The rotational inertia of an animal can be expected to influence directly its ability to execute rapid turning maneuvers. We hypothesized that a ninefold increase in rotational inertia would reduce maximum turning performance to one-ninth of control values. To test this prediction, we increased rotational inertia about the vertical axis of six human subjects and measured their ability to turn d...

[1] Thermal inertia values at 100 m per pixel are determined using nighttime temperature data from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, producing the highest-resolution thermal inertia data set to date. THEMIS thermal inertia values have an overall accuracy of 20%, a precision of 10–15%, and are consistent with both Thermal Emission Spectrometer orbital a...

In Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), setting the inertia weight w is one of the most important topics. The inertia weight was introduced into PSO to balance between its global and local search abilities. In this paper, first, we propose a method to adaptively adjust the inertia weight based on particle’s velocity information. Second, we utilize both position and velocity information to adaptiv...

-In haptic devices the problem of major concern is the inertia offered by the haptic device. When using it in unconstrained space, it should offer the least inertia. Depending on the interaction mechanism we are required to adapt different control algorithms to maintain transparency. This paper investigates force feedback method of inertia reduction and analyses its advantages over the feed for...

Others have analysed the relationship between inadequate behaviour by healthcare professionals in the diagnosis of dyslipidaemia (diagnostic inertia) and the history of cardiovascular risk factors. However, since no study has assessed cardiovascular risk scores as associated factors, we carried out a study to quantify diagnostic inertia in dyslipidaemia and to determine if cardiovascular risk s...

The turning agility of theropod dinosaurs may have been severely limited by the large rotational inertia of their horizontal trunks and tails. Bodies with mass distributed far from the axis of rotation have much greater rotational inertia than bodies with the same mass distributed close to the axis of rotation. In this study, we increased the rotational inertia about the vertical axis of human ...