Entropic forces also occur in the physics of gases and solutions, where they generate the pressure of an ideal gas ( the energy of which depends only on its temperature, not its volume ), the osmotic pressure of a dilute solution, and in colloidal suspensions, where they are responsible for the crystallization of hard spheres.

* Boy on a Stick and Slither was featured in the article " Nihilism is Easy: the Theory of Entropic Narrative or Webcomics and the Death of Culture " for the " Webcomics Examiner ".

This rare phenomenon, scientifically known as ' Entropic Explosion ', is reminiscent of the rapid reaction that produces gas in the safety air-bags of cars during accidents.

At a symposium at the Dutch Spinoza-institute on 8 December 2009 he introduced a theory of Entropic gravity.

However, as an unforeseen consequence, it leaves those still living unable to die, forcing the remaining heroes on Earth to resurrect Jude The Entropic Man as a means for dying.

* C. Bustamante, J. F. Marko, E. D. Siggia, and S. Smith ( 1994 ), " Entropic elasticity of lambda-phage DNA.

According to the National Statistical Service, the booming construction and service sectors remain the driving forces of the high growth rate of GDP.

According to NATO, the general role of artillery is to provide fire support, which is defined as " the application of fire, coordinated with the maneuver of forces to destroy, neutralize, or suppress the enemy.

According to a March 2004 BBC profile, politics within the country are dominated by tensions between Obiang's son, Teodorin, and other close relatives with powerful positions in the security forces.

According to the present understanding, there are four fundamental interactions or forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, the weak interaction, and the strong interaction.

According to Human Rights Watch, numerous Iranian agents were assisting the Shia Hezb-i Wahdat forces of Abdul Ali Mazari, as Iran was attempting to maximize Wahdat's military power and influence.

According to Human Rights Watch in 1997 Taliban soldiers were summarily executed in and around Mazar-i Sharif by Dostum's Junbish forces.

According to Knuth, literate programming provides for higher-quality programs, since it forces programmers to explicitly state the thoughts behind the program, making poorly thought-out design decisions more obvious.

According to the historian Eutropius, the forces of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius battled against the Marcomannic confederation for three years at the fortress of Carnuntum in Pannonia.

" According to Article 102, " the Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea commands and directs all the armed forces and guides national defence as a whole.

According to the Party Act ( article 46 ) adopted in 1980, " KPA is the revolutionary armed forces of the KWP.

According to Newton's laws, the sum of all the forces will equal the mass times its acceleration ( F = ma ).

According to OHCHR, the Oromia Support Group ( OSG ) recorded 594 extra-judicial killings of Oromos by Ethiopian government security forces and 43 disappearances in custody between 2005 and August 2008.

According to Musharraf, lieutenant-general TP was an ill-mannered, foul-mouth, ill-disciplined officer and was responsible to cause dissension in the armed forces, an information Musharraf reported claimed to have credible and authentic.

According to a December report by the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris NGO, 473 FARC-EP guerrillas and 357 members of the Colombian security forces died in combat between January and September 2010.

According to Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris, FARC-EP killed 429 members of the Colombian government's security forces between January and October 2011.

According to the U. S. interpretation of the Taif Accord, Syria and Lebanon were to have decided on the redeployment of Syrian forces from Beirut and other coastal areas of Lebanon by September 1992.

According to Jesse Stommel of Bright Lights Film Journal, the lack of explicit violence in the film forces viewers to question their own fascination with violence that they play a central role in imagining.

According to Human Rights Watch, Iran assisted the Shia Hazara Hezb-i Wahdat forces of Abdul Ali Mazari, as Iran attempted to maximize Wahdat's military power and influence.

According to UK Ministry of Defence, British military forces have also used thermobaric weapons in their AGM-114N Hellfire missiles ( carried by Apache helicopters and UAVs ) against the Taliban in the War in Afghanistan.

According to the U. S. Defense Department, the video was seized from the compound during the May 2011 operation by US special forces in which bin Laden was killed.

