• A background process is a computer process that runs behind the scenes (i.e., in the background) and without user intervention. Typical tasks for these...
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  • Gravitational wave background X-ray background Background process, software that is running but not being displayed String background Computer wallpaper...
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  • Foreground-background is a scheduling algorithm that is used to control an execution of multiple processes on a single processor. It is based on two waiting...
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    Low-background steel, also known as pre-war steel and pre-atomic steel, is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the...
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  • topology change as a dynamical process. String theory is usually formulated with perturbation theory around a fixed background. While it is possible that...
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    later, multithreading. Background process Code cave Child process Exit Fork Light-weight process Orphan process Parent process Process group Wait Working...
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    runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Customary convention is to name a daemon process with the...
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  • Rear projection (background projection, process photography, etc.) is one of many in-camera effects cinematic techniques in film production for combining...
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  • A background check is a process used by an organisation or person to verify that an individual is who they claim to be, and check their past record to...
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  • A background artist or sometimes called a background stylist or background painter is one who is involved in the process of animation who establishes the...
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    for Mostafa in Tehran put Khomeini back in the spotlight and began the process of building Khomeini into the leading opponent of the Shah. The Iranian...
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    migration background (German: Migrationshintergrund) is a term used to describe people on the basis of identity and ancestry. Migration background is a variably...
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  • assets Background subtraction, a technique in image processing and computer vision by which an image's foreground is extracted for further processing Figure–ground...
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    enable processes to share and exchange information, protect the resources of each process from other processes and enable synchronization among processes. To...
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  • access to audio devices (usually a sound card). It commonly runs as a background process. In a Unix-like operating system, a sound server mixes different data...
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  • high-performance computing clusters use batch processing to maximize cluster usage. Background process Batch file Batch renaming – to rename lots of files...
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  • of choice for 802.1X authentication. A RADIUS server is usually a background process running on UNIX or Microsoft Windows. The Blast-RADIUS attack breaks...
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    and early Universe processes, like hypothetical primordial inflation and cosmic strings. Several potential sources for the background are hypothesized across...
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  • Wait (command) (category Unix process- and task-management-related software)
    execution of a background process has ended. wait [n...] where n... is a list of pids or job IDs of a currently executing background process (job). If no...
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  • allowing the user to start processes in the background, send already running processes into the background, bring background processes into the foreground,...
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  • also refer to: Daemon (computing), a computer program that runs as a background process Daimon (Head Chief) (c. 1850–1930), Nauruan politician Daimon (name)...
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  • Signal (IPC) (redirect from Process signal)
    out respectively from the tty while in the background. Typically, these signals are received only by processes under job control; daemons do not have controlling...
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  • diffuse extragalactic background light (EBL) is all the accumulated radiation in the universe due to star formation processes, plus a contribution from...
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    The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR), or relic radiation, is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe. With a standard...
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  • proven to improve cognitive processes, enabling the brain to process more information. The widespread use of background music in offices, restaurants...
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  • backup process before finally storing backup to tape. Backups stay on disk typically for a day or a week, before being copied to tape in a background process...
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    attaching the four background processors to it with separate high-speed pipes. This Local Memory was fed data by a dedicated foreground processor which was in...
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  • Generalized Foreground-Background (FB), also known as Least Attained Service (LAS) is a scheduling policy. It consists in scheduling the process that has received...
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  • Earth's history. Extinctions are a normal part of the evolutionary process, and the background extinction rate is a measurement of "how often" they naturally...
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  • the field of computer vision and image processing whose aim is to detect changes in image sequences. Background subtraction is any technique which allows...
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