Sentences with phrase «irreversible processes»

Conduction and radiation are two irreversible processes always available to the ideal gas, although Jelbring fails to acknowledge conduction and radiation is very, very slow for a GHG atmosphere.

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.

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

Are these conflicting tendencies «natural» ones, irreversible processes resulting from changes in society?

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

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.

Until recently, Western reproductive medicine has traditionally maintained that ageing and declining egg quality is an irreversible process.

By the time the bank identifies the fake check and takes the money back, the wire transfer has already cleared in an irreversible process, costing the victim the difference.

In many cases, blindness is an irreversible process in dogs.

Cats losing dead hair is a natural and irreversible process.

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

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.

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.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody that extinction is an irreversible process.

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.

«If we want Los Angeles to become the next San Francisco, this is a surefire and irreversible way to accelerate the process.»

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).

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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.

We can imagine that an individual faced with debilitating, irreversible illness, who would have to endure intractable pain, mutilating surgery, or demeaning treatments — with added concern for the burden being placed on family and friends — might conclude that suicide was a reasonable, even generous, resolution to a process already moving inexorably toward death.

The process would be irreversible, because logical necessity is not a characteristic a proposition can lose once it gets it.

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.»

But the fundamental process that is irreversible is that the family must move on.

Over time this process becomes irreversible, leading to partial blindness in the weaker eye.

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.

«[Subduction] is essentially a one - way process and irreversible,» he says.

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.

As long as the cup and the room are left alone, this process is irreversible.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS)-- a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

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?

With rare exception, this process is seemingly irreversible and results in progressive organ dysfunction and eventually death.

«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.

The process is irreversible, and while the concept was created to help save the planet from over population, it's the fact that one dollar equals a thousand in Leisureland.

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.

The Direct Consolidation Loan provided by the Federal Government produces a fixed rate, not a hybrid or adjustable rate, and this process is irreversible.

There are no irreversible errors that you could have made during this process.

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.

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.

He asserts that gravity will create a thermal lapse rate that is there in his isolated ideal gas in a near - Earth gravitational field in thermal equilibrium — the condition that an air column will reach after all irreversible relaxation processes such as conduction, convection, and radiation have completed.

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