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- carrier designed to transport materials within a factory area with maximum flexibility in making moves. Most industrial trucks permit mechanized pickup and deposit of the loads, eliminating manual work in lifting as well as transporting. Depending on their means of ...
- industrial union
- trade union that combines all workers, both skilled and unskilled, who are employed in a particular industry. At the heart of industrial unionism is the slogan "one shop, one union." [3 Related Articles]
- Industrial Workers of the World
- labour organization founded in Chicago in 1905 by representatives of 43 groups. The IWW opposed the American Federation of Labor's acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions. [10 Related Articles]
- industrial-organizational psychology
- application of concepts and methods from several subspecialties of the discipline (such as learning, motivation, and social psychology) to business and institutional settings. [5 Related Articles]
- Industriales
- (from the article "Baseball") In Cuba, Industriales overcame Santiago four games to two to win the 45th Serie Nacional (National Series) championship. Industriales had defeated Isla de la Juventud three games to two in the quarterfinals and Sancti Spiritus four games to three in ...
- industrialization
- the process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant. [62 Related Articles]
- Industries, Confederation of
- (from the article "Italy") ...1984 that imposed a ceiling on payments, the scala mobile was gradually dismantled (and abolished in 1992) under pressure from the employers' association, the Confederation of Industries (Confindustria). This was reflected in a sharp fall in inflation ...
- industry
- a group of productive enterprises or organizations that produce or supply goods, services, or sources of income. In economics, industries are customarily classified as primary, secondary, and tertiary; secondary industries are further classified as heavy and light. [28 Related Articles]
- Indy Racing League
- (from the article "Automobile Racing") ...a caution flag because of rain. Scott Dixon of New Zealand finished second, and Brazil's Helio Castroneves (the pole winner at 225.817 mph) was third. All three drove Dallara-Hondas. The 17-venue Indy Racing League (IRL) IndyCar Series, raced mostly on ...
- Indy, Vincent d'
- French composer and teacher, remarkable for his attempted, and partially successful, reform of French symphonic and dramatic music along lines indicated by Cesar Franck. [2 Related Articles]
- Ine
- also spelled Ini Anglo-Saxon king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, from 688 to 726. One of the most powerful West Saxon rulers before Alfred the Great, Ine was the first West Saxon king to issue a code of laws, ... [2 Related Articles]
- inegalite
- (from the article "musical performance") ...ones, also served contemporary preference for subtlety and unevenness of rhythm. As the century progressed and national styles drew further apart, there evolved a specifically French tradition of inegalite: performing certain evenly written notes unequally, with alternately longer and shorter ...
- inelastic collision
- (from the article "plasma") ...of collision may occur: elastic and inelastic. In an elastic collision, the total kinetic energy of all the particles participating in the collision is the same before and after the event. In an inelastic collision, a fraction of the kinetic ...
- inelastic scattering
- (from the article "Brockhouse, Bertram N.") ...of neutrons is aimed at a target material, and the resultant scattering of the neutrons yields information about that material's atomic structure. Brockhouse developed a variant technique known as inelastic neutron scattering, in which the relative energies of the scattered ...
- inequality
- (from the article "transitive law") ...then A bears it to C. In arithmetic, the property of equality is transitive, for if A = B and B = C, then A = C. Likewise is the property inequality if the two inequalities have the same sense: ...
- inert indicator electrode
- (from the article "analysis") Inert-indicator-electrode potentiometry utilizes oxidationreduction reactions. The potential of a solution that contains an oxidation-reduction couple (e.g., Fe3+ and Fe2+) is dependent on the identity of the couple and on the activities of the oxidized and reduced chemical species in the ...
- inertia
- property of a body by virtue of which it opposes any agency that attempts to put it in motion or, if it is moving, to change the magnitude or direction of its velocity. Inertia is a passive property and does ... [13 Related Articles]
- inertia, law of
- (from the article "celestial mechanics") ...magnitude is included in the definition.) Newton then defined force (also a vector quantity) in terms of its effect on moving objects and in the process formulated his three laws of motion: (1) The momentum of an object is constant ...
