palestinian journalist, who worked as a Reuters cameraman and was shot by United States soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq on August 17, 2003. The soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket launcher.
Mazengarb Report The Mazengarb Report of 1954, formally titled the Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents (AJHR 1954, H-47), resulted from a ministerial inquiry (the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents) sparked primarily by two infamous and well-publicised events in New Zealand's history: the 22 June 1954 Parker-Hulme murder (subject of the 1994 Peter Jackson film Heavenly Creatures) and the 20 June 1954 'Petone incident'. The report gained its name from the inquiry chairman, Queen's Counsel Oswald Mazengarb.
Mazer (drinking vessel) In the Germanic tradition, a mazer is a special type of drinking vessel, properly made of maple wood, and so-called from the spotted or birdseye marking on the wood (Ger. Maser, spot, marking, especially on wood; cf.
Mazes of Fate Mazes of Fate is a videogame made by Argentinian developer Sabarasa Entertainment, and published by Graffiti Entertainment. It is the first Argentinian game to be internationally released and the first Latin American game to be released for a Nintendo console.
Mazghuna Mazghuna (also known as Al Mazghunah or Al-Muzghumah), 5 km to the south of Dahshur (coordinates ), is the site of several mudbrick pyramids dating from the 13th Dynasty. The area was explored by Ernest Mackay in 1910.
Mazhabi A Mazhabi person is one belonging to the Dalit population of Punjab and Haryana in Northern India. The Government of India recognises Mazhabis as Scheduled Castes and Tribes, as part of their official affirmative action program.
Mazhar Hussain Sheikh Mazhar Hussain (born 25 October 1967 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan) is a former cricketer who played for various Lahore teams from 1984-85 to 1988-89 before emigrating to the United Arab Emirates. Mazhar Hussain then played international cricket for his adopted nation between 1993-94 and 1995-96.
Mazhar Kaleem Mazhar Kaleem (Urdu: مظہر کلیم) is a Pakistani novelist and one of the most famous names in Urdu fiction writing after Ibn-e-Safi. Basically famous for Imran Series he has written lot of short stories for kids as well.
Mazi Haal Mustaqbil Mazi Haal Mustaqbil (Urdu: ماضی حال مستقبل) by Mizraab was released after more than 3 years of struggle in order to release the album Mizraab finally managed to release Pakistan's first metal Urdu album in 2004.
Maziar Iranian (Hyrcanian - nowadays Mazandaran) freedom fighter revolting against the Arabo-Muslim occupation of Iran in the 9th century CE. His family traced their lieage to the Ispahbahd clan, and were local rulers of the mountainous region of Mazandaran.
Maziar Ashrafian Bonab Dr. Maziar Ashrafian Bonab MD, MSc, PhD; born 20 September 1966 in Tehran; Iran) is an Iranian population geneticist/forensic scientist specialising in forensic genetics (use of the DNA markers in the investigation of crimes).
Mazin Salih Musaid Mazin Salih Musaid is a Saudi citizen detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.Casios cited as evidence at Guantanamo, Detroit Free Press, March 10 2006 Musaid's detainee ID number is 154.
Mazinger Army Million Alpha, Vayon Beta, and Dyon Gamma were fictional mecha associated with the universe of Mazinger Z by Go Nagai. Within the story, they were inferior (or mass-produced) versions of the original Mazinger Z and were intended to go into battle when Mazinger itself was unavailable.
Mazinibaganjigan Mazinibaganjigan (plural: mazinibaganjiganan) is a folk art made by the Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) by biting down on pieces of Birch bark to form intricate designs. In some areas, it is also known as ozhibaganjigan(-an).
Mazinkaiser (robot) Mazinkaiser is a fictional mecha from the anime and manga series of the same name, based off of Go Nagai's Mazinger Z and featured in the 2001-2003 OVA series Mazinkaiser and animated movie Mazinkaiser: Deathmatch! Ankoku Daishogun.
