Sentences with phrase «of high entropy»

Taking Tom Curtis» point about etnropy, the energy accumulating in the atmosphere was once of high entropy, when it began in the sun's thermonuclear furnace.

It would be quite interesting to further explore the underlying atomistic mechanisms of the nucleation and growth of high entropy alloy nanoparticle,» says Reza Shahbazian - Yassar, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a corresponding author of the paper.

And, because there is a high concentration of chromium atoms in the material, this creates nanoscale domains of order with the overall «chaos» of the high entropy alloy.

Not exact matches

The belief and hope of matter resulted in its radical transformation into a new and higher dimension — living matter — in which it is assured a measure of survival from the physical entropy that threatens its level of existence.

If we do so, we will see that all of our actions in the world are costly, transforming low entropy resources into high entropy waste.

As we go higher up, however, the entropy is counteracted by a higher form of movement — life.

I do not take this lightly, but I refer such critics to the definition of matter above, remind them that I am trying to summarize a Bergsonian view (not entirely my own), and ask them to consider another law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy; and ask why (unless there is something dead or inert that resists the development of higher forms of complexity) should systems tend towards an equalized distribution of energy in spacetime?

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

The Law of Entropy states (proves) that order goes from a higher state to a lower one (not from lower to higher as it would without an external / God force).

There is a lot of room for a high level of entropy there to throw Cro Cop off of his trail.

«It's almost like a nonverbal communication Davis has with [his linemen],» says Jaguars defensive tackle John Jurkovic, who describes a kind of Mile High entropy that afflicts visiting defenses.

I was happy to see that my Easter collaboration with Hillary of Entropy Always Wins ranked the highest on tutorial posts this year!

Although high - dimensional at a fine scale, at the coarser scale of covering spheres, the data cloud looks nearly one - dimensional, which enables entropy scaling of similarity search.

An overwhelming majority of them have high entropy.»

Quantitative analysis of those signals shows that the dissonant chords result in a higher level of disorder, or entropy, in the interneuron output.

Because this breaks the energy - entropy correlation, it marks the start of the negative temperature scale, where the distribution of energies is reversed — instead of most particles having a low energy and a few having a high, most have a high energy and just a few have a low energy.

«This is quite amazing; Dr. Hu creatively came up with this powerful technique, carbo - thermal shock synthesis, to produce high entropy alloys of up to eight different elements in a single nanoparticle.

«The potential applications for high entropy alloy nanoparticles are not limited to the field of catalysis.

This was an early hint of the mysterious ties between strange metals and black holes, which were also known to have staggeringly high entropies.

The computed entropy was so high, it almost defied the laws of physics, implying that strange metals were far more complicated than originally supposed.

They were able to achieve 100 percent oxidation of ammonia and 99 percent selectivity toward desired products with the high entropy alloy nanoparticles, proving their ability as highly efficient catalysts.

A neatly stacked collection of papers has a low entropy, while the same collection scattered across a desktop has a high entropy.

Wang's research group designed a five - metal catalyst based on these high - entropy - alloy nanoparticles and demonstrated superior catalytic performance for selective oxidation of ammonia to nitrogen oxide, a reaction used by the chemical industry to produce nitric acid, an important chemical in the large - scale production of fertilizers and other products.

This method is ideally suited for so - called high - entropy alloys — materials that have recently been of great interest to researchers.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered that electron spin brings a previously unknown degree of order to the high entropy alloy nickel iron chromium cobalt (NiFeCrCo)-- and may play a role in giving the alloy its desirable properties.

If you're the kind of person who could conceivably be just about anywhere at any given time, your roaming entropy is high.

«A healthy brain has high entropy, but people with injuries to the white matter from trauma may lose some of that complexity and have less entropy,» she explained.

As a proxy for splicing alteration, we computed the Shannon's entropy on the relative abundance of a gene's alternative splicing isoforms (Methods)-- higher values corresponding to more stochastic production of alternative isoforms.

