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... measure and what valid operational measures of critical phenomena are available . They say : With more knowledge on what to measure and better opera- tional measures , work on understanding the past and predict- ing the future would be ...
... measure and what valid operational measures of critical phenomena are available . They say : With more knowledge on what to measure and better opera- tional measures , work on understanding the past and predict- ing the future would be ...
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... measure of pathology at the society level in my conceptual sys- tem . It measures rates of pathological interpersonal matter - energy and information transactions within the society , given as the number of instances of partic- ular ...
... measure of pathology at the society level in my conceptual sys- tem . It measures rates of pathological interpersonal matter - energy and information transactions within the society , given as the number of instances of partic- ular ...
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... measured . The Shannon statistic , H = Σp ; log2 p1 , is the negative of the measure for entropy . Thus a precise relationship is known of entropy to negentropy to information . We know that E = mc2 states the relation of energy to mass ...
... measured . The Shannon statistic , H = Σp ; log2 p1 , is the negative of the measure for entropy . Thus a precise relationship is known of entropy to negentropy to information . We know that E = mc2 states the relation of energy to mass ...
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