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MFS Living
MFS may refer to: Education *Maryknoll Fathers' School, a government-funded co-ed in Hong Kong SAR, P.R.C. * Master of Forensic Sciences, a specialized professional degree *Miletich Fighting Systems, a mixed martial arts training camp founded by Pat Miletich *Moorestown Friends School, a private Quaker school located in Moorestown, New Jersey *Moscow Finnish School, a Finnish private school in Russia Organizations * Metropolitan Fire Service, South Australia's government-funded fire service *Stasi, or Ministry for State Security (''Ministerium für Staatssicherheit''), the security and intelligence organisation of the German Democratic Republic *Syriac Military Council (ܡܘܬܒܐ ܦܘܠܚܝܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, ''Mawtbo Fulhoyo Suryoyo'') Technology *Metropolitan Fiber Systems, a telecommunications service provider acquired by WorldCom in 1997 * Mobile financial services, a term used in Mobile banking *Misfiring system or antilag system, a system used on turbocharged cars to cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryknoll Fathers' School
Maryknoll Fathers' School is an aided (government funded) co-educational school in Tai Hang Tung Estate, Tai Hang Tung, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The school was founded in 1957 by the Maryknoll Society, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. The school's medium of instruction is Cantonese for the primary section and English for the secondary section. History In 1952, Father Peter A. Reilly, an American Catholic priest of the Maryknoll Society, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, came to Hong Kong as a missionary. He had been a missionary in Wuzhou, Wuchow, Guangxi, Kwangsi for more than a decade, until he was forced to leave after the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949. When Father Reilly came to Hong Kong, he put up a small wooden hut in Kowloon Tsai, where he served the poor in that area, including many Refugee wave from the People's Republic of China to British Hong Kong, refugees from the People's Republic of China. He set aside a study room and hired teachers to educate the chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Material Flow Analysis
Material flow analysis (MFA), also referred to as substance flow analysis (SFA), is an analytical method to quantify flows and stocks of materials or substances in a well-defined system. MFA is an important tool to study the bio-physical aspects of human activity on different spatial and temporal scales. It is considered a core method of industrial ecology or anthropogenic metabolism, anthropogenic, urban metabolism, urban, social metabolism, social and industrial metabolism. MFA is used to study material, substance, or product flows across different industrial sectors or within ecosystems. MFA can also be applied to a single industrial installation, for example, for tracking nutrient flows through a waste water treatment plant. When combined with an assessment of the costs associated with material flows this business-oriented application of MFA is called material flow cost accounting. MFA is an important tool to study the circular economy and to devise material flow management. Sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missouri Folklore Society
The Missouri Folklore Society was organized December 15, 1906, "to encourage the collection, preservation and study of folklore in the widest sense, including customs, institutions, beliefs, signs, legends, language, literature, musical arts, and folk arts and crafts of all ethnic groups throughout the State of Missouri." History The roots of MFS go back to a meeting held in the offices of the English Department at the University of Missouri at the turn of the twentieth century. The "Writer’s Club" expressed interest in "folksongs and literary material to be found in Missouri," as reported in the ''M.S.U. Independent'' on March 6, 1903. The State Historical Society of Missouri had recently opened its library in what is now Jesse Hall, and this may have increased interest in local history. The students of the English Club proposed to gather their papers on the lore of Missouri into bound volumes, as an archive for future researchers. Mary Alicia Owen, writer and folklorist, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Flight Simulator
''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' is a series of Flight simulation video game, flight simulator programs for MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and differed significantly from List of Microsoft software, Microsoft's other software, which was largely business-oriented. ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' is Microsoft's longest-running software product line, predating Windows by three years, and is one of the longest-running video game series of all time. Bruce Artwick began the development of ''Flight Simulator'' in 1977. His company, Sublogic (company), Sublogic, initially distributed it for various personal computers. In 1981, Artwick was approached by Microsoft's Alan M. Boyd who was interested in creating a "definitive game" that would graphically demonstrate the difference between older 8-bit computers, such as the Apple II, and the new 16-bit computers, such as the IBM PC, still in develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meeting For Sufferings
Meeting for Sufferings is an executive committee of Britain Yearly Meeting, the body which acts on behalf of members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies. It has about 200 members who meet five times a year to make decisions when the Yearly Meeting is not in session. History Meeting for Sufferings was originally established to assess the persecution of Friends and attempt to obtain redress. Morning Meeting, a now-obsolete body of London Quakers, agreed in October 1675 to commission certain local Friends to meet four times a year for this purpose. Their efforts were mainly directed towards the suffering of imprisoned Quakers, but they also lobbied Parliament to reduce the burden of tithes and oaths. (The refusal of Friends to take oaths, based on Jesus Christ's words "Swear not at all" (Matthew 5:33 – 37), caused great difficulties with the government and courts.) Smaller weekly meetings, which continued until 1798, help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MFS Investment Management