- inertia, moment of
- in physics, quantitative measure of the rotational inertia of a body-i.e., the opposition that the body exhibits to having its speed of rotation about an axis altered by the application of a torque (turning force). The axis may be internal ... [6 Related Articles]
- inertial bone conduction
- (from the article "ear, human") ...skull. The result is that the oval window moves with respect to the footplate of the stapes, which gives the same effect as if the stapes itself were vibrating. This form of transmission is known as inertial bone conduction. In ...
- inertial confinement fusion
- (from the article "fusion reactor") In an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) reactor, a tiny solid pellet of fuel-such as deuterium-tritium (D-T)-would be compressed to tremendous density and temperature so that fusion power is produced in the few nanoseconds before the pellet blows apart. The compression ...
- inertial force
- any force invoked by an observer to maintain the validity of Isaac Newton's second law of motion in a reference frame that is rotating or otherwise accelerating at a constant rate. For specific inertial forces, see centrifugal force; Coriolis force; ... [4 Related Articles]
- inertial frame of reference
- (from the article "reference frame") Strictly speaking, Newton's laws of motion are valid only in a coordinate system at rest with respect to the "fixed" stars. Such a system is known as a Newtonian, or inertial reference, frame. The laws are also valid in any ...
- inertial guidance system
- electronic system that continuously monitors the position, velocity, and acceleration of a vehicle, usually a submarine, missile, or airplane, and thus provides navigational data or control without need for communicating with a base station. [9 Related Articles]
- inertial mass
- (from the article "gravitation") Inertial mass is a mass parameter giving the inertial resistance to acceleration of the body when responding to all types of force. Gravitational mass is determined by the strength of the gravitational force experienced by the body when in the ...
- Inertial Upper Stage
- (from the article "Boeing Company") ...astronauts to the Moon and the battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicles used in the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions. In 1976 it entered the upper-stage-rocket arena when it was selected to develop the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), a two-stage payload ...
- inertinite
- (from the article "Petrologic components in coal and their groupings") The inertinite group makes up 5 to 40 percent of most coals. Their reflectance values are usually the highest in a given sample. The most common inertinite maceral is fusinite, which has a charcoal-like appearance with obvious cell texture. The ...
- inertness
- (from the article "coordination compound") In considering the mechanisms of substitution (exchange) reactions, Canadian-born American chemist Henry Taube distinguished between complexes that are labile (reacting completely in about one minute in 0.1 M solution at room temperature [25 °C, or 77 °F]) and those that ...
- inescutcheon
- (from the article "heraldry") ...is an orle gemel, which suggests twins, and it may indeed be described as an orle divided into two narrow orles set closely together. The small shield used as a charge is an inescutcheon and often is used to bear ...
- inex period
- (from the article "eclipse") Two consecutive saros series are separated by the inex, a period of 29 years minus 20 days-that is, 358 synodic months-after which time the new moon has come from one node to the opposite node. A group of inex periods ...
- inexistence
- (from the article "mind, philosophy of") One of the characteristics of intentionality is what the Scholastics called "inexistence": a man may be intentionally related to an object that does not exist or to an event that does not occur. Thus, what a man looks for may ...
- infallibility decree
- (from the article "India") ...of war to Islam and by encouraging Hindus as his principal confidants and policy makers. To legitimize his nonsectarian policies, he issued in 1579 a public edict (mahzar) declaring his right to be the supreme arbiter in ...
- infamy
- public disgrace or loss of reputation, particularly as a consequence of criminal conviction. In early common law, conviction for an infamous crime resulted in disqualification to testify as a witness. The criterion for considering a crime infamous was whether or ... [1 Related Articles]
- infancy
- among humans, the period of life between birth and the acquisition of language approximately one to two years later. [18 Related Articles]
- infancy narrative
- (from the article "biblical literature") The discourses are preceded by etiological (sources or origins) material of chapters 1-2, in which the birth narrative relates Jesus' descent (by adoption according to the will of God) through Joseph into the Davidic royal line. Though a virgin birth ...
