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1Marii State Technological University, Ioshkar-Ola, Russia. laboratory502@rambler.ru
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
|January 19, 2013
Abstract:
The time of the visual system recovery was studied. The experimental method is presented. The results confirm a relationship between the duration of the threshold interval between pulses and the duration of light pulses. The type of this relationship is identified; the distribution of results of observations for groups is statistically evaluated.
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