• As she observes about the results of a climate change study from 2012, "If information doesn't square with someone's prior beliefs, he discards the beliefs if they're weak and discards the information if the beliefs are strong. (scientificamerican.com)
  • While international banks are backing away from fossil fuels, Singapore's DBS, OCBC and UOB are fuelling climate change by financing new coal power projects in Southeast Asia, a group of 14 NGOs has said in an open letter calling on the banks to drop coal. (eco-business.com)
  • In a letter published on Wednesday , NGOs including Australia's Market Forces, Friends of the Earth US and Japan, and Indonesian group Wahli said that if global warming is to be capped below 2ËšC below pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, Singapore's banks must follow the lead taken by their European and North American counterparts and stop funding new coal power plants. (eco-business.com)
  • Not only [are Singapore's banks] failing to deliver policy and practical responses to climate change, but instead [they are] becoming an increasing part of the problem through the continued multi-billion dollar financing of coal-fired power stations and related infrastructure ," the letter reads. (eco-business.com)
  • In times of climate change, strategies for energy-efficient recycling of materials play an increasingly important role. (uni-bremen.de)
  • Officials will announce eagerly-awaited new standards for insulation in the Building Code at the end of the month, in what is a key to climate change moves by government. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • It could have kicked off a radical programme of "building for climate change", by opting to match or go even beyond international standards. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • The frequency and severity of emergencies continue to increase due to trends in climate change, urbanization, population growth, migration and state fragility. (who.int)
  • Rapid transitions to low-carbon energy systems are essential for mitigating the climate change, supporting socio-economic development and ensuring energy security. (lu.se)
  • In a large number of technical processes involving droplets and particles, transition processes take place between solid, liquid and gaseous. (uni-bremen.de)
  • Typical examples of such disperse phase transition processes are atomization processes with the aim of particle generation through solidification of the droplets or the local welding of particles in additive manufacturing to form parts. (uni-bremen.de)
  • Upon an onset of DNA hybridization between particles the phase transition from HCP order to 1D crystalline structure was observed. (aps.org)
  • In particular, all particles coupled to the same wave-length of the fluctuations will oscillate in phase with the EM field, that is, they will be coherent with the EM field. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • ABSTRACT - Consumer acculturation consists of three phases: Pre-immigration, transition, and outcomes. (acrwebsite.org)
  • ABSTRACT Demographic transitions in the Arab countries, due to declining birth rates and mortality rates since the 1980s, are reflected in a low proportion of children, a relatively stable proportion of elderly and a high proportion of people of working age. (who.int)
  • Common transitions between the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of a single component, due to the effects of temperature and/or pressure are identified in the following table: For a single component, the most stable phase at different temperatures and pressures can be shown on a phase diagram. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some solids can transition directly into the gaseous state, bypassing the liquid state, via a process known as sublimation. (jove.com)
  • Above this point, the transition between the Haldane insulator and charge-density-wave phases becomes first order. (arxiv.org)
  • The poor amorphous phase stability of GST mandates a high cooling rate in the order of 10 10 °C/s to ensure complete re-amorphization during melt quenching 39 , which coupled with their low thermal conductivity 40 stipulates a film thickness of around 100 nm or less. (nature.com)
  • Here, we demonstrate that in a nearly vacancy-free binary GeSb system where we can drive the phase change both thermally and, as we discover, by pressure, the transformation into the amorphous phase is electronic in origin. (edu.au)
  • It was reflected that the fast crystallization is because Sc stabilizes the 4-fold rings which act as precursors of nuclei in the amorphous phase. (osti.gov)
  • The findings reveal that Sc-centered configurations are almost in the form of stable octahedral clusters, which enhances the local order of the amorphous phase. (osti.gov)
  • The direct transitions from fully ordered to fully disordered phases have been reported to be continuous for N = 1 and N = 183, and discontinuous for N = 2. (kth.se)
  • We demonstrate that the degree of discontinuity of the direct transitions increases with N, at least for small N, and that the transitions from paired phases to fully disordered phases can be discontinuous. (kth.se)