- infant betrothal
- (from the article "Australian Aborigine") Infant betrothal was common. If arranged before the birth of one or both of the prospective spouses, it was a tentative arrangement subject to later ratification, mainly through continued gift giving to the girl's parents. In some Aboriginal societies parents ...
- infant botulism
- (from the article "botulism") ...within a day, although people less severely poisoned may live for a week. Few who reach the stage of severe paralysis survive, although a person who survives the paralysis will recover completely. Infant botulism, which may result from feeding infants ...
- Infant Custody Bill
- (from the article "Norton, Caroline") ...against the prime minister, Lord Melbourne, for seducing his wife. Norton then refused his wife access to their children, and her outcries against this injustice were instrumental in introducing the Infant Custody Bill, which was finally carried in 1839. In ...
- infant industry
- (from the article "international trade") Advocates of protection often argue that new and growing industries, particularly in less-developed countries, need to be shielded from foreign competition. They contend that costs decline with growth and that some industries must reach a minimum size before they are ...
- infant mortality rate
- (from the article "Angola") ...the population growth rate remained high during this time and later increased after the end of the war. Angola's birth rate is among the highest in the world; however, so too is the country's infant mortality rate. Life expectancy is ...
- infante
- the title borne from the 13th century by the children of the Spanish and Portuguese monarchs. The title infante was borne by the sons of the sovereign, and the title infanta was given to the daughters and to the wife ...
- infanticide
- the killing of the newborn. It has often been interpreted as a primitive method of birth control and a means of ridding a group of its weak and deformed children; but most societies actively desire children and put them to ... [5 Related Articles]
- infantile amnesia
- (from the article "memory") ...is associated with the earliest stages of human development: nearly all people lack the ability to retain memories of experiences they had before they were three years old. Known as infantile amnesia, this universal phenomenon implies that the brain systems ...
- infantile neurosis
- (from the article "Oedipus complex") ...and if parental attitudes were neither excessively prohibitive nor excessively stimulating, the stage is passed through harmoniously. In the presence of trauma, however, there occurs an "infantile neurosis" that is an important forerunner of similar reactions during the child's adult ...
- infantile Refsum disease
- (from the article "metabolic disease") ...of peroxisomal functions, affecting the functions of numerous enzymes. Such disorders include Zellweger (cerebrohepatorenal) syndrome, neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy, hyperpipecolic acidemia, and infantile Refsum disease. Patients may have severely decreased muscle tone (hypotonia), cerebral malformations, seizures, and an enlarged liver in infancy. ...
- infantry
- troops who fight on foot, even though transported to the battlefield by horses, ships, aircraft, tanks and other motorized vehicles, skis, or other means. The term applies equally to troops armed with such hand weapons as the spear and sword ... [9 Related Articles]
- infarction
- death of tissue resulting from a failure of blood supply, commonly due to obstruction of a blood vessel by a blood clot or narrowing of the blood-vessel channel. The dead tissue is called an infarct. Myocardial infarction (heart attack)-death of ... [1 Related Articles]
- infauna
- (from the article "benthos") the assemblage of organisms inhabiting the seafloor. Benthic epifauna live upon the seafloor or upon bottom objects; the so-called infauna live within the sediments of the seafloor. By far the best-studied benthos are the macrobenthos, those forms larger than 1 ...
- infected abortion
- (from the article "pregnancy") ...or longer, the condition is referred to as a missed abortion. Women who lose three or more consecutive pregnancies of less than 20 weeks' duration are said to suffer from recurrent abortion. An infected abortion is an abortion associated with ...
- infection
- (from the article "bacteria") ...of bacteria that are adapted to life in those habitats. These organisms are harmless under normal conditions and become dangerous only if they somehow pass across the barriers of the body and cause infection. Some bacteria are adept at invasion ...
- infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis
- an inflammation of the conjunctiva or the cornea of the eye in cattle as the result of an infection; early viral involvement is suspected. Moraxella bovis is usually found in discharge from the affected eye; other bacteria, such as Staphylococcus ... [1 Related Articles]
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