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Maldeo Rathore
Maldeo Rathore (मालदेव राठौड़) was a Rathore Rajput ruler of Marwar in present-day Rajasthan, reigning from 1532 to 1562 and fighting Sher Shah Suri at Samel in 1544.
MALDI imaging mass spectrometry
MALDI imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI-IMS), introduced by Richard Caprioli and colleagues in 1997, maps molecules across tissue sections at cellular resolution, without labels, from metabolites to proteins.
MALDI-2
MALDI-2 is a laser post-ionization technique for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry, introduced in 2015, that raises ion yields for lipids, vitamins, and drugs by up to about 100-fold.
MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry is an analytical method that ionizes molecules with a laser-absorbing matrix and measures their masses, widely used to identify microbes in minutes.
Maldini Kacurri
Maldini Kacurri (born 2005, Lewisham, England) is an Albanian centre-back at Grimsby Town. Ex-Fulham and Arsenal academy player, one EFL Cup Arsenal appearance, loans at Bromley and Morecambe, full Albania international.
Maldives
Maldives (Dhivehi Raajje): Indian Ocean atoll republic of about 1,190 coral islands, independent from Britain in 1965, republic since 1968. Economy driven by tourism and fisheries; among the world's lowest-lying countries, with debt near 130 percent of GDP.
Maldives–Lakshadweep–Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
The Maldives–Lakshadweep–Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests is a WWF-designated ecoregion spanning the Maldives, Lakshadweep, and Chagos islands, the Indian Ocean's largest atoll system with sparse coastal forest.
Maldivian Democratic Party
Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), Maldivian political party founded in exile in Colombo, Sri Lanka in November 2003 and registered 26 June 2005; led the pro-democracy movement and provided the country's first directly elected president, Mohamed Nasheed (2008-2012).
Maldivian language
Dhivehi (Maldivian, ދިވެހި) is an Indo-Aryan language and the official language of the Maldives, with about 300,000 speakers plus the Mahl dialect on Minicoy; it is written in the right-to-left Thaana script.
Maldivian rufiyaa
The Maldivian rufiyaa is the currency of the Maldives, issued solely by the Maldives Monetary Authority and created under the 1947 Bank Note Act, initially pegged to the British pound.
Maldoror (film)
Maldoror (Le Dossier Maldoror) is Fabrice du Welz's 2024 Belgian-French crime thriller, premiered out of competition at Venice, loosely based on the Marc Dutroux case, starring Anthony Bajon as gendarme Paul Chartier.
Male
Male: the sex producing the smaller gametes (sperm) in anisogamous species. Covers sex determination (SRY/XY, environmental, polygenic), male physiology, health-survival patterns, and sex as a research variable.
Malé
Malé (މާލެ), capital of the Maldives in Kaafu Atoll, is a roughly 8 sq km island city of over 200,000 people, one of the world's densest cities, about one meter above sea level, with its port relocating to Thilafushi by 2027.
Male and Female
Male and Female (1919) is Cecil B. DeMille's silent drama adapted from Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, starring Thomas Meighan and Gloria Swanson, famous for its Babylon sequence and class-reversal shipwreck plot.
Male contraceptive
Male contraceptive: methods men use to prevent pregnancy, currently abstinence, withdrawal, condoms (13% typical failure), and vasectomy (0.15%); no new male agent approved in the 20th century, with hormonal gels, DMAU, and YCT-529 in trials.
Male Contraceptive Devices
Male contraceptive devices: condoms and vasectomy are the only approved male methods (failure rates 13 and 0.15 per 100 women-years in typical use); hormonal gels, DMAU, and reversible vas-occlusion devices are in clinical trials, with WHO target product profiles issued in 2026.
Male dominance (BDSM)
Male dominance in BDSM is the consensual Dominant role in D/s power exchange. Covers negotiation, safewords, prevalence (2.2% men past-year, Australia), dominant motivations, abuse distinctions, and practitioner psychology.
Male gamete
Male gamete (Cell Ontology CL:0000408): a haploid male germ cell capable of fertilization; in animals called sperm. Head with packed DNA plus flagellum; requires epididymal maturation, capacitation, and the acrosome reaction to fertilize an egg.
Male gaze
The male gaze, coined by Laura Mulvey in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975), is the feminist film-theory concept that Hollywood cinema constructs women as visual objects for a male viewer, via camera, character, and spectator looks.
Male germ cell
Male germ cell (CL:0000015): any cell of the male germline supporting gamete production, from spermatogonia through spermatocytes and spermatids to sperm; undergoes meiosis, ~2 months in humans, lower mutation rates than somatic cells.
Male Homosexuality
Male homosexuality: enduring sexual and romantic attraction between men, also called gay orientation; distinct from MSM behavior. Covers biology (birth order, genetics), DSM/ICD depathologization, HIV burden, and global decriminalization.
Male infertility
Male infertility: a male factor in a couple's failure to conceive within 12 months of unprotected intercourse. Evaluated by semen analysis and hormonal and genetic testing; treated with surgery, IUI, IVF, and ICSI (first births 1992).
Male lactation
Male lactation, also known as male breast feeding, is the production of milk by male mammals' mammary glands, documented in the Dayak fruit bat of Malaysia.
Male Mahadeshwara Hills
Male Mahadeshwara Hills (MM Hills, Malai Mahadeshwara Betta) is a Shaiva pilgrimage hill range in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka, with a swayambhu Shiva temple tied to a 15th-century saint, inside the 906.19 km² wildlife sanctuary notified in 2013.
Male pattern hair loss
Male pattern hair loss, or male androgenetic alopecia, is progressive non-scarring scalp hair loss driven by DHT and follicular miniaturization, graded on the seven-stage Hamilton-Norwood scale, affecting most men with age, treated with minoxidil, finasteride, dutasteride, or transplantation.
Male pregnancy
Male pregnancy: gestation of embryos by males, known only in syngnathid fishes (seahorses, pipefishes, seadragons), whose brood pouches function as placentas, supply nutrients, and drive sex-role reversal.
Male prostitution
Male prostitution: men selling sexual services, historically called porneia in Greece. Regulated via male homosexuality laws in UK/Australia; Belgium granted labor rights in 2024; workers increasingly operate online.
Male Rao Holkar
Male Rao Holkar (माळेराव होळकर) was the nominal ruler of the Holkar domains of Indore from 1766 to 1767, son of Khanderao and Ahilyabai Holkar, who died young in 1767.
Male reproductive system
Male reproductive system: organs producing sperm and testosterone, including testes, epididymis, vas deferens, prostate, and penis; ~64-day spermatogenesis cycle, 100-300 million sperm daily, hormonal HPG-axis control.
Malê Revolt
The Malê Revolt (Revolta dos Malês) was an 1835 uprising by enslaved and freed African Muslims in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the largest urban slave rebellion in Brazilian history.