  • They wrote 'History, as Hegel said, moves upward in a spiral of negations,' and that 'punctuated equilibria is a model for discontinuous tempos of change (in) the process of speciation and the deployment of species in geological time. (softpanorama.org)
  • It's when that change contradicts something we've long held as important that problems occur. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Phase transitions can also occur when a solid changes to a different structure without changing its chemical makeup. (wikipedia.org)
  • Separation into multiple phases can occur via spinodal decomposition, in which a single phase is cooled and separates into two different compositions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conclusion: Changes can occur in many different ways in the psychotherapeutic process. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Based on van Gennep s work, Nobel and Walker (1997 p. 30) defined liminality as, "the instability, ambiguity, and suspended identity that can occur in the transition from one significant role to another. (acrwebsite.org)
  • Apart from the commonly cited example of water turning to steam with increased temperature, Gould and Eldredge noted another analogy in information theory , 'with its jargon of equilibrium, steady state, and homeostasis maintained by negative feedback ,' and 'extremely rapid transitions that occur with positive feedback . (softpanorama.org)
  • Normal skin is restored in half of patients, and persistent skin changes such as telangiectasias, skin thinning and scarring may occur. (medscape.com)
  • Metastable states do not appear on usual phase diagrams. (wikipedia.org)
  • Use phase diagrams thermodynamic data tables to describe and analyse the properties of single and multi-component chemical systems. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Methods and Procedures: Seven concepts which are commonly used in nonlinear time series analysis were investigated in terms of their ability to identify changes in psychological time series: Recurrence Plots, Change Point Analysis, Dynamic Complexity, Permutation Entropy, Time Frequency Distributions, Instantaneous Frequency, and Synchronization Pattern Analysis, i.e., the dynamic inter-correlation of the system's variables. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • In my experience, when deployment to production does not happen every commit, dependencies between producers and consumers are usually managed by manually releasing each system's changes in the correct order, or by automatically redeploying and restarting the whole stack. (thoughtworks.com)
  • Increasing the ratio between nearest-neighbor and local Coulomb interaction $V/U$, the enhancement of the entanglement entropy, the variation of the charge, spin and neutral gaps, and the dynamical spin/density response signal a quantum phase transition to a charge-ordered state. (arxiv.org)
  • At the phase transition point for a substance, for instance the boiling point, the two phases involved - liquid and vapor, have identical free energies and therefore are equally likely to exist. (wikipedia.org)
  • We conduct simulations of asymmetric bubble dynamics near a rigid wall with three phases (liquid, vapor, and gas) using the open-source Multi-component Flow Code [Bryngelson et al. (aps.org)
  • During the one year long project, Platypus Technologies has demonstrated detection of toluene vapor exploiting the anisotropic optical properties of LCs using multiple detection mechanisms including LC phase transition, polymer dispersed LC, rubbed polymer surfaces, and de-wetting induced orientational transition in LC film. (cdc.gov)
  • Phase transitions can also describe the change between different kinds of magnetic ordering. (wikipedia.org)
  • These models are of central interest due to the theory of deconfined quantum criticality, according to which such gauge theories may describe phase transitions beyond the Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson paradigm. (kth.se)
  • By considering fluctuation effects in phase-frustrated three-component Ginzburg-Landau models, we place constraints on the models used to describe the material in question. (kth.se)
  • Calculate the equilibrium constant for a chemical process and describe the effects of changes in conditions (temperature, pressure, and composition) on the value of the equilibrium constant. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • ADXRD results indicated a reversible pressure-induced phase transition from ambient monoclinic to hexagonal phase at about 8.9 GPa. (arxiv.org)
  • Schematic picture of a hexagonal phase with anionic DNA and rodlike cationic CTA micelles which are distorted to reduce the electrostatic free energy. (lu.se)
  • for example, a liquid may become gas upon heating to its boiling point, resulting in an abrupt change in volume. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many 'local rule-global emergence' dynamics feature abrupt changes, called phase transitions. (tudelft.nl)
  • Phase transitions involving solutions and mixtures are more complicated than transitions involving a single compound. (wikipedia.org)
