This literature emphasizes safety factors in design, that is, excess capacity of characters that protect against failure in the face of rare perturbations.
Members of the department's SWAT team were given pagers and told they were responsible for charges in excess of 25,000 characters a month.
"Traffic in Souls" is not a very accomplished film (particularly when compared with what was being made in France at the time, like Louis Feuillade's "Fantômas"), with an excess of underdeveloped characters and a scrambled plot structure.
Before the series aired Jordan said he had already scripted 60 episodes and was banking on the BBC commissioning more, pointing out that Dickens created in excess of 2,000 characters and he had only used 30.
Up to a point, the movie, which says it is "inspired" by real life but entirely fictional, needs this in order to set up the compulsive sexual excess of the character, named Devereaux in the film.
Sample size and high tip ratio bias also reduced accuracy and precision of parameter estimation, and resulted in the inability to infer which rate asymmetry caused the excess of a character state.
Today the final number on the deal $25 billion–seems almost quaint, as do the excesses of the characters involved.
But the overarching theme — the sense of mounting danger each time a new species slips into the lakes — can get swamped by an excess of anecdotes and characters.
The uninitiated, however, may get lost in this overlong picture's dizzying array of characters, excess of back stories, present-day (actually, 2015) plot lines and sledgehammer messaging.
The chief features of the spy thriller in its original British form were an excess of plot over character; a fascination with weaponry, aviation and other advanced technology; and a sort of fawning hostility to women.
Though we certainly do not celebrate the ridiculous excess of these teenage television characters, making art accessible is something we believe is vital in getting people into the doors of our cultural institutions, studying art history and creating art.
