Sentences with phrase «from equilibrium system»

It's clear that the Earth is a dynamic, far from equilibrium system, and that the popular view of nature as being perpetually in equilibrium is only due to the narrow slice of human history through which we view the past.

It invokes equilibrium conditions when the actual climate is a far from equilibrium system.

David «Given that this is a far from equilibrium system, it is far from clear that our modest human emissions and sinks (compared to the far greater natural emissions and sinks) are in fact causing the atmospheric increase.

Given that this is a far from equilibrium system, it is far from clear that our modest human emissions and sinks (compared to the far greater natural emissions and sinks) are in fact causing the atmospheric increase.

There is evidence that it is a far from equilibrium system.

Of course it is a far from equilibrium system.

[far from equilibrium systems] are typically nonlinear: that is, their response to perturbation is often not proportional to the magnitude of the perturbation, as for systems near equilibrium.

Not exact matches

Instead, duplication of credit between deficit and surplus countries has kept the system far from equilibrium while sending global relative debt to record levels.

He would argue that Leclerc's notion of «physical existence» applies not only to our more typical notion of a molecule of water, or of sugar, or of hemoglobin (all of similar type), but also to examples of crystals, which are markedly different, and to systems of chemical reaction which persist far from equilibrium.

11 Richard M. Noyes and Richard J. Field, «Mechanisms of Chemical Oscillators: Experimental Examples,» Accounts of Chemical Research 10 (1977), 273 - 80; Joel Keizer, «Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and the Stability of States Far from Equilibrium,» Accounts of Chemical Research 12 (1979), 243 - 49; Richard M. Noyes, «Oscillations in Homogeneous Systems,» Ber.

Such structures should clearly be distinguished from «equilibrium structures» which persist only in closed systems.

[C] hance plays a decisive role in the choice of new structures, by taking the system farther and farther away from equilibrium in an unpredictable direction.

Biden likened the moment to a case of «punctuated equilibrium,» a concept borrowed from evolution studies that show how stable systems can change abruptly when challenged.

The distinction between far - from - equilibrium dissipative systems and near - equilibrium features is clearer than the traditional boundaries that people put on life and non-life.

To the extent that the question makes sense, as a «far - from - equilibrium dissipative system».

The whole system is being constantly driven and is always very far from thermodynamic equilibrium.

The plenary address titled «Punctuated Equilibrium Meets Cancer: Big Promise Requires Big Change» will draw from evolutionary biology's punctuated equilibrium theory to set out why stable systems such as cancer research sometimes require swift and fundamental change Equilibrium Meets Cancer: Big Promise Requires Big Change» will draw from evolutionary biology's punctuated equilibrium theory to set out why stable systems such as cancer research sometimes require swift and fundamental change equilibrium theory to set out why stable systems such as cancer research sometimes require swift and fundamental change to advance.

But the behavior of systems that are far from equilibrium, which are connected to the outside environment and strongly driven by external sources of energy, could not be predicted.

To the researchers» surprise, the sand's thermodynamic properties were not far removed from «systems in equilibrium» (for example, a gas in a vessel).

In these scenarios, the visual motion cues that users see are at odds with the physical motion cues that they receive from their inner ears» vestibular system, the cues that provide us with our sense of motion, equilibrium, and spatial orientation.

«Recent lab experiments studying behavior of a group of individuals show that economic systems may deviate significantly from rational efficient equilibrium at both individual and aggregate levels.

This achieve this order biological system operate far from thermal equilibrium, posing significant challenges to their theoretical understanding.

If you doubled CO2 and let the system come into equilibrium, the imbalance you'd measure from space would be zero — but there would still be about 4 W / m ** 2 of radiative forcing from the change in CO2.

Instead, we have a system disturbed from equilibrium by forcer that increases with time.

Aging itself is a system - wide movement towards chemical equilibrium (away from the highly regulated far - from - equilibrium state) and as such is an imbalance from which all living organisms suffer.

These less acknowledged mechanisms of interaction and molecular control might have made the initial pathways to prebiotic systems evolution more intricate, but were surely essential for sustaining far - from - equilibrium chemical dynamics, given their functional relevance in all modern cells.

Inside The Hair Equilibrium System you'll learn about a foolproof way to test which foods you may be having allergic reactions to so that you can remove them from your diet and reduce your DHT sensitivity.

