• Inquiry into the Monastic Life (work by Eustathius of Thessalonica)

    Eustathius of Thessalonica: …monasticism in his famous tract Inquiry into the Monastic Life. Noted for his promotion of sound principles of education and for the preservation of books as well as for his moral example, Eustathius is popularly regarded as a saint by the Greek Orthodox.

  • Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, An (work by Smith)

    The Wealth of Nations, work by the Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith, first published in 1776, that became a foundational study in the history of economics and the first formulation of a comprehensive system of political economy. Despite its renown as the first great work of political

  • Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth (work by Lauderdale)

    James Maitland, 8th earl of Lauderdale: …work in economics was his Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth (1804), in which, although basically adhering to the ideas of Adam Smith, he deviated from classical economists on a number of issues. In particular, he was a forerunner of Thomas Malthus in his belief in the…

  • Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation, An (work by Veblen)

    Thorstein Veblen: Later works and career: With An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation (1917), Veblen acquired an international following. He maintained that modern wars were caused mainly by the competitive demands of national business interests and that an enduring peace could be had only at…

  • Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, An (work by Hutcheson)

    aesthetics: The origins of modern aesthetics: In An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), Hutcheson explained: “The origin of our perceptions of beauty and harmony is justly called a ‘sense’ because it involves no intellectual element, no reflection on principles and causes.”

  • Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy (work by Denham)

    Sir James Steuart Denham, 4th Baronet: His chief work, Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy (1767), is probably the first systematic treatise on economics written in English. As an exponent of mercantilist economics, Denham accorded government a key role in the economic development of society, particularly in the management of population and employment.…

  • Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis (English history)

    Domesday Book: …yet another related document, the Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis (“The Inquisition of the County of Cambridge”), a very early draft of the Cambridgeshire material, the actual procedure followed by the commissioners is revealed. Their method was that of the sworn inquest, by which answers were given to a long list of…

  • inquisition (Roman Catholicism)

    inquisition, a judicial procedure and later an institution that was established by the papacy and, sometimes, by secular governments to combat heresy. Derived from the Latin verb inquiro (“inquire into”), the name was applied to commissions in the 13th century and subsequently to similar structures

  • Inquisition, Palace of the (building, Lisbon, Portugal)

    Lisbon: Disaster and reconstruction: The Palace of the Inquisition, utterly flattened, was not rebuilt when Pombal enlarged and realigned the Rossio, and on its site, 90 years later, the National Theatre of Dona Maria II was erected. Pombal banished the Jesuit order and transformed their establishment into St. Joseph’s Hospital…

  • inquisitorial procedure (law)

    inquisitorial procedure, in law, one of the two methods of exposing evidence in court (the other being the adversary procedure; q.v.). The inquisitorial system is typical of countries that base their legal systems on civil or Roman law. Under the inquisitorial procedure, the pretrial hearing for

  • INR (United States government)

    intelligence: The United States: Through its Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Department of State collects, analyzes, and disseminates large quantities of political, economic, and cultural information about countries in which the United States has accredited representation. The bureau, known in the intelligence community by the acronym INR, has the dual…

  • inrō (clothing accessory)

    inro, in Japanese dress, small portable case worn on the girdle. As indicated by the meaning of the word inrō (“vessel to hold seals”), these objects, probably originally imported from China, were used as containers for seals. About the 16th century they were adapted by the Japanese for holding

  • inro (clothing accessory)

    inro, in Japanese dress, small portable case worn on the girdle. As indicated by the meaning of the word inrō (“vessel to hold seals”), these objects, probably originally imported from China, were used as containers for seals. About the 16th century they were adapted by the Japanese for holding

  • INS (news agency)

    United Press International: …Press (UP; 1907) with the International News Service (INS). UPI and its precursor agencies pioneered in some key areas of news coverage, including the wired transmission of news photographs in 1925.

