World Heritage site: Designating World Heritage sites: Mixed heritage sites contain elements of both natural and cultural significance. The ratio of cultural to natural sites on the World Heritage List is roughly 3 to 1. Several new sites are added to the list at the middle of each year (until 2002, sites…

mixed martial arts (MMA), hybrid combat sport incorporating techniques from boxing, wrestling, judo, jujitsu, karate, Muay Thai (Thai boxing), and other disciplines. Although it was initially decried by critics as a brutal blood sport without rules, MMA gradually shed its no-holds-barred image and

printmaking: Contemporary experimentation: The combining of various media is closely related to the experimentation in colour printing. Each medium has its own capabilities and limitations; combined, the media often complement each other. It is now common to see three or four different techniques combined.

metaphor: A mixed metaphor is the linking of two or more disparate elements, which can result in an unintentionally comic effect produced by the writer’s insensitivity to the literal meaning of words or by the falseness of the comparison. A mixed metaphor may also be used with…

Adam Sandler: …on an SNL sketch; and Mixed Nuts (1994). He established himself as a star with Billy Madison (1995), the first of a number of movies he cowrote; in it he played the oafish scion of a wealthy businessman who must prove his worthiness to succeed his father by repeating his…

primary election: …have adopted variations, including the mixed primary, which allows independents to vote in either party’s primary but requires voters registered with a political party to vote in their own party’s primary.

game theory: Mixed strategies and the minimax theorem: When saddlepoints exist, the optimal strategies and outcomes can be easily determined, as was just illustrated. However, when there is no saddlepoint the calculation is more elaborate, as illustrated in Table 2.

history of logic: Syllogisms: … (they are sometimes called “mixed” if only one of the premises is modal).

Atlantic Ocean: Tides of the Atlantic Ocean: Mixed tides, or those that can have both diurnal (one high and one low tide per day) and semidiurnal oscillations, predominate in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea and also are found along the southeastern coast of Brazil and in Tierra del Fuego,…

fat: Chemical composition of fats: …the simple type; most are mixed triglycerides (i.e., one molecule of glycerol is combined with two or three different fatty acids). Thus stearodipalmitin, C3H5(OCOC15H31)2(OCOC17H35), contains two palmitic acid radicals and one stearic acid radical. Similarly, oleopalmitostearin, C3H5(OCOC15H31)(OCOC1

uranium processing: Oxide fuels: …procedures are employed to fabricate mixed uranium-plutonium dioxide (MOX) pellets for use in fast-neutron breeder reactors. Unirradiated MOX fuel typically contains 20 to 35 percent plutonium dioxide.

industrial glass: Electrical conductivity: …additivity relationship here is the mixed-alkali effect, in which glasses containing two or more different types of alkali ions have a significantly lower electrical conductivity than linear additivity would suggest. In applications such as high-wattage lamps, where low electrical conductivity is desired, mixed-alkali glasses are useful.

turbine: Mixed-flow turbines: Francis turbines are probably used most extensively because of their wider range of suitable heads, characteristically from three to 600 metres. At the high-head range, the flow rate and the output must be large; otherwise the runner becomes too small for reasonable fabrication.…

prairie: Midgrass, or mixed-grass, prairie, supporting both bunchgrasses and sod-forming grasses, is the most extensive prairie subtype and occupies the central part of the prairie region. Species of porcupine grass, grama grass, wheatgrass, and buffalo grass dominate the vegetation. Sand hills are common in the western…

atmosphere: Planetary boundary layer: …is referred to as the mixed-layer inversion.

water supply system: Filtration: …to enhance in-depth filtration, so-called mixed-media filters are used in some treatment plants. These have a third layer, consisting of a fine-grained dense mineral called garnet, at the bottom of the bed.

election: Hybrid systems: …are called mixed-member proportional or additional-members systems. Although there are a number of variants, all mixed-member proportional systems elect some representatives by proportional representation and the remainder by a nonproportional formula. The classic example of the hybrid system is the German Bundestag, which combines the personal link between representatives and…

integrated circuit: Mixed-signal design: For designs that contain both analog and digital circuitry (mixed-signal chips), standard analog and digital simulators are not sufficient. Instead, special behavioral simulators are used, employing the same simplifying idea behind digital simulators to model entire circuits rather than individual transistors. Behavioral simulators…

integrated circuit: Mixed-signal design: For designs that contain both analog and digital circuitry (mixed-signal chips), standard analog and digital simulators are not sufficient. Instead, special behavioral simulators are used, employing the same simplifying idea behind digital simulators to model entire circuits rather than individual transistors. Behavioral simulators…

baking: History: The first mechanical dough mixer, attributed to Marcus Vergilius (sometimes spelled Virgilius) Eurysaces, a freed slave of Greek origin, consisted of a large stone basin in which wooden paddles, powered by a horse or donkey walking in circles, kneaded the dough mixture of flour, leaven, and water.

stagecraft: Technological innovations of the 20th century: Through the use of a playback mixing console (also called a mixer or a mixing desk), the sound operator could direct the sound for a particular cue to its appropriate location at a specific loudness level. It therefore became possible for one operator to run all of the sound cues…

jet engine: Low-bypass turbofans and turbojets: …a turbofan usually requires a mixer for mixing the relatively cool bypass air with the hot core stream (see Figure 6); the cooler air is otherwise difficult to burn in the low-pressure environment of an afterburner. Also, in both the turbojet and the turbofan with an afterburner, the exhaust nozzle…

fungus: Annotated classification: Order Mixiales Parasitic primarily on ferns; blastosporic yeasts; example genus is Mixia. Class Cryptomycocolacomycetes Parasitic; simple septate; contains 1 order. Order Cryptomycocolacales Parasitic on insects such as

baking: The sponge-and-dough method: The objectives of mixing are a nearly homogeneous blend of the ingredients and “developing” of the dough by formation of the gluten into elongated and interlaced fibres that will form the basic structure of the loaf. Because intense shearing actions must be avoided, the usual dough mixer has…

motion-picture technology: Mixing: The final combination of tracks onto one composite sound track synchronous with the picture is variously known as mixing, rerecording, or dubbing. Mixing takes place at a special console equipped with separate controls for each track to adjust loudness and various aspects of sound…

plastic: Compounding: …fabrication procedures is compounding, the mixing together of various raw materials in proportions according to a specific recipe. Most often the plastic resins are supplied to the fabricator as cylindrical pellets (several millimetres in diameter and length) or as flakes and powders. Other forms include viscous liquids, solutions, and suspensions.

stagecraft: Technological innovations of the 20th century: Through the use of a playback mixing console (also called a mixer or a mixing desk), the sound operator could direct the sound for a particular cue to its appropriate location at a specific loudness level. It therefore became possible for one operator to run all of the sound cues…

stagecraft: Technological innovations of the 20th century: Through the use of a playback mixing console (also called a mixer or a mixing desk), the sound operator could direct the sound for a particular cue to its appropriate location at a specific loudness level. It therefore became possible for one operator to run all of the sound cues…

isentropic chart: …shown by lines of constant mixing ratio (which expresses the mass of water vapour per unit mass of dry air) and of constant specific humidity (which expresses the mass of water vapour per unit mass of air). The flow of air at the isentropic surface is represented by streamlines, computed…

fungus: Annotated classification: Class Mixiomycetes Parasitic or saprotrophic; simple septate; contains 1 order. Order Mixiales Parasitic primarily on ferns; blastosporic yeasts; example genus is Mixia. Class Cryptomycocolacomycetes Parasitic; simple septate;

Mixolydian mode, in music, seventh of the eight medieval church modes. See church

protozoan: Mixotrophy: All protozoans engage in heterotrophy, but not all protozoans are exclusive heterotrophs. Those that combine autotrophy (self-sustaining food production from a carbon source and inorganic nitrogen) and heterotrophy (ingesting other organisms to acquire carbon) are known as mixotrophs. The degree of mixotrophy in a…

protozoan: Mixotrophy: All protozoans engage in heterotrophy, but not all protozoans are exclusive heterotrophs. Those that combine autotrophy (self-sustaining food production from a carbon source and inorganic nitrogen) and heterotrophy (ingesting other organisms to acquire carbon) are known as mixotrophs. The degree of mixotrophy in a…

