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... given by Philip Tabor . This showed the relationships between twenty - one departments in a fairly large town hall , the relationships being measured by the number of trips and messages that passed between them . The actual figures are ...
... given by Philip Tabor . This showed the relationships between twenty - one departments in a fairly large town hall , the relationships being measured by the number of trips and messages that passed between them . The actual figures are ...
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... given type of change called homeorhesis , a word which means preserving a flow . One can picture a homeorhetic system in terms of an attractor surface ( which again is located in a multidimensional space , so that one again has to form ...
... given type of change called homeorhesis , a word which means preserving a flow . One can picture a homeorhetic system in terms of an attractor surface ( which again is located in a multidimensional space , so that one again has to form ...
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... given type of vibration and so on . Some world - famous scientists of the not too distant past - mostly Victorian physicists - claimed that until one had measured something , and turned it into a number , one was dealing only with ...
... given type of vibration and so on . Some world - famous scientists of the not too distant past - mostly Victorian physicists - claimed that until one had measured something , and turned it into a number , one was dealing only with ...
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