  • INS (United States agency)

    cybercrime: Counterfeiting and forgery: …had been missed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Finally, a 2002 report by the GAO reported that more than 90 percent of certain types of benefit claims were fraudulent and further stated that immigration fraud was “out of control.” Partially in response to these revelations, the INS was…

  • insane, general paralysis of the (pathology)

    paresis, psychosis caused by widespread destruction of brain tissue occurring in some cases of late syphilis. Mental changes include gradual deterioration of personality, impaired concentration and judgment, delusions, loss of memory, disorientation, and apathy or violent rages. Convulsions are n

  • insanity

    mental disorder, any illness with significant psychological or behavioral manifestations that is associated with either a painful or distressing symptom or an impairment in one or more important areas of functioning. (Read Sigmund Freud’s 1926 Britannica essay on psychoanalysis.) Mental disorders,

  • insanity (law)

    insanity, in criminal law, condition of mental disorder or mental defect that relieves persons of criminal responsibility for their conduct. Tests of insanity used in law are not intended to be scientific definitions of mental disorder; rather, they are expected to identify persons whose incapacity

  • Insanity of Empire, The (poetry by Bly)

    Robert Bly: …poems protesting the Iraq War, The Insanity of Empire (2004). Bly dubbed the poems in Turkish Pears in August (2007) “ramages,” referencing rameau, the French word for branch; they each contain 85 syllables and focus on a certain vowel sound. Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (2011) consists of…

  • Insarov (Soviet government official)

    Khristian Georgiyevich Rakovsky was a Bulgarian revolutionary who conducted subversive activities in Romania before joining the Russian Bolshevik Party and becoming a leading political figure in Soviet Russia. The grandson of the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Rakovski, he became involved in

  • INSAT (Indian satellite system)

    Indian Space Research Organisation: …several space systems, including the Indian National Satellite (INSAT) system for telecommunication, television broadcasting, meteorology, and disaster warning and the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites for resource monitoring and management. The first INSAT was launched in 1988, and the program expanded to include geosynchronous satellites called GSAT. The first IRS…

  • inscape (philosophy)

    Gerard Manley Hopkins: …thing, which he called “inscape.” To Hopkins, each sensuous impression had its own elusive “selfness”; each scene was to him a “sweet especial scene.”

  • INSCOM (United States Army)

    United States Army: Administrative structure: The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) performs intelligence and security functions above the corps level. The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) is an ASCC that controls the movement of freight, personal property, and passengers for the Department of Defense. Another duty…

  • inscribed stone (rock carving)

    pictography: …carved on rocks are called petroglyphs.) A pictograph that stands for an individual idea or meaning may be called an ideogram; if a pictograph stands for an individual word, it is called a logogram (q.v.). Pictographs are also used as memory aids. Various North American Indian tribes used pictographs both…

  • inscription (writing)

    history of medicine: The ancient Middle East and Egypt: …is preserved on which is inscribed the Code of Hammurabi, who was a Babylonian king of the 18th century bce. This code includes laws relating to the practice of medicine, and the penalties for failure were severe. For example, “If the doctor, in opening an abscess, shall kill the patient,…

  • Inscription House (cliff dwelling, Arizona, United States)

    Navajo National Monument: …Keet Seel (“Broken Pottery”), and Inscription House—are among the best-preserved and most-elaborate cliff dwellings known. The three sites, made a national monument in 1909, have a total area of 0.6 square mile (1.6 square km).

  • Inscription Maritime (French history)

    Brest: The former instituted the Inscription Maritime, still functioning, which inducted Breton fishermen (18–48 years old) into the Naval Reserve. In exchange for this obligation, the Inscription offers them family security for life. Brest has been the seat of the French Naval Academy since 1830.

  • Inscription Rock (national monument, New Mexico, United States)

    El Morro National Monument, rock formation and archaeological site in west-central New Mexico, U.S., 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Ramah. The monument was established in 1906 and has an area of 2 square miles (5 square km). El Morro (the “Headlands,” or “Bluff”), or Inscription Rock, is a soft

  • Inscriptiones Graecae (inscription collection)

    epigraphy: Greek and Latin inscriptions: …1902 took charge of the Inscriptiones Graecae (1873– ), which continued where the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum left off and included the Corpus Inscriptionum Atticaru, as well as all Greek inscriptions from European Greece (including Magna Graecia in Italy) and Cyprus. Those of Anatolia were left to the Tituli Asiae Minoris…

  • Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, Academy of (school, Paris, France)

    Paris: The Institute of France: …membership of “40 Immortals”; the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, founded in 1663 by Louis XIV’s finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert; the Academy of Sciences, founded in 1666, also by Colbert; the Academy of Fine Arts, two sections formed at different times by Mazarin and Colbert and joined in 1795;…

  • Inscriptions, Temple of the (temple, Palenque, Mexico)

    Palenque: …largest and best-preserved structures, the Temple of the Inscriptions, is noted for its hieroglyphic inscriptions. In 1952 a crypt was discovered under the temple, in which were found the jade-ornamented remains of what may have been a ruler-priest of the 7th century. The Temple of the Sun is noted for…

  • insect (arthropod class)

    insect, (class Insecta or Hexapoda), any member of the largest class of the phylum Arthropoda, which is itself the largest of the animal phyla. Insects have segmented bodies, jointed legs, and external skeletons (exoskeletons). Insects are distinguished from other arthropods by their body, which is

  • Insect (film by Švankmajer [2018])

    Jan Švankmajer: Hmyz (2018; Insect) is based on the play Ze ivota hmyzu (1921; The Insect Play) by Karel and Josef Čapek.

  • insect bite and sting

    insect bite and sting, break in the skin or puncture caused by an insect and complicated by introduction into the skin of the insect’s saliva, venom, or excretory products. Specific components of these substances are believed to give rise to an allergic reaction, which in turn produces skin lesions

  • insect brownies (insect)

    treehopper, (family Membracidae), any of approximately 3,200 species of insects (order Homoptera) that are easily recognized by their vertical face and grotesquely enlarged thorax, which may extend anteriorly over the head to form one or more spines and expands posteriorly over the body to form a

  • insect defensin (chemical compound)

    Jules Hoffmann: Referred to as “insect defensins,” the peptides were found to act selectively against gram-positive bacteria (bacteria having a thick cell wall). The finding suggested that small bacteria-killing peptides, which had been reported previously only in mammals, are more widespread than was thought and that they had been evolutionarily…

  • insect farming (agriculture)

    entomophagy: Farming insects: Insects in tropical countries are predominantly harvested from nature, although that approach cannot be continued sustainably as the demand for edible insects grows. In Thailand, 20,000 cricket farms produced an average of 7,500 tonnes (16.5 million pounds) of insects per year in 1996–2011…

  • Insect Physiology (work by Wigglesworth)

    Sir Vincent Wigglesworth: His Insect Physiology (1934) is often considered the foundation for this branch of entomology.

  • Insect Play, The (work by Čapek)

    Karel Čapek: …života hmyzu (with Josef, 1921; The Insect Play) satirizes human greed, complacency, and selfishness, emphasizing the relativity of human values and the need to come to terms with life. His faith in democracy made him support his friend Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and write a biography of him. The quest for…

  • insect repellent

    camphor: …cellulose nitrate and as an insect repellent, particularly for moths. The molecular formula is C10H16O.

  • Insect Societies, The (work by Wilson)

    E.O. Wilson: In 1971 he published The Insect Societies, his definitive work on ants and other social insects. The book provided a comprehensive picture of the ecology, population dynamics, and social behaviour of thousands of species.

  • insect wax (insect secretion)

    Chinese wax, white or yellowish-white crystalline wax resembling spermaceti but harder, more friable, and with a higher melting point. It is deposited on the branches of certain trees by the scale insect Ceroplastes ceriferus, common in China and India, or a related scale insect, Ericerus pe-la, of

  • Insecta (arthropod class)

    insect, (class Insecta or Hexapoda), any member of the largest class of the phylum Arthropoda, which is itself the largest of the animal phyla. Insects have segmented bodies, jointed legs, and external skeletons (exoskeletons). Insects are distinguished from other arthropods by their body, which is

