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LONDON
It lies astride the River Thames 50 miles(about 80 km)upstream from its estuary on the North Sea.In satellite photographs the metropolitan can be seen to sit compactly in a Green Belt of open land.The growth of the built-up area was halted by strict town planning controls in the mid-1950s.Its physical limits more or less correspond to the administrative and statical boundaries separating ... Continuare A MENTAL UNIT OF MEASUREMENT
The measurement scale of primary interest in psychophiysics is the S-cale which may be called the psychological continuum in contrast with the physical or stimulus-continuum, the R-scale. In the original formulation of Fechner’s law the S’scale was described as sensation intensity but this interpretation of the psychological continuum is now pretty much out of date. We now speak of the S-scale as ... Continuare
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