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instar: (from the article "arthropod") ...in the blood, is the direct initiator of molting. The actual timing of a molt, however, is regulated by other hormones and commonly by environmental factors. The interval between molts ...
instinct: involuntary response by an animal to an external stimulus. The concept has come to refer to complex unlearned behaviour that is recognizable and predictable in at least one sex of ... [11 Related Articles]
Instinet: (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...or other reasons outstripped the number of IPOs, leaving 2,775 issues on the market at the end of the year. Nasdaq also engaged in a merger of its own, buying ...
Institut Canadien: literary and scientific society that came into conflict with the Roman Catholic church in 19th-century French Canada. Founded in Montreal on Dec. 17, 1844, it soon became a forum for ... [1 Related Articles]
Institut Geographique National: one of the foremost centres of mapmaking and geographic research in France, specializing in aerial and ground surveys and maps; it is located in Paris. Its origins can be traced ... [1 Related Articles]
Institut National: (from the article "Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de, prince de Benevent") ...his name from the list of emigres, as he had left France on an official passport. His request was granted and he reached Paris in September 1796, immediately taking the ...
Institut National des Sciences et des Arts: (from the article "Legendre, Adrien-Marie") ...influential in the United States, undergoing numerous translations starting in 1819; one such translation went through some 33 editions. The French Academy of Sciences was reopened in 1795 as the ...
Institutes: (from the article "Dorotheus") ...Pandects (published in 533), and the second edition of the Codex Constitutionum (published in 534). With Tribonian (Tribonianus), head of the Digest's compilers, and Theophilus, he also prepared the Institutes ...
Institutes of the Christian Religion: John Calvin's masterpiece, a summary of biblical theology that became the normative statement of the Reformed faith. It was first published in 1536 and was revised and enlarged by Calvin ... [6 Related Articles]
institution: (from the article "international relations") On the other side of the structures-institutions debate have been the neoliberal institutionalists, who contend that institutions matter beyond simply reflecting or codifying the power structure of the international system. ...
Institutional Acts: (from the article "Brazil") ...infiltration, and purge corrupt and subversive elements; however, they also desired to retain a modified form of representative government. On April 9, 1964, they combined these goals in the First ...
institutional analysis: (from the article "marketing") ...traces the ways in which milk is collected at individual dairy farms, transported to and processed at local dairy cooperatives, and shipped to grocers and supermarkets for consumer purchase. Institutional ...
institutional celibacy: (from the article "celibacy") Institutional celibacy for women is also typically conceived of as an aid to spiritual advancement. Virginity and celibacy are regarded as assets in the attainment of spiritual goals. Most institutional ...
institutional economics: school of economics that flourished in the United States during the 1920s and '30s. It viewed the evolution of economic institutions as part of the broader process of cultural development. [2 Related Articles]
institutional interest: (from the article "interest group") Private and public institutional interests constitute another important category. These are not membership groups (hence, they are termed interests as opposed to interest groups) but private organizations such as businesses ...
Institutional Revolutionary Party: Mexican political party that dominated the country's political institutions from its founding in 1929 until the end of the 20th century. Virtually all important figures in Mexican national and local ... [11 Related Articles]
institutionalism: (from the article "organizational analysis") The second theoretical approach, known as institutionalism, focused on the organization as a whole. The American sociologist and legal scholar Philip Selznick, like Michels, emphasized the nonrational aspects of organizations. ...
Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renovaveis: (from the article "Brazil") On April 25 Minister of Environment Marina Silva announced significant structural and personnel changes that split the Brazilian Environmental Institute (IBAMA) into two entities, one responsible for conservation and the ...
Instituto di Correspondenza Archeologica: (from the article "classical scholarship") The foundation of the Instituto di Correspondenza Archeologica in Rome in 1829 provided an international centre for archaeological studies in Italy, which now progressed rapidly. Eduard Gerhard (1795-1867) founded the ...