  • While chemically pure compounds exhibit a single temperature melting point between solid and liquid phases, mixtures can either have a single melting point, known as congruent melting, or they have different liquidus and solidus temperatures resulting in a temperature span where solid and liquid coexist in equilibrium. (wikipedia.org)
  • The electronic driving force behind the phase change has the potential to change the interconversion paradigm in this material class. (edu.au)
  • [38] They noted that 'the law of transformation of quantity into quality', 'holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another,' a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift . (softpanorama.org)
  • 2020)]. MFC solves the 3D, compressible Navier-Stokes equations using a six-equation multiphase numerical model including phase change. (aps.org)
  • Imaging of ferroelastic domain dynamics in a CsPbBr3 perovskite nanowire as the temperature is ramped across a phase transition [Marcal 2020]. (lu.se)
  • By taking the nucleon-to-quark phase transition within a neutron star as an example, we present a thermodynamically consistent method to calculate the equation of state of ambient matter so that transitions that are intermediate to those of the familiar Maxwell and Gibbs constructions can be described. (arxiv.org)
  • As with states of matter, there are also a metastable to equilibrium phase transformation for structural phase transitions. (wikipedia.org)
  • This report, the third in a series on democratic theories of change, critically engages with this literature to ask three questions: Under what circumstances do democratic practice or movement toward democracy quell (or exacerbate) the risk of different kinds of violent conflict? (ciaonet.org)
  • While past reports detailed the hypothesized causes of democratic backsliding (Phase I) and democratic transitions (Phase II), this report focuses on the reciprocal relationship between democratic practice and conflict. (ciaonet.org)
  • Thermoresponsive microgels are one of the most investigated types of soft colloids, thanks to their ability to undergo a Volume Phase Transition (VPT) close to ambient temperature. (lu.se)
  • Using inexpensive optical fibers to harvest ambient light, we have also demonstrated feasibility of a passive mode of detection of the change in optical properties of LC sensors. (cdc.gov)
  • There is rapid feedback on how changes integrate with other team members' code, real production load, data, user behavior and third-party systems. (thoughtworks.com)
  • The identification of the external conditions at which a transformation occurs defines the phase transition point. (wikipedia.org)
  • A phase transition usually occurs when the pressure or temperature changes and the system crosses from one region to another, like water turning from liquid to solid as soon as the temperature drops below the freezing point. (wikipedia.org)
  • The martensitic transformation occurs as one of the many phase transformations in carbon steel and stands as a model for displacive phase transformations. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most well-known is the transition between the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases of magnetic materials, which occurs at what is called the Curie point. (wikipedia.org)
  • At that point, a phase transition occurs. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • Transition to the involuted phase occurs during the second half of the first decade of life. (medscape.com)
  • The change from one crystal structure to another, from a crystalline solid to an amorphous solid, or from one amorphous structure to another (polyamorphs) are all examples of solid to solid phase transitions. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are also a number of phase transitions involving three phases: a eutectic transformation, in which a two-component single-phase liquid is cooled and transforms into two solid phases. (wikipedia.org)
  • A peritectic transformation, in which a two-component single-phase solid is heated and transforms into a solid phase and a liquid phase. (wikipedia.org)
  • A metastable polymorph which forms rapidly due to lower surface energy will transform to an equilibrium phase given sufficient thermal input to overcome an energetic barrier. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rachel Maldonado and Patriya Tansuhaj (1999) ,'Transition Challenges in Consumer Acculturation: Role Destabilization and Changes in Symbolic Consumption', in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 26, eds. (acrwebsite.org)
  • We research the conditions under which such changes are feasible, particularly with respect to solar, wind and nuclear power as well as phasing out fossil fuels. (lu.se)
  • When optical phase change materials (O-PCMs) undergo solid-state phase transition, their optical properties are significantly altered. (nature.com)
  • This paper provides a report on progress in respect of WHO's future work in emergency risk management, the scope, major functions and structure of a new WHO entity for this purpose, a set of performance benchmarks for the transformative changes that will underpin this work, linkages with the broader emergency architecture, a timeline for rolling out the new emergency entity, and the estimated near-term financial implications. (who.int)
