Part-time work freedom

The fluctuation dissipation theorem relates the dissipative part of the response fiinction (x") to the correlation of fluctuations (A, for any system in themial equilibrium. The left-hand side describes the dissipative behaviour of a many-body system all or part of the work done by the external forces is irreversibly distributed mto the infinitely many degrees of freedom of the themial system. The correlation fiinction on the right-hand side describes the maimer m which a fluctuation arising spontaneously in a system in themial equilibrium, even in the absence of external forces, may dissipate in time. In the classical limit, the fluctuation dissipation theorem becomes / /., w) = w). 

Two studies have incorporated the use of the Problem Solving Environment (PSE) in their design. One was the second experiment of chapter 7, which contrasted learning from abstract and specific instruction. As the final part of that study, one group of students worked for one session with PSE while another group completed the original SPS instruction. The essential conclusion we drew from the study was that 1 hour was simply too brief a time for the students to become comfortable in the interactive environment. They were able to use PSE but not as freely as we had hoped, and we suspected that their freedom to develop their own plans for problem solving was hampered by a lack of familiarity with the computer system itself. 

Secondly, globalized production cannot work unless aU elements of the company s global operations fit together without error. Thus, new production systems based on pervasive computer-mediated design and manufacturing can assemble parts from up and down the supply chain without first-time errors of fit. Modern civil and military aircraft production give prime examples of this freedom from physical error. In a customer-oriented system, any over-cost or delayed delivery is an error with the same effects on company performance as a defective product. The implication for test and inspection is that we must be able to measure these customer needs and convert them into measurable precursors of error states. 

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