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    The carabine à tige (sometimes called a stem rifle or a pillar breech rifle) was a type of black-powder, muzzle-loading rifle invented by Louis-Etienne...
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    engine, its low inertia and accurate speed control made it highly suitable for mill work. The constant shaft speed it delivered, even under a varying load...
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    réformes" -". 7 November 2016. "Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn : Est-on prêt à faire face à une nouvelle crise de la zone euro ? - Melchior". www.melchior.fr. "Quelques...
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    related to the moment of inertia tensor for multivariate distributions. The moment of inertia of a cloud of n points with a covariance matrix of Σ {\displaystyle...
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    It is felt that the low polar inertia is crucial in selection of this layout. The mid-engined layout also uses up central space, making it generally only...
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    permanent sunshine is unable to warm these regions, due to the thermal inertia of the enormous glacial mass, the persistent snow cover with its high albedo...
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    worth less than the sum of its parts. Culture clashes can destroy value. Inertia prevents the development of innovation. Lack of focus, and inability to...
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    link the European Union's policy to the mad cow crisis, in particular its inertia. Throughout the crisis, it lagged behind the measures taken by the UK and...
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    upper boundaries of the search-space respectively. The w parameter is the inertia weight. The parameters φp and φg are often called cognitive coefficient...
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  • "the central conflict isn't really left versus right .... Instead, [Megalopolis] pits [] Catilina ... against various forces representing inertia and sterility:...
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    heaviest component is near the center of the car, lowering its moment of inertia). Many early successful (and mostly French) mass-produced front-wheel drive...
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    ruptures and discontinuities created history. They preferred to stress inertia and the longue durée. Special attention was paid to geography, climate...
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    their doorway and a small aperture provided in the roof cone for ventilation, this coupled with the extremely high thermal inertia makes them warmer in...
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    a point. If this was the essence of the statement, Baez noted, it cannot be very useful in "explaining the origin of inertia". Urs Schreiber, then a postdoctoral...
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    Zero Carbon Is a Highly Unlikely Outcome" (PDF). Unger, Benedikt; Nippa, Michael (2024-01-26). "Determinants of firms' initiative and inertia in pursuing...
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    seemingly from sheer inertia.[citation needed] As a field artillery piece, the British 25-pdr was designed to be towed only in conjunction with a trailer. The...
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    to as 'metric ton' in some English-speaking countries." Physics portal Inertia – Fundamental principle of classical physics Kibble balance – Electromechanical...
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    to inertia". From the 1970s Rodrigues enjoyed particularly marked success in Italy and Japan. She recorded an album of Italian traditional songs, A Una...
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    unemployment and two decades of political inertia in the country since the end of the Bosnian War in 1995. According to a report made by Christian Schmidt of...
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    Isaac Newton (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    1666, Newton retiré à la campagne, et voyant tomber des fruits d'un arbre, à ce que m'a conté sa nièce, (Mme Conduit) se laissa aller à une méditation profonde...
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    qualities of Russian industry were fully apparent: bureaucratism, mental inertia on the part of the managers, ignorance to the point of illiteracy on the...
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    overcome the inertia problem of rotary engines. As early as 1906 Charles Benjamin Redrup had demonstrated to the Royal Flying Corps at Hendon a 'Reactionless'...
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    time constant of its response, unlike a current-measuring galvanometer. The moving part has a large moment of inertia that gives it an oscillation period...
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    Nabataean architecture (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    assembly of terracotta slabs and mortar allowed heat storage with great inertia, and heat transmission by radiation. This heating principle also makes...
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    provided coolant via inertia to bridge the gap to generator startup. However, a potential safety risk existed in the event that a station blackout occurred...
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  • the Sun and planets, in a way that increased with nearness to the attracting body, together with a principle of linear inertia. Hooke's statements up to...
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  • Pi (category Pages that use a deprecated format of the math tags)
    the maximum axial load F that a long, slender column of length L, modulus of elasticity E, and area moment of inertia I can carry without buckling: F...
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  • The most important of details include: mass, center of mass, moment of inertia, thruster positions, thrust vectors, thrust curves, specific impulse, thrust...
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    preferred to stress inertia and the longue durée, arguing that the continuities in the deepest structures of society were central to history. Upheavals...
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    gauges, and .410 bore. Recoil/inertia-driven or gas-operated actions are other popular methods of increasing the rate of fire of a shotgun; these self-loading...
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