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Market-based task allocation
Market-based task allocation is a method for assigning tasks to robots in a multi-robot system: each robot computes costs or utilities for tasks, and an auction awards them.
Marketplace take rate
A marketplace take rate is the percentage of total transaction value flowing through a marketplace that the platform keeps as revenue, typically platform revenue divided by gross merchandise value (GMV).
Märkisches Viertel
The Märkisches Viertel is a large modernist housing estate in the Reinickendorf district of northern Berlin, built between 1963 and 1974/75 with roughly 17,000 apartments for about 40,000 residents.
Markita Patricia Landry
Markita Patricia Landry, also known as Markita del Carpio Landry, is a scientist and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley who develops near-infrared nanosensors for imaging brain chemistry.
Märklin
Märklin is a German model railway manufacturer founded in Göppingen in 1859, whose three-rail H0 alternating-current system is widely known as the Märklin system, and which defined the toy-train gauge standards from 1891 onward.
MarkLogic
MarkLogic, now Progress MarkLogic, is a document-oriented NoSQL database that stores XML, JSON, text, or binary documents, combining database, search indexing, and application server features in one transactional system.
Markman hearing
A Markman hearing is a pretrial proceeding in a US patent infringement case where the district court construes disputed claim terms, often deciding the case.
Markov analysis
Markov analysis is a dependability engineering method that models a system as a stochastic process moving among states like operational, degraded, and failed, relying on the memoryless Markov property.
Markov decision process
A Markov decision process, or MDP, also called a Markov decision problem, is a mathematical model in which an agent chooses actions in states to earn rewards, the foundation of reinforcement learning.
Markov localization
Markov localization is a probabilistic method that estimates a mobile robot's position from sensor data by maintaining a probability distribution over a grid of possible locations, enabling localization without knowing the starting point.
Markov state model
A Markov state model (MSM) is a kinetic model of molecular dynamics that partitions conformational space into discrete states and a transition matrix, built from many short simulations.
Marksburg
The Marksburg is a medieval hilltop castle above Braubach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, first documented in 1231 and the only hilltop castle on the Middle Rhine never destroyed.
Markup language
A markup language, or document markup language, is a system of annotations added to text to represent its structure or formatting, as in HTML and XML.
Markus Groß
Markus Groß is a computer scientist in computer graphics and simulation, professor at ETH Zurich and Chief Scientist of The Walt Disney Studios since 2022.
Markus J. Buehler
Markus J. Buehler is an American materials scientist and mechanical engineer at MIT who pioneered materiomics, the computational study of protein materials like silk and collagen.
Marlboro
Marlboro is an American cigarette brand registered by Philip Morris in 1908, repositioned for men in 1954, and the world's best-selling cigarette brand since 1972.
Marlborough House
Marlborough House is a Grade I listed London mansion on Pall Mall, built 1709 to 1711 for the Duchess of Marlborough and now the Commonwealth Secretariat's headquarters.
Marlim Oil and Gas Field
Marlim is a giant deepwater oil field in the Campos Basin, about 110 km off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 1985 with peak production of 586,315 barrels per day in 2002.
Marlin Firearms
Marlin Firearms is an American firearms manufacturer founded by John Mahlon Marlin in 1870, best known for its lever-action rifles with solid-top receivers and side ejection.
Marlin Model 1894
The Marlin Model 1894 is a lever-action repeating rifle patented by Lewis Hepburn in 1893 and produced by Marlin Firearms, redesigned in 1969 for pistol magnums and still in production under Ruger.
Marlin Model 336
The Marlin Model 336 is an American lever-action rifle introduced in 1948, chambered most often in .30-30 Winchester or .35 Remington, with more than 6 million made.
Marlin Model 60
The Marlin Model 60, also known as the Marlin 60, is an American semi-automatic rimfire rifle in .22 Long Rifle with a tubular magazine, produced from 1960 to 2020.
Marlin Oil and Gas Field
Marlin is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin, Bass Strait, about 42 km off Victoria, Australia, discovered in 1965 and on stream since 1969.
Marmara LNG Terminal
The Marmara LNG Terminal (Marmaraereğlisi LNG Terminali) is Türkiye's first LNG import terminal, at Marmara Ereğlisi on the Sea of Marmara, operated by BOTAŞ since 1994.
Marmaray
Marmaray is a 76.3 km commuter railway in Istanbul linking Halkalı in Europe with Gebze in Asia through a tunnel beneath the Bosphorus, opened in 2013.
Marmaray Tunnel
The Marmaray Tunnel is a railway tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey, whose immersed tube section connects the European and Asian sides, opened in 2013.
Marmul Oil Field
The Marmul oil field is a heavy-oil field in Dhofar province, southern Oman, discovered in 1956, brought on stream in 1980, and operated by Petroleum Development Oman.
Marnix Wagemaker
Marnix Wagemaker is a materials scientist and professor at Delft University of Technology who heads its electrochemical energy storage section, researching lithium and sodium batteries.
Maroc Telecom
Maroc Telecom, also known as Itissalat Al-Maghrib or IAM, is Morocco's incumbent telecommunications operator, majority owned by Etisalat, with nearly 77 million customers through its Moov Africa subsidiaries.
MARPAT
MARPAT, short for MARine PATtern, is the digital pixelated camouflage pattern of the United States Marine Corps, adopted in 2002 in woodland and desert variants based on the Canadian CADPAT.