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Mind transfer In transhumanism and science fiction, mind transfer (also referred to as mind uploading or mind downloading, depending on one's point of reference), whole body emulation, or electronic transcendence refers to the hypothetical transfer of a human mind to an artificial substrate.
Mind Your Language Mind Your Language was a British comedy television series originally shown on ITV, between 1977 and 1979. Produced by LWT and directed by Stuart Allen, it was set in a language school in London, with the late Barry Evans as the embattled night school English language teacher for a motley crew of assorted foreigners.
Mind's Eye (series) The Mind's Eye series consists of several art films rendered using computer-generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication, though it is far outstaged by the CGI used in recent movies such as the The Lord of the Rings adaptations, and even by the early examples in Jurassic Park. The series began in 1990.
Mind's Eye Theatre Mind's Eye Theatre is a live action role-playing game based on the White Wolf World of Darkness universe, sharing a theme and setting originally with the table-top role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade and now with its revision, Vampire: The Requiem. (The rules for Mind's Eye Theatre have likewise been revised.
Mind-blindness Mind-blindness can be described as an inability to develop an awareness of what is in the mind of another human. It is not necessarily caused by an inability to imagine an answer, but is often due to not being able to gather enough information to work out which of the many possible answers is correct.
Mindanao Anti-Dissidence Campaign Medal This is awarded to members of the AFP by the Chief of Staff, AFP, Commanders of Major Services and other units authorized to grant awards, for participation in the pacification campaign, operations in Lanao and Cotabato and other provinces in Mindanao with Task Force "LANCAF", "PAGARI", and "PAGKAKAISA", and such other similar Task Forces for a period of at least six (6) months: and for service and participation in law enforcement, military and civic action operations in the islands comprising Mindanao and Sulu and waters immediately adjacent thereto from 4 July 1946 for a period of at least six (6) months.
Mindanao Post The Mindanao Post is a newspaper has published and edited every Wednesday with general circulation in the whole Mindanao, with editorial & business address located at Blk. 16, Lot 3, SIR New Matina, Davao City.
Mindanao River The Mindanao River is the largest river on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Approximately 320 km (200 miles) long, the river drains the majority of the eastern portion of the island, and is an important transportation artery.
Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) is an autonomous external campus of Mindanao State University System. It was chartered on July 12, 1968 as provided for in Republic Act 5363.
Mindanao Tarictic Hornbill The Mindanao Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides affinis affinis) is the nominate subspecies of a hornbill living in the rainforests of Maitum, Sarangani and in many parts of the island of Mindanao, Philippines, with two other subspecies occurring on Samar, Bohol, Leyte and Basilan. Like all hornbills, this bird is distinguished by its bill with a hollow horny "casque" on top of it.
Mindarie, South Australia Mindarie () is a small town in the Murray Mallee of South Australia between Karoonda and Loxton. The town was gazetted in 1912, and the name Mindarie is believed to originate from the Dieri Aboriginal language and possibly means a festival to invoke peace.
Mindarie, Western Australia Mindarie (; post code: 6030) is an outer northern coastal suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located 36 km from Perth's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wanneroo.
Mindarus Mindarus was a Spartan admiral who commanded the Peloponnesian fleet in 411 and 410 BC, during the Peloponnesian War. Successful in shifting the theater of war into the Hellespont, he then experienced a string of defeats; in the third and final of these, he himself was killed and the entire Peloponnesian fleet was captured or destroyed.
Mindaugas II of Lithuania Mindaugas II of Lithuania (March 3 1864, Monaco - March 24 1928, Rapallo, Italy) was elected King of Lithuania in 1918. The Lithuanian Council or Taryba had been organising its national efforts since 1916 and elected Duke Wilhelm of Urach, Count of WĂĽrttemberg (German: Wilhelm Herzog von Urach, Graf von WĂĽrttemberg), as King of Lithuania, on July 11 1918.
Mindaugas Kalonas Mindaugas Kalonas is a young Lithuanian midfielder. He played in the youger teams of FC Dynamo Moscow, then he moved to play with FC Saturn were he impressed some SC Braga scouts that took him to play for them.