Mazoku Mazoku (魔族) is a common concept in Japanese fantasy referring to a race of beings born with supernatural powers. The very name Ma (魔 - demon) suggests they are meant to threaten the human existence or defy the gods, while -zoku (族 - race) indicates they are a family.
Mazon Creek fossils The Mazon Creek fossils are conservation lagerstätten found near Chicago, Illinois. The fossils are found in ironstone concretions formed approximately 300 mya in the mid-Pennsylvanian epoch of the Carboniferous.
Maztica Maztica, called by its inhabitants The True World, is a fictional continent in the Forgotten Realms setting. It parallels the American continents in the time of their discovery by Christopher Columbus, more exactly Mesoamerica, albeit it is confused with the whole “western lands” (like the Americas).
Mazu Daoyi Mazu Daoyi (Chn: 馬祖道一) (709 CE–788 CE) (WG: Ma-tsu Tao-yi) was a master of the Chinese Ch'an Buddhist lineage. After studying as a young man with the sixth Chan Patriarch, Huineng, Mazu became a disciple and successor to Huineng's student Huairang.
Mazurians (ethnic group) The Mazurs () are a sub-ethnic group in the Masovian and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeships in Poland. Mazurs from Masovia are known as Masovians (), while Mazurs from the Masuria region of former East Prussia are known as Masurians ().
Mazurka The mazurka (Polish: mazurek, probably named after Poland's Masuria district) is a Polish folk dance in triple metre with a lively tempo, containing a heavy accent on the third or second beat. The dance became popular at Ballroom dances.
Mazzanti Mazzanti is a family name of Italian origin. Like many similar family names (Mazza, Mazzacane, Mazzagalli, Mazzapica, or Mazzamici) the name is derived from the Italian word "mazza", meaning mace, bat, staff, or hammer.
Mazzaroth The word Mazzaroth is mentioned only once in the King James Version of the Old Testament of the Bible : it is found in the Book of Job 38:32 Smith's Bible Dictionary defines the Mazzaroth as the tweleve signs of the zodiac.
Mazzino Montinari Mazzino Montinari (4 April 1928 in Lucca - 24 November 1986 in Florence) was an Italian scholar of Germanistics. He became regarded as one of the most distinguished researchers on Friedrich Nietzsche, and harshly criticized the edition of the Will to Power, which he regarded as a forgery.
Mazzio's Mazzio's is an Italian eatery located throughout Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Illinois. It was first founded in 1961, when a young school teacher named Ken Selby opened a restaurant named The Pizza Parlor in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Ma`loula Ma`loula (Arabic معلولا: from the Aramaic word ܡܥܠܐ, ma`lā, meaning 'entrance') is a village in Syria. With two other nearby villages, is the only place where the western dialect of Aramaic is spoken (see Western Neo-Aramaic).
MA Sing-yuen Malone 馬龍 worked as art director and chief editor of a newspaper, creative director for a magazine during the 80's and 90's Comic artist career began in 1984, mainly focused in political caricatures. Began working on a comic series for children in 2003 under the pen name MA Sing-yuen.
MA-1 bomber jacket The MA-1 bomber jacket (also known as the MA-1 flight jacket) was first developed in the mid 1950s. The MA-1 and its predecessor, the B-15 Flight Jacket, were needed at that time because the emergence of the jet age created new requirements for pilot performance, safety and comfort.
MA-2 bomber jacket The MA-2 bomber jacket (also known as MA-2 flight jacket or CWU45 flight jacket) is a development of the MA-1 bomber jacket which was originally designed for the US military during the 1950's. For a full history of that jacket see the Wikipedia page on MA-1 bomber jackets.
MA-20001st AFJROTC Unit MA-20001 of the Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps is based in Taunton, Massachusetts and is comprised of about 200 cadets. The unit was formed in the year 2000 and is very active in helping the community.
