Sentences with phrase «irreversibility in»

From the state of thermodynamic equilibrium, the law deduced the principle of the increase of entropy and explains the phenomenon of irreversibility in nature.

Chapter 12: Long - term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility Executive Summary • Scenario description • Projections for the 21st century • Projections beyond the 21st century • Regional climate change, variability and extremes • Forcing, response and climate sensitivity • Climate change commitment and inertia • Potential for abrupt change and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projections

Here, we also assess aspects of irreversibility in the context of abrupt change, multiple steady states and hysteresis, i.e., the question whether a change (abrupt or not) would be reversible if the forcing was reversed or removed (e.g., Boucher et al., 2012).

Fundamental irreversibilities in stock externalities.

Not exact matches

The irreversibility of Bitcoin transactions has often been lauded as one of the most important qualities of virtual currency because it makes it harder for banks and governments to intervene in transactions.

that the monads will pour into that place whither they are irrevocably destined by the total maturing of all things and the implacable irreversibility of the whole history of the World — some of them spiritualized matter in the limitless fulfillment of an eternal communion, and others materialized spirit in the conscious agonies of an interminable decomposition.

A world culminating in the Impersonal can bring us neither the warmth of attraction nor the hope of irreversibility (immortality) without which individual egotism will always have the last word.

Arendt pin - points this uncertainty in two further characteristics she assigns to action: unpredictability and irreversibility.

Bohr looks at unrepeatable accidents, random events, and decisions in all their exceptionality, unrepeatability, and irreversibility.

In a planetized Humanity the insistence upon irreversibility becomes a specific requisite of action; and it can only grow and continue to grow as Life reveals itself as being ever more rich, an ever heavier load.

So we must conclude, unless we favor the idea of a world destined to miscarry through a fault in its construction, that evolutionary irreversibility and personalization (despite their implied anticipation of the future) are realities not of a metaphysical but of a physical order, in the sense that, like the dimensions of Time and Space, they represent general conditions to which the totality of our proceedings must conform.

The concreteness, fullness, and irreversibility of God's Incarnation and death in Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most striking elements of Altizer's Christology and an important departure from the merely moral rendition of the Incarnation's meaning that one seems to encounter in so much of modern Protestant systematic reflection on the Incarnation.

For if by its structure Mankind does not dissipate itself but concentrates upon itself; in other words, if, alone among all the living forms known to us, our zoological phylum is laboriously moving towards a critical point of speciation, then are not all hopes permitted to us in the matter of survival and irreversibility?

But Moltmann's theology, Hunter believes, impels a different kind of pastoral strategy, attuned to the possibility of hoping in spite of the irreversibility of suffering and dying, and of calling others to hope in the midst of their own suffering rather than taking false hope in their recovery and restoration.

Speaking more realistically, the environment into which the biosphere flooded was already a hierarchical assembly of subassemblies, each level of which was endowed with an order and irreversibility that prevented the whole edifice from constantly sinking back into complete chaos.10 In such a hierarchical framework the initial appearance of a new and higher level always has to be a unique event.

To ensure irreversibility, we are implementing the following measures to tackle some of the long - term structural issues: a. capping of the statutory funds at 25 percent of government tax revenues b. operationalization of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to consolidate all government funds at the Bank of Ghana c. tightening of expenditure controls in GIFMIS to minimize inefficiencies and budget overruns d. strict enforcement of the PFM Act, as well as the Public Procurement Act, to ensure efficiency in public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their money.

President Tusk underlined the need to advance in the fight against corruption, safeguard the significant progress achieved and ensure its irreversibility, in line with the high expectations of Romanian society and the EU's values.

We are determined to put in place measures to ensure irreversibility and sustained macroeconomic stability so that we will have no reason to seek again the assistance of that powerful global body.»

Turturro plays a college professor who finds himself in an affair, stuck in a rut with a belief in the absolute, and the irreversibility of one's actions.

When the fluctuations in the system reach levels of irreversibility, the system reaches a critical point where it collapses into its individual components stables (collapse) or undergoes a rapid evolution toward a resistant state fluctuation that destabilized (breakthrough).

In a paper with the fascinating title «Extreme Risks, The Irreversibility of Time and The Retirement Anomaly,» Tim Hodgson of consulting firm Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute (I didn't make that name up) explained why we should pay more attention to big risks when planning for retirement.

The name much better reflects, as he puts it, the stability - of - state that I want to convey as opposed to the irreversibility - of - change evoked in the game and player tables.

Arrow of Time, which was first installed at the Met Breuer in New York earlier in 2016, refers to the astronomical concept of time's irreversibility — that it can not rewind itself and «come back» again.

The artists in this exhibition embrace the irreversibility of pushing themselves through the most narrow of passage ways.

Desertification is a «creeping phenomenon» involving many positive feedbacks which tend to accelerate the process to the point of irreversibility, as is observed in the Sahel of Africa.

Continued exploration of new areas of knowledge, such as theoretical and applied research in behavioural science and economics addressing ecological and social tipping points and irreversibility at multiple levels.

As a result of a nomination process that began in January, 2010, Dr. Weaver became a Lead Author for Chapter 12: «Long - term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility» of the Working Group I contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC.»

Irreversibility happens at the endpoints, not in the middle where the environmental lapse rate is compared to the prevailing adiabatic lapse rate for that level of RH.

Irreversibility of ice sheets and sea level rise are also assessed in Chapter 13.

The term irreversibility is used in various ways in the literature.

The potential irreversibility of the Arctic sea ice loss and the possibility of a rapid, nonlinear transition toward an ice - free Arctic Ocean are discussed in Section 12.5.5.7.

Given the rate and apparent irreversibility of ocean pH change in only a few decades, will that change assumptions used in some climate models that include ocean plankton species, like LeQuere's work?

Furthermore it could be argued that some people accept AGW but are in denial about the irreversibility, rate, non-linearity and extent of temperature change and the human impacts.

Furthermore, as predicted in the previous post on revocation, at paragraph 36 the UK Supreme Court proceeds on the assumption of the irreversibility of notice under Article 50 TEU once it is given, and did not refer the question to the Court of Justice through the preliminary reference procedure of Article 267 TFEU.

In comparison, blockchain provides built - in anonymity and transaction irreversibility, thus providing scammers and fraudsters a dream playgrounIn comparison, blockchain provides built - in anonymity and transaction irreversibility, thus providing scammers and fraudsters a dream playgrounin anonymity and transaction irreversibility, thus providing scammers and fraudsters a dream playground.

Other enhancements include multiple wallet types, three levels of irreversibility, multi-signature encryption (CypherSig), and a hundred-fold leapfrog in scalability and transaction speed.