Sentences with phrase «irreversible process of»

These artists operate in the context of accelerated development of information technologies, where the irreversible process of the world's digitization merges the «real» and the «virtual» as never before.

Notions such as self and identity, once unquestioned and safely maintained by tradition, have undertook an irreversible process of transformation that responds to the changes brought by processes of globalisation.

Tooth resorption is a slow, painful, and irreversible process of destruction of the tooth.

By unknown means eggs reset the normally irreversible processes of differentiation and aging.

Not exact matches

Typically, the scammers trick people into running pernicious code on their computers that encrypts their contents — a process that is often irreversible, except by way of a special cryptographic key or string of digital bits.

Candidates for intrinsic ordering properties include such things as the course of biological evolution or organismic development (Bergson), the direction of increasing entropy or of irreversible causal processes (Reichenbach), or the asymmetrical relations of prehension (Whitehead).

The complexity of our problem, in short, arises from our situation in an historical process subject to time and change, irreversible in direction, in which the past is never wholly dead, but remains unalterably part of the situation we have to face in the present.

According to Dreher, «The key thing to notice here is that the original Benedictines understood that the process of civilizational decay was, in the short run, irreversible, and that therefore the only reasonable thing to do was to make a strategic retreat behind defensible borders.»

This matters because Osborne's Northern Powerhouse, regardless of its shortcomings and regardless of what Westminster Labour thinks, will set in train a process of English devolution that will be irreversible.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

Once it starts, this process is usually irreversible — much as embryonic stem cells have no alternative but to become part of a kidney or cartilage once the biological «switch» is thrown.

Once the pressure has surpassed a certain threshold, the amorphization process becomes irreversible and the material can no longer return to a crystalline configuration,» said Caetano Rodrigues Miranda, a professor at the University of São Paulo's Physics Institute (IF - USP) and lead author of the article.

By using different materials for this irreversible process, it is possible to make either of the two basic kinds of semiconducting materials, p - type or n - type.

In the study, the researchers use an ice - ocean model created in Bremerhaven to decode the oceanographic and physical processes that could lead to an irreversible inflow of warm water under the ice shelf — a development that has already been observed in the Amundsen Sea.

«Irreversible resolution of lineage priming appears to be a common feature of blood cell differentiation and may in fact be a general feature of other developmental processes.»

For his 2013 SENS Research Foundation Summer Internship, Ethan joined the laboratory of Dr. Judith Campisi at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging to study cellular senescence, the process by which damaged cells enter irreversible growth arrest.

Over what time period might this savannization process release carbon «equivalent to several years of worldwide carbon emissions», and how does that affect the assessment offered by Gore, Hansen and others that we have perhaps ten years in which to substantially reduce CO2 emissions to avoid irreversible catastrophic warming?

«Dr. Ding's latest research offers new hope for the process of developing medications for these diseases, as well as for the possibility of cell - replacement therapy to reduce the trauma of millions of people affected by these devastating and irreversible conditions.»

If ice sheet disintegration reaches a point such that the dynamics and momentum of the process take over, at that point reducing greenhouse gases may be unable to prevent major ice sheet mass loss, sea level rise of many meters, and worldwide loss of coastal cities — a consequence that is irreversible for practical purposes.

Obviously, there's more to the process scientists have developed known as Downsizing, an optional yet irreversible decision people can choose to make themselves roughly 1 / 200th of the size they currently are.

A significant part of the restoration process is the planning stage as it is vital that mistakes are not made that have irreversible consequences.

Through the process of creating these pieces, she meticulously examines our inability to learn from our mistakes, resulting in irreversible consequences affecting all living beings, as well as the Earth we inhabit.

Works seem to be in the process of decay or irreversible (perhaps dangerous) change.

Due to the irreversible physical and chemical processes converting biomass to fossils the amount of carbon available in the biosphere is steadily diminishing and, on a geological time scale, it is certain that without human intervention it would eventually lead to critical shortage of carbon available for life on Earth.

Part of what had gotten me interested was my childhood interest in Illya Prigogine's unfinished Microscopic Theory of Irreversible Processes.

When applied to complex earth system processes, where several irreversible processes compete to deplete the same gradients, it is easily shown that the maximum thermodynamic efficiency is much less than the classic Carnot limit, so that the ability of the earth system to generate power and disequilibrium is limited.

The myriad of processes that transform energy, that result in the motion of mass in the atmosphere, in oceans, and on land, processes that drive the global water, carbon, and other biogeochemical cycles, all have in common that they are irreversible in their nature.»

The Planetary Boundaries framework proposes quantitative limits for human perturbation of critical Earth system processes, and a «safe operating space» within which human activity should attempt to stay in order to avert the risk of large - scale, possibly abrupt or irreversible environmental change.

In the gas ideal gas column of interest, no process is irreversible in there.

Neither have you actually read any actual textbooks that derive it, or you would have observed that they always speak of reversible bulk transport of the gas while establishing the DALR while ignoring all of the irreversible heat transport processes that also take place, more slowly.

If ice sheet disintegration reaches a point such that the dynamics and momentum of the process take over, at that point reducing greenhouse gases may be unable to prevent major ice sheet mass loss, sea level rise of many meters, and worldwide loss of coastal cities — a consequence that is irreversible for practical purposes.

According to Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, UK, speaking at the Copenhagen session on tipping points, that makes the process pretty much irreversible once it's started in earnest - you'd need a very substantial cooling for the ice sheet to return.

This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently in earlier IPCC assessments, that the Earth's climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the human influence in this process is «clear» and that the changing climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional mitigation efforts beyond those in place today, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»

After the transgression of a tipping point, self - reinforcing mechanisms drive the process without further external influences, and a rapid and often irreversible transition to a new state takes place.

Column 3 states whether or not the process is irreversible in the context of abrupt change, and also gives the typical recovery time scales.

These new «merged» pages have significantly less formatting and layout flexibility than existing business pages, and the process is irreversible — once you've flipped the switch you are stuck with the new merged format and nothing short of a full delete of your page (and the resulting loss of all your fans) will let you recreate your earlier formatting.