Instituto Nacional Indigenista: (from the article "northern Mexican Indian") ...took place everywhere. Thousands of individual Indians followed the armies, many never to return. The aftermath of the revolution marked the beginning of governmental concern with the Indians. The Instituto ...
instruction of Lemuel: (from the article "biblical literature") ...wise" and its supplement. The "numerical sayings" (30:15-33) contain elements of riddle and show a special interest in the wonders of nature and the habits of animals. The "instruction of ...
instruction-level parallelism: (from the article "computer") There are two major kinds of instruction-level parallelism (ILP) in the CPU, both first used in early supercomputers. One is the pipeline, which allows the fetch-decode-execute cycle to have several ...
instructional media: (from the article "pedagogy") In general, instructional media are seen by educators as aids rather than substitutions for the teacher. A teacher spends a disproportionate amount of his time in routine chores-in collecting and ...
instrument flight rule: (from the article "traffic control") ...of flight control is called the visual flight rule, in which pilots fly with visual ground reference and a "see and be seen" flight rule. In congested airspace all pilots ...
instrument landing system: electronic guidance system designed to help airline pilots align their planes with the centre of a landing strip during final approach under conditions of poor visibility. The ground equipment of ... [4 Related Articles]
instrument meteorological conditions: (from the article "airport") ...painted runway centreline and large painted numbers indicating the magnetic bearing of the runway. Larger commercial airports, on the other hand, must also operate in the hours of darkness and ...
Instrument of Accession to the Indian Union: (from the article "Kashmir") ...of Kashmir; but, caught up in a train of events that included a revolution among his Muslim subjects along the western borders of the state and the intervention of Pashtun ...
instrumental case: (from the article "Armenian language") ...typologically to Greek, though the shapes of words were very, even surprisingly, different. The nominal and pronominal declension had seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, instrumental, and locative. However, ...
instrumental chemical analysis: (from the article "analysis") Most chemical analysis falls into the second category, which is instrumental analysis. It involves the use of an instrument, other than a balance, to perform the analysis. A wide assortment ...
instrumental music: (from the article "chamber music") This article discusses instrumental ensemble music written for groups of two to eight players with one player to a part, and in which stringed instruments and piano (or harpsichord) supply ...
instrumental reason: (from the article "Levinas, Emmanuel") ...totality in which what is different and "other" is necessarily reduced to sameness and identity. This desire for totality, according to Levinas, is a basic manifestation of "instrumental" reason-the use ...
instrumental value: (from the article "axiology") A distinction is commonly made between instrumental and intrinsic value-between what is good as a means and what is good as an end. John Dewey, in Human Nature and Conduct ...
instrumentalism: a philosophy advanced by the American philosopher John Dewey holding that what is most important in a thing or idea is its value as an instrument of action and that ... [4 Related Articles]
instrumentals: type of popular music performed without a vocalist, in any of several genres but especially prevalent in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Serving primarily as ...
instrumentation: in music, arrangement or composition for instruments. Most authorities make little distinction between the words instrumentation and orchestration. Both deal with musical instruments and their capabilities of producing various timbres ... [7 Related Articles]
instrumentation: in technology, the development and use of precise measuring equipment. Although the sensory organs of the human body can be extremely sensitive and responsive, modern science and technology rely on ... [7 Related Articles]
Instruments Laboratory: (from the article "Draper, Charles Stark") ...in physics and soon demonstrated his precocity as both a researcher and entrepreneur. As a graduate student he became a national expert on aeronautical and meteorological research instruments. The Instruments ...
Insubres: the most powerful Celtic people of Gallia Cisalpina (Cisalpine Gaul), in northern Italy. Despite their defeat at Clastidium (modern Casteggio) by Roman forces in 222 BC, they continued to be ... [1 Related Articles]
insula: (Latin: "island"), in architecture, block of grouped but separate buildings or a single structure in ancient Rome and Ostia. The insulae were largely tenements providing economically practical housing where land ... [2 Related Articles]
Insular: (from the article "Romance languages") There are five main Portuguese dialect groups, all mutually intelligible: (1) Northern, or Galician, (2) Central, or Beira, (3) Southern (Estremenho, including Lisbon, Alentejo, and Algarve), (4) Insular, including the ...
insular lobe: (from the article "nervous system, human") Not visible from the surface of the cerebrum is the insular, or central, lobe, an invaginated triangular area on the medial surface of the lateral sulcus; it can be seen ...
