ELASTICITY

the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence or stress and to return to its original size and shape when the stress is removed. All solids are elastic for small enough deformations or strains, but if the stress exceeds a certain amount known as the elastic limit, a permanent deformation is produced. Both the resistance to stress and the elastic limit depend on the composition of the solid. Some different kinds of stresses are tension, compression, torsion, and shearing (see strength of materials). For each kind of stress and the corresponding strain there is a modulus, i.e., the ratio of the stress to the strain; the ratio of tensile stress to strain for a given material is called its Young's modulus. Hooke's law [for Robert Hooke] states that, within the elastic limit, strain is proportional to stress.

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The Elasticity of Demand for Health Care: A Review of the Literature and Its Application to the Military Health System
Book by Jeanne S. Ringel, Susan D. Hosek, Ben A. Vollaard, Sergej Mahnovski; Rand, 2002
The Elasticity of Demand for Health Care A Review...this research has to say about the elasticity of demand for health care and to consider...9 Description of Elasticity Measures 9 Own-Price...
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The Economic Organization of Agriculture
Book by Theodore W. Schultz; McGraw-Hill, 1953
Subjects: Agriculture--Economic Aspects, Agriculture--Economic Aspects--United States
...Elasticities 44 Income elasticity-an appeal of cross-sectional data. Income elasticity -use of time series. Clues from consumer...food over time. An evaluation of income elasticity estimates. Income elasticity of farm...
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Permanent Income, Wealth, and Consumption: A Critique of the Permanent Income Theory, the Life-Cycle Hypothesis, and Related Theories
Book by Thomas Mayer; University of California Press, 1972
Subjects: Consumption (Economics), Income, Permanent Income Theory
...4. Income Elasticity of Consumption Calculated on the Basis...Relation Between Two Measures of the Income Elasticity of Consumption, Swiss Sample...demonstration that if the permanent income elasticity of consumption were actually less than...
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Growth and Variability in State Tax Revenue: An Anatomy of State Fiscal Crises
Book by Randall G. Holcombe, Russell S. Sobel; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Revenue--United States--States, Taxation--United States--States, United States--Appropriations And Expenditures, State
...The Income Elasticity of Tax Bases Over the Business Cycle...Estimates of Tax Base Elasticity 84...Difference between Short-Run and Long-Run Elasticity 86...
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Economics for Business and Management
Book by K. Alec Chrystal, Richard G. Lipsey; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Economics, Managerial Economics
...action 72 3. Elasticity of demand and supply 84 Demand elasticity 86 Elasticity of supply 101...
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Tuition Elasticity of the Demand for Higher Education among Current Students: A Pricing Model
Journal article by Glenn A. Bryan, Thomas W. Whipple; Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 66, 1995
Subjects: College costs--Research, Education, Higher--Economic aspects, Elasticity (Economics)--Models, Pricing--Models
Tuition elasticity of the demand for higher education...upon current students tuition price elasticity of demand for education.(2) In this...quantifies the relationship between tuition elasticity and projected net earnings is applied...
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On the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution under Nonhomothetic Utility
Journal article by Masakatsu Okubo; Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, Vol. 40, 2008
Subjects: Consumption (Economics)--Analysis, Elasticity (Economics)--Analysis, Personal budgets--Analysis, Substitution (Economics)--Analysis
On the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution under Nonhomothetic...plausible estimate of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) in consumption...Reinharts (1998) homothetic constant elasticity of substitution (CES) utility function...
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Yield Elasticity: a New, Objective Measure of Interest-rate Risk
Journal article by Lawrence Fisher; Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. 16, 2006
Subjects: Bonds, Interest rate risk, Price elasticity, Risk assessment, United States, Yield
Yield Elasticity: a New, Objective Measure of Interest-rate...of IRR. I call the new measure Yield Elasticity (YE). As a risk measure, YE is far...paid to its holder. YE is also the elasticity of the price of a fixed-income security...
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Scale Elasticity versus Scale Efficiency in Banking
Journal article by Douglas D. Evanoff, Philip R. Israilevich; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 61, 1995
Subjects: Acquisitions and mergers--Economic aspects, Bank mergers--Economic aspects, Banking industry--Acquisitions, mergers, divestments
Scale elasticity versus scale efficiency in banking...economies exist in banking since the scale elasticity measure differs little from a value...authors of numerous studies is that scale elasticity and scale efficiency are essentially...
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Innovation and the Long-Run Elasticity of Total Taxable Income
Journal article by Benjamin Russo; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 75, 2009
Subjects: Corporate income taxes, Industrial research--United States, MIT Press--Innovations, Tax rates
Innovation and the Long-Run Elasticity of Total Taxable Income. by...Russo 1. Introduction The elasticity of taxable income with respect...As a result, measurement of this elasticity is a continuing focus of research...
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It's A Stretch to Believe in High Price Elasticity
Magazine article by Michael Weingarten, Bart Stuck; Business Communications Review, Vol. 31, January 2001
Subjects: Prices--Analysis, Supply and demand--Analysis, Telecommunications industry--Prices and rates, Telecommunications services industry--Prices and rates
