The term that best describes the United Kingdom’s process of returning the delegation of authority from the central government back to the regional governments of <span>Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland would be "devolution," since this is the opposite of a transfer of power to a higher level. </span>
the first law of thermodynamics states that the change in internal energy of the system (ΔU) is equal to the amount of heat provided to the system (Q) minus the amount of work done by the system (W)
