Category: M

A theory of motivation that suggests that work-related factors can be lumped into two categories: (a) maintenance factors that will not produce motivation but can prevent it and (b) factors that can encourage motivation.  

A measure of the amount of exercise required to maintain a given level of conditioning.  

An attempt to preserve and develop a student’s first language while developing competence in a second language.  

Tobacco smoke that is inhaled by the smoker. Smoke that is inhaled through a cigarette and then exhaled by a cigarette smoker. Tobacco smoke that a smoker inhales into the lungs and then exhales into the air.  

An educational process or organization that integrates handicapped pupils in the school’s general curriculum and other activities. An approach to education that involves integrating children with handicaps (see handicapped) as much as possible into a school or organization’s main classes and activities, the aim being to help the child to develop to the fullest extent…

A mode of drug administration in which the drug is injected directly into a vein. A colloquial term for injecting an illicit drug directly into a vein.  

A drug’s primary effect. It may be positive or negative, depending upon the dose, its potency, and the purpose for which it is taken.  

Originating in Polynesian culture, a Mahu was a male transvestite who served as a sexual outlet for some of the heterosexual males in the village.  

Schools, often offering a specialized curriculum that attract students from throughout the district. Admission is frequently done on a lottery basis. A school that attracts students from many different neighborhoods or backgrounds because of special interests, needs, or approaches, usually found in a heavily populated area; a type of alternative school or school of choice.…

A nonscientific synonym for mental illness.