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	Millisecond pulsar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A millisecond pulsar (MSP), often referred to as "recycled pulsar", is a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of about 1-10 milliseconds.
		Many millisecond pulsars are found in globular clusters because the extremely high stellar density of these systems leads to exchange interactions that create the kind of mass-transfer binaries that spin pulsars up to millisecond pulsars.
		The first millisecond pulsar, PSR B1937+21, was discovered in 1982 by Backer et al.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Millisecond_pulsar (485 words)

	Millisecond Publishing Launches Website to Introduce Digital Property Licensing Opportunities to Hollywood's Motion ...
		Millisecond’s separate licensing deal for SCEA, Buena Vista Games (or, another major player with ties to Hollywood) is to jointly complete the development of its genealogy-based adventure game in a way that will guarantee a high-quality, multi-level educational experience.
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	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/5/emw235292.htm (1108 words)

	Millisecond response the 'spec du jour' - Boston.com
		The industry norm dropped from 25 milliseconds three years ago to about 8 milliseconds for LCD computer monitors and 16 milliseconds for LCD TVs by the end of 2005.
		These are blistering fast times: a millisecond is one-thousandths of a second, and an eye blink is estimated to last 100 milliseconds to 150 milliseconds.
		The slim differences, say between 6 milliseconds and 2 milliseconds, may not affect the average computer user, but it might for avid gamers, who usually embrace cutting-edge products and might be more inclined to notice a little blurring while gripped in an action sequence.
	www.boston.com /business/technology/articles/2006/03/12/millisecond_response_the_spec_du_jour?page=1 (1026 words)

	3.3 The population of normal and millisecond pulsars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The most recent use of the scale factor approach to derive the characteristics of the true normal and millisecond pulsar populations is based on the sample of pulsars within 1.5 kpc of the Sun [152
		The same analysis for the millisecond pulsars, assuming a mean beaming fraction of 75% [122], leads to a local surface density of
		As noted in § 2.4, the millisecond pulsars are much older, with ages close to that of the Universe
	www.maths.tcd.ie /EMIS/journals/LRG/Articles/Volume4/2001-5lorimer/node14.html (615 words)

	BEACONS IN SPACE: A Search for Millisecond Pulsars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the CRAY C90, Taylor's group can sift the data they collect at Arecibo with far greater sensitivity and efficiency than was possible 20 years ago, and this computing power is yielding a significant payoff in the discovery of pulsars.
		Although that had a period of 59 milliseconds, it was the first of the genre.
		Only about 50 millisecond pulsars are known, and 30 of these are in distant globular star clusters, where other stars' gravitational fields can interfere with precision measurements of the pulsar.
	www.psc.edu /science/Taylor/Taylor.html (398 words)

	ESA Portal - First view of a newborn millisecond pulsar?
		A series of observations of the millisecond pulsar PSR J1740-5340 (spinning at 274 times per second) and its companion star from the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope and the Parkes radio telescope seem to show the final stage of the pulsar acceleration process for the first time.
		The observations show that the millisecond pulsar's companion is not the expected white dwarf, but a bloated red star, whose radius is about 100 times greater than that of a white dwarf and at least five times greater than a normal star of similar mass!
		A system consisting of a millisecond pulsar and a star that is not a white dwarf has never been seen before.
	www.esa.int /export/esaCP/ESAU80VTYWC_index_0.html (514 words)

	EVOLUTION OF A MILLISECOND PULSAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A pulsar is a rapidly rotating highly magnetized neutron star, formed in the supernova explosion of a massive star.
		It is believed that future millisecond pulsