MDS or M.D.S. may refer to:
Organizations
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Brazilian Ministry of Social Development
The Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MSD) ( pt, Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome, ''MDS'') was a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil.
History
The ministry was established in 2004 from the ...
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Mennonite Disaster Service
The Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is a volunteer network through which various groups within the Anabaptist tradition assist people affected by disasters in North America. The organization was founded in 1950 and was incorporated as a 501(c)(3 ...
, a disaster relief volunteer group
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Movement for Socialist Democracy
Movement for Socialist Democracy (in French language, French: ''Mouvement pour la Démocratie Socialiste'') was a political party in Burkina Faso. The MDS surged when the Burkinabè Communist Group split in April 1989. In March 1991 it took the n ...
(''Mouvement pour la Démocratie Socialiste''), a former political party in Burkina Faso
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Movement of Socialist Democrats
The Movement of Socialist Democrats ( ar, حركة الديمقراطيين الاشتراكيين, ' ; french: Mouvement des démocrates socialistes, MDS, also translated as "Socialist Democrats Movement") is a political party in Tunisia.
The MD ...
(''Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes''), a political party in Tunisia
Companies
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MDS America
MDS America, Inc (MDSA) is a wireless Internet and wireless cable TV technology provider based in Stuart, Florida, US. MDS America was the primary party responsible for the invalidation of Northpoint Technology Inc's patents having to do with extr ...
, a telecommunications company
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MDS Gateways, a telecommunications company in Ireland
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MDS Inc., a healthcare company
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Microwave Data Systems, a wireless modem company
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Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation
Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation (MDS) was an early computer hardware company, started by former Univac engineers in 1964;
by 1985 they were struggling to sell-off part of their company.
History
The company was founded in Herkimer, New York, by G ...
, a computer company
Science and technology
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Minimum detectable signal
A minimum detectable signal is a signal at the input of a system whose power allows it to be detected over the background electronic noise of the detector system. It can alternately be defined as a signal that produces a signal-to-noise ratio of ...
, a measure of sensitivity
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Molybdenum disulfide
Molybdenum disulfide (or moly) is an inorganic compound composed of molybdenum and sulfur. Its chemical formula is .
The compound is classified as a transition metal dichalcogenide. It is a silvery black solid that occurs as the mineral molybdenit ...
, a compound added to some plastics to make parts more slippery
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Multi-Displacement System Chrysler's Multi-Displacement System (MDS) is an automobile engine variable displacement technology. It debuted in 2006 on the 5.7 L modern Hemi V8. Like Mercedes-Benz's Active Cylinder Control, General Motors' Active Fuel Management, and Ho ...
, a Chrysler automobile technology
Computing
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.mds, a file extension associated with disk image descriptions
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MDS 2400, a computer
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Mandriva Directory Server
Mandriva Directory Server (MDS) is an LDAP server developed by Mandriva. This is similar to 389 Directory Server, Novell eDirectory etc. for managing resources & infrastructure within the network.
See also
* Fedora Directory Server
* Novell eDi ...
, an LDAP server
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Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is a Master Data Management (MDM) product from Microsoft that ships as a part of the Microsoft SQL Server relational database management system. Master data management (MDM) allows an organization to ...
, a database management product
* mds, a daemon in macOS
Spotlight
Spotlight or spot light may refer to:
Lighting
* Spot lights, automotive auxiliary lamps
* Spotlight (theatre lighting)
* Spotlight, a searchlight
* Stage lighting instrument, stage lighting instruments, of several types
Art, entertainment, an ...
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Microarchitectural Data Sampling
The Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities are a set of weaknesses in Intel x86 microprocessors that use hyper-threading, and leak data across protection boundaries that are architecturally supposed to be secure. The attacks expl ...
, a set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors
*Minimum Data Set (MDS) used to define the smallest acceptable set of data items in a report or a message between two computer systems (interoperability)
* Cisco MDS, a line of
Fibre Channel switches
Medicine
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Miller–Dieker syndrome
Miller–Dieker syndrome, Miller–Dieker lissencephaly syndrome (MDLS), and chromosome 17p13.3 deletion syndrome is a micro deletion syndrome characterized by congenital malformations. Congenital malformations are physical defects detectable in a ...
, a neurological disorder
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Minimum Data Set The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is part of the U.S. federally mandated process for clinical assessment of all residents in Medicare or Medicaid certified nursing homes and non-critical access hospitals with Medicare swing bed agreements. (The term "swi ...
, information collected for US Medicare/Medicaid asessement
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Myelodysplastic syndrome
A myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is one of a group of cancers in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature, and as a result, do not develop into healthy blood cells. Early on, no symptoms typically are seen. Later, symptoms may ...
Mathematics
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Martingale difference sequence In probability theory, a martingale difference sequence (MDS) is related to the concept of the martingale. A stochastic series ''X'' is an MDS if its expectation with respect to the past is zero. Formally, consider an adapted sequence \_^ on a p ...
, in probability theory
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Maximum distance separable code
In coding theory, the Singleton bound, named after Richard Collom Singleton, is a relatively crude upper bound on the size of an arbitrary block code C with block length n, size M and minimum distance d. It is also known as the Joshibound. proved b ...
, in mathematical coding theory
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Multidimensional scaling
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a means of visualizing the level of similarity of individual cases of a dataset. MDS is used to translate "information about the pairwise 'distances' among a set of n objects or individuals" into a configurati ...
, a statistical technique
Transport
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Meridian Southern Railway
Founded in 2001, Meridian Southern Railway , in east Mississippi, USA, is a short line freight railroad linking Meridian, and Waynesboro, Mississippi and intermediate stations. The railroad is connected to the national rail network by its connecti ...
, in Mississippi, US
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Middle Caicos Airport
Middle Caicos Airport is an airport serving Middle Caicos (also known as Grand Caicos), the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Facilities
The airport is at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway
Accordi ...
, IATA code
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Morden South railway station
Morden South railway station is in Morden in the London Borough of Merton. The station is served by Thameslink trains on the Sutton Loop Line. It is in Travelcard Zone 4.
The station is very close to the Bait-ul-Futuh Mosque.
History
Parliame ...
, London, National Rail station code
Other uses
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''MDs'' (TV series), a 2002 American medical drama
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Marathon des Sables
''Marathon des Sables'', or MdS, ( French for Marathon of the Sands, also known as Sahara Marathon)
"Facing Africa NOMA : The Marathon des Sables",
FacingAfrica.org, 2010, webpage:
-->pages/mds/default.asp FA8.
is a six-day, ultramarath ...
'', an ultramarathon held in Morocco
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Master of Dental Surgery
* Mission Design Series, a
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Miriam Defensor Santiago
Miriam Palma Defensor-Santiago (''née'' Defensor; June 15, 1945 – September 29, 2016) was a Filipino scholar, academic, lawyer, judge, author, and stateswoman who served in all three branches of the Philippine government: judicial, executiv ...
(1945-2016), former senator of the Philippines
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