MA1 Club Small gay club based in the Kings Cross area of London, United Kingdom. Hosts some of the more unusual clubs including a corporal punishment party, a gay naturist party and an American style "Jack-Off" party.
MAAWG The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group is a group of telecommunications companies brought together by OpenWave in early 2004. The purpose of the group is to fight spam, phishing, and other possible forms of e-mail abuse.
MAC 1934 In 1934 the Manufacture d'Armes de Châtellerault (Châtellerault weapons manufacturing company, often shortened to MAC) completed the development of the MAC 1934 machine gun to replace the Darne mod. 1933 machine gun aboard aircraft of the Armée de l'Air.
MAC address In computer networking a Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier attached to most network adapters (NICs). It is a number that acts like a name for a particular network adapter, so, for example, the network cards (or built-in network adapters) in two different computers will have different names, or MAC addresses, as would an Ethernet adapter and a wireless adapter in the same computer, and as would multiple network cards in a router.
MAC Commonwealth League The MAC Commonwealth League is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. It is one of the three conferences that operate under the umbrella of the Middle Atlantic Corporation (the others are the MAC Freedom League and the Middle Atlantic Corporation).
MAC filtering In computer networking, MAC Filtering (or EUI filtering, or layer 2 address filtering) refers to a security access control methodology whereby the 48-bit address assigned to each network card is used to determine access to the network.
MAC Freedom League The MAC Freedom League is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. It is one of the three conferences that operate under the umbrella of the Middle Atlantic Corporation (the others are the MAC Commonwealth League and the Middle Atlantic Corporation).
MAC Championship Game The Mid-American Conference has played a championship game putting the winners of the East and West divisions against one another since 1997, when the conference was divided into divisions. The winner of the game is guaranteed a berth in a bowl game in which the MAC has contractual obligations to field a team.
MAC times MAC times are pieces of file system metadata identifying when certain events pertaining to a computer file occurred most recently. The events are usually described as "modification", "access", and "creation", although the acronym is derived from the "mtime", "atime", and "ctime" structures maintained by unix file systems.
MAC-11 The Ingram MAC-11 (Military Armament Corporation Model 11 Advancement 1 or M11A1) is a machine pistol designed by Gordon Ingram at the Military Armament Corporation (MAC) during the 1970s. The weapon is a sub-compact version of the Model 10 (MAC-10), and is chambered to fire a smaller .
MAC-unit Multiply and Accumulate Unit is a term used in computing, especially digital signal processing to describe a hardware unit which takes a stream of numbers which get scaled and summed. This is an operation used extensively in filtering algorithms and having it implemented in hardware (as opposed to having to perform the multiply and addition functions as separate instructions) greatly improves performance of DSP related tasks.
MAC/65 MAC/65 was a assembly language compiler produced by Optimized Systems Software for the Atari 8-bit family of microcomputers. A direct descendant of the Atari Assembler Editor and successor to OSS's EASMD, this 6502 macro editor/assembler featured built-in editing and debugging.
MACC (Multi Age Cluster Class) Multi Age Cluster Class is a gifted education program meant to enrich the regular curriculum for students in grades 4-7 commonly referred to as MACC. Students enter the program by the recommendation of his of her teacher to take a standardized test; a certain I.
MACD MACD, which stands for Moving Average Convergence / Divergence, is a technical analysis indicator created by Gerald Appel in the 1960s. It shows the difference between a fast and slow exponential moving average (EMA) of closing prices.
MACRoCk The Mid-Atlantic College Radio Conference (MACRoCk) is an annual music conference held at James Madison University every April since 1997 by the university's student-run radio station, WXJM. It features local, regional, and national musical acts as well as a music label exposition and panels addressing issues of the media, music, DIY projects, and the independent music scene.
MACRS The Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) is the current method of accelerated asset depreciation required by the United States income tax code. Under MACRS, all assets are divided into classes which dictate the number of years over which an asset's cost will be recovered.
