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Why Inverse Layers In Pavement? Why Zipper Fracking? Why Interleaving In Education? A General Explanation, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Aaron Velasco, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Why Inverse Layers In Pavement? Why Zipper Fracking? Why Interleaving In Education? A General Explanation, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Aaron Velasco, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
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In many practical situations, if we split our efforts into two disconnected chunks, we get better results: a pavement is stronger if instead of a single strengthening layer, we place two parts of this layer separated by no-so-strong layers; teaching is more effective if instead of concentrating a topic in a single time interval, we split it into two parts separated in time, etc. In this paper, we provide a general explanation for all these phenomena.