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21Nobuo Okishio — (置塩 信雄?, January 2, 1927, Hyōgo ku, Kobe – November 13, 2003) was a Japanese Marxian economist and emeritus professor of Kobe University. In 1979, He was elected President of Japan Association of Economics and Econometrics, which is now… …
22capital and interest — ▪ economics Introduction in economics, a stock of resources that may be employed in the production of goods and services and the price paid for the use of credit or money, respectively. Capital in economics is a word of many meanings …
23Ice sheet dynamics — describe the motion within large bodies of ice, such those currently on Greenland and Antarctica. Ice motion is dominated by the movement of glaciers, whose gravity driven activity is controlled by two main variable factors: the temperature and… …
24Atlantic Ocean — an ocean bounded by North America and South America in the Western Hemisphere and by Europe and Africa in the Eastern Hemisphere. ab. 31,530,000 sq. mi. (81,663,000 sq. km); with connecting seas ab. 41,000,000 sq. mi. (106,100,000 sq. km);… …
25Mutational meltdown — refers to the process by which a small population accumulates harmful mutations, which leads to loss of fitness and decline of the population size, which may lead to further accumulation of deleterious mutations due to inbreeding depression. A… …
26global warming — an increase in the earth s average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. [1975 80] * * * Potential increase in global average surface temperatures resulting from… …
27Reynolds transport theorem — is a fundamental theorem used in formulating the basic conservation laws of fluid dynamics. These conservation laws (law of conservation of mass, law of conservation of linear momentum, and law of conservation of energy) are adopted from… …
28Transport phenomena — In physics, chemistry, biology and engineering, a transport phenomenon is any of various mechanisms by which particles or quantities move from one place to another. The laws which govern transport connect a flux with a motive force . Three common …
29Kirchhoff's circuit laws — are two equalities that deal with the conservation of charge and energy in electrical circuits, and were first described in 1845 by Gustav Kirchhoff.[1] Widely used in electrical engineering, they are also called Kirchhoff s rules or simply… …
30greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons. [1980 85] * * * ▪ atmospheric science Introduction any gas that has the property of… …