  • GlobalData's proprietary machine learning models consider these events in real time, to produce quantitative changes to the LOA and PTSR along with qualitative reasoning why the likelihood of approval has changed. (globaldata.com)
  • Although the interconversion appears to involve a change in local atomic coordination numbers, the electronic basis for this process is still unclear. (edu.au)
  • Energy transitions involve changes in economies, technologies and governance of energy systems. (lu.se)
  • Aim: In many cases, the dynamics of psychotherapeutic change processes is characterized by sudden and critical transitions. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Phase transitions were simulated by shifting control parameters in the Hénon map dynamics, in a simulation model of psychotherapy processes (one by an external shift of the control parameter and one created by a simulated control parameter shift), and three sets of empirical time series generated by daily self-ratings of patients during the treatment. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The modeling of these processes on the basis of heat, momentum and mass transfer with the integration of different scale solidification models (also based on the phase field method) allows the identification of process paths for the setting of specific properties. (uni-bremen.de)
  • Our studies demonstrate novel mechanism for transition from ordered 2D to ordered 1D structure due to the domination of DNA-induced attraction over an electrostatic repulsion and open a route for nano-structure manipulations at the interfaces. (aps.org)
  • We confirm experimentally the exceptional resilience of the anomalous phase, and demonstrate its operation in various arbitrarily shaped disordered multi-port prototypes. (nature.com)
  • Here we demonstrate an anomalous non-reciprocal topological phase in which edge transmission is quantitatively stronger than for the Chern phase, surviving parametric fluctuations arbitrarily larger than the bandgap size. (nature.com)
  • The goal of this phase I SBIR project was to demonstrate the feasibility of the liquid crystal (LC)-based sensor technology, for detection of toluene, to be employed as a passive ESLI in APRs. (cdc.gov)
  • A peritectoid reaction is a peritectoid rection, except involving only solid phases. (wikipedia.org)
  • A monotectic reaction consists of change from a liquid and to a combination of a solid and a second liquid, where the two liquids display a miscibility gap. (wikipedia.org)
  • Each of these evolutionary changes in the curing reaction process occurred with sound scientific rationale as well as the aim of simplifying and/or speeding up placement process. (bvsalud.org)
  • Another example is the transition between differently ordered, commensurate or incommensurate, magnetic structures, such as in cerium antimonide. (wikipedia.org)
  • How can external interventions mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities inherent in transitions to democracy and peace? (ciaonet.org)
  • Despite a slowing of this activity with CMS's cancelation of some mandatory episodes, evidence suggests the transition is likely to once more accelerate, driven by physician interest in APMs, which will grow as the economics of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Merit-based Incentive System (MIPS) become increasingly unattractive. (hfma.org)
  • Use PTSR and LOA information and event-driven changes for your investment decisions. (globaldata.com)
  • Students know the principles of atomic electron transitions and the relevance of symmetries e.g. parity symmetry. (tum.de)
  • Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs), a unique group of materials featuring exceptional optical property contrast upon a solid-state phase transition, have found widespread adoption in photonic applications such as switches, routers and reconfigurable meta-optics. (nature.com)
  • To date, these devices only leverage phase change materials originally developed for electronic switching. (nature.com)
  • Phase-change materials are functionally important materials that can be thermally interconverted between metallic (crystalline) and semiconducting (amorphous) phases on a very short time scale. (edu.au)
  • Our ability to put these new changes into place is dependent upon having those materials and supplies available. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • However, there is a broad palate of direct filling composite materials available and it may provide an informative example to consider what prompts changes in these materials as well as how the institution of those changes affects the practice of dentistry. (bvsalud.org)
  • While a range of sometimes subtle to more dramatic changes have occurred in the resins and fillers used, let me use the polymerization initiation process as a focal point here, early versions of these esthetic materials were two-part, self-curing formulations that later gave way to single-part, UV-cured composites, which then progressed to the now ubiquitous visible light-activated restoratives. (bvsalud.org)
  • Phase transitions commonly refer to when a substance transforms between one of the four states of matter to another. (wikipedia.org)
  • The physical form of a substance changes on changing its temperature. (jove.com)