Moreover, discussion generally centers on equilibrium thermodynamics, but living systems are maintained far from equilibrium, and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, which emphasizes kinetic fluxes as well as thermodynamic forces, is more relevant.

ACT - activated clotting time (bleeding disorders) ACTH - adrenocorticotropic hormone (adrenal gland function) Ag - antigen test for proteins specific to a disease causing organism or virus Alb - albumin (liver, kidney and intestinal disorders) Alk - Phos, ALP alkaline phosphatase (liver and adrenal disorders) Allergy Testing intradermal or blood antibody test for allergen hypersensitivity ALT - alanine aminotransferase (liver disorder) Amyl - amylase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) ANA - antinuclear antibody (systemic lupus erythematosus) Anaplasmosis Anaplasma spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) APTT - activated partial thromboplastin time (blood clotting ability) AST - aspartate aminotransferase (muscle and liver disorders) Band band cell — type of white blood cell Baso basophil — type of white blood cell Bile Acids digestive acids produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder (liver function) Bili bilirubin (bile pigment responsible for jaundice from liver disease or RBC destruction) BP - blood pressure measurement BUN - blood urea nitrogen (kidney and liver function) Bx biopsy C & S aerobic / anaerobic bacterial culture and antibiotic sensitivity test (infection, drug selection) Ca +2 calcium ion — unbound calcium (parathyroid gland function) CBC - complete blood count (all circulating cells) Chol cholesterol (liver, thyroid disorders) CK, CPK creatine [phospho] kinase (muscle disease, heart disease) Cl - chloride ion — unbound chloride (hydration, blood pH) CO2 - carbon dioxide (blood pH) Contrast Radiograph x-ray image using injected radiopaque contrast media Cortisol hormone produced by the adrenal glands (adrenal gland function) Coomb's anti- red blood cell antibody test (immune - mediated hemolytic anemia) Crea creatinine (kidney function) CRT - capillary refill time (blood pressure, tissue perfusion) DTM - dermatophyte test medium (ringworm — dermatophytosis) EEG - electroencephalogram (brain function, epilepsy) Ehrlichia Ehrlichia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) EKG, ECG - electrok [c] ardiogram (electrical heart activity, heart arryhthmia) Eos eosinophil — type of white blood cell Fecal, flotation, direct intestinal parasite exam FeLV Feline Leukemia Virus test FIA Feline Infectious Anemia: aka Feline Hemotrophic Mycoplasma, Haemobartonella felis test FIV Feline Immunodeficiency Virus test Fluorescein Stain fluorescein stain uptake of cornea (corneal ulceration) fT4, fT4ed, freeT4ed thyroxine hormone unbound by protein measured by equilibrium dialysis (thyroid function) GGT gamma - glutamyltranferase (liver disorders) Glob globulin (liver, immune system) Glu blood or urine glucose (diabetes mellitus) Gran granulocytes — subgroup of white blood cells Hb, Hgb hemoglobin — iron rich protein bound to red blood cells that carries oxygen (anemia, red cell mass) HCO3 - bicarbonate ion (blood pH) HCT, PCV, MHCT hematocrit, packed - cell volume, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) K + potassium ion — unbound potassium (kidney disorders, adrenal gland disorders) Lipa lipase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) LYME Borrelia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) Lymph lymphocyte — type of white blood cell MCHC mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (anemia, iron deficiency) MCV mean corpuscular volume — average red cell size (anemia, iron deficiency) Mg +2 magnesium ion — unbound magnesium (diabetes, parathyroid function, malnutrition) MHCT, HCT, PCV microhematocrit, hematocrit, packed - cell volume (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) MIC minimum inhibitory concentration — part of the C&S that determines antimicrobial selection Mono monocyte — type of white blood cell MRI magnetic resonance imaging (advanced tissue imaging) Na + sodium ion — unbound sodium (dehydration, adrenal gland disease) nRBC nucleated red blood cell — immature red blood cell (bone marrow damage, lead toxicity) PCV, HCT, MHCT packed - cell volume, hematocrit, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) PE physical examination pH urine pH (urinary tract infection, urolithiasis) Phos phosphorus (kidney disorders, ketoacidosis, parathyroid function) PLI pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity (pancreatitis) PLT platelet — cells involved in clotting (bleeding disorders) PT prothrombin time (bleeding disorders) PTH parathyroid hormone, parathormone (parathyroid function) Radiograph x-ray image RBC red blood cell count (anemia) REL Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Ehrlichia / Lyme combination test Retic reticulocyte — immature red blood cell (regenerative vs. non-regenerative anemia) RMSF Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever SAP serum alkaline phosphatase (liver disorders) Schirmer Tear Test tear production test (keratoconjunctivitis sicca — dry eye,) Seg segmented neutrophil — type of white blood cell USG Urine specific gravity (urine concentration, kidney function) spec cPL specific canine pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test spec fPL specific feline pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test T4 thyroxine hormone — total (thyroid gland function) TLI trypsin - like immunoreactivity (exocrine pancreatic insufficiency) TP total protein (hydration, liver disorders) TPR temperature / pulse / respirations (physical exam vital signs) Trig triglycerides (fat metabolism, liver disorders) TSH thyroid stimulating hormone (thyroid gland function) UA urinalysis (kidney function, urinary tract infection, diabetes) Urine Cortisol - Crea Ratio urine cortisol - creatine ratio (screening test for adrenal gland disease) Urine Protein - Crea Ratio urine protein - creatinine ratio (kidney disorders) VWF VonWillebrands factor (bleeding disorder) WBC white blood cell count (infection, inflammation, bone marrow suppression)

