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This document describes the list of controlled terms used to build the Unified Content Descriptors, Version 1+ (UCD1+). The document describing the UCD1+ can be found at the URL: http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/UCD.html. This document…
We give a brief introduction to the software KnotPlot. The goals of this chapter are twofold: 1) to help a new user get started with using KnotPlot and 2) to provide veteran users with additional background and functionality available in…
While functional programming is an efficient way to express complex software, functional programming languages have a steep learning curve. Haskell can be challenging to learn for students who were only introduced to imperative programming.…
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Quantum error correction protocols will play a central role in the realisation of quantum computing; the choice of error correction code will influence the full quantum computing stack, from the layout of qubits at the physical level to…
This document describes the types of official IVOA documents and the process by which documents are advanced from Working Drafts to formal Recommendations.
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This review article was first published in 2008 as chapter 11 in the book "Fast Fourier Transforms," edited by C. S. Burrus, for the Connexions project at Rice University, which is sadly no longer online. It gives a high-level overview of…
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PIETOOLS 2022 manual is a document that describes all the features of the MATLAB toolbox for the analysis and control of Partial Integral Equations (PIEs). The manual is aimed to guide, with examples, the first time users to three…
Software documentation is an essential but labor intensive task that often requires a dedicated team of developers to ensure coverage and accuracy. Good documentation will help shorten the development cycle and improve the overall team…
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The problem of synthesis of gate-level descriptions of digital circuits from behavioural specifications written in higher-level programming languages (hardware compilation) has been studied for a long time yet a definitive solution has not…
The checksum keywords described here provide an integrity check on the information contained in FITS HDUs. (Header and Data Units are the basic components of FITS files, consisting of header keyword records followed by optional associated…
We propose a series of features for the graphical user interface (GUI) of the COmputational MOdule Integrator (COMODI) \cite{Synasc05a}\cite{COMODI}. In view of the special requirements that a COMODI type of framework for scientific…
Accessing data from distributed computing is essential in many workflows, but can be complicated for users of cyberinfrastructure. They must perform multiple steps to make data available to distributed computing using unfamiliar tools.…