Isolated systems spontaneously evolve towards thermal equilibrium — the state of maximum entropy of the system — in a process known as " thermalization ".

The earliest predecessor of Commonwealth Edison was the Isolated Lighting Company, established in early 1881 by George H. Bliss as a subsidiary of Thomas Edison's company to sell small Edison-patented generators and lighting systems, each serving one building or several nearby buildings.

Isolated enterprises have been launched, but they are not yet related to each other in a meaningful pattern.

Isolated gravitationally bound small molecular clouds with masses less than a few hundred times the mass of the Sun are called Bok globules.

Both integrated and isolated bonding networks as per Telcordia GR-295, Mesh and Isolated Bonding Networks: Definition and Application to Telephone Central Offices, are a technically viable means to ground and bond the equipment in a safe and effective manner.

Isolated islands are also able to eliminate rat populations because of low human population density and geographic distance from other rat populations.

Isolated peaks, often rich in minerals, rise above the plateaus ; the smaller peaks are called guelbs and the larger ones kedias.

Isolated spines are common as fossils.

Isolated peaks of the Boston Mountain range are found in the south, including Boat Mountain, Pilot's Knob, and Gaither Mountain.

Isolated seamounts and those without clear volcanic origins are less common ; examples include Bollons Seamount, Eratosthenes Seamount, Axial Seamount and Gorringe Ridge.

Isolated small dark nebulae are called Bok globules.

Isolated populations are found in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, and the Appalachian Mountains as far south as Kentucky and Virginia.

Isolated sixth nerve palsies in children are assumed to be due to brain tumors until proven otherwise.

Isolated sections of taiga are found along mountain ranges, as in the southern part of the Urals, and in the Amur River Valley in the Far East.

Isolated transformers have a real impedance at a resonance frequency where self-inductance and self-capacitance for each individual winding are equal at a given frequency.

Isolated cases are reported in America, Europe and Asia.

Isolated municipal ISPs and larger state-wide initiatives alike are tightly focused on wireless networking.

Isolated gluons do not occur at low energies because they are color-charged, and subject to color confinement.

Extra lives are unobtainable in the game ; once the player is damaged when he has no rings and his partner is absent ( if the character has no rings, getting hit will temporarily cause the player to lose his partner, but he will return eventually ; effectively making the partner an ' extra hit point ' for the players sake ) or if the character uses ' recall ' to reduce his ring counter to negative 99 rings or lower, he will automatically be taken back to the world lobby ( or back to the title screen, if he is in Isolated Island when this happens, which is also only possible through using recall, due to lack of hazardous obstacles or enemies in that level ) and be given a chance to leave / save or to choose a different partner and / or try to choose another attraction to play.

Isolated mountain ranges are scattered here, mostly on the Western side, but few of them reach over 1, 200 feet.

Isolated and relatively homogeneous habitats such as crater lakes and islands are among the best geographical settings in which to demonstrate sympatric speciation.

Isolated roadhouses serving the small amount of passing traffic are often the only signs of human activity for hundreds of kilometres.

Isolated references to celestial " signs " in Sumerian sources are insufficient to speak of a Sumerian zodiac.

Isolated groves are found as far north as the San Francisco Bay Area in Mt.

Isolated significant severe events are possible in some circumstances, but are generally not widespread.

Isolated populations are also found in some mountainous regions of the Sahara.

Isolated members of Malagasy Hippopotamus may have survived in remote pockets ; in 1976, villagers described a living animal called the Kilopilopitsofy, which may have been a Malagasy Hippopotamus.

Isolated in Dublin, with the king desiring to minimize his Irish troops, Ormonde therefore agreed to a " cessation " or ceasefire with the Catholics, which began in September 1643, by which the greater part of Ireland was given up into the hands of the Catholic Confederation ( leaving only districts in the north, the Dublin Pale, round Cork City, and certain smallish garrisons in the possession of Protestant commanders ).

Isolated planetary-mass objects which were not ejected from a star's orbit, may have formed in a similar way to stars.

Isolated from the country's main punk scene in Auckland ( which had been influenced by bands such as England's Buzzcocks ), Dunedin's punk groups-such as The Enemy ( which became Toy Love ) and The Same ( which later developed into The Chills ) developed a sound more heavily influenced by artists like The Velvet Underground and The Stooges.

Isolated on the plateau, in the neighbourhood of Hazaribagh town are four hills of which the highest Chendwar rises to 2, 810 ft. On all sides it has an exceedingly abrupt scarp, modified only on the south-east.

He performed an HBO special in the Fall of 2006, Vicious Circle, a straight-to-DVD special titled Rough Around The Edges ( which is included in the album of the same name ), and a Comedy Central special in 2009 titled Isolated Incident.

He finished his fourth album, Isolated Incident ; a performance which aired on Comedy Central on May 17, 2009, with the release of the record following two days later.

Isolated aniridia is a congenital disorder which is not limited to a defect in iris development, but is a panocular condition with macular and optic nerve hypoplasia, cataract, and corneal changes.

Isolated stands of conifers and other evergreen trees such as bay laurel, tanbark oak and madrone grow on the higher parts of the northern slopes, which are cooler and have a somewhat higher annual rainfall than the southern slopes.

In 1882, this company was taken over by the Western Edison Light Company, which was chartered by several prominent Chicagoans to not only take over Isolated Lighting's role as Edison's agent in Chicago, but also to develop a central station electric system.

These features are offered through the new PB. NET IDE, which is built on the Visual Studio Isolated Shell.

* Isolated the bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus from the stomach of children, which is responsible for souring of milk products

Isolated tribes may lack immunity to common diseases, which can kill a large percentage of their people after contact.

Isolated sleep paralysis, vivid dreams and geomagnetic field influences: II.

Isolated galaxies can produce stars at a higher rate than normal, as their gas is not being stripped by other nearby galaxies.

Isolated water molecules, and silanols, structures such as Si-O-H, generally form a lesser proportion of the total and can reside near the surface or in defects inside the opal.

Isolated injury to the fourth nerve can be caused by any process that stretches or compresses the nerve.

Isolated hairs can be removed by using tweezers or by electrolysis.

* Isolated power supplies require careful checking for parasitic, component, or internal PCB power plane capacitance that can allow AC present on input power or connectors to pass into the ground plane, or to any other internal signal.

Isolated can be further classified by social agency:

Isolated regular army units forced to operate without regular support for long periods of time can degrade into irregulars.

Isolated higher-level control processes can be investigated, but models of an extensive hierarchy of control are still only conceptual, or at best rudimentary.