Indeed we found that post-mortem samples have a higher entropy than pre-mortem samples (Fig. 7b), reflecting tighter, more controlled, usage of splicing isoforms in the pre-mortem samples.

March 29, 2018 - In 2004, crystalline metal alloys consisting of five or more principal elements in equal or nearly equal amounts (1, 2) were reported that were stabilized by their high configurational entropy.

That is, by decreasing the (rather high) Bond albedo of Earth one could increase rate of entropy production, which is inconsistent with a MEP state.

But everything else is the aptly named «high configurational entropy» which has for consequence an impossibility of validation.

And this: Validation» on functionals with high «configurational entropy» (like globally averaged anything, an infinite number of configurations can give the same number) should be rather unconvincing (in this case where the empirical knobs of the various parametrizations are balanced in exquisite relative alignment to prevent nonsense output) if the intended use is prediction.

«Validation» on functionals with high «configurational entropy» (like globally averaged anything, an infinite number of configurations can give the same number) should be rather unconvincing (in this case where the empirical knobs of the various parametrizations are balanced in exquisite relative alignment to prevent nonsense output) if the intended use is prediction.

See Curry post on «Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and maximum entropy production in the Earth system» paper by Axel Kleidon (downloadable) https://judithcurry.com/2012/01/10/nonequilibrium-thermodynamics-and-maximum-entropy-production-in-the-earth-system/ «The Earth system is maintained in a unique state far from thermodynamic equilibrium, as, for instance, reflected in the high concentration of reactive oxygen in the atmosphere.

Any system where energy is being accumulated in the form of ordering will by definition have a discrepancy between incoming «low - entropy» energy (visible photons) and outgoing «higher entropy» energy (heat).

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* It has been shown that the isothermal state has higher entropy than a temperature separated state, because it is capable of doing work.

For the sake of his proof, Dr. Brown assumes (as he and most of us believe, contrary to fact) that at equilibrium, i.e., in the highest - probability, highest - entropy state, the isolated gas column exhibits the dry adiabatic lapse rate.

Your thought experiment breaks the laws of thermodynamics in positing that a cool (lower entropy) entropy object can heat a higher (greater entropy) object.

The whole concept of direct radiation supposedly heating the surface to observed temperatures is wrong and a totally different paradigm involving entropy maximization and thermodynamics at the molecular level is now known to be what explains planetary surface temperatures being higher than what can be explained with radiation.

It is a fairly reasonable assumption, possibly even the modern usage of Occam's razor (but not the original formulation which was a «proof» of the existence of God) that anybody screaming about «THE TRUTH» is probably no closer to «the truth» than could be achieved by me and a dart board (or any other high - entropy randomisation method).

If you take an amount of energy, and concentrate it in one location it has a low entropy, whereas if you smear it out it has a high entropy.

RMSSD is sensitive to high - frequency heart period fluctuations in the respiratory frequency range and is used as an index of vagal cardiac control.3) In the frequency - domain analysis, the power spectra of three frequency bands are calculated: very low frequency (VLF; 0.005 - 0.040 Hz), low frequency (LF; 0.04 - 0.15 Hz), high frequency (HF; 0.15 - 0.40 Hz), and total power (TP), including VLF, LF, and HF.1) For the non-linear complexity measure, the approximate entropy (ApEn) is calculated.4) The ApEn is a parameter that was developed to quantify the degree of regularity versus unpredictability in a higher dimensional attractor reconstructed from a time series, such as the instantaneous heart rate time series.5, 6) A lower ApEn value reflects a higher degree of regularity, and the higher the entropy value, the more unpredictable the time series.5, 6)

The time - domain analysis (the standard deviation of all RR intervals [SDNN] and the square root of the mean squared differences of successive normal sinus intervals [RMSSD]-RRB-, the frequency - domain analysis (very low frequency, low frequency [LF], high frequency [HF], and total power [TP]-RRB-, and a non-linear complexity measure the approximate entropy were computed.