Mindaugas Timinskas Mindaugas Timinskas (born March 28, 1974 in Ĺ ilutÄ—, Lithuania) is a professional basketball player for the Lithuanian national basketball team and Pamesa Valencia. He is 200 cm tall swingman and weighs 97 kg.
Mindawn Mindawn is an online music store that, unlike most major services of its type, offers its songs in lossless FLAC format without copy protection of any kind. It also offers music in Ogg Vorbis, a lossy format, which too is without DRM.
MindAlign MindAlign is an instant messaging program written in Java with a number of value added features geared towards corporate communications, such as threaded discussions, persistent forums, and other features. The application was created and is owned by Parlano, Inc.
Mindelight Mindelight is a Mexican Psytrance duo, composed by Hernan Arber (Eclypso) and Javier Calzada (Loco), two talented musicians and true pioneers of psy-trance music in Mexico. They played their Live Act in countries like Mexico, Israel, Australia, France, Germany, along with the main trance artists worldwide.
Mindell Penn Mindell Penn was a city council member in the city of Richmond, California between 1999 and 2005 when she resigned to move back home to another state to care for her ailing and aging mother. She was elected by a large majority of voters.
Mindelo Bay Mindelo Bay is a bay located northwest of the island of SĂŁo Vicente. The ferry route linking with the port of Porto Novo on Santo AntĂŁo and Mindelo on SĂŁo Vicente crosses the canal with the boat named Mar d' Canal as well as shipping lines with Mindelo and other places around the world including from several African and Latin American ports and North American and European ports.
Mindelo Infos Mindelo Infos is an Internet website that was first launched in 2002 in the time when Mindelo was the cultural capital of a nation where the Portuguese language is the official language. The centre is located in Mindelo in the island of SĂŁo Vicente.
Mindelo Ornithological Reserve The Mindelo Ornithological Reserve (ROM - "Reserva OrnitolĂłgica de Mindelo" in portuguese) is located in the coastal zone of the North of Portugal, municipality of Vila do Conde, 20km from Oporto, occupying an area of around 6 million m2.
Minden Day Minden Day is a regimental anniversary celebrated on August 1 by certain units of the British Army. It commemorates the participation of the forerunners of the regiments in the Battle of Minden on that date in 1759.
Minden Hills, Ontario Minden Hills (usually referred to as Minden after its largest community, Minden) is a township in, and the county seat of Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada. After originally being surveyed in 1858, Minden was named after a town in the North Rhine-Westphalia federal state in Germany.
Minder (TV series) Minder was a British comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld. Initially produced by the prolific and effective Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television, and was shown on ITV.
Mindfold (band) Mindfold is a band started in 2001 that sucks a whole lot of dick because they advertise on wikipedia and they became famous in The Netherlands early 2005, by winning a contest that gave them the opportunity to play on Pinkpop Festival. March 2006 the debut CD will be released
Mindfuck A mindfuck is a slang term which describes a work that uses literary devices such as nonlinear storytelling and plot twists in order to present convoluted, yet not conflicting, themes. A creation is usually considered a mindfuck when a casual observer is not able to discern the true meaning of a work without making a serious attempt to unravel the themes presented or when the plot is incredibly difficult to follow.
Mindfulness Mindfulness is the practice whereby a person is intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally. Mindfulness is applied to both bodily actions and the mind's own thoughts and feelings.
MindFreedom International MindFreedom International, founded in 1988 to advocate against forced medication, physical restraints, involuntary electroshock therapy, and other human rights violations in the mental health system, is an international coalition of over 100 grassroots groups and thousands of individual members in 14 nations. MindFreedom International is dedicated to winning and protecting the rights of people around the globe who have been labeled with psychiatric disorders.
Mindhunters Mindhunters is a 2004 crime thriller, directed by Renny Harlin and written by Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin (with an uncredited rewrite by Ehren Kruger). Unusually, the last country to receive this film was the United States in 2005, because of the film changing hands from 20th Century Fox to Dimension Films.
Mindi Abair Mindi Abair (born May 31, 1969) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist with a strong Top-40 pop music background. She was a backing musician for such acts as Mandy Moore and the Backstreet Boys, and often appeared in their tours.
Mindless Eating Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think is a nonfiction book by Cornell University consumer behavior professor Brian Wansink Based upon award-winning research discoveries at the [[Cornell Food and Brand Lab], the book was cited by the National Action Against Obesity as being a 2006 "hero" in the fight against obesity.The NAAO Names 2006 Heroes and Villains in U.