  • insecticide (chemical substance)

    insecticide, any toxic substance that is used to kill insects. Such substances are used primarily to control pests that infest cultivated plants or to eliminate disease-carrying insects in specific areas. Insecticides can be classified in any of several ways, on the basis of their chemistry, their

  • Insectivora (mammal)

    insectivore, the common name applied to any of 450 or so species of mammals—comprising hedgehogs, golden moles, “true” moles, “true” shrews, the moonrat, gymnures, solenodons, and tenrecs—that subsist primarily on insects, other arthropods, and earthworms. Insectivora is obsolete as a taxonomic

  • insectivore (mammal)

    insectivore, the common name applied to any of 450 or so species of mammals—comprising hedgehogs, golden moles, “true” moles, “true” shrews, the moonrat, gymnures, solenodons, and tenrecs—that subsist primarily on insects, other arthropods, and earthworms. Insectivora is obsolete as a taxonomic

  • insectivorous plant (botany)

    carnivorous plant, any plant especially adapted for capturing and digesting insects and other animals by means of ingenious pitfalls and traps. Carnivory in plants has evolved independently about six times across several families and orders. The more than 600 known species of carnivorous plants

  • Insecure (American television series)

    Issa Rae: Insecure and marriage: …series, and the result was Insecure, which premiered in 2016. Starring Rae, the show follows the life of Rae’s self-named character and her best friend, Molly, as they navigate their professional and love lives as Black women in Los Angeles. Rae became the second Black woman—after Wanda Sykes and her…

  • insecure attachment (psychology)

    human behaviour: Attachment: …attached and those who are “insecurely” attached. Infants with a secure attachment to a parent are less afraid of challenge and unfamiliarity than are those with an insecure attachment.

  • insei (Japanese history)

    insei, in Japanese history, rule by retired emperors who had taken Buddhist vows and retired to cloisters. During the late 11th and 12th centuries, governmental control of Japan passed from the Fujiwara family, which had maintained power through marriages to the imperial family, to cloistered

  • Insel Verlag (German publishing company)

    typography: Mechanical composition: …and decorated title pages; the Insel Verlag in Germany, with millions of inexpensive yet well-printed and designed pocket books—these and their many colleagues brought within the reach of the ordinary book buyer mass-produced books whose appearance, if not their method of manufacture, had been profoundly altered and improved by the…

  • inselberg (geology)

    inselberg, (from German Insel, “island,” and Berg, “mountain”), isolated hill that stands above well-developed plains and appears not unlike an island rising from the sea. The early German explorers of southern Africa were impressed by such features, and they dubbed the domed or castlelike

  • insensible perspiration (physiology)

    perspiration: …evaporation from the epidermis (insensible perspiration) or as sweat, a form of cooling in which liquid actively secreted from sweat glands evaporates from the body surface. Sweat glands, although found in the majority of mammals, constitute the primary means of heat dissipation only in certain hoofed animals (orders Artiodactyla…

  • Inseparable (album by Cole)

    Natalie Cole: …beginning with her debut album, Inseparable (1975), which earned Cole two Grammy Awards, including one for best new artist. The following year Natalie was released, which went gold and received a Grammy for the hit single “Sophisticated Lady.” Her success continued with Unpredictable (1977) and Thankful (1977), both of which…

  • Inserções em circuitos ideológicos (work by Meireles)

    Cildo Meireles: …responded by producing his two-part Inserções em circuitos ideológicos (1970–75; Insertions into Ideological Circuits). For this project he stamped anonymous messages in English or Portuguese on Brazilian cruzeiros (currency) and Coca-Cola bottles and introduced them into circulation. His banknotes said such things as “Eleições Diretas” (“Direct Elections”), “Yankees Go Home,”…

  • insertion (anatomy)

    animal: Types of skeletons and their distribution: …the origin, the other the insertion. One muscle contracts and moves the skeletal element on which it is inserted, and an antagonistic muscle contracts and moves the skeletal element in the opposite direction. The biceps and triceps of the upper arm in humans are such a set of antagonistic muscles…

  • insertional mutagenesis (pathology)

    cancer: Retroviruses and the discovery of oncogenes: This mechanism, called insertional mutagenesis, can cause an oncogene to become overactive, or it can inactivate a tumor suppressor gene (see below tumor suppressor genes).