  • The cause of immigration (voluntary vs. involuntary) is thought to have a motivational influence on the transition process and outcomes (Wallendorf and Reilly 1983). (acrwebsite.org)
  • A) Surveillance systems, which collect data continuously, monitor changes in infection outcomes (or behavior) at different levels of severity on the severity pyramid. (cdc.gov)
  • Will the drug transition to the next phase of its clinical pathway? (globaldata.com)
  • Taking into account moisture migration and heat change during the soil freezing process, as well as the influence of absolute porosity reduction on seepage during the freezing process, we construct a numerical model of hydrothermal coupling using laws of conservation of energy and mass. (hindawi.com)
  • This refrigeration cycle goes through the change in phase transition during the process. (menafn.com)
  • A phase of a thermodynamic system and the states of matter have uniform physical properties. (wikipedia.org)
  • Annealing methods face with a difficulty when a phase transition point exists during the protocol. (harvard.edu)
  • In exception to the usual case, it is sometimes possible to change the state of a system diabatically (as opposed to adiabatically) in such a way that it can be brought past a phase transition point without undergoing a phase transition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Trimmers need to be active in this phase, since every puff is a chance to accelerate and point. (quantumsails.com)
  • In the transition phase, it's better to err on the side of a little extra heel if you are trying to point. (quantumsails.com)
  • Below a critical point, which belongs to the universality class of the tricritical Ising model with central charge 7/10, the model is critical with $c=1/2$ along the transition line. (arxiv.org)
  • Order-disorder transitions such as in alpha-titanium aluminides. (wikipedia.org)
  • We explore the general conditions needed to obtain such an unusual effect in systems made of unitary three-port non-reciprocal scatterers connected by phase links, and establish the superior robustness of anomalous edge transmission modes over Chern ones to phase-link disorder of arbitrarily large values. (nature.com)
  • This behaviour inherently confines the topological protection of Chern phases to small distributed disorder levels. (nature.com)
  • We compare quantitatively the robustness of transmission through the anomalous and Chern channels to phase-link and scattering disorder, by statistical averaging over many disorder realizations. (nature.com)
  • Among various mechanisms, utilizing the de-wetting induced orientational transition of LCs, we have demonstrated detection of 2000 ppm in approximately 2 minutes in the presence of humidity. (cdc.gov)
  • Nearly 2000 parents were shown one of four pro-vaccination campaigns, each adopting a different persuasive strategy (facts, science, emotions or stories) plus one control group, to see which was most effective in changing minds. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Examples include partially ordered phases and spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry due to frustration between Josephson-coupled components. (kth.se)
  • The nature of the phase transitions for small N is an outstanding open question. (kth.se)
  • For instance, there can be very slow and small transitions or very high and sudden ones. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Most vascular tumors can be observed through their typical phases of development until they involute. (medscape.com)
  • Changing careers or making an evolution in your employment path can be one of the most difficult things you will ever do. (defineyourcareer.com)
  • Commonly the term is used to refer to changes among the basic states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas, and in rare cases, plasma. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our study reveals the role of Sc atoms in the liquid and amorphous structure, paving the way for the application of Sc-based phase-change memory. (osti.gov)
  • I equate a career transition to a passage. (defineyourcareer.com)
  • Look at the three stages of a career transition like you are making a passage through a potentially dangerous terrain. (defineyourcareer.com)
  • Let's take a closer look at how to approach this phase of your career change passage to get the best results. (defineyourcareer.com)
  • The results show the validity and stability of different measures indicating pattern transitions and/or early warning signals of those transitions. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Relevant factors in this phase include individual, psychological, social, and cultural characteristics as well as what Andreasen (1990) called cultural interpenetration (exposure of one culture to another through direct experience and/or indirectly through the media or the experiences of others). (acrwebsite.org)
  • This law is related to the law of development through the struggle of opposites, transition of one phenomenon into another, its opposite, and transition of the former into such opposite, in which is included and integrates on a new level both preceding stages of development. (softpanorama.org)