Citations:ectropy

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English citations of ectropy

  • 1953, Proceedings of the international course in paedo-audiology, Groeningen University, page 16:
    Ectropy was then put over and against entropy. The first to point out a possible connection between processes of life and ectropy was no less a person than von Helmholtz.
  • 1972, Edward Fröhlich Haskell (volume editor and chapter author), Full Circle: The Moral Force of Unified Science, Gordon and Breach, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), chapter ii: “Generalization of the Structure of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table”, page 44:
    In less traditional terms, the increase of disorder is called increase of entropy and the increase of order is called increase of ectropy: […]
  • 1979, Journal of Asian-Pacific & World Perspectives III–IV, page 15:
    Ectropic nations and organizations maximize the ratio of levels of energy received to work produced, and are able to utilize and absorb higher levels of ectropy.
  • 2004, Watam Press, Applications and Algorithms, Volume 11, page 638:
    Hence, for an isolated large-scale dynamical system the entropy increases if and only if the ectropy decreases.
  • 2012, Z. Dong, “Self-stability analysis of MHTGRs: A shifted-ectropy based approach” in Nuclear Engineering and Design CCXLVIII, pages 137–148 [link]