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  2. Streaming media - Wikipedia

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    Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.Media is transferred in a "stream" of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time; [1] this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content.

  3. Media studies - Wikipedia

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    Anna University was the first university to start a Master of Science in Electronic Media program. It offers a five-year integrated program and a two-year program in Electronic Media. The Department of Media Sciences was started in January 2002, branching off from the UGC's Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC).

  4. Weighted fair queueing - Wikipedia

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    Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) is a network scheduling algorithm. WFQ is both a packet-based implementation of the generalized processor sharing (GPS) policy, and a natural extension of fair queuing (FQ). Whereas FQ shares the link's capacity in equal subparts, WFQ allows schedulers to specify, for each flow, which fraction of the capacity will ...

  5. Rendering (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    A variety of rendering techniques applied to a single 3D scene An image created by using POV-Ray 3.6. Rendering or image synthesis is the process of generating a photorealistic or non-photorealistic image from a 2D or 3D model by means of a computer program.

  6. Astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Planetary science is the study of the assemblage of planets, moons, dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, and other bodies orbiting the Sun, as well as extrasolar planets. The Solar System has been relatively well-studied, initially through telescopes and then later by spacecraft. This has provided a good overall understanding of the formation and ...

  7. Science Fair (film) - Wikipedia

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    It covers the lives of 9 teenagers as they prepare for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.Characters followed in the film include Serena McCalla, Ph.D. the sole educator in the documentary, coined the "Godmother of Science Research", Kashfia Rahman, a student from South Dakota who did research on the effects of risk-taking behaviors in teenagers, Anjali Chadha, a student from ...

  8. Interactive kiosk - Wikipedia

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    An Internet kiosk in Hemer, Germany Cyosce Interactive Kiosk - Pemerintah Kabupaten Sula, Indonesia A McDonald's self-service kiosk in Nassau County, New York. An interactive kiosk is a computer terminal featuring specialized hardware and software that provides access to information and applications for communication, commerce, entertainment, or education.

  9. ScienceDirect - Wikipedia

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    ScienceDirect is a searcheable web-based bibliographic database, which provides access to full texts of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier as well of several small academic publishers.