MAD fold-in The MAD fold-in is a feature found on the inside back cover of virtually every MAD Magazine since it was introduced in 1964. Drawn by Al Jaffee, these fold-ins are one of the most well-known aspects of the magazine.
MAD Christian Radio Show The Making A Difference Christian Radio Show, referred to as the MAD Christian Radio Show, first broadcast as a local program on the Christian radio station in Timmins, Ontario. The first program was aired in November 2001.
MAD programming language MAD (short for Michigan Algorithmic Decoder), developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan, was a variant of the International algorithmic language (IAL) developed for use with their UMES operating system (which preceded the Michigan Terminal System). IAL was the original name given to the project that eventually produced ALGOL 58.
MAD World MAD World is the international network of MAD TV that broadcasts the 'best of MAD' programming to Greeks abroad in Asia, Africa and Australia and soon to North America. In light of the fact that MAD World is geared toward the Greek omogenia living abroad, it has different programming then MAD TV in Greece.
MAD2 MAD2(mitotic arrest deficient 2) is one of the kinetochore proteins present on the chromosomes during cell division. It is involved in making sure all chromosomes are attached to the mitotic spindle before the beginning of anaphase.
MADEX index The MADEX index (Moroccan Most Active Shares Index) is a stock index that comprises most active shares listed continuously in the Casablanca Stock Exchange (Casablanca, Morocco) with variations closely linked to all the market serves as a reference for the listing of all funds invested in shares.
MADI Multichannel Audio Digital Interface, or MADI, is an industry-standard electronic communications protocol that defines the data format and electrical characteristics of an interface carrying multiple channels of digital audio. The AES/EBU standard for MADI is currently documented in AES10-2003.
MADS-box MADS box is a conserved sequence element found in a family of transcription factor encoding genes, the MADS-box gene family. The length of the MADS-box is defined differently by various authors, but typical lengths suggested are 168 base pairs or 180 base pairs.
MADYMO MADYMO here stands for MAthematical DYnamic MOdels. It is a software package developed by TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)Automotive Safety Solutions(TASS), Delft, the Netherlands.
MAE-East MAE-East is an Internet Exchange Point spread across the east coast of the United States, with locations in Vienna, Virginia; Reston, Virginia; Ashburn, Virginia; New York, New York; and Miami, Florida. It is the eastern branch of the MCI Internet Exchange.
MAFA MAFA (Mast cell function-associated antigen) is a type II receptor that was first identified on the surface of rat mucosal-type mast cells of the RBL-2H3 line. More recently, human and mouse homologues of MAFA have been discovered yet also (or only) expressed by NK and T-cells.
MAFIAA MAFIAA, an acronym for Music And Film Industry Association of America, is a derogatory term used for the entertainment industry organizations RIAA and MPAA, comparing their business practices to those of the Mafia. The term was coined on or before June 22, 2003,RIAA Not Done With Jesse Jordan on Slashdotpaganizer's comment to the story Earthstation5 Responds to Malware Claims on Slashdot and popularized on April 1, 2006, as an April Fools' Day joke on a site called MAFIAA.
MAFOR MAFOR, an abbreviation of MArine FORcast, is a code used in the transmission of marine weather forecasts to compresses a volume of meteorological and marine information into shorter code for convenience during radio broadcasting. The MAFOR forecast usually supplies time period of validity for the forecast, future wind speed and direction, weather, visibility and 'state of sea.
MAGIC (mapping) MAGIC stands for "Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside". A governmental website in the United Kingdom which allows for quick and easy access to previously hard to find information, in map form.
MAGIC (telescope) MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescope) is a Gamma ray telescope sited at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands at about 2200 m above sea level. It detects the particle shower released by the cosmic gamma-rays, and also Cherenkov light.
MAGIC Fund (Minot) The MAGIC Fund is a special tax fund called the created in 1992 by the city of Minot, North Dakota to provide public subsidies to businesses to start operations in Minot for the purpose of economic development. The fund is supported by 40% of a 1% sales tax collected by the city, and is disbursed by the Minot Area Development Corporation.