Ana Castillo: In The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), Castillo continues her exploration of Latina women and their sexuality and examines the reactions of men in the Anglo and Latino communities. Written in an experimental form, the novel consists of letters sent over 10 years between two Latina women, arranged…

Mixtec, Middle American Indian population living in the northern and western sections of the state of Oaxaca and in neighbouring parts of the states of Guerrero and Puebla in southern Mexico. Historically the Mixtec possessed a high degree of civilization in Aztec and pre-Aztec times. The modern

Mesoamerican Indian languages: The classification and status of Mesoamerican languages:

Mexico: Expansion of Spanish rule: …an episode known as the Mixton War. In order to complete the subjugation of the indigenous peoples, the Spaniards began to move into Zacatecas, where in 1546 they found immensely valuable silver mines. After similar discoveries in Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí, Spaniards occupied most of the north central region.…

chemical element: General observations: …naturally occurring matter are physical mixtures of compounds. Seawater, for example, is a mixture of water and a large number of other compounds, the most common of which is sodium chloride, or table salt. Mixtures differ from compounds in that they can be separated into their component parts by physical…

A Mixture of Frailties, novel by Robertson Davies, the third in a series known collectively as the Salterton

keyboard instrument: Organ stops: …what are known generically as mixture stops, which have several high-pitched pipes to each note. But, since, for example, a 1-foot rank could not be carried right up to the top note, it breaks back an octave at some convenient point in the compass. Ranks pitched even higher will break…

Itsuku Island, offshore island, Hiroshima ken (prefecture), Japan, in the Inland Sea. The small island, one of Japan’s most scenic locations, is 19 miles (31 km) in circumference and occupies an area of 12 square miles (31 square km). It is best known for its 6th-century shrine, which was built on

maple: cappadocicum) and Miyabe maple (A. miyabei) provide golden-yellow fall colour. The three-flowered maple (A. triflorum) and the paperbark maple (A. griseum) have tripartite leaves and attractive peeling bark, in the former tannish and in the latter copper brown.

Miyagawa Chōshun was a Japanese painter of the ukiyo-e style of popular, colourful art based on everyday life. He was the founder of the Miyagawa school of painting. Chōshun went to Edo about 1700 and fell under the influence of the works of Hishikawa Moronobu (d. c. 1694), who established the

Miyagawa Chōshun was a Japanese painter of the ukiyo-e style of popular, colourful art based on everyday life. He was the founder of the Miyagawa school of painting. Chōshun went to Edo about 1700 and fell under the influence of the works of Hishikawa Moronobu (d. c. 1694), who established the

Chlamydia, a genus of bacterial parasites that cause several different diseases in humans. The genus is composed of three species: C. psittaci, which causes psittacosis; Chlamydia trachomatis, various strains of which cause chlamydia, trachoma, lymphogranuloma venereum, and conjunctivitis; and C.

Miyagi, ken (prefecture), northern Honshu, Japan, its indented coastline forming Sendai Bay of the Pacific Ocean. The western and, to a lesser extent, northeastern regions are mountainous. The central Sendai Plain, which extends southward to the southern coastline, contains the prefectural capital,

Japanese music: Traditional styles: …following World War I was Miyagi Michio (1894–1956), a blind koto teacher in the Ikuta school. In 1921 he composed the piece Ochiba no odori (“Dance of the Falling Leaves”), which used two koto, samisen, and a 17-stringed bass koto of his invention. Later works by Miyagi combine orchestras of…

Miyake Yoshinobu is a Japanese weightlifter who won three Olympic medals, including two golds, in the 1960s. Standing just over 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall, Miyake was introduced to weightlifting while attending Hosei University, where Japanese weightlifters trained outdoors with little coaching or

Issey Miyake was a Japanese fashion designer who was known for combining Eastern and Western elements in his work. He also had a popular line of fragrances that included L’Eau d’Issey. Miyake studied graphic design at Tokyo’s Tama Art University, and after graduation he moved in 1965 to Paris,

