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Difference engine

Known as: Difference machine, Difference Engine No. 2, Difference Engine No. II 
A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. The name derives from the method of divided… 
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2017
2017
Analytical and numerical treatment of the heat conduction equation obtained via time-fractional distributed-order heat conduction law
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2010
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2010
Characterizing the impact of diffusive and advective soil gas transport on the measurement and interpretation of the isotopic signal of soil respiration
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2008
Highly Cited
2008
Difference engine
Virtual machine monitors (VMMs) are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. By… 
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2007
Highly Cited
2007
Fuzzy Evaluation of Heart Rate Signals for Mental Stress Assessment
Mental stress is accompanied by dynamic changes in autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. Heart rate variability (HRV) analysis… 
2006
2006
A sideways view of stromatolites: complexity metrics for stromatolite laminae
Stromatolites offer a unique window into 3.5 billion years of evolution of the microbial communities that built them within the… 
2006
2006
Model inversion of transient nonlinear groundwater flow models using model reduction
Despite increasing computational resources many high‐dimensional applications are impractical for model inversions. In this paper… 
2001
2001
Inverse reactive transport simulator (INVERTS): an inverse model for contaminant transport with nonlinear adsorption and source terms
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1990
Highly Cited
1990
The Difference Engine
Composite image, optically encoded by escort-craft of the trans-Channel airship Lord Brunel: aerial view of suburban Cherbourg… 
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1966
Highly Cited
1966
Atomic timekeeping and the statistics of precision signal generators
Since most systems that generate atomic time employ quartz crystal oscillators to improve reliability, it is essential to… 
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1965
Highly Cited
1965
The growth of the Widmanstätten pattern in metallic meteorites
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