MindManager MindManager is a commercial mind-mapping application, developed by Mindjet. Mindjet describes maps created with MindManager as "business maps" for use within enterprises, distinguishing them from hand-drawn mind maps.
Mindo Ecuador Mindo is a district in the canton of Los Bancos 84 km west of Quito, with a rapidly growing tourist industry based on Ecotourism in the Mindo-Nambillo Protected Forest. Small commercial enterprises exhibiting butterflies, hummingbirds, orchids and bromeliads abound.
Mindon Min Mindon Min (; 1808–1878) was King of Burma from 1853 to his death and is one of the most popular and revered Kings of Burma. Under King Bagan (1848-1853) Second Anglo-Burmese War that ended in 1852 with the annexation of Lower Burma by the United Kingdom.
Mindows Mindows is a term which is sometimes applied to describe an adaptation of the Microsoft Windows 98 operating system to reduce the number of system files and supposedly improve system performance as well as free up hard disk space. The term Mindows refers to the version of this process of downsizing as suggested on the website Winimize.
Mindphaser Mindphaser was a Klaus Schulze sampler or "best of" album released by the Brain label in Germany in 1981, three years after Schulze had created his own label, Innovative Communications, and moved on. The second track, "Mindphaser", was actually an excerpt of "Floating" from Moondawn.
Mindpixel Mindpixel was a web-based collaborative artificial intelligence project which aimed to create a database of millions of human validated true/false statements, or probabilistic propositions. Participants in the project created one-line statements which aimed to be objectively true or false to 20 other anonymous participants.
Mindrolling Trichen The eleventh Mindrolling Trichen (pronunciation: Mìn-drolling), Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal (1930-present) is a lama of the Nyingma-school, the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism and is responsible for the administrative affairs for the school in exile as the ceremonial head of the lineage. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest living Tibetan masters.
Mindscape Group The Mindscape Group is an international software publishing company, previously a sub-label to The Software Toolworks. As of 2004, the group has offices in France, England, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Asia, Australia and Latin America.
Mindscene Mindscene is a virtual reality learning environment based on the mind map learning tool first thought of in the 1960s by Tony Buzan. Mindscenes let the user walk along the branches of the scene and interact with the media and have sensory involvement to aid recall and understanding.
Mindset A mindset, in decision theory and general systems theory, refers to a set of assumptions, methods or notations held by one or more people or groups of people which is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviours, choices, or tools. This phenomenon of cognitive bias is also sometimes described as mental inertia, "groupthink", or a "paradigm", and it is often difficult to counteract its effects upon analysis and decision making processes.
Mindteck-Buchi Babu Invitation Tournament in 2005-06 The Mindteck-Buchi Babu Invitation Tournament in 2005-06 was a cricket competition played in India to mark the beginning of the 2005-06 Indian cricket season. It was played in and around Chennai (Madras) by a number of state and other sides, all of which had been invited to take part.
MindTricks The third album by Italian melodic death metal band Disarmonia Mundi, again with Bjorn "Speed" Strid on vocals, but this time without their bassist Mirco Andreis eho decided to leave the band to concentrate on his video clip-director career. Mirco also directed the video for the song Celestial Furnace.
MindViz MindViz is a social networking website constructed of 24 network extensions dedicated to providing free, extra functional and customizable profiles, photo albums, blogs, member polls, quizzes, instant messaging, live chat services, videos, internet-wide email service, music artist promotional profiles, and more for its members. Currently based in Newark, Delaware, it hosts approximately 320,000 members with 800 new sign-ups per day.
MindVox MindVox was a famed early Internet Service Provider in New York City. A controversial sometime media darling — the service was referred to as "the Hells Angels of Cyberspace" — it was founded in 1991] by [[Bruce Fancher (Dead Lord) and Patrick Kroupa (Lord Digital), two former members of the legendary Legion of Doom hacker group The system was at least partially online by March of 1992], and open to the public in November of that year.
Mindware Studios Mindware Studios is a video game development company, founded in Prague in July 2001. The company's first game, Cold War, was a minor success in the EU and was published in North America by Canadian games publisher DreamCatcher Interactive.
