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  2. Bufferbloat - Wikipedia

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    Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from a router or other network equipment buffering too many data packets. Bufferbloat can also cause packet delay variation (also known as jitter), as well as reduce the overall network throughput .

  3. Klutz Press - Wikipedia

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    Not all the books are about developing a skill; there has also been a geography book containing, among other physical attachments, packets of rice corresponding to the average daily caloric intake among the poorest people of the world. Many of their books are spiral bound and teach various crafts. The items needed are usually included with the ...

  4. Head-of-line blocking - Wikipedia

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    Head-of-line blocking example: The 1st and 3rd input flows are competing to send packets to the same output interface. In this case if the switching fabric decides to transfer the packet from the 3rd input flow, the 1st input flow cannot be processed in the same time slot.

  5. Alfred Hettner - Wikipedia

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    According to him, geography is a chorological science or it is a study of regions. Hettner rejected the view that geography could be either general or regional. Geography, like other fields of learning, must deal in both unique things (regional geography) and with the universal (general geography), but the study of regions — especially in the ...

  6. Tobler's second law of geography - Wikipedia

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    He first published it in 1999 in reply to a paper titled "Linear pycnophylactic reallocation comment on a paper by D. Martin" and then again in response to criticism of his first law of geography titled "On the First Law of Geography: A Reply." [1] [2] Much of this criticism was centered on the question of if laws were meaningful in geography ...

  7. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography

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    Peter J. Taylor commended the book as a crucial exploration of critical metageography, emphasizing the significance of understanding how we structure our world spatially. Taylor emphasized the book's identification and critical examination of four geographical myths: continents, nation-states, east and west, and geographical concordance.

  8. Gilbert F. White - Wikipedia

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    He then returned to Chicago as a Professor of Geography, where he was the central figure in the "Chicago school" of natural hazards research. In 1970, he moved to the University of Colorado, before retiring after ten years there. Having published his first paper in 1935, he was still publishing into his 90s (Wescoat and White, 2003).

  9. Geomorphology - Wikipedia

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    The inherent difficulties of the model have instead made geomorphological research to advance along other lines. [46] In contrast to its disputed status in geomorphology, the cycle of erosion model is a common approach used to establish denudation chronologies , and is thus an important concept in the science of historical geology . [ 48 ]