...Its A Stretch to Believe in High Price Elasticity. by Michael Weingarten , Bart...volume. That wont work indefinitely. "Elasticity of demand" is one of those economics...service providers make about demand elasticity--and how valid those assumptions really...
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Elasticity: Bandwidth or Service
Magazine article by Tom Nolle; Business Communications Review, Vol. 33, August 2003
Subjects: Bandwidth, Communications industry, Computer networks, DSL (Digital subscriber line), Digital Subscriber Line, Ethernet, Information networks, SONET (Data transmission), SONET (Telecommunications), Telecommunications industry, Telecommunications services industry
Elasticity: Bandwidth or Service. by Tom Nolle Access technology has always limited service flexibility. Enterprises...opening a collaborative relationship--attending a NetMeeting session--from an email link. The idea of demand-side "elasticity" networking makes sense not only for customers, but also for the carriers. With dense wave-division multiplexing (DWDM...
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Vital Signs
Magazine article by David P. Fidler; The World Today, Vol. 65, February 2009
Subjects: Biological & chemical terrorism, Biological diversity, Elasticity, Human rights, Humanitarian aid, Industrialized nations, Infectious diseases, Influenza, Problems, Property rights, Public health
...produce a mutually satisfactory solution. ELASTICITY Health also exhibits another characteristic...appear and wanes when they fade. Healths elasticity as a foreign policy issue creates two...prevention and protection. Second, this elasticity subordinates health to other non-health...
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Gartley's Gap Theory Explained
Magazine article by Steven G. Bobbitt; Futures, Vol. 37, December 2008
Subjects: Futures trading, Price elasticity, Securities markets, United States
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What Explains the ICT Diffusion Gap between the Major Advanced Countries? an Empirical Analysis
Magazine article by Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez; International Productivity Monitor, Fall 2008
...have found no differences in the price elasticity of demand as an explanatory factor...production function using a constant elasticity of substitution (CES) and constant returns...distributed. It is assumed that the price elasticity of demand for each factor is identical...
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Half-Baked Idea about Elasticity of Money Supply; IN ASSOCIATION WITH Rensburg Sheppards the Big Feature
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 22, 2008
Half-Baked Idea about Elasticity of Money Supply; IN ASSOCIATION WITH Rensburg Sheppards the Big...anything else smacks of the sort of half-baked thinking about the elasticity of money supply that we saw on Wall Street in the past decade...
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Beauty: All about Hair; TOP WELSH CELEBRITY HAIRDRESSER LARA JOHNSON SHARES HER PROFESSIONAL HAIRCARE SECRETS
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 28, 2008
Subjects: Beauticians, Celebrities, Hair care preparations, Hair preparations
...analysing hair: texture, density, wave pattern, elasticity, and porosity. These elements combines to give...probably have a problem with overly porous hair. Elasticity The hairs elasticity is the measure of how much the hair will stretch...
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Emphysema
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 22, 2004
...chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) caused by loss of elasticity and dilatation of the lung tissue. In emphysema, the lungs...expand fully. If the alveoli become stretched or ruptured, the elasticity of the lungs is gradually destroyed. A person with emphysema...
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New Test to Remove Cancer Guesswork
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 12, 2005
...Cancer Guesswork. A new technique that measures the elasticity of cells could revolutionise cancer detection and remove most...Professor Kas said: ``Of all the physical properties of a cell, elasticity is the one which varies most dramatically between normal and...
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Emphysema
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 28, 2009
Subjects: Emphysema, Emphysema, Pulmonary
...chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) caused by loss of elasticity and dilatation of the lung tissue. In emphysema, the lungs...expand fully. If the alveoli become stretched or ruptured, the elasticity of the lungs is gradually destroyed. A person with emphysema...
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encyclopedia articles on: Elasticity  - 39 results

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Elasticity
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ELASTICITY the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence or stress and to return to its original size and shape when the stress...
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Hooke's Law
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HOOKES LAW see elasticity . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Nylon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NYLON synthetic thermoplastic material characterized by strength, elasticity, resistance to abrasion and chemicals, low moisture absorbency, and capacity to be permanently set by heat. After 10 years of research...
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Arteriosclerosis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARTERIOSCLEROSIS artir eoskl ro sis, general term for a condition characterized by thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity of the walls of the blood vessels. These changes are frequently accompanied by accumulations inside the vessel walls of lipids...
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Rubber
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the loosely coiled polymeric chains; elasticity occurs because the chains can be stretched...to alkalies and weak acids. Rubbers elasticity, toughness, impermeability, adhesiveness...polyester and polyether blocks provide elasticity; they are the most versatile elastomer...
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