MAIKA Telecom Share Scandal Is the scandal that came to light in April 1992, when it was discovered that 9 million Telekom shares that were originally offered to Maika Holdings Berhad had been rechannelled to three unknown companies, SB Management Services Sdn. Bhd.
MAJC MAJC (Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing) was a Sun Microsystems multi-core, multithreaded, very long instruction word (VLIW) microprocessor design from the mid-to-late 1990s. Originally called the UltraJava processor, the MAJC processor was targeted at running Java programs, who's "late compiling" allowed Sun to make several favourable design decisions.
MAK Historic District The MAK Historic District is the first locally designated historic district in Decatur, Georgia. It is named for the three main streets it encompasses (McDonough, Adams and Kings Highway) and covers ten city blocks of varying sizes.
MAKS Airshow MAKS (МАКС, Russian: Международный авиационно-космический салон, International Aviation and Space Salon) is an international airshow held near Moscow, Russia on Zhukovskiy air field. The first show, Mosaeroshow-92, was held in 1992.
MALOVA The MALOVA (MALignant OVArian cancer) study is a multidisciplinary Danish study of Ovarian Cancer and encompasses epidemiology, (lifestyle factors), biochemistry, and molecular biology with the purpose of identifying risk factors and prognostic factors for Ovarian Cancer.
MAMA, Rotterdam MAMA (Showroom for Media and Moving Art) is a publicly funded visual arts and culture organisation based in Rotterdam. As its name implies, Mama fosters and exhibits contemporary artworks executed in a wide variety of media including visual installations, film, video, automata, but not excluding 'traditional' forms such as painting.
MAME MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The name is an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
MAngband MAngband, or Multiplayer Angband, is a realtime multiplayer variant of the dungeon-crawling roguelike Angband. While roguelikes are conventionally single player and turn-based, MAngband uses a realtime structure to allow multiple users to play together, simultaneously, on a server .
MAN B&W Diesel The MAN B&W Diesel Group is a supplier of large diesel engines for marine propulsion systems, stationary power supply and rail traction. The Group is also one of the leading suppliers of diesel power plants and turbochargers.
MAN B&W K108ME-C The MAN B&W K108ME-C is a low speed two-stroke diesel engine for marine applications designed by the Danish constructor MAN B&W Diesel. If the largest version is constructed, it will be the most powerful piston engine, with 103 MW (136000 hp).
MAN-003 Patulia In the anime series Gundam X, the Patulia was the biggest mobile armor ever built, which was not only heavily armed but also had and incredible defense thanks to its anti-beam field generators. However, the Patulia needed a Newtype to be placed in a capsule as a power source.
MANDRIL MANDRIL is integrated software produced by Lockheed Martin UK IS&S Ltd (formerly STASYS Ltd) for the analysis of Tactical Data Links. It is an acronym of Message ANalysis and Data Reduction for the Integration of Links.
MANIAC I The MANIAC I (Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer or Mathematical Analyzer, Numerator, Integrator, and Computer, according to one reference) was an early computer built under the direction of Nicholas Metropolis at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. It was based on the von Neumann architecture of the IAS, developed by John von Neumann.
MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism In response to the violence surrounding the publication of the cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad a group of writers issued a letter whose intent was to show the need to fight for secular values and freedom.http://news.
MANOLITO MANOLITO is the internal protocol name for the proprietary peer-to-peer file sharing network developed by Pablo Soto, first used by Blubster, and later Piolet. MANOLITO uses UDP for search routing and is based on Gnutella.
MANOVA Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) is an extension of analysis of variance (ANOVA) methods to cover cases where there is more than one dependent variable and where the dependent variables cannot simply be combined. As well as identifying whether changes in the independent variables have a significant effect on the dependent variables, the technique also seeks to identify the interactions among the independent variables and the association between dependent variables, if any.
