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  2. Time loop - Wikipedia

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    An early example of a time loop is the 1915 Russian novel Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, where the main character gets to live his life over again but struggles to change it the second time around. [3] The episode "The Man Who Murdered Time" in the radio drama The Shadow was broadcast on 1 January 1939, about a dying scientist who invents a time ...

  3. System dynamics - Wikipedia

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    System dynamics is a methodology and mathematical modeling technique to frame, understand, and discuss complex issues and problems. Originally developed in the 1950s to help corporate managers improve their understanding of industrial processes, SD is currently being used throughout the public and private sector for policy analysis and design.

  4. Cybernetics - Wikipedia

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    Cybernetics is often understood within the context of systems science, systems theory, and systems thinking. [46] [47] Systems approaches influenced by cybernetics include critical systems thinking, which incorporates the viable system model; systemic design; and system dynamics, which is based on the concept of causal feedback loops.

  5. Closed-loop communication - Wikipedia

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    Steps of Closed-Loop Communication. Closed-loop communication is a form of communication that revolves around a three-step process. The steps are listed below: Sending a message; Receiving the message; Verifying the message; One way to conceptualize closed-loop communication is to picture a circle. If the circle is left with an open then ...

  6. Real-time operating system - Wikipedia

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    A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically defined time constraints. An RTOS is distinct from a time-sharing operating system, such as Unix , which manages the sharing of system resources with a scheduler, data buffers, or fixed task ...

  7. Models of communication - Wikipedia

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    Many models of communication include the idea that a sender encodes a message and uses a channel to transmit it to a receiver. Noise may distort the message along the way. The receiver then decodes the message and gives some form of feedback. [1] Models of communication simplify or represent the process of communication.

  8. Spread spectrum - Wikipedia

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    Techniques known since the 1940s and used in military communication systems since the 1950s "spread" a radio signal over a wide frequency range several magnitudes higher than minimum requirement. The core principle of spread spectrum is the use of noise-like carrier waves, and, as the name implies, bandwidths much wider than that required for ...

  9. Network topology - Wikipedia

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    Network topology is the arrangement of the elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a communication network. [1] [2] Network topology can be used to define or describe the arrangement of various types of telecommunication networks, including command and control radio networks, [3] industrial fieldbusses and computer networks.