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... Transmissions in concrete systems All process involves some sort of transmission among subsystems within a system , or among systems . There are inputs across the boundary into a system , internal processes within it , and outputs from ...
... Transmissions in concrete systems All process involves some sort of transmission among subsystems within a system , or among systems . There are inputs across the boundary into a system , internal processes within it , and outputs from ...
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... transmission rates . Approximate calcu- lations of rates can be made , however , if the pulses transmitted in various periods of time are compared with the input . If , for example , the pulses transmitted in only the first 20 ms after ...
... transmission rates . Approximate calcu- lations of rates can be made , however , if the pulses transmitted in various periods of time are compared with the input . If , for example , the pulses transmitted in only the first 20 ms after ...
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... transmission that has been measured for any variable differing in one characteristic only . A person judging the sizes of squares transmits about 2.2 bits per moment . 55 In a separate experiment Eriksen found the transmission was 2.8 ...
... transmission that has been measured for any variable differing in one characteristic only . A person judging the sizes of squares transmits about 2.2 bits per moment . 55 In a separate experiment Eriksen found the transmission was 2.8 ...
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