Insular script: in calligraphy, any of several hands that developed in the British Isles after the Roman occupation of England and before the Norman Conquest. The foremost achievement of the combined Irish ... [3 Related Articles]
insulating board: (from the article "printed circuit") There are many types of printed circuits, including multilayered and double-sided versions, and many corresponding techniques of manufacture. In a basic implementation, an insulating board (e.g., epoxy mixed with fiberglass ...
insulator: any of various substances that block or retard the flow of electrical or thermal currents. [26 Related Articles]
insulin: hormone that regulates the level of sugar (glucose) in the blood and is produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Insulin is secreted when ... [35 Related Articles]
insulin shock therapy: (from the article "Sakel, Manfred J.") Polish neurophysiologist and psychiatrist who introduced insulin-shock therapy for schizophrenia.method of shock therapyshock therapy...notion (later disproved) that epileptic convulsions and ...
insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: (from the article "immune system disorder") Type I diabetes mellitus is the autoimmune form of diabetes and often arises in childhood. It is caused by the destruction of cells of the pancreatic tissue called the islets ...
insulin-like growth factor: (from the article "endocrine system, human") When investigators began studying the effects of biological substances on cells and tissues outside of the body, they discovered a group of peptide hormones that were distinct from any previously ...
insulin-like growth factor 1: (from the article "Life Sciences") ...related to size on a section of chromosome 15 in the Portuguese water dog, a recognized domestic breed with a wide range in size. They discovered that an allele of ...
insulin-like growth factor 2: (from the article "endocrine system, human") There are two insulin-like growth factors, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF-2). The name reflects the fact that they have insulin-like actions in some tissues, ...
Insull, Samuel: British-born American public utilities magnate whose vast Midwest holding company empire collapsed in the 1930s.
insurable interest: (from the article "insurance") ...applies to the loss. For example, if two policies with equal limits are taken out, each contributes one-half of any insured loss. Loss payments also are limited to the amount ...
insurable risk: (from the article "insurance") From the standpoint of the insurer, an insurable risk must meet the following requirements:
insurance: a system under which the insurer, for a consideration usually agreed upon in advance, promises to reimburse the insured or to render services to the insured in the event that ... [18 Related Articles]
insurance cover: (from the article "insurance") Homeowner's insurance covers individual, or nonbusiness, property. Introduced in 1958, it gradually replaced the older method of insuring individual property under the "standard fire policy."
insurance policy: (from the article "insurance") ...competitive conditions in the market. Political risks such as war or currency debasement are usually not insurable by private parties but may be insurable by governmental institutions. Very often contracts ...
insuring clause: (from the article "insurance") Practically all liability contracts falling in these four categories have some common elements. One is the insuring clause, in which the insurer agrees to pay on behalf of the insured ...
insurrection: (from the article "Chad") ...low standard of living in the country, the government had used much of the $25 million signing bonus it got before the completion of the pipeline to Cameroon to purchase ...
insurrectionary deed: (from the article "anarchism") ...in the history of anarchism was the emergence of the doctrine of "propaganda of the deed." In 1876 Errico Malatesta expressed the belief held by Italian anarchists that "the insurrectionary ...
insurrectionist: (from the article "Iraq") Acts of violence by Sunni insurgents, al-Qaeda partisans, and Shi'ite militias against the U.S. and Iraqi government forces continued throughout the year. The most spectacular act of violence since the ...
inswinger: (from the article "cricket") The primary purpose of the spin is to bring the ball up from the pitch at an angle that is difficult for the batsman to anticipate. The two swerves (curves) ...
