Mass moment of inertia. 1  Mass moment of inertia for a particle: The mass moment of inertia is one measure of the distribution of the mass of an object relative to a given axis. The mass moment of inertia is denoted by I and is given for a single particle of mass m as.
Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation is the sensory impression of food or other substances on the tongue and is one of the five traditional senses. Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds.
By monitoring the activity of a nerve that carries signals from taste receptor cells in the tongue, the team looked at the carbon dioxide response in strains of mice that had been genetically engineered to lack cells needed to sense specific tastes.