MFS Investment Management (MFS) is an American-based global investment manager, formerly known as Massachusetts Financial Services. Founded in 1924, MFS is one of the oldest asset management companies in the world and has been credited with pioneering the mutual fund. The first mutual fund, the Massachusetts Investors Trust fund, is still in operation today. MFS had $645.3 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2024. History The company was founded in 1924 by Sherman Adams, Charles H. Learoyd and Ashton L. Carr. L. "85 Innovations 1917-1983" December 23, 2002, Forbes.com, Retrieved June 2011 The company's oldest fund is the Massachusetts Investors Trust, a mutual fund created with $50,000 at the company's inception and reported to be "the world's first op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MFS 2000 Inc
MFS Ammunition, formerly known as MFS 2000 Inc, is a Hungary, Hungarian ammunition manufacturer located in Sirok.http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/United_States_Army_suspends_ammo_contract_for_Afghan_security_forces Wikinews, Friday, March 28, 2008, Retrieved September 4, 2011. The name ''MFS'' is short for ''Mátravidéki Fémművek – Sirok.'' History It was established in 1952 as Mátravidéki Fémművek (Matra Provincial Metal Works) and began to produce ammunition for the civilian market in the late 1950s.http://www.weaponsworld.com/mfs-ammunition-7-62x39mm-russian-123-grain-full-metal-jacket-zinc-plated-steel-case-500-rd-case.html , Retrieved September 4, 2011. MFS Initial military production declined during the 1960s and 1970s in favour of civilian production. The company produced military ammunition with a plant code of "23". Factory code "21" is also associated with the company. After the Cold War and the ending of the Warsaw Pact, the company was privatized in 1990 as ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MFS (label)
MFS (Masterminded For Success) is an independent electronic dance music label from Berlin, Germany. Founded by Mark Reeder in 1990, it initially ran until 2008, when Reeder put the label on ice to concentrate on his own music production and remixer career. Reeder reactivated the label in 2018, specifically to release the album Fragment by Chinese band STOLEN. The label was originally founded by "''Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin''" the former GDR record company, which made it the very first independent dance music label of East Germany, until the DSB closed down in 1993. After which, Mark Reeder and his partner Torsten Jurk took MFS and carried on as a fully independent label, to launch the careers and release music by some of electronic dance music's seminal artists. MFS is considered to be one of, if not the first trance label, as it was to be the first to coin the term "trance music", and today, is seen by few as a traditional underground label due to its commercial success. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Fiction Studies
''Modern Fiction Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1955 at Purdue University's Department of English, where it is still edited. It publishes general and themed issues on the topic of modernist and contemporary fiction using original research from literary scholars. It seeks to challenge and expand the perception of "modern fiction". Special issues may focus on a specific topic or author. For example, previous issues have featured Toni Morrison and J. R. R. Tolkien. The journal also includes book reviews. The current editor in chief is Robert P. Marzec (Purdue University). The journal is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and appears quarterly in March, June, September, and December. Circulation is 2,265 and the average length of an issue is 284 pages. Abstracting and indexing This journal is indexed and abstracted by the following services: *Arts & Humanities Citation Index *Current Contents - Arts & Humanities *SCOPUS See also * Modernist lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major Facilitator Superfamily
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is a Protein superfamily, superfamily of membrane transport proteins that facilitate movement of small solutes across cell membranes in response to chemiosmosis, chemiosmotic gradients. Function The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) are membrane proteins which are expressed ubiquitously in all kingdoms of life for the import or export of target substrates. The MFS family was originally believed to function primarily in the uptake of sugars but subsequent studies revealed that drugs, metabolites, oligosaccharides, amino acids and oxyanions were all transported by MFS family members. These proteins energetically drive transport utilizing the electrochemical gradient of the target substrate (uniporter), or act as a cotransporter where transport is coupled to the movement of a second substrate. Fold The basic fold of the MFS transporter is built around 12, or in some cases, 14 transmembrane helix, transmembrane helices (TMH), with two 6- (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marfan Syndrome
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a multi-systemic genetic disorder that affects the connective tissue. Those with the condition tend to be tall and thin, with dolichostenomelia, long arms, legs, Arachnodactyly, fingers, and toes. They also typically have hypermobility (joints), exceptionally flexible joints and scoliosis, abnormally curved spines. The most serious complications involve the heart and aorta, with an increased risk of mitral valve prolapse and aortic aneurysm. The lungs, eyes, bones, and the dura mater, covering of the spinal cord are also commonly affected. The severity of the symptoms is variable. MFS is caused by a mutation in ''FBN1'', one of the genes that make fibrillin, which results in abnormal connective tissue. It is an autosomal dominant disorder. In about 75% of cases, it is inherited from a parent with the condition, while in about 25% it is a new mutation. Diagnosis is often based on the Ghent criteria, family history and genetic testing (DNA analysis). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miller Fisher Syndrome
A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a grain (for example corn or wheat) to make flour. Milling is among the oldest of human occupations. "Miller", "Milne" and other variants are common surnames, as are their equivalents in other languages around the world (" Melnyk" in Russian, Belarusian & Ukrainian, "Meunier" in French, "Müller" or "Mueller" in German, "Mulder" and "Molenaar" in Dutch, "Molnár" in Hungarian, " Molinero" in Spanish, "Molinaro" or "Molinari" in Italian, "Mlinar" in South Slavic languages etc.). Milling existed in hunter-gatherer communities, and later millers were important to the development of agriculture. The materials ground by millers are often foodstuffs and particularly grain. The physical grinding of the food allows for the easier digestion of its nutrients and saves wear on the teeth. Non-food substances needed in a fine, powdered form, such as building materials, may be processed by a miller. Quern-stone The most basic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