intaglio: in visual arts, one of the four major classes of printmaking techniques, distinguished from the other three methods (relief printing, stenciling, and lithography) by the fact that the ink forming ... [5 Related Articles]
intaglio: in sculpture, engraving or incised figure in stone or other hard material such that all lines appear below the surface; it is thus the opposite of relief sculpture and is ... [8 Related Articles]
intake: (from the article "coal mining") ...mined. Air circulation is achieved by creating a pressure difference between the mine workings and the surface through the use of fans. Fresh air is conducted through a set of ...
intake manifold: (from the article "gasoline engine") ...Gasoline is maintained in the float chamber by the float-actuated valve at a level slightly below the outlet of the jet. Air flows downward through the throat, past the throttle ...
intake stroke: (from the article "diesel engine") ...It operates on either a two-stroke or four-stroke cycle (see figure); however, unlike the spark-ignition gasoline engine, the diesel engine induces only air into the combustion chamber on its intake ...
intake valve: (from the article "diesel engine") As noted earlier, diesel engines are designed to operate on either the two- or four-stroke cycle. In the typical four-stroke-cycle engine, the intake and exhaust valves and the fuel-injection nozzle ...
intangible asset: (from the article "corporate finance") ...Current assets include cash, inventory, and accounts receivable. Examples of fixed assets are buildings, real estate, and machinery. In addition, the resource allocation function is concerned with intangible assets such ...
intangible property: (from the article "property") ...be the object of special rules, particularly as to how they are to be acquired. Because Western law gives great emphasis to the concept of possession, it has had considerable ...
intarsia: (from the article "trompe l'oeil") In Italy in the 15th century an inlay work known as intarsia was used on choir stalls and in sacristies, frequently as trompe l'oeil views of cupboards with different articles ...
Intarsia glass: (from the article "Steuben Glass Company") ...continued to be directed by Carder until 1933. The company became known for fancy coloured glassware, particularly a type with an iridescent, translucent finish called Aurene. Another specialty was Intarsia ...
Intef II: third king of the 11th dynasty (2081-1938 BCE) in ancient Egypt, who during his long reign successfully warred against the allies of the Heracleopolitans-rulers of Middle and Lower Egypt composing ...
integer: (from the article "arithmetic function") any mathematical function defined for integers (&elipsis;, −3, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, 3, &elipsis;) and dependent upon those properties of the integer itself as a number, in contrast to functions that ...
integral: in mathematics, either a numerical value equal to the area under the graph of a function for some interval (definite integral) or a new function the derivative of which is ... [4 Related Articles]
integral discriminator: (from the article "radiation measurement") ...to indicate the rate at which these pulses are occurring. Some preselection may be applied to the pulses before they are recorded. A common method is to employ an electronic ...
integral domain: (from the article "algebra, modern") ...ring. When axioms 1-9 hold and there are no proper divisors of zero (i.e., whenever ab = 0 either a = 0 or b = 0), a set is called an integral domain. For example, the ...
integral equation: in mathematics, equation in which the unknown function to be found lies within an integral sign. An example of an integral equation is [4 Related Articles]
integral nationalism: (from the article "fascism") ...the people's community would be permanently prepared for war and would accept the discipline that this required. The Italian, French, and Spanish versions of this doctrine, known as "integral nationalism," ...
integral transform: mathematical operator that produces a new function f(y) by integrating the product of an existing function F(x) and a so-called kernel function K(x, y) between suitable limits. The process, which ...
Integralist: (from the article "Portuguese literature") ...enduring poets of the Aestheticism and erotic Decadentism that marked the literature of the turn of the century was Antonio Botto. Led by the historian and poet Antonio Sardinha, the ...
Integralist: (from the article "Modernism") ...Umberto Benigni organized, through personal contacts with theologians, a nonofficial group of censors who would report to him those thought to be teaching condemned doctrine. This group, known as Integralists ...
integraph: mathematical instrument for plotting the integral of a graphically defined function. Two such instruments were invented independently about 1880 by the British physicist Sir Charles Vernon Boys and the Lithuanian ...
