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MP-443 Grach (ПЯ)
The MP-443 Grach (ПЯ), also called the PYa, is a Russian 9×19 mm semi-automatic service pistol designed by Vladimir Yarygin and adopted in 2003 to replace the Makarov PM.
MP3
MP3, short for MPEG-1 Audio Layer III, is a lossy audio coding format standardized in 1993 that compresses music to about one-tenth of CD size.
MP3.com
MP3.com was a San Diego music website founded in 1997 by Michael Robertson, which grew to over 10 million members before copyright lawsuits broke it.
MP4 file format
MP4, formally MPEG-4 Part 14, is a digital multimedia container format that packages video, audio, and subtitles into a single file, derived from Apple's QuickTime format.
Mpanda, Katavi
Mpanda is the capital town of Katavi Region in western Tanzania, administered as Mpanda Town Council. Key facts: about 102,000 residents in 2012, Mpanda Airport (NPY), a 210 km rail link to Kaliua, and the gateway to Katavi National Park.
Mpande
Mpande (uMpande kaSenzangakhona; c. 1798–1872) was king of the Zulu from 1840 to 1872, taking the throne from his half-brother Dingane with Boer support and dying a natural death.
Mpanzu a Kitima
Mpanzu a Kitima, also Mpanzu a Nzinga, was a prince of the Kingdom of Kongo defeated and killed by his half-brother Afonso I in the 1506 succession war.
Mpasho News
Mpasho News, at mpasho.co.ke, is a Kenyan entertainment, celebrity, and lifestyle news website founded in 2014 by former Ghafla employees and owned by Radio Africa Limited.
MPATGM
MPATGM (Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile) is a third-generation fire-and-forget anti-tank missile developed by India's DRDO for the infantry, engaging targets from 200 to 2,500 meters.
MPB
MPB, short for Música Popular Brasileira, is the urban, sophisticated strand of Brazilian pop that emerged from the televised song festivals of the mid-1960s, associated with Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, and Gilberto Gil.
MPDU1-CDG
MPDU1-CDG (CDG-If, congenital disorder of glycosylation type If, OMIM 609180) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive glycosylation disorder from MPDU1 gene mutations at 17p13.1, causing psychomotor delay, seizures, cardiomyopathy, and ichthyosis-like skin changes in neonates and infants.
Mpe Partners
MPE Partners, also known as Morgenthaler Private Equity, is a lower-middle-market private equity firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 2012 by Peter Taft, Karen Tuleta, and Joe Machado.
MPEG transport stream
The MPEG transport stream (MPEG-TS) is a standard digital container format, defined in MPEG-2, for carrying audio, video, and data over error-prone satellite, cable, and terrestrial broadcast.
MPEG-1
MPEG-1 is a standard for coding moving pictures and audio, published as ISO/IEC 11172 in 1993, designed for CDs and best known for creating the mp3 format.
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (MP2) is a lossy perceptual audio compression format from the MPEG-1 standard, derived from MUSICAM and finalized in 1992, operating at bit rates from 32 to 448 kb/s.
MPEG-2
MPEG-2 is a family of standards for coding moving pictures and audio, published as ISO/IEC 13818 in 1994 and used for digital TV broadcasting, DVD-Video, and professional video.
MPEG-4
MPEG-4 is a suite of multimedia standards published as ISO/IEC 14496, finalized in 1998, designed to code scenes as collections of individual audio-visual objects rather than single streams.
Mpemba effect
The Mpemba effect, also called the Mpemba paradox, is the contested claim that initially hotter water freezes sooner than cooler water, named for Tanzanian schoolboy Erasto Mpemba, who observed it in 1963.
Mpezeni
Mpezeni is the title of the paramount chief, styled Inkosi ya Makosi, of the Jere Ngoni people of Zambia's Eastern Province. First held by Ntutu Jere, son of Zwangendaba, it remains the title today.
MPFL reconstruction
Medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction is an orthopedic procedure rebuilding the ligament connecting the medial patella to the femur, typically with a tendon graft, to stabilize the kneecap after dislocation or recurrent instability.
Mphanda Nkuwa project
The Mphanda Nkuwa project (MNK) is a planned 1,500 MW run-of-river hydroelectric dam on the Zambezi River in Mozambique, developed by EDF, TotalEnergies, and Sumitomo Corporation.
mPharma
mPharma is a Ghana-based health technology company founded in Accra in 2013 by Gregory Rockson, operating a pan-African pharmacy network that makes prescription medicines more affordable.
Mphasis
Mphasis, also known as Mphasis Limited, is an Indian IT services and business process company headquartered in Bangalore, serving mostly banking and financial services clients and majority owned by Blackstone.
MPI Sintel
MPI Sintel is a public benchmark for evaluating optical flow algorithms, derived from the Blender Foundation's open source animated short film Sintel and presented at ECCV 2012.
MPI-CDG
MPI-CDG, formerly CDG-Ib, is a rare autosomal recessive congenital disorder of glycosylation causing liver and intestinal disease in infants, and it is treatable with oral mannose.
MPI-ESM
MPI-ESM (Max Planck Institute Earth System Model) is a coupled Earth system model developed by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, serving as its CMIP5 contribution.
MPLA
MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola), People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola: Angolan center-left party founded 10 December 1956; ruling party since independence in 1975; won the 1975–2002 civil war against UNITA; 2022 vote share 51.17%.
MPLNET
MPLNET, the NASA Micro-Pulse Lidar Network, is a worldwide network of eye-safe Micro-Pulse Lidar systems run by NASA and partners to continuously measure aerosol and cloud vertical structure.
mPLUG-Owl
mPLUG-Owl is a series of open-source multimodal large language models from Alibaba's DAMO Academy, first released in April 2023, with three generations through 2024 covering images and video.
Mplus
Mplus is a commercial statistical program for latent variable modeling, developed by Muthén & Muthén of Los Angeles and first released in November 1998. It is widely used in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.