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Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438) was an English Christian mystic from Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk, whose dictated Book is the first known English autobiography.
Margetuximab
Margetuximab, sold as Margenza, is an Fc-engineered monoclonal antibody against HER2 developed by MacroGenics, approved in the US in 2020 with chemotherapy for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
Margham Oil Field
The Margham Oil Field, also written Marghan, is an onshore gas and condensate field in Dubai, UAE, discovered in 1982 and Dubai's only commercial onshore reservoir.
Margherita Cirillo Silengo
Margherita Cirillo Silengo (born 1944) is an Italian clinical geneticist and pediatrician at the University of Turin, known for research on rare syndromes including Noonan-spectrum RASopathies and Mowat-Wilson syndrome.
Margherita Gargano
Margherita Gargano (born 1952, Bagheria) is an Italian middle-distance runner, CUS Palermo, who ran the 1500 m at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, won Mediterranean Games 1500 m gold, and took Italian 3000 m titles in 1973, 1976, 1979-80.
Margherita of Savoy
Margherita of Savoy (1851–1926), first queen consort of Italy as wife of Umberto I; daughter of the Duke of Genoa, mother of Vittorio Emanuele III, patron of Carducci, namesake of the Margherita pizza.
Margherita R. Fontana
Margherita R. Fontana is a dental caries researcher who chairs Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics at the University of Michigan and received a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.
Margherita Sarfatti
Margherita Sarfatti (née Grassini, 1880–1961), Italian Jewish journalist and art critic, Mussolini's lover and adviser, founder of Novecento Italiano, author of Dux (1926), later exiled by the racial laws.
Margherita Zalaffi
Margherita Zalaffi (born 1966, Siena), Italian fencer in foil and épée; five Olympics 1984–2000; gold team foil Barcelona 1992, silvers Seoul 1988 and Atlanta 1996; only woman with Olympic medals in two weapons.
Margiana
Margiana, also known as Margu, is the oasis region formed by the Murghab river delta in southeastern Turkmenistan, a Bronze Age center and later a Persian province.
Margidunum
Margidunum: Roman small town on the Fosse Way near East Bridgford and Bingham, Nottinghamshire; Antonine Itinerary station, excavated by Felix Oswald and Malcolm Todd, now a scheduled monument partly under the A46 roundabout.
Margie Bright Matthews
Margie Bright Matthews is an American Democratic politician representing South Carolina Senate District 45, elected in a 2015 special election after 26 years as a trial attorney.
Margie Donlon
Margie Donlon is an American politician and Democratic member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 11th district, elected in 2023 as the legislature's first female physician.
Margie Hendrix
Margie Hendrix (Marjorie Hendricks/Hendricks, 1935–1973), American R&B singer from Georgia; founding leader of Ray Charles's Raelets, voice on "(Night Time Is) The Right Time" and "Hit The Road Jack"; fired 1964; solo on Lamp, Tangerine, Mercury, Sound Stage 7.
Margilan ikat
Margilan ikat is resist-dyed silk and silk-cotton cloth from Margilan in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley, known locally as abrbandi, with fabrics like atlas and adras recognized by UNESCO in 2017.
Margin (finance)
Margin in derivatives trading is collateral, cash or securities, that traders post to protect against market price changes and counterparty default, with variation margin settling daily losses and initial margin buffering future ones.
Margin Call
Margin Call is a 2011 American drama film, J.C. Chandor's debut, following an investment bank's nightlong discovery that its mortgage holdings could bankrupt it during the 2008 crisis.
Margin classifier
A margin classifier is a classification model whose decision rule is stated in terms of a margin, the signed distance from a data point to its decision boundary.
Margin of error
The margin of error is the half-width of a confidence interval, reported in polls as a plus-or-minus range; it covers only sampling error and shrinks as sample size grows.
Marginal analysis
Marginal analysis is an economic decision-making method comparing the additional benefit and additional cost of a small change in an activity, applied until marginal benefit equals marginal cost.
Marginal cost
Marginal cost, also known as incremental or differential cost, is the additional cost of producing one more unit, computed as the change in total cost per unit change in output.
Marginal cost pricing
Marginal cost pricing is the rule that a good's price equals the cost of producing one more unit; it underlies electricity market design but cannot cover large fixed costs.
Marginal distribution
A marginal distribution, also called a marginal probability distribution, is the distribution of a subset of random variables, obtained by summing or integrating a joint distribution over the other variables.
Marginal efficiency of capital
The marginal efficiency of capital (MEC) is John Maynard Keynes's name for the internal rate of return on a new capital asset, defined in his 1936 General Theory.
Marginal ice zone
The marginal ice zone (MIZ) is the dynamic interface between open ocean and sea ice, where waves break the cover into small floes and strongly influence atmosphere–ocean heat fluxes.
Marginal model
A marginal model is a semiparametric regression model for clustered or longitudinal data that describes the population-averaged mean of a response, typically fitted by generalized estimating equations introduced by Liang and Zeger in 1986.
Marginal poetry
Marginal poetry (poesia marginal) is independent poetry produced in Brazil during the 1970s, when writers self-published on mimeograph machines under the military dictatorship, favoring colloquial, anti-academic language.
Marginal product of labor
The marginal product of labor, also called the marginal productivity of labor, is the additional output from one more unit of labor; it underlies firms' labor demand.
Marginal propensity to consume
The marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is the fraction of an additional unit of income spent on consumption rather than saving, introduced by Keynes in 1936.
Marginal propensity to import
The marginal propensity to import (MPM) is the fraction of an additional unit of national income a country spends on imports, typically between zero and one.