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  2. Hysteresis - Wikipedia

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    The curves form a hysteresis loop. Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history. For example, a magnet may have more than one possible magnetic moment in a given magnetic field, depending on how the field changed in the past. Plots of a single component of the moment often form a loop or hysteresis curve, where there are ...

  3. Alternative stable state - Wikipedia

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    Hysteresis is an important concept in alternative stable state theory. In this ecological context, hysteresis refers to the existence of different stable states under the same variables or parameters. Hysteresis can be explained by "path-dependency", in which the equilibrium point for the trajectory of "A → B" is different from for "B → A ...

  4. Biochemical switches in the cell cycle - Wikipedia

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    In the same year, Sha et al. [17] independently reached the same conclusion revealing the hysteretic loop also using Xenopus laevis egg extracts. In this article, three predictions of the Novak-Tyson model were tested in an effort to conclude that hysteresis is the driving force for "cell-cycle transitions into and out of mitosis". The ...

  5. Cell cycle checkpoint - Wikipedia

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    The presence of hysteresis allows for M phase entry to be highly regulated as a function of cyclin B-Cdk1 activity. The mechanisms by which mitotic entry is prevented in response to DNA damage are similar to those in the G1/S checkpoint.

  6. Hysteresivity - Wikipedia

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    Hysteresivity derives from “hysteresis”, meaning “lag”. It is the tendency to react slowly to an outside force, or to not return completely to its original state. Whereas the area within a hysteresis loop represents energy dissipated to heat and is an extensive quantity with units of energy, the hysteresivity represents the fraction of the elastic energy that is lost to heat, and is an ...

  7. Viscoelasticity - Wikipedia

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    Hysteresis is observed in the stress–strain curve, with the area of the loop being equal to the energy lost during the loading cycle. Since viscosity is the resistance to thermally activated plastic deformation, a viscous material will lose energy through a loading cycle.

  8. Ratcheting - Wikipedia

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    Ratcheting is a progressive, incremental inelastic deformation characterized by a shift of the stress-strain hysteresis loop along the strain axis. [4] When the amplitude of cyclic stresses exceed the elastic limit, the plastic deformation that occurs keep accumulating paving way for a catastrophic failure of the structure.

  9. Piezoresponse force microscopy - Wikipedia

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    In this technique the area underneath the PFM tip is switched with simultaneous acquisition of a hysteresis loop that can be analysed to obtain information about the sample properties. [11] A series of hysteresis loops are acquired across the sample surface in order to map the switching characteristics as a function of position.