Kyōto, city, seat of Kyōto fu (urban prefecture), west-central Honshu island, Japan. It is located some 30 miles (50 km) northeast of the industrial city of Ōsaka and about the same distance from Nara, another ancient centre of Japanese culture. Gently sloping downward from north to south, the city

Miyako, city, eastern Iwate ken (prefecture), northeastern Honshu, Japan. It is situated on the estuary of the Hei River, facing Miyako Bay (an embayment of the Pacific Ocean). The city has been an important fishing port since the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867) and is known for its salmon,

Miyakonojō, city, southern Miyazaki ken (prefecture), southern Kyushu, Japan. It is situated on the upper Ōyodo River in a valley surrounded by mountains. The city developed around the castle built by the Shimazu family in the early 11th century. During the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867),

Miyamoto Musashi was a famous Japanese soldier-artist of the early Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867). Musashi began his career as a fighter early in life when, at age 13, he killed a man in single combat. In 1600 he was on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara (which paved the way for

Miyamoto Musashi was a famous Japanese soldier-artist of the early Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867). Musashi began his career as a fighter early in life when, at age 13, he killed a man in single combat. In 1600 he was on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara (which paved the way for

Wii Fit: …to the game’s Japanese designer, Miyamoto Shigeru, the Wii Fit has the potential to connect physical therapists and personal trainers with their clients over the Internet.

Hayashi Fumiko was a Japanese novelist whose realistic stories deal with urban working-class life. Hayashi lived an unsettled life until 1916, when she went to Onomichi, where she stayed until graduation from high school in 1922. In her lonely childhood she grew to love literature, and when she

Miyazaki, ken (prefecture), southeastern Kyushu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. Most of its area is mountainous, and there is a small coastal plain. The southern coast contains Nichinan-kaigan Quasi-national Park, which includes the offshore island of Ao and is noted for its tropical and

Miyazaki Hayao is an influential Japanese anime director whose lyrical and allusive works have won both critical and popular acclaim. His notable films include Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), and The Boy and the Heron (2023). Miyazaki’s father was the

Sun Yat-sen: Years in exile: …1897, he was met by Miyazaki Torazō, an adventurer who had heard of the London incident and who was willing to help Sun in his political activities. Miyazaki introduced Sun to many influential Japanese, including the elder statesmen Ōkuma Shigenobu, Soejima Taneomi, and Inukai Tsuyoshi, from some of whom Sun…

Miyazaki Yūzen was a Japanese painter credited with perfecting a rice-paste dyeing method that made possible the economical production of sumptuously decorated cloth. He gave his name to the process (yūzen-zome) by which elaborate designs and pictures were drawn on silk with a rice-paste coating.

Miyazaki Yūzen was a Japanese painter credited with perfecting a rice-paste dyeing method that made possible the economical production of sumptuously decorated cloth. He gave his name to the process (yūzen-zome) by which elaborate designs and pictures were drawn on silk with a rice-paste coating.

Miyazawa Kiichi was the prime minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993. Born into a family of politicians, Miyazawa graduated in law from Tokyo Imperial University in 1941 and soon secured a civilian position in the finance ministry (1942–52). In 1953 he was elected to the Diet (parliament) and in 1962

Kan’ami was a Japanese actor, playwright, and musician who was one of the founders of Noh drama. Kan’ami organized a theatre group in Obata to perform sarugaku (a form of popular drama that had apparently included tricks, acrobatics, and slapstick skits), which by his time had become plays with

Japan: The Ōnin War (1467–77): …hands of their retainers, the Miyoshi family (1558–65), until it was finally usurped by their own retainers, the Matsunaga family (1565–68).

Beijing: Municipal services: Notable are the large Miyun Reservoir, northeast of the city, and the Guanting Reservoir, which impounds the Yongding in the northwestern mountains beyond the Great Wall. These regulate the flow of the rivers upstream, storing water at times of heavy discharge and then allowing it to be released when…

Unani medicine: Arkan and mizaj: elements and temperament: The four essential mizaj (temperaments) are hot, cold, moist, and dry. Four more are compounded of those single temperaments—namely, hot and dry, hot and moist, cold and dry, and cold and moist. Possessed in different proportion, mizaj is balanced by all entities in the cosmos, including all plants,…

Ottoman Empire: The Young Turk Revolution of 1908: As editor of Mizan (“Balance”), published first in Istanbul (1886) and later in Cairo and Geneva, Murad Bey preached liberal ideas combined with a strong Islamic feeling; that may have contributed to his defection and return to Istanbul in 1897. Ahmed Rıza in Paris edited Meşveret (“Consultation”), in…

Kâtip Çelebi: …al-ḥaqq fi ikhtijārī al-ahaqq (The Balance of Truth) defends positive sciences and Islāmic doctrine and criticizes fanaticism.

