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inertia
inertia (in-er-shă) n. (in physiology) sluggishness or absence of activity in certain smooth muscles.
uterine i. inertia of the muscular wall of the uterus during labour, making the process excessively long. It may be present from the start of labour or it may develop because of exhaustion following strong contractions.
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Inertia Strengthens Efforts to Deliver on "Demand Delivery" Strategy.
Business Wire; 3/11/2008; 700+ words
; ...buyers has long been a strategic focus for Inertia Beverage Group. In addition to significant...platform anticipated later this spring, Inertia today announced two important changes...formerly Vice President of Operations at Inertia, has moved to the post of Vice President...
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Anti-Inertia-The Pro-change Tendency
Magazine article from: Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The inertia present in all bodies connotes resistance to change The concept of 'inertia' for the physical bodies is aptly reflected...it is acted upon by an external force". The inertia is inherent in all physical bodies which connotes...
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Inertia-Gravity Waves Emitted from Balanced Flow: Observations, Properties, and Consequences
Magazine article from: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...paper describes laboratory observations of inertia-gravity waves emitted from balanced...annulus experiment, the wavelength of the inertia-gravity waves is very close to the deformation...suggested by several dynamical theories, that inertia-gravity waves generated by balanced...
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Nature and inertia.(Essay)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...OF MOTION, also known as the principle of inertia, says "Every body perseveres in its state...forces impressed." (1) I will argue that inertia is an inherent principle and that inertia and Newton's First Law are in this way natural...
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Matching moments of inertia.
Magazine article from: Control Engineering; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...decelerate it back to rest. Moment of inertia is the rotational equivalent of mass...translational velocity, moment of inertia quantifies its resistance to changes in rotational speed. The moment of inertia of any component increases directly...
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Inertia properties of body segments from MRI data
Magazine article from: Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...equations of human motion is the moment of inertia of body segments. In addition to the moment of inertia, volume and center of gravity of segments...determined. Collectively these are known as inertia properties. Traditionally, investigators...
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Inertia Makes Wine Shipping Compliance Service Free To All Wineries.
Business Wire; 4/16/2008; 700+ words
; Free Access to Inertia's "REthink Compliance Tool" Aims...Consumer Wine Sales NAPA, Calif. -- Inertia Beverage Group announced today that it...house or compliance company. Access to Inertia's REthink Compliance tool comes without...
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Effect of fluid film inertia on stability of flexibly supported oil journal bearings: A non-linear transient analysis
Magazine article from: Tribology Transactions; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...hydrodynamic journal bearings the effect of fluid inertia is usually ignored in view of its negligible...to viscous force. However, the fluid inertia effect is to be taken in the analysis...to see if there is any effect of fluid inertia on flexibly supported journal bearings...
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Sources and consequences of competitive inertia: a study of the U.S. airline industry. (includes appendices)
Magazine article from: Administrative Science Quarterly; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Thompson, Victor A. The notion of inertia has received much attention from organizational...over the last two decades. At first, inertia was viewed as stagnation--a hyperstability...Hedberg, 1981). Later work recouched the inertia idea as resistance to fundamental reorientations...
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Experimental determination of moments of inertia for an off-road vehicle in a regular engineering laboratory
Magazine article from: International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Abstract Moments of inertia play a vital role in the motion of rigid...Accurate information for moments of inertia is, however, not easily obtained for...the determination of the moments of inertia, for an off-road vehicle. The point...
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moment of inertia and precession
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
moment of inertia and precession Moment of inertia is a fundamental property in rotational mechanics. It is...towards the centre of a sphere the smaller is its moment of inertia. In the 1930s K. E. Bullen recognized that a value for...
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Principle of (Neuronal) Inertia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
PRINCIPLE OF (NEURONAL) INERTIA The principle of inertia is a principle of the functioning of the nervous system...caused by an exterior source. Freud uses the notion of inertia in an ambiguous manner. In the physical sense, it is...
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inertia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
inertia , in physics, the resistance of a body...speed or change in direction of motion. Inertia is a property common to all matter. This...of motion, sometimes called the law of inertia. Newton's second law of motion states...
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moment of inertia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
moment of inertia (symbol I ) For a system of several bodies...For a single solid body, the moment of inertia is the sum of the mass of each particle...pointing towards the Earth. The moments of inertia of the Moon about these three axes are...
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thermal inertia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
thermal inertia A measure of the responsiveness of a material to variations in temperature...temperature. Materials with a high heat capacity display high thermal inertia, consequently such materials will show small changes in temperature through...
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