MAO College MAO College (or Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College) was founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the leader of Muslim renaissance in Indian subcontinent, in 1875 at Aligarh. This later became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.
MAP sensor The examples and descriptions in this article apply strictly to four-stroke cycle gasoline engines. Other engine types such as diesel, or two-stroke cycle can differ in the exact implementation, but the general theme still applies.
MAPK/ERK pathway The MAPK/ERK pathway is a signal transduction pathway that couples intracellular responses to the binding of growth factors to cell surface receptors. This pathway is very complex and includes many protein components R.
MAPPER MAPPER (Maintaining and Preparing Executive Reports) is a 4GL that was developed by the Sperry Corporation for use on its systems; MAPPER's heritage dates back to the 1960s when Louis Schlueter conceived of the CRT RPS (Report Processing System - to differentiate it from RPG) as a means to help Sperry/Univac to manage disparate activities involved with coordinating hardware and software development, with identifying and meeting requirements for new systems, and with maintaining existing systems. MAPPER Collection, 1983-1996 Early motivation (Gerry Del Fiacco).
MAPS Aero Expo The MAPS Aero Expo is an aircraft exposition show featuring antique aircraft and modern aircraft on display for the public in Akron, Ohio at the Akron Fulton International Airport. The Expo features aircraft for visitors to see up close as well as arial demonstrations in both fighter jets and antique planes.
MARC standards The MARC standards consist of the MARC formats, which are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form, and related documentation. MARC is an acronym for MAchine-Readable Cataloging.
MARC Train [prior to 1984 known as Maryland Rail Commuter Service, is a commuter rail] system comprising three lines in the [[Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. MARC is administered by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), a Maryland Department of Transportation agency, and is operated under contract with CSX Transportation and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak).
MARC USA MARC USA is one of the largest independent advertising agencies in the United States with more than $400 million in billings and 320 employees. MARC operates full-service offices in Chicago, Dallas, Indianapolis, Miami and Pittsburgh.
MARIACHI MARIACHI, the Mixed Apparatus for Radar Investigation of Cosmic-rays of High Ionization, is an apparatus for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) via bi-static radar using VHF transmitters. Its inventors hope that it will detect UHECR over much larger areas than possible with prior detection apparatuses, and that it will also detect ultra high energy neutrino flux.
MARQUISE MARQUISE was a 1997 technology demonstration conducted by Silicon Graphics/Cray, the Department of Defense, and the University of Maryland, College Park. The achieved goal was to shrink a refrigerator-sized Cray J90 supercomputer to fit in a standard 19-inch rack for use in embedded defense applications aboard an aircraft.
MARRS MARRS (or M/A/R/R/S, or probably more accurately M|A|R|R|S as they were named on their record sleeves) was a one-off recording act from 1987, a collaboration between the groups A R Kane and Colourbox, with additional input from DJs Chris "C.J.
MARS - Marketing & Advertising Research Services Marketing & Advertising Research Services - MARS is a dynamic and innovative Pakistani company engaged in providing marketing research consultancy nationwide & internationally. Since 2002, It has designed and implemented thousands of customized marketing, social and opinion research studies among consumers, businesses, and unique constituents.
MARS Group The Modern Architectural Research Group, or MARS Group, was a British architectural think tank founded in 1933 by several prominent architects and architectural critics of the time involved in the British modernist movement. The MARS Group actually came after several previous but unsuccessful attempts at creating an organization to support modernist architects in Britain such as those that had been formed on continental Europe, like the Union des Artistes Modernes in France.
MARSEC MARSEC represents the three-tiered United States Coast Guard Maritime Security system created to be compatible with, and respond in a unison mode to the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS). It’s objective is to provide an assessment of possible terrorist activity within the maritime sectors of transportation, including the threats to nautical facilities and vessels falling within the United States jurisdiction that could be targets of attack.

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