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System: (from the article "Federal Bureau of Investigation") ...laboratory, now based in Quantico, Virginia, to carry out forensic analyses of handwriting, fingerprints, firearms, and other sources of information relevant to criminal investigations. (The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, ...
integrated circuit: an assembly of electronic components, fabricated as a single unit, in which miniaturized active devices (e.g., transistors and diodes) and passive devices (e.g., capacitors and resistors) and their interconnections are ... [27 Related Articles]
integrated control: (from the article "insecticide") Because of the problems associated with the heavy use of some chemical insecticides, current insect-control practice combines their use with biological methods in an approach called integrated control. In this ...
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle: (from the article "coal utilization") Another advanced method of utilizing coal, known as the Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, involves gasifying the coal (described below) and burning the gas to produce hot products of combustion at ...
integrated machinery plant: (from the article "ship") ...generators. The engine-generators run at a constant 450 revolutions per minute, feeding 60-hertz current to a single bus. All power needs for the ship come from this bus, giving rise ...
integrated magnitude: (from the article "star cluster") Integrated magnitudes (measurements of the total brightness of the cluster), cluster diameters, and the mean magnitude of the 25 brightest stars made possible the first distance determinations on the basis ...
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program: (from the article "Earth Sciences") In 2006 an international team of scientists in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program announced that they had reached a milestone in the scientific drilling of the oceanic crust. Nearly four ...
integrated product and process development: (from the article "aerospace industry") ...ordinarily would be done sequentially, to be carried out together. A step beyond CE, incorporating production, quality assurance, procurement, and marketing within the teams, is a method called integrated product ...
integration: in mathematics, technique of finding a function g(x) the derivative of which, Dg(x), is equal to a given function f(x). This is indicated by the integral sign "∫," as in ... [13 Related Articles]
integration: (from the article "chemical compound") ...area of space enclosed by the absorption peaks. The area under the peaks is directly proportional to the number of hydrogen atoms contributing to the peak. NMR spectrometers have a ...
integration by parts: (from the article "gamma function") Using techniques of integration, it can be shown that Gamma(1) = 1. Similarly, using a technique from calculus known as integration by parts, it can be proved that the gamma function has ...
integration host factor: (from the article "nucleic acid") ...and resume its normal life cycle of growth and spread into other bacteria. This site-specific recombination process requires only lambda-integrase and one host DNA binding protein called the integration host ...
integration mode: (from the article "radiation measurement") There are circumstances in which the current from the detector is simply integrated during the time of exposure, and the accumulated total charge is measured at its completion. This integration ...
integration principle: (from the article "environmental law") Environmental protection requires that due consideration be given to the potential consequences of environmentally fateful decisions. Various jurisdictions (e.g., the United States and the EU) and business organizations (e.g., the ...
Integration, Cooperation, and Development, Treaty for: (from the article "Mercosur") ...of Iguacu, which created a bilateral commission to promote the integration of their economies; by the following year the two countries had negotiated several commercial agreements. The 1988 Treaty for ...
Integration, Society for: (from the article "burakumin") ...Kaiho Domei (Buraku Liberation League). Its leftist orientation, however, alienated more conservative burakumin leaders. Thus in 1960 a rival national organization, Dowakai (Society for Integration), was founded; it came to ...
integration, theory of: (from the article "Liouville, Joseph") ...During the early 1830s he created the first comprehensive theory of fractional calculus, the theory that generalizes the meaning of differential and integral operators. This was followed by his theory ...
integrative bargaining: (from the article "industrial relations") ...a win-lose engagement. What one party "wins" through hard bargaining comes at the expense of the interests or goals of the "losing" party. In contrast, with an integrative bargaining approach ...
integrator: instrument for performing the mathematical operation of integration, important for the solution of differential and integral equations and the generation of many mathematical functions.