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14.10.2015

How to start the working day - with a small job or a big one? Which debts should be paid first - small or large? Alexander Brown and Joanna Lahey from Texas's largest A&M University (from Agriculture and Mechanical College) became interested in this issue.

Scientists have come to the conclusion that the path of small victories is more productive and more stimulating for further activity than the desire to first throw off the largest burden.

The researchers set up their experiments using a tablet created in the Excel program. Participants in the experiment had to type one and a half hundred lines in it, which consisted of ten letters. At the same time, tasks were divided into portions in three different ways: the number of lines in each new portion increased; the number of lines decreased, and all portions contained an equal number of lines. The experiment showed an intuitive result - the closer the end of the portion was, the faster the participants in the experiments worked. Because of this, in the first case, the entire task was completed faster than in the other two. It is interesting that each time a person started work less willingly than he continued: at the beginning of the filled column, he pounded the keys more slowly than at the end.

“Small wins increase a person’s motivation to continue activities, so it’s often better for mental health to deal with small debts first, even if the interest rates on them are lower than those left for later. the debt has not become unsustainable,” say Brown and Lahey.

But we know how important it is to get every day, every hour, at least a small, but success, when organizing decisive action. Less than a hundred years later, proprietary marketers confirmed this practical observation.

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Features:

High accuracy:
+-0,4°C (max.) at -20°C to +70°C;
+-0,55°C (max.) at -40°C to +100°C;
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EEPROM for unique addressing, programmable values, general purpose data storage;
Continuous operation and shutdown mode to save energy;
Single conversion mode for energy saving;
Programmable warnings;
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Voltage range: 1,7 to 5,5V;
Chassis: SOIC-8.

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Refrigerators and refrigerating chambers;
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