0 a length of time during which you are not allowed to end or change a financial arrangement: --
1 an occasion when a pub locks its doors and allows people to continue drinking illegally after the time when it should have closed: --
2 a length of time during which you are not allowed to end a financial agreement: --
We have argued that changed objectives at the central level illustrate conversion, but the resistance of school managers reflects the existence of lock-in mechanisms at the level of implementation.
He explores processes of political lock-in, including and above all the way in which positive feedback affects the organizational and formalinstitutional arrangements that structure politics and policy making.
The failure to expand or maintain water supply, wastewater and waste collection systems after 1970 was only to some degree determined by a technical lock-in produced by past investment decisions.
Note that the uncertainty in the phase data are higher a t locations of smaller fundamental amplitudes due to reduced sensitivity of the lock-in amplifier a t low signal levels.
Educational changes have been continuously promoted, but confronted and rejected through lock-in mechanisms.
The intuition for why lock-in occurs is straightforward.
Using a 6.3mm diameter cylinder in a 120mm duct, they found lock-in occurred a t a speed of about 46 m s-1.
This is recalled in the next section in some detail because these very details form the backdrop of our analysis of the lock-in probability.
