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Science, information technology and engineering
- Magnetic particle imagingMagnetic Particle ImagingMagnetic particle imaging is a tomographic imaging technique that measures the magnetic fields generated by magnetic particles in a tracer. Researchers at Philips Research have used the technique to achieve resolutions finer than one millimeter. Magnetic Particle Imaging has potential applications...
, an imaging technique still being developed - Magnetic-particle inspectionMagnetic-particle inspectionMagnetic particle inspection is a non-destructive testing process for detecting surface and slightly subsurface discontinuities in ferroelectric materials such as iron, nickel, cobalt, and some of their alloys. The process puts a magnetic field into the part. The piece can be magnetized by direct...
, a non-destructive method used to detect defects in ferrous materials - Mandatory periodic inspection, an important maintenance requirement for aircraft engine
- Manufacturing Process Instructions, quality control and production documentation file/book name including complete "how to" assembly instructions
- Maximum potential intensity, a meteorology term associated with tropical cyclones
- Merchant plug-inMerchant Plug-InA Merchant plug-in is a software module designed to facilitate 3D-Secure verifications to help prevent credit card fraud. The MPI identifies the account number and queries card issuer servers to determine if it is enrolled in a 3D-Secure program and returns the web site address of the issuer...
, software used to help prevent credit card fraud on e-commerce sites - Message Parsing InterpreterMessage Parsing InterpreterThe Message Parsing Interpreter is a Lisp-like programming language based on text replacement that is used on Fuzzball MUCK servers, starting with version 2.2fb5.00...
, a lisp-like language on TinyMUCK - Message Passing InterfaceMessage Passing InterfaceMessage Passing Interface is a standardized and portable message-passing system designed by a group of researchers from academia and industry to function on a wide variety of parallel computers...
, a computer communications protocol for parallel computation - Multiple precision integer, a programming language type supporting arbitrary precision
- Multi point injection, fuel injection system for automobile engines
- Multi Point InterfaceMulti Point InterfaceThe Multi-Point Interface – Siemens is a proprietary interface of the programmable logic controller SIMATIC S7 of the company Siemens....
, an automation programming protocol from Siemens - Multiphoton imaging, a technique used in nuclear medicine, chemical physics and molecular biology
- Miss Per Instruction, cache miss per instruction, used in CPU architecture.
Medicine
- Malaria Prevention Initiative, a Community Development Service Project of the National Youth Service Corps, Nigeria
- Mass Psychogenic IllnessMass Psychogenic IllnessMass psychogenic illness , also called mass sociogenic illness, is “the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are...
, the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group - Master Patient Index, an index referencing all patients
- Mental Performance Index, first ever mental scoring system in sport by Dr. John F. Murray
- Multidimensional Pain Inventory, a pain medicine assessment questionnaire
- Mannose phosphate isomeraseMannose phosphate isomeraseMannose-6 phosphate isomerase , alternately phosphomannose isomerase is an enzyme which facilitates the interconversion of fructose 6-phosphate and mannose-6-phosphate. Mannose-6-Phosphate Isomerase may also enable the synthesis of GDP-mannose in eukaryotic organisms...
Research institutes
- Max Planck Institute, scientific research institutes in Germany
- Metal Processing Institute
- Migration Policy InstituteMigration Policy InstituteThe Migration Policy Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank established in 2001 by Kathleen Newland and Demetrios G. Papademetriou. It is "an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think-tank dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide." The Migration policy Institute works...
, a human migration research institute based in Washington, D.C. - Mihajlo Pupin InstituteMihajlo Pupin InstituteMihajlo Pupin Institute is an institute based in Belgrade, Serbia notable for manufacturing numerous computer systems used in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - especially early CER and later TIM line of computers. It is named after Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin.The Institute is well known in...
, an ICT research institute based in Belgrade, Serbia - The Moving Picture InstituteMoving Picture InstituteThe Moving Picture Institute is an American non-profit organization and film production company founded in 2005 by human rights advocate Thor Halvorssen. Its current executive director is Rob Pfaltzgraff, and its creative council includes June Arunga and David Zucker.MPI produces and collaborates...
, an American non-profit organization and film production company
Other
- Manitoba Public InsuranceManitoba Public InsuranceManitoba Public Insurance is a non-profit Crown corporation based in Manitoba that has provided basic public auto insurance since 1971....
, a non-profit Crown corporation based in Manitoba - The FAA location identifier for Mariposa-Yosemite AirportMariposa-Yosemite AirportMariposa-Yosemite Airport is a public airport located four miles west of the central business district of Mariposa, in Mariposa County, California, United States. It is owned by the County of Mariposa.Although most U.S...
- Mean point of impact
- Meeting Professionals InternationalMeeting Professionals InternationalMeeting Professionals International is a professional community for the global meetings industry. Founded in 1972, the Dallas-based non-profit association has 68 chapters and clubs, over 24,000 members from 69 chapters in 20 countries around the world...
, a professional community for the global meetings industry - Military Police Investigations
- Motive Power, Inc., locomotive manufacturer based In Boise Idaho.
- Movimiento Pro-Independencia, the Puerto Rican Pro-independence Movement
- Multidimensional Poverty IndexMultidimensional Poverty IndexThe Multidimensional Poverty Index ' was developed in 2010 by Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative and the United Nations Development Programme.-History:...
, used by the UNDP