Mindwarp Mindwarp is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 4 to October 25, 1986. It is part of the larger narrative known as The Trial of a Time Lord, comprising the whole of the 23rd season.
Mindwipe A Mindwipe (or brainwipe) is a term commonly used in science fiction to refer to the erasure of memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. It is frequently portrayed as a form of punishment, as an alternative to capital punishment which leaves an empty, viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.
Mindy Newell Mindy Newell is an American comic book writer. A long-time fan of comics, particularly of Marvel's Spider-Man, she sent some submissions to DC Comics in 1983 at a time when the company was actively looking for new blood.
Mindy Smith Mindy Smith (born June 1, 1974 in Long Island, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. Her music has a broad appeal and can be classified as all of the following: folk, country, americana, pop, rock, alternative and even bluegrass.
Mindy Tyner Mindy Tyner (April 24 1887- January 13 1950) revolutionized the soap making industry by discovering a way to leech glycerin from soaps to be used for other purposes such as in nitroglycerin or in hand lotions, which comsumers are willing to pay more for. She also was the first to use mineral oils and synthetic ingredients as opposed to natural fats and oils, thereby creating a soap with superior lather at a cheaper cost.
Mine Again "Mine Again" is an R&B song co-written and co-produced by Mariah Carey and James Poyser for Carey's fourteenth album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). It was released as the album's seventh and final single in the United States in August 2006 (see 2006 in music), but in 2005 it charted at number seventy-three on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.
Mine closure Mine closure is the period of time when the ore-extracting activities of a mine have ceased, and final decommissioning and mine reclamation are being completed. It is generally associated with reduced employment levels, which can have a significant negative impact on local economies.
Mine closure planning Mine closure planning involves planning effectively for the after-mining landscape – all activities required before, during, and after the operating life of a mine that are needed to produce an acceptable landscape economically. Closure performance refers to the activities near and after mine closure and how well activities listed in the closure plan are carried out.
Mine flail A mine flail is a vehicle-mounted device that makes a safe path through a mine-field by deliberately detonating mines in front of the vehicle that carries it. They were first used by the British during World War II.
Mine Falls Park Mine Falls Park (sometimes called Mines Falls) is a 325-acre (132 hectare) park in the city of Nashua, New Hampshire. Located in the heart of the city, it was purchased in 1969 from the Nashua New Hampshire Foundation with city and federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) money.
Mine Howe Mine Howe is a prehistoric subterranean manmade chamber dug 20 feet deep inside a large mound. Located in the Tankerness area of Orkney, Scotland, its origins are not perfectly understood, but experts believe that it was built roughly 2000 years ago during the Iron Age.
Mine plow A mine plow (plough in British English) is a tank-mounted device designed to clear a lane through a minefield, allowing other vehicles to follow. Buried land mines are plowed up and pushed outside the tank's track path or tipped over.
Mine reclamation Mine reclamation is the process of creating useful landscapes that meet a variety of goals, typically creating productive ecosystems (or sometimes industrial or municipal land) from mined land. It includes all aspects of this work, including material placement, stabilizing, capping, regrading, placing cover soils, revegetation, and maintenance.
Mine rescue Mine rescue is the specialized job of rescuing miners and others who have become trapped or injured in underground mines, often coalmines. Its members are recruited from men who are experienced in working underground in mines and with the various sorts of mine machinery that they may come across or have to find a way round during the rescue.
Mine roller A mine roller or mine trawl is a demining device mounted on a tank or armoured personnel carrier, designed to detonate anti-tank mines. It allows engineers to clear a lane through a minefield which is protected by enemy fire.
Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 The Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Public Law 95-164) amended the Coal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1969. It can be found in the United States Code under Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining, Chapter 22, Mine Safety and Health.
Mine Safety and Health Administration [Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor] which administers the provisions of the [[Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents; to reduce the frequency and severity of nonfatal accidents; to minimize health hazards; and to promote improved safety and health conditions in the nation's mines. MSHA carries out the mandates of the Mine Act at all mining and mineral processing operations in the United States, regardless of size, number of employees, commodity mined, or method of extraction.
Minehead Cricket Club Minehead Cricket Club was formed in 1865 and has been a member of the Somerset League, UK since the League's inception in 1973. The club achieved a Club Mark in June 2005 and has been selected as one of Somerset's representatives in the "Chance to Shine" programme.
