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Inbreeding depression
Inbreeding depression, also called inbreeding load, is the reduced survival and fertility of offspring of related individuals, caused mainly by recessive deleterious mutations; it varies by trait, sex, environment, and mating system.
INBUILD® trial
INBUILD (NCT02999178) was a phase 3 randomized placebo-controlled trial of nintedanib 150 mg twice daily in 663 patients with progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease other than IPF; nintedanib reduced FVC decline by 107.0 mL/year over 52 weeks and reduced ILD progression or death.
Inca army
The Inca army (ejército incaico) was the military organization of the Inca state, made up of Inca warriors and large levies of conquered peoples serving as tribute.
Inca calendar
The Inca calendar was the timekeeping system of the Inca Empire centered on Cuzco, using twelve lunar months kept in step with the solar year by a thirteenth month.
Inca ceramic aryballos (urpu)
The Inca ceramic aryballos, called urpu in Quechua, is a globular storage jar for chicha, the most recognizable form of Inca ceramics, made from about 1400 to the 1530s.
Inca civil war between Huáscar and Atahualpa
The Inca civil war between Huáscar and Atahualpa (Guerra entre Huáscar y Atahualpa) was a 1529 to 1532 war of succession for the Inca throne, won by Atahualpa.
Inca conquest of Chimor
The Inca conquest of Chimor (conquista inca de Chimor) was a campaign around 1470 where the Inca Empire defeated the Chimú kingdom and established it as a vassal state.
Inca conquest of Chincha
The Inca conquest of Chincha (conquista incaica de Chincha) was the late fifteenth-century incorporation of the Chincha kingdom of coastal Peru into the Inca Empire, achieved through negotiation backed by force.
Inca conquest of Chinchaysuyu
The Inca conquest of Chinchaysuyu was the 15th-century campaign by which the Inca absorbed the northern quarter of their empire, including the kingdom of Chimor.
Inca conquest of Quito
The Inca conquest of Quito (conquista incaica de Quito) was the Inca campaign that subdued what is now Ecuador, led by Tupac Yupanqui and completed by Huayna Capac.
Inca conquest of the Cañari
The Inca–Cañari war was the conflict beginning around 1450 in which the Inca Empire conquered the Cañari of southern Ecuador, who in 1532 allied with the Spanish conquistadors against the Inca.
Inca conquest of the Caranqui
The Inca conquest of the Caranqui was the prolonged Inca campaign that subdued the Caranqui and Cayambe peoples of northern highland Ecuador, ending only after 1500.
Inca conquest of the Chachapoya
The Inca conquest of the Chachapoya (conquista incaica de los chachapoya) was the incorporation of the Chachapoya people of northern Peru into the Inca state around 1470.
Inca conquest of the Chanka
The Inca conquest of the Chanka (guerra contra los chancas) was the war in which the Chanka confederation attacked Cusco and was defeated by the prince Cusi Yupanqui, later Pachacuti.
Inca conquest of the Chimú
The Inca conquest of the Chimú (Conquista incaica del Chimú) was the campaign in which Túpac Inca Yupanqui defeated the Chimú kingdom of Chimor on Peru's north coast around 1470.
Inca conquest of the Titicaca basin
The Inca conquest of the Titicaca basin (Conquista incaica del Collao) was the mid-fifteenth-century campaign in which the Inca state subdued the Colla, Lupaca, and Pacajes kingdoms around Lake Titicaca.
Inca conquest of the Wanka and Xauxa
The Inca conquest of the Wanka and Xauxa, around 1460, brought the chiefdoms of Peru's Mantaro valley under Inca rule after armed resistance, ending in their defeat.
Inca conquest of the Ychsma polity (Pachacamac)
The Inca conquest of the Ychsma polity, conquista incaica de Ychsma, was Topa Yupanqui's incorporation of the Lurín and Rímac valleys into the Inca Empire around 1470.
Inca decimal administration
Inca decimal administration grouped Andean households into units of 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000 under kuraka officials, allowing the Inca state to take censuses and mobilize labor.
Inca decimal administrative system
The Inca decimal administrative system (sistema decimal inca) organized the Inca state's population into units of 10 to 10,000, with kuraka officials ranked by tribute payers under them.
Inca Empire
Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu, 1438–1532): largest pre-Columbian American state, ruled from Cuzco, spanning about 3,000 miles from Ecuador to central Chile, run by mit'a labor, khipu records, and the Qhapaq Ñan road system until the Spanish conquest.
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, was a Peruvian-born writer of Inca and Spanish descent, author of the Comentarios reales de los Incas.
Inca kero
An Inca kero, also spelled quero or qero (Quechua qiru), is a tumbler-shaped wooden ceremonial cup used in pairs to drink chicha in Andean ritual toasts.
Inca Kola
Inca Kola, also called the Golden Kola, is a yellow lemon verbena-flavored Peruvian soft drink created in 1935 by Joseph Robinson Lindley; since 1999 a Coca-Cola and Lindley joint venture, it leads Peru's soft drink market.
Inca law
Inca law was the unwritten, customary legal order of the Inca state of Tawantinsuyu, based on oral tradition and aimed at preserving the empire's social and political equilibrium.
Inca mythology
Inca mythology: the deities, creation narratives, and rituals of the Inca Empire (c. 1425–1532), centered on Viracocha, Inti, huacas and ceques, capacocha child sacrifice, and the revived Inti Raymi festival.
Inca Roca
Inca Roca (Inka Roq'a) was the sixth Sapa Inca of Cusco and the first ruler of the Hanan Cuzco dynasty, reigning in the fourteenth century.
Inca rope bridge
An Inca rope bridge was a suspension bridge made entirely of braided plant fiber, built by the Inca Empire to cross the deep gorges and fast rivers of the Andes.
Inca royal mummy cult
The Inca royal mummy cult kept dead emperors' embalmed bodies, called mallki, as active owners and rulers in Cuzco, served by their panacas until Spanish confiscation by 1572.
Inca silverwork
Inca silverwork is the working of silver by artisans of the Inca Empire, roughly 1400 to 1533, producing figurines, drinking vessels, ornaments, and ritual objects.