Mizar, first star found (by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1650) to be a visual binary—i.e., to consist of two optically distinguishable components revolving around each other. Later, each of the visual components was determined to be a spectroscopic binary; Mizar is actually

Jam Master Jay was an American rap musician and producer who was a member of Run-DMC, the first rap group to attract a worldwide audience. The group is credited with bringing hip-hop into the cultural mainstream, known for such hits as “It’s Like That” and “Walk This Way.” In 2002 Jam Master Jay

zouk: …played at such parties was mizik zouk. Included in the mizik zouk rubric were the Haitian popular music styles known as compas and cadence, beguine from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and cadence-lypso, a hybrid of Haitian cadence and Trinidadian calypso popularized in Dominica in the 1970s.

aulos: …double clarinets—such as the arghūl, mizmār, and zamr—that are played in the Mediterranean littoral and the Middle East. The performer’s cheeks often look bulged because the two single reeds vibrate continuously inside the mouth as the player uses nasal (or circular) breathing.

Mizo, any of a number of ethnic groups, most speaking Tibeto-Burman languages, whose homeland lies in the Mizo Hills, a mountainous region in the southeastern part of Mizoram state in northeastern India. Beyond the homeland proper, many Mizo have settled in the neighbouring states of Tripura,

Mizo Hills, mountain range in southeastern Mizoram state, northeastern India, forming part of the north Arakan Yoma system. The Mizo Hills rise to about 7,000 feet (2,125 meters), and their slopes are covered with thick evergreen forest containing valuable timber and bamboo. In the intermontane

Mizoram, state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country and is bounded by Myanmar (Burma) to the east and south and Bangladesh to the west and by the states of Tripura to the northwest, Assam to the north, and Manipur to the northeast. The capital is Aizawl, in the

Aizawl: …the mid-1960s members of the Mizo National Front launched an armed attack on local government offices in Aizawl, but it was quickly suppressed by government forces. The insurgency continued, and in 1972 the union territory of Mizoram was created from a portion of Assam, with Aizawl as the administrative centre.…

Mizoguchi Kenji was a Japanese motion-picture director whose pictorially beautiful films dealt with the nature of reality, the conflict between modern and traditional values, and the redeeming quality of a woman’s love. In 1919, after he had studied painting and had spent a short time designing

science fiction: Sex and gender: In Mizora (1890), Mary Bradley Lane presented an early feminist utopia, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Herland (1915) imagined a society of women who reproduce by parthenogenesis.

Mizoram, state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country and is bounded by Myanmar (Burma) to the east and south and Bangladesh to the west and by the states of Tripura to the northwest, Assam to the north, and Manipur to the northeast. The capital is Aizawl, in the

Richard F. Heck: …reaction became known as the Heck reaction (or the Mizoroki-Heck reaction after Japanese chemist Mizoroki Tsutomu, who developed a more practical version of Heck’s original reaction). The technique of palladium catalysis found extensive use in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, and electronics industries.

Mizoram, state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country and is bounded by Myanmar (Burma) to the east and south and Bangladesh to the west and by the states of Tripura to the northwest, Assam to the north, and Manipur to the northeast. The capital is Aizawl, in the

Mizraḥi, (Hebrew: “Spiritual Centre”), religious movement within the World Zionist Organization and formerly a political party within Zionism and in Israel. It was founded in 1902 by Rabbi Yitzḥaq Yaʿaqov Reines of Lida, Russia, to promote Jewish religious education within the framework of Zionist