Minenwerfer Minenwerfer ("mine launcher") is the German name for a class of short range mortars used extensively during the First World War by the German Army. The weapons were intended to be used by engineers to clear obstacles including bunkers and barbed wire, that longer range artillery would not be able to accurately target.
Mineola (LIRR station) Mineola is a train station on the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road in Mineola, New York. All trains for the Port Jefferson Branch, Ronkonkoma Branch, and Oyster Bay Branch services run through this station, and also a few on the Montauk Branch.
Mineola, Iowa Mineola is a town in Mills County, Iowa with a population of about 200. This unincorporated community on the highlands east of Keg Creek was first established as Lewis City during construction of the Wabash Railroad.
Miner Willy Miner Willy is the protagonist of a series of platform games for the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64 home computers. The first two games of the Miner Willy series (Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy) were written by computer game programmer Matthew Smith, during the early 1980s.
Miner's Delight, Wyoming Hamilton City, Wyoming or Miner's Delight, as it was commonly known was a town in Fremont County, Wyoming during the mining boom in the 19th century. Today a few buildings stand as a reminder of an era gone past in Wyoming history
Miner's Right The Miner's Right was introduced in 1855 in the colony of Victoria, replacing the Miner's Licence. Protests in 1853 at Bendigo with the formation of the Anti-Gold Licence Association and the rebellion of Eureka Stockade in December 1854 at Ballarat led to reform of the system with a cheaper annual fee of ÂŁ1, the right to mine gold, the right to vote, and the right to own land.
Mineral ascorbates Mineral ascorbates are salts of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). They are powders manufactured by reacting ascorbic acid with mineral carbonates in aqueous solutions, venting the carbon dioxide, drying the reaction product, and then milling the dried product to the desired particle size.
Mineral County, West Virginia Development Authority Mineral County Development Authority, The mission of the Mineral County Development Authority shall be to enhance the welfare of the citizens of Mineral County by promoting and assisting the recruiting, startup, growth and prosperity of responsible business and industry within the County.
Mineral economics Mineral economics is the study of the business and economic aspects of natural resource extraction and use. Mineral economics involves studying topics in economic and financial analysis that are developed to meet the special needs of the natural resource industries.
Mineral exploration Mineral exploration is the process undertaken by companies, partnerships or corporations in the endeavour of finding commercially viable concentrations of ore to mine. Mineral exploration is a much more intensive, organised and professional form of mineral prospecting and, though it may at times use the methods of hobby prospecting, the process of mineral exploration is much more involved.
Mineral King Mineral King Valley is a subalpine valley in southern Sequoia National Park, carved out by the East Fork Kaweah River. The valley lies at an elevation of about 7,500 feet and is bounded by notable landmarks such as Sawtooth Peak, Timber Gap, Empire Mountain, Farewell Gap, and Sawtooth Pass.
Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 is a United States federal law that authorizes and governs leasing of public lands for developing deposits of coal, phosphates, petroleum, natural gas and other hydrocarbons and sodium in the United States.
Mineral oil Mineral oil or liquid petrolatum is a by-product in the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline. It is a transparent, colorless oil composed mainly of alkanes and cyclic paraffins, related to white petrolatum.
Mineral Policy Statements In the United Kingdom, Mineral Policy Statements (MPS) are statements of the British Government's national policy on minerals and planning issues and provide advice and guidance to local authorities and the minerals industry on policies and the operation of the planning system with regard to minerals.
Mineral redox buffer In geology, a redox buffer is an assemblage of minerals or compounds that constrains oxygen fugacity as a function of temperature. Knowledge of the redox conditions (or equivalently, oxygen fugacities) at which a rock forms and evolves can be important for interpreting the rock history.
Mineral resource classification Mineral resource classification is the systematic organization of information on ores and other mineral deposits which contain economic value. The process guides governmental and industrial planning on how to manage the resources.
Mineral rights Mineral rights, mining rights, oil rights or drilling rights, are the rights to remove minerals, oil, or sometimes water, that may be contained in and under some land. In jurisdictions that support such rights they may be separate from other rights to the land.
