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Mixture regression (statistics)

Mixture regression is a statistical modeling method that fits a weighted combination of regression models, identifying latent subpopulations with different predictor–outcome relationships from unlabeled data.

Miyake events

Miyake events are sharp, globally synchronous spikes in atmospheric radiocarbon recorded in tree rings, first identified by physicist Fusa Miyake in 2012, most plausibly caused by extreme solar particle bursts far larger than any observed.

Miyaura borylation

Miyaura borylation is a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling converting aryl or alkenyl halides and triflates into organoboron compounds using bis(pinacolato)diboron, first reported by Tatsuo Ishiyama, Miki Murata, and Norio Miyaura in 1995.

MM5 (weather model)

MM5, the Fifth-Generation NCAR/Penn State Mesoscale Model, is a limited-area numerical weather prediction model developed at Penn State and NCAR that became one of the world's most used mesoscale models in the mid-1990s.

MN15

MN15 is a global-hybrid exchange–correlation density functional developed at the University of Minnesota and reported in 2016, designed for broad accuracy across single-reference and multi-reference systems.

Mn2Au

Mn2Au is a metallic antiferromagnetic compound of manganese and gold with a Néel temperature above 1,000 K and, together with CuMnAs, one of two materials hosting a bulk Néel spin-orbit torque.

Mn3GaN

Mn3GaN, manganese gallium nitride, is a metallic antiferromagnetic compound with a cubic antiperovskite structure whose manganese atoms form a kagome lattice, of interest in antiferromagnetic spintronics.

Mn3Ge

Mn3Ge is a hexagonal intermetallic compound of manganese and germanium, a non-collinear antiferromagnet on a kagome lattice with a large anomalous Hall effect at room temperature.

Mn3Ir

Mn3Ir is a manganese iridium intermetallic compound and noncollinear antiferromagnet with a Néel temperature near 960 K, long used as an exchange-bias material in spintronics.

Mn3Sn

Mn3Sn is a non-collinear antiferromagnet with a kagome lattice of manganese atoms, known for a large anomalous Hall effect at room temperature despite nearly vanishing magnetization, and studied for antiferromagnetic spintronics.

MnBi2Te4

MnBi2Te4 (manganese bismuth telluride) is the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator, a layered van der Waals compound, with antiferromagnetic order below about 24 to 26 K.

MnBi2Te4 magnetic topological insulator

MnBi2Te4 is an intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator, confirmed in 2019 as the first of its kind, showing the quantum anomalous Hall effect and axion insulator states in flakes.

MnBi4Te7

MnBi4Te7 is a layered crystal in the MnBi2nTe3n+1 family, an intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator that orders below about 13 K and saturates in a small field of about 0.22 T.

Mneme

Mneme (Jupiter XL, S/2003 J 21) is a small retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter in the Ananke group, discovered February 9, 2003 by Sheppard and Gladman at Mauna Kea; about 1 km in radius, orbiting ~21 million km away in ~620 days, named for the Muse of memory.

Mnemonic

A mnemonic is a device or technique that aids memory by linking new information to what is already known, ranging from acronyms to the method of loci.

MnPSe3

MnPSe3, manganese phosphorus triselenide, is a layered van der Waals antiferromagnetic semiconductor of the MPX3 family that orders at about 74 K and retains magnetic order to the monolayer limit.

MnTe

MnTe, or manganese telluride, is a hexagonal semiconductor that in 2023 became the first material in which altermagnetism, a third fundamental class of magnetism, was established experimentally.

Mo Li

Mo Li (李默) is a physicist and engineer working on integrated photonics, optomechanics, and quantum photonics; a University of Washington professor known for chip-scale acousto-optic LiDAR beam steering.

Mo2C molybdenum carbide

Molybdenum carbide (Mo2C) is an interstitial compound of molybdenum and carbon whose electronic structure resembles platinum-group metals, making it a cheap catalyst for hydrogen evolution, hydrotreating, and reforming.

Moabite (mineral)

Moabite is a rare nickel iron oxyphosphate mineral, NiFe³⁺(PO₄)O, approved by the IMA in 2021 and found in pyrometamorphic rocks of the Hatrurim Formation in central Jordan, named for the ancient Kingdom of Moab.

Mobile mesonet

A mobile mesonet is an instrumented vehicle that takes surface weather observations of temperature, pressure, humidity, wind, and sometimes solar radiation in and around storms, first deployed during the 1994 VORTEX project.

Möbius aromaticity

Möbius aromaticity, seen in Moebius aromatic rings, is aromatic stabilization in cyclic molecules twisted like a Möbius strip, so 4n π-electron rings are aromatic instead of 4n + 2.

Möbius carbon nanobelt

A Möbius carbon nanobelt (MCNB) is a fully fused carbon nanobelt with a half-twist, giving it a one-sided surface; the first, (25,25)MCNB, was synthesized in 2022.

Möbius function

The Möbius function, μ(n), is an arithmetic function taking values −1, 0, and 1: (−1)^k for products of k distinct primes, and 0 on non-squarefree integers.

Möbius inversion formula

The Möbius inversion formula, also called Möbius inversion, is a number theory theorem stating that if f(n) is the divisor sum of g(n), then g is recovered using the Möbius function.

Möbius strip

The Möbius strip, also called the Möbius band, is a surface with only one side and one edge, made by joining a strip with a half-twist.

Möbius transformation

A Möbius transformation, also called a Möbius map, is a function (az+b)/(cz+d) with ad − bc ≠ 0 that maps the extended complex plane conformally to itself.

Mobocertinib

Mobocertinib (Exkivity, TAK-788), an oral irreversible EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor for EGFR exon 20 insertion-mutated NSCLC, won accelerated US FDA approval in 2021 but was withdrawn worldwide after EXCLAIM-2 failed.

Mocho-Choshuenco

Mocho-Choshuenco (Complejo Volcánico Mocho-Choshuenco) is a 2,422 m compound Chilean volcano of two glacier-covered stratovolcanoes in Región de Los Ríos; last eruption 1937, among Chile's 14 most dangerous volcanoes.

Modal algebra

A modal algebra, also called a Magari algebra, is a Boolean algebra equipped with a normal operator representing a modal connective, providing the algebraic semantics of propositional modal logic.