Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. reported in April 2015 that, although concrete products prices are up 4.1 percent on a yearly basis, total input prices have fallen by 3.6 percent since the same time last year. (nreionline.com)
Confidential Transactions is a way to encrypt the amount in a Bitcoin transaction while still making it publicly verifiable that the transaction balances; the total output amounts sum to the total input amounts. (getrevue.co)
Cell biology is the same way — the cell itself may be highly organized, and order increased in comparison to the raw materials which make up the cell, but when you look at the total inputs and total outputs of all matter and energy, the overall entropy of the system increases. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)