  • inshallah (Islam)

    inshallah, Arabic-language expression meaning literally “if God wills.” The widely used expression derives from the Qurʾān, where it frequently occurs in combination with statements about the future. In the 18th surah (chapter), Al-Kahf (The Cave), the Prophet Muhammad is exhorted in verses 23–24

  • inshāʾ (literature)

    Islamic arts: Development of literary prose: …years manuals of composition (inshāʾ) were written elaborating the technique of secretarial correspondence, and they grew into an accepted genre in Arabic as well as in Persian and Turkish literature. The devices thought indispensable for elegance in modern poetry were applied to prose. The products were mannered, full of…

  • inshāʾa Allāh (Islam)

    inshallah, Arabic-language expression meaning literally “if God wills.” The widely used expression derives from the Qurʾān, where it frequently occurs in combination with statements about the future. In the 18th surah (chapter), Al-Kahf (The Cave), the Prophet Muhammad is exhorted in verses 23–24

  • Inside Amy Schumer (American television series)

    Amy Schumer: …stand-up special, Comedy Central green-lighted Inside Amy Schumer, which premiered in 2013. The show made Schumer a household name, and in 2014 the program received a Peabody Award for showcasing Schumer’s “important brand of culturally aware humor.” She won a prime-time Emmy Award for Inside Amy Schumer in 2015.

  • inside caliper (measurement device)

    caliper: …and outside diameters of objects; inside calipers measure hole diameters and distances between surfaces. To check the dimensions of a machined part, the calipers are first adjusted to the required dimension on a ruler or a standard plug or hole gauge; accuracy in calipering depends in large part on the…

  • inside contracting (manufacturing)

    inside contracting, system of manufacturing intermediate between the putting-out system and full factory production. A factory proprietor supplies floor space and machinery to a contractor who then hires the workers needed to make a particular part on the proprietor’s premises. Inside contracting

  • Inside Daisy Clover (film by Mulligan [1965])

    Robert Mulligan: …1965 Mulligan made the musical Inside Daisy Clover, in which Wood played a woman who becomes a movie star and experiences the dark side of celebrity; it was perhaps most notable for Robert Redford’s acclaimed performance as a homosexual movie star. The film was a box-office disappointment, but the director…

  • inside game (baseball)

    baseball: League formation: The “inside game” dominated the next two decades, until hitter-friendly rules were instituted in 1920, ushering in the “live-ball era” (the period of inside-game dominance was also known as the “dead-ball era”). The inside game was a style of play that emphasized pitching, speed, and batsmanship.…

  • Inside Llewyn Davis (film by Joel and Ethan Coen [2013])

    F. Murray Abraham: …and Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He also appeared in Wes Anderson’s comedies The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and the stop-motion animated Isle of Dogs (2018), and he provided the voice of the villainous Grimmel in How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World (2019). His later films…

  • Inside Man (film by Lee [2006])

    A.R. Rahman: …the soundtrack of Spike Lee’s Inside Man (2006) and cowrote the score for Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). However, his true breakthrough to Western audiences came with Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches saga Slumdog Millionaire (2008). Rahman’s score, which captured the frenzied pace of life in Mumbai’s underclass, dominated the awards circuit…

  • Inside Out (film by Docter and del Carmen [2015])

    Disney Company: Continuing expansion: ABC, Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, and Lucasfilm: … (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010), Inside Out (2015), Coco (2017), Toy Story 4 (2019), and Soul (2020), won Academy Awards for best animated film. Disney’s own computer-animated films also proved popular. Among them were Tangled (2010), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Frozen (2013),

  • Inside Passage (sea route, North America)

    Inside Passage, natural sheltered sea route extending for more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Seattle (Washington, U.S.) northwest to Skagway (Alaska, U.S.). It comprises channels and straits between the mainland and islands (including Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, and the Alexander

  • Inside Story (work by Amis)

    Martin Amis: The “novelized autobiography” Inside Story (2020) centres on his relationships with the writers Philip Larkin, Saul Bellow, and Christopher Hitchens.