The middle equilibrium b is unstable: if the ball is displaced ever so slightly to one side or another, the displacement will accelerate until the system is in a state far from its original position.

They occur when the equilibrium solution is unstable (with positive feedbacks), leading the system to diverge from this solution.

One would think that these huge historical variations are rather signs of a system that is very far from equilibrium, in which case the usual «sensitivity» technique is not adequate and may be misleading.

Set in context it is immediately clear what they mean with «decades to respond», the time it takes for the system to arrive at a new dynamic equilibrium, a lag caused by the thermal inertia mainly from the oceans.

To understand climate change, it is necessary to know the radiative forcings that drive the climate system away from its reference equilibrium state.

Maybe the word «equilibrium» should be omitted from all climate sensitivity estimates, from the shortest term values (TCR) to the longest and most comprehensive (Earth System), since all the different forms of sensitivity estimation seem, in my view, to be looking at somewhat different phenomena and should not necessarily yield the same values.

(In full thermodynamic equilibrium, all photon - non-photon interactions, including Raman and Compton scattering, would sustain that equilibrium; all such interactions tend to eventually bring a system towards such equilibrium provided that photons (as well as other particles) are not entering or leaving the system from other systems with different conditions.)

In systems far from equilibrium, the phenomenon of self - organised criticality (SOC) is frequently observed.

On top of what you described, I would add another layer — that the Earth as a whole is a far - from - equilibrium system, and is constantly in a process of DOING WORK — instilling order out of incident energy.

Thermodynamic equilibrium requires the system to be isolated from its surroundings, thermally and mechanically (and chemically, too, for that matter).

Underlying this entire context is the fact that we have not yet seen the equilibrium response or Earth system response from 350 to 400 ppm of CO2 — since the oceans are warming and ice is melting and the seas rising.

You do not mention increased year - over-year and decade - over-decade variability as the climate system gets further from equilibrium.

The typical equilibrium response times of the climate system's various components range from a single day to millenia.

We are moving the system very far from equilibrium.

But, when it flips from one equilibrium state to another, you can re-linearize about that equilibrium, and describe perturbations from it with a linear system model.

Between two systems not at thermodynamic equilibrium, NET energy transfer can only be in one direction — from the system of higher energy to the system of lower energy, in this case, FROM the oceans, TO the atmosphfrom the system of higher energy to the system of lower energy, in this case, FROM the oceans, TO the atmosphFROM the oceans, TO the atmosphere.

``... the climate, like other flow systems far from equilibrium, contains homeostatic mechanisms.»

When the system is far from an equilibrium, the perturbed linear system description no longer holds.

My conclusion from all of this is that the climate, like other flow systems far from equilibrium, contains homeostatic mechanisms.

And the gut feeling by IPCC is everything from a walk in the park to catastrophe: «The equilibrium climate sensitivity quantifies the response of the climate system to constant radiative forcing on multi - century time scales.

The Second Law (with this condition quoted from Wiki) «Thermodynamic equilibrium has the greatest entropy amongst the states accessible to the system» is exactly what I talk about in the 4 page Appendix of «Planetary Surface Temperatures.