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... kind of structure a complex system can have is a hierarchical chain of command , such as one finds in an army with ... kind , perhaps more democratic and more pluralistic , there is often a great tendency for it gradually to turn itself ...
... kind of structure a complex system can have is a hierarchical chain of command , such as one finds in an army with ... kind , perhaps more democratic and more pluralistic , there is often a great tendency for it gradually to turn itself ...
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... kind . But sometimes they are due to a breakdown in some apparently unrelated but fragile part of the system . To give an excessively simple example , a throttling down of one of the taps in Fig . 6a.2 might raise the water level in one ...
... kind . But sometimes they are due to a breakdown in some apparently unrelated but fragile part of the system . To give an excessively simple example , a throttling down of one of the taps in Fig . 6a.2 might raise the water level in one ...
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... kind , the first result will often be a lot of other changes where we didn't expect them , although if the system is left alone long enough , it might settle down to a terminal , or more or less terminal , stage , which had something ...
... kind , the first result will often be a lot of other changes where we didn't expect them , although if the system is left alone long enough , it might settle down to a terminal , or more or less terminal , stage , which had something ...
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