  • Inside the corporate bond market: A comprehensive overview

    When it comes to raising money to fund operations and/or strategic initiatives, companies have two basic choices (aside from just generating profits and plowing them back into the company): Here’s how the bond market works: A bond buyer hands over money in exchange for a contract that pays regular

  • Inside the Endless House (work by Kiesler)

    Frederick John Kiesler: Inside the Endless House (1966), written as a journal, is basically an account of Kiesler’s artistic life. His last important work was the Shrine of the Book (1959–65), which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel.

  • Inside the German Empire (work by Swope)

    Herbert Bayard Swope: …articles, collected in the book Inside the German Empire (1917), won him a Pulitzer Price in 1917.

  • Inside the Onion (poetry by Nemerov)

    Howard Nemerov: Western Approaches (1975), Sentences (1980), Inside the Onion (1984), and War Stories (1987). As a social critic, he produced powerfully satiric poems.

  • Inside the Third Reich (work by Speer)

    Albert Speer: His published works included Erinnerungen (1969; Inside the Third Reich, 1970), Spandauer Tagebücher (1975; Spandau: The Secret Diaries, 1976), and Der Sklavenstaat (1981; Infiltration, 1981).

  • Inside with Jen Psaki (American television program)

    Jen Psaki: Move to MSNBC: Her MSNBC program, Inside with Jen Psaki, which began in March 2023, airs twice a week. In February 2025, as part of a shake-up at MSNBC, it was announced that Psaki would host a new prime-time show Tuesday through Friday.

  • insider trading (business)

    insider trading, Illegal use of insider information for profit in financial trading. Since 1934, the Securities and Exchange Commission has prohibited trading while in possession of material nonpublic information. See also arbitrage, Michael R.

  • Insider Trading by Congress (ProCon debate)

    ARCHIVED TOPIC: This topic was archived on Apr. 18, 2012 and will no longer be updated. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act intended to prohibit members of Congress from buying or selling securities based on information gained on the job, but the bill died in House committee

  • Insider, The (film by Mann [1999])

    Russell Crowe: …tobacco-industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider (1999). Two years later he took the academy’s best actor award for his role as Maximus, a Roman general-turned-gladiator in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. His commanding performance, which blended scenes of yearning love with those of brutal physical violence, helped make the epic one…

  • insidious flower bug (insect)

    flower bug: The insidious flower bug, Orius insidiosus, is a common North American species that preys on the grape phylloxera and the chinch bug. In general, most of the species feed on aphids and aphid eggs. However, several species, such as the larger pirate bug (Lycotcoris campestris), suck…

  • InSight (Mars lander)

    Mars: Spacecraft exploration: InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport) lander touched down on Elysium Planitia in November 2018. InSight placed a seismometer on the surface that made the first detections of quakes on Mars and revealed the planet’s internal structure. It also found liquid…

  • insight (learning)

    insight, in learning theory, immediate and clear learning or understanding that takes place without overt trial-and-error testing. Insight occurs in human learning when people recognize relationships (or make novel associations between objects or actions) that can help them solve new problems. Much

  • Insight (work by Lonergan)

    Christianity: 20th-century discussions: …work of Bernard Lonergan in Insight (1957), which has stimulated considerable discussion. Lonergan argued that the act of understanding, or insight, is pivotal for the apprehension of reality, and that it implies in the long run that the universe is itself due to the fiat of an “unrestricted act of…

  • Insight (automobile)

    electric car: …vehicles, such as the Honda Insight (1999) and the Chevrolet Volt (2011). In 2008 Tesla released its first car, the completely electric luxury sports car Roadster, which could travel 394 km (245 miles) on a single charge. The success of the Roadster and other Tesla models led to other car…

  • insignis pine (tree)

    Monterey pine, (Pinus radiata), economically important conifer species (family Pinaceae), the most widely planted pine in the world. The tree is endemic to three locations along the central coast of California—including one population on the Monterey peninsula—and to Guadalupe Island and Cedros

  • Insila ka Shaka (novel by Dube)

    John Langalibalele Dube: …of Insila ka Shaka (1930; Jeqe, the Bodyservant of King Shaka), the first novel published by a Zulu in his native language.

