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massive open online course | Online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures readings and problem sets many massive open online courses (MOOC) provide interactive user forums to support community interactions between students professors and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent development in distance education which was first introduced in 2008 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012. |
MBE | The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (often shortened to 'Order of the British Empire') is the most junior and most populous order of chivalry in the British and other Commonwealth honours systems. |
Medicaid | Medicaid in the United States is a federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources. Medicaid also offers benefits not normally covered by Medicare including nursing home care and personal care services. The Health Insurance Association of America describes Medicaid as 'a government insurance program for persons of all ages whose income and resources are insufficient to pay for health care.' Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States providing free health insurance to 74 million low-income and disabled people (23% of Americans) as of 2017. It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the state and federal governments and managed by the states with each state currently having broad leeway to determine who is eligible for its implementation of the program. States are not required to participate in the program although all have since 1982. Medicaid recipients must be U.S. citizens or qualified non-citizens and may include low-income adults their children and people with certain disabilities. Poverty alone does not necessarily qualify someone for Medicaid. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) significantly expanded both eligibility for and federal funding of Medicaid. Under the law as written all U.S. citizens and qualified non-citizens with income up to 133% of the poverty line including adults without dependent children would qualify for coverage in any state that participated in the Medicaid program. However the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius that states do not have to agree to this expansion in order to continue to receive previously established levels of Medicaid funding and many states have chosen to continue with pre-ACA funding levels and eligibility standards.Research suggests that Medicaid improves recipients' financial security. However the evidence is mixed regarding whether Medicaid actually improves health outcomes although 'the best existing evidence says [having health insurance] improves health'.Medicaid and Medicare are the two government sponsored medical insurance programs in the United States and are administered by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Baltimore Maryland. |
Minneapolis sound | The Minneapolis sound is a hybrid mixture of funk rock pop synthpop and new wave that was pioneered by Prince in the late 1970s. |
MTV | MTV original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by television personalities known as 'video jockeys ' or VJs.[3] In its early years MTV's main target demographic were young adults but today MTV's programming is primarily targeted at adolescents in addition to young adults. |
musical notation | Music notation or musical notation is any system used in sheet music in order to represent aurally perceived music through the use of written ancient or modern musical symbols. |
musical symbols | Modern musical symbols are the marks and symbols used in modern musical notations of Western musical scores styles and instruments in order to describe pitch rhythm tempo – and to some degree its articulation (e.g. a composition in its fundamentals). |
Muslim Mosque Inc. | Muslim Mosque Inc. (MMI) was an Islamic organization formed by Malcolm X after he left the Nation of Islam. MMI was a relatively small group that collapsed after its founder was assassinated. |
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