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Tick A tick is a term used predominantly in gameworlds. In social worlds, the same thing is often called a heartbeat. It is, in essence, the time taken for the server controlling the world to run through its execution loop once. At the end of the tick, events from that loop are triggered, and change occurs. In gameworlds monsters respawn after a set number of ticks, or health improves every tick. In social worlds, the heartbeat is often used to control the flow of data to and from bots or other external programs the user chooses to add. Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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(11/12/2008)
Intel has completed the development phase of its next-generation manufacturing process that further shrinks chip circuitry to 32 nanometers. The company is on track for production readiness of this future generation using even more energy-e...
(08/09/2009)
dentifying a face can be difficult when that face is shown for only a fraction of a second. However, young adults have a marked advantage over elderly people in these conditions. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscien...
(02/02/2009)
Brain cells called astrocytes help to cause the urge to sleep that comes with prolonged wakefulness, according to a study in mice, funded by the National Institutes of Health. The cells release adenosine, a chemical known to have sleep-indu...
(25/05/2012)
Experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals, a research team at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre in Finland has revealed. Human emotions are highly contagious. Seeing others' emotional ex...
(27/10/2012)
Silicon is the workhorse of the electronics industry, serving as the base material for the tiny transistors that make it possible for digital clocks to tick and computers to calculate. Now scientists have succeeded in creating near-atomical...
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