According to Max Boot's book War Made New ( 2006, pg 122 ), sometime between 1803 and 1809, the Prussian General Staff developed war games, with staff officers moving metal pieces around on a game table ( with blue pieces representing their forces and red pieces those of the enemy ), using dice rolls to indicate random chance and with a referee scoring the results.

According to the common explanation, when electric waves are set up in the neighborhood of this circuit, electromotive forces are generated in it which appear to make the filings move closer together, that is, to cohere, and thus their electrical resistance decreasesaccordingly, Sir Oliver Lodge termed this piece of apparatus a coherer.

According to the BBC, Yemeni media say the embassy closures come after " six trucks full of weapons and explosives entered the capital, and the security forces lost track of the vehicles.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

# Where the appearance of the first object forces one's mind to think about the second one.

Serbia attacked south towards Skopje and Monastir and then turned west to present-day Albania, reaching the Adriatic, while a second Army captured Kosovo and linked with the Montenegrin forces.

When a body is acted upon by external contact forces, internal contact forces are then transmitted from point to point inside the body to balance their action, according to Newton's second law of motion of conservation of linear momentum and angular momentum ( for continuous bodies these laws are called the Euler's equations of motion ).

By treating the extra acceleration terms due to the rotation of the frame as if they were forces, subtracting them from the physical forces, it's possible to treat the second time derivative of position ( relative to the rotating frame ) as absolute acceleration.

There are two forces ; one is the force of gravity vertically downward through the center of mass of the ball mg where m is the mass of the ball and g is the gravitational acceleration ; the second is the upward normal force exerted by the road perpendicular to the road surface ma < sub > n </ sub >.

The first of these strategies creates memorable phrases, while the second forces us to create our own reconciliations of the supposed contradictions.

During the second encounter, Roman forces seized Narseh's camp, his treasury, his harem, and his wife.

The battle halted the second ( and final ) advance by the Axis forces into Egypt, El Alamein being only from Alexandria.

A second attempt by Rommel to bypass or break the Commonwealth position was repulsed in the Battle of Alam Halfa in August, and in October the Eighth Army decisively defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Such deviations are caused by external forces acting on a body in accordance with Newton's second law of motion, which states that the net force acting on a body is equal to that body's ( inertial ) mass multiplied by its acceleration.

However the term Irish Republican Army in its modern sense was first used in the second decade of the 20th century for the rebel forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising.

In both cases, application of Newton's second law would not work for the rotating observer without invoking centrifugal and Coriolis forces to account for their observations ( tension in the case of the spheres ; parabolic water surface in the case of the rotating bucket ).

The second expansion of Europe was a complex historical process in which political, social and emotional forces in Europe and on the periphery were more influential than calculated imperialism.

First, Britain must give an assurance of full independence for India after the war and allow the election of a constituent assembly to frame a new constitution ; second, although the Indian armed forces would remain under the British Commander-in-Chief, Indians must be included immediately in the central government and given a chance to share power and responsibility.

In the second stanza, Khan is able to establish some order in the natural world but he cannot stop the forces of nature that constantly try to destroy what he made.

The result was a naval arms race with Britain as the German navy grew to become one of the greatest maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy.

Switzerland long maintained, proportionally, the second largest military force in the world, with about half the proportional amount of reserve forces of the Israeli Defense Forces, a militia of some 33 % of the total population.

* 1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.

In the second, Kantakouzenos used Ottoman forces against John V himself, granting them the use of a European fortress at Çimpe around 1352.

He aspired to attach the Ottoman forces permanently to his interests, and hoped to achieve this by giving his second daughter, Theodora, in marriage to their ruler, despite differences of creed and the disparity of age.

Buoyed by his military successes, Bruce's forces also invaded Ireland in 1315, purportedly to free the country from English rule ( having received a reply to offers of assistance from Donal O ' Neil, king of Tyrone ), and to open a second front in the continuing wars with England.