Examples of irreversibility

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Nonlinearity does not imply time irreversibility; there exist stationary nonlinear time processes that are time reversible.
An implanted technology, such as the paradigmatic cardiac pacemaker, generally implies permanence and irreversibility (or at least difficulty in removal).
Sectors that wish to disinvest, but cannot because of the irreversibility constraint, would have a below-average marginal productivity of capital.
A casual examination seems to give little room for cheer, especially considering the unprecented scale and numerous irreversibilities in our current predicament.
The agreement essentially demonstrated the acceptance of the irreversibility of agrarian reform and the end of a military authoritarian agrarian model.
An important feature of irreversibility to consider is its variable and continuous quality.
The contract, in its first stage of implementation, covers a short three-year period, and apparently there is no irreversibility in the transfer.
In environmental economics, the intertemporal h-option value is particularly important because the uncertainty faced is typically hard, and irreversibility is a very serious matter.
Quality needs to be improved by counselling women very carefully about their sterilization decisions, dwelling on its possible irreversibility and providing detailed information about side-effects.
In chapter 1, for instance, the author tackles the problem of irreversibility and its statistical significance.
As discussed in the introduction, the irreversibility of investment prevents the equalization of marginal productivity across sectors at every point in time.
The mathematics of 'relaxation phenomena' offers a formal account of what the intuitive notion of irreversibility amounts to.
So far we have considered the case where the irreversibility constraint is not binding.
There are also important problems of resilience and irreversibilities that need to be taken into account in constructing counterfactual scenarios.
The habit had a crucial disciplinary function too, reminding the nuns of the lifestyle they had to follow and the irreversibility of their religious status.
The committee must therefore explain how (1) and (3) add up to the sense of irreversibility involved in the ordinary concept of death.
Such non-equilibrium effects lead to hysteresis, irreversibility, transient effects, discontinuous or sudden changes, diffusion-limited interactions and, in particular, important differences between local versus global effects.
The additional garbage register is needed because of the irreversibility of the map, and keeps track of the information loss during the evolution.
The central issue with the detection of time irreversibility in an economic time series is the implication for modeling the series.

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