Mineral Revolution The Mineral Revolution is a term used by historians to refer to the rapid industrialisation and economic changes which occurred in South Africa from the 1870s onwards. The Mineral Revolution was largely driven by the need to create a permanent workforce to work in the mining industry, and saw South Africa transformed from a patchwork of agrarian states to a unified, industrial nation.
Mineral River The Mineral River is a short tributary of Lake Superior on the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It flows for its entire length in western Ontonagon County, rising in the Ottawa National Forest and flowing generally northward to meet Lake Superior about 11 mi (18 km) west-southwest of Ontonagon.
Mineral salts pyridone broth Mineral salts pyridone broth is a selective medium for bacteria that can metabolize pyridone (which is an unusual carbon source that only a select few types of bacteria can use). This medium is used to isolate bacteria belonging to the Arthrobacter genus among other bacteria genera.
Mineral spa Mineral Spas were naturally occurring mineral spring locales which grew a reputation in the nineteenth century on into the late middle-twentith century for healing or healthful benefits to those wealthy enough to partake of their waters. This was called a Mineral cure and gave let to the phrase 'taking a cure', still used as a euphemism, normally though today for one trying to kick a drug dependency.
Mineral turpentine Mineral turpentine is a paint thinner and a mineral-based replacement for the vegetable-based organic solvent turpentine. It is a hydrotreated light distillate of petroleum, which forms a clear transparent liquid at room temperature.
Mineral wagon A mineral wagon or coal truck is a small two axle railway vehicle used in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to carry coal and other mine products. They were originally made of wood and often of very simple construction, with no train brakes, but from the 1930s on were more commonly made of riveted or welded steel.
Mineral Water Bowl The Mineral Water Bowl is a college football game hosted in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. From 1947 to 1951, it was a high school bowl game to show case the Excelsior Spring High School team, the Missouri High School Athletic Association disallowed non-sanctioned post-season games.
Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable is a variety of electrical cable made from copper conductors inside a copper sheath, insulated by inorganic magnesium oxide powder. The name is often abbreviated to MICC or MI cable, and colloquially known as pyro (because one vendor for this product is a company called Pyrotenax).
Mineral, Washington Mineral is a small town in Lewis County, Washington just off Washington State Route 7 near the Pierce/Lewis county line. Mineral has an event center, a post office, two churches, one general store and one tavern.
Mineralocorticoid receptor The mineralocorticoid receptor (or MR, MLR, MCR), also called aldosterone receptor, is officially labelled nuclear receptor subfamily 3, group C, member 2, (NR3C2) and is a receptor with high affinity for mineralocorticoids. It belongs to the steroid hormone receptor family where the ligand diffuses into cells, interacts with the receptor and results in a signal transduction affecting specific gene expression in the nucleus.
Mineralogical Society of America The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is a scientific membership organization. MSA was founded in 1919 for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industry, and the arts.
Minerals planning guidance notes Minerals Planning Guidance Notes (MPGs) are statements of the British Government’s policy on minerals and planning issues and provide advice and guidance to local authorities and the minerals industry on policies and the operation of the planning system with regard to minerals.
Mineriad A Mineriad (Mineriada in Romanian) is the parody term used to name any of the successive violent interventions of miners in Bucharest. These interventions were aimed at wrestling policy changes or simply material advantages from the current political power.
Minerva (QDOS reimplementation) Written by Laurence Reeves in England, Minerva was a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS, the built-in operating system of the Sinclair QL line of personal computers. Minerva incorporated many bug fixes and enhancements to both QDOS and the SuperBASIC programming language.
Minerva Building The Minerva Building was a skyscraper once planned for the eastern edge of London's main financial district, the City of London. If built, it would have been the first building in the City of London to contain more than 1,000,000 sq ft of office space.
Minerva Paradizo Minerva Paradizo is a character from the Artemis Fowl series of books by Irish Author Eoin Colfer and is one of the main antagonists in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. She is a twelve-year-old girl, described as very pretty with tight blonde corkscrew curls and glasses (although the glasses are only mentioned once).
Minerva Pious Minerva Pious (March 5 1903 - March 16 1979), an actress/comedian in American radio, became a radio icon playing malaprop-prone Jewish housewife Pansy Nussbaum in Fred Allen's famous "Allen's Alley" current-events skits.

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