  • Inslee, Jay (American politician)

    United States presidential election of 2020: Primaries: Jay Inslee, Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, former representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas, billionaire activist Tom Steyer, technology entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Sen.

  • Insolación (novel by Bazán)

    Emilia, condesa de Pardo Bazán: Insolación (“Sunstroke”) and Morriña (“The Blues”; both 1889) are excellent psychological studies. Her husband separated from her because her literary reputation scandalized him. Pardo Bazán was professor of Romance literature at the University of Madrid. In 1916 she was accorded the distinction—unusual for a woman…

  • insolation (radiant energy)

    atmosphere: Radiation: …traditionally divided into two types: insolation from the Sun and emittance from the surface and the atmosphere. Insolation is frequently referred to as shortwave radiation; it falls primarily within the ultraviolet and visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum and consists predominantly of wavelengths of 0.39 to 0.76 micrometres (0.00002 to…

  • insolubilia (logic)

    history of logic: The properties of terms and discussions of fallacies: …special treatises were devoted to insolubilia (semantic paradoxes such as the liar paradox, “This sentence is false”) and to a kind of disputation called “obligationes,” the exact purpose of which is still in question.

  • insoluble fibre (nutrition)

    therapeutics: General requirements: Dietary fibre can be insoluble (wheat bran) or soluble (oat bran and psyllium). Only the soluble fibres found in oats, fruit, and legumes lower blood cholesterol and benefit individuals with diabetes by delaying the absorption of glucose.

  • insolvency (finance)

    insolvency, financial condition in which the total liabilities of an individual or enterprise exceed the total assets so that the claims of creditors cannot be paid. There are essentially two approaches in determining insolvency: insolvency in the equity sense and under the balance-sheet approach.

  • insomnia (sleep disorder)

    insomnia, the inability to sleep adequately. Causes may include poor sleeping conditions, circulatory or brain disorders, a respiratory disorder known as apnea, stress, or other physical or mental disorders. Insomnia is not harmful if it is only occasional; the body is readily restored by a few

  • Insomnia (film by Nolan [2002])

    Christopher Nolan: Memento and Batman: Nolan followed up with Insomnia (2002), a thriller set in the Alaskan wilds, which starred Al Pacino as a compromised police detective.

  • Insomnis Cura Parentum (work by Moscherosch)

    Johann Michael Moscherosch: Another work is the Insomnis Cura Parentum (1643), a religious tract addressed to his family that reflects his strict Lutheran piety. Moscherosch was also a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (“Productive Society”), which was founded for the purification of the German language and the fostering of German literature.

  • Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être, L’ (novel by Kundera)

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being, novel by Milan Kundera, first published in 1984 in English and French translations. In 1985 the work was released in the original Czech, but it was banned in Czechoslovakia until 1989. Through the lives of four individuals, the novel explores the philosophical

  • inspection (quality control)

    aerospace industry: Inspection technologies: The most critical portion of maintenance work is inspection to detect cracks, flaws, debonds, delamination, corrosion, and other detrimental changes before they threaten the aircraft. Inspectors do much of their work visually, often using nothing more sophisticated than a flashlight and a mirror.…

  • inspection time (psychology)

    human intelligence: Cognitive theories: He argued that inspection time is a particularly useful means of measuring intelligence. It is thought that individual differences in intelligence may derive in part from differences in the rate of intake and processing of simple stimulus information. In the inspection-time task, a person looks at two vertical…

  • Inspection, Certificate of (United States maritime law)

    ship: International conventions: …are largely focused in a Certificate of Inspection that is required for commercial shipping under its jurisdiction. The owner of a vessel required to have this certificate must submit certain construction plans and other data for approval during the design and building stages. Inspectors from the Coast Guard may visit…

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