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Page 158
... increased from about 3.7 to about 10.7 percent . It was apparent that the increased input rates of traffic accelerated information processing to such a point of overload that the necessary information to ensure optimal landings could ...
... increased from about 3.7 to about 10.7 percent . It was apparent that the increased input rates of traffic accelerated information processing to such a point of overload that the necessary information to ensure optimal landings could ...
Page 182
... increased their transmission rates with input rate up to a point and then decreased , so that at the input rate of 15.00 bits per s they were transmitting information more slowly than at an input rate of 2.81 bits per s . This in spite ...
... increased their transmission rates with input rate up to a point and then decreased , so that at the input rate of 15.00 bits per s they were transmitting information more slowly than at an input rate of 2.81 bits per s . This in spite ...
Page 978
... increasing success and increasing failure increased military risk taking . At odds of 5 to 7 , how- ever , the trend reversed . Subjects for these experiments were selected after they were tested as to their " structural complexity ...
... increasing success and increasing failure increased military risk taking . At odds of 5 to 7 , how- ever , the trend reversed . Subjects for these experiments were selected after they were tested as to their " structural complexity ...
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