Mizrahi Jew, member or descendant of the approximately 1.5 million Jews who lived in North Africa and the Middle East up until the mid-20th century and whose ancestors did not previously reside in Europe. Collectively labeled ʿEdot Ha-Mizraḥ (Hebrew: “Ethnic Groups of the East”) in Israel upon

Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer who is known for provocative clothing designs as well as for his outsize personality on television and in film. He made a career of dressing the Hollywood elite as well as the general public. Mizrahi was raised in a religious Syrian Jewish household.

the New York Dolls: …6, 1972, London, England), guitarist Sylvain Sylvain (byname of Sylvain Sylvain Mizrahi; b. February 14, 1951, Cairo, Egypt—d. January 13, 2021), drummer Jerry Nolan (b. May 7, 1946, New York—d. January 14, 1992, New York), bassist Arthur Kane (b. New York—d. July 13, 2004, Los Angeles, California), and guitarist Rick…

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., Japanese bank holding company, one of the largest in the world in terms of assets, which exceeded $1 billion when it was founded. Mizuho originated in September 2000 with the mergers of Dai-Ichi Kangyō Bank, Fuji Bank, and the Industrial Bank of Japan. Losses at Mizuho

Japan: Political reform in the bakufu and the han: Mizuno Tadaakira, a senior councillor with acute business acumen, rose to power as a personal attendant to Ienari. But he and other high officials seemed as addicted to bribery as earlier regimes, and the corruption of the bakufu increased considerably. On the surface things seemed…

Mizuno Tadakuni was the chief adviser to Tokugawa Ieyoshi (reigned 1837–53), 12th Tokugawa shogun, or military dictator, of Japan. Mizuno was responsible for the Tempō reforms, the Tokugawa shogunate’s final effort to halt the growing social and economic decline that was undermining its rule. The

Kaburagi Kiyokata: …of painting in 1891 under Mizuno Toshikata, a painter in the tradition of ukiyo-e (paintings and wood-block prints of the “floating world”). Around the age of 17 he became a well-known illustrator for newspapers, and in 1900 he organized a group of painter friends, called Ugōkai (“the Rabble”), and aimed…

Ōshū, city, southern Iwate ken (prefecture), northeastern Honshu, Japan. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of Mizusawa and a number of surrounding municipalities. Ōshū lies in the valley of the Kitakami River. A community was established there as a fort to exterminate the aboriginal Ainu peoples

sail: …named the mainmast and the mizzenmast. In all three-masted vessels the names of the masts are foremast, mainmast and mizzenmast.

mizzonite, calcium-rich variety of the mineral scapolite

Khazʿal Khan: …instrumental in having his brother, Sheikh Mizʿal, assassinated in June 1897. He then became the ruler of Moḥammerah and the paramount chief of the Arab tribes of Khūzestān. Though nominally owing allegiance to the central government in Tehrān, the Arab sheikhdom of Moḥammerah, which differed culturally and ethnically from the…

Miʿrāj, in Islam, the ascension of the Prophet Muhammad into heaven. In this tradition, Muhammad is prepared for his meeting with God by the archangels Jibrīl (Gabriel) and Mīkāl (Michael) one evening while he is asleep in the Kaʿbah, the sacred shrine of Mecca. They open up his body and purify his

Miʿrāj: …27th day of Rajab, called Laylat al-Miʿrāj (“Night of the Ascension”).

Michael Jordan is a former collegiate and professional basketball player widely considered to be one of the greatest all-around players in the history of the game. Jordan’s unmatched athleticism and competitive drive revolutionized the sport while winning six NBA championships with the Chicago

Christopher Wheeldon: …American in Paris (2014) and MJ: The Musical (2022), about the life of Michael Jackson.

Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), intraseasonal fluctuation of atmospheric pressure over the equatorial Indian and western Pacific oceans, named for American atmospheric scientists Roland Madden and Paul Julian in 1971. This phenomenon comes in the form of alternating cyclonic and anticyclonic

Mjollnir, in Norse mythology, the hammer of the thunder god, Thor, and the symbol of his power. Forged by dwarfs, the hammer never failed Thor; he used it as a weapon to crash down on the heads of giants and as an instrument to hallow people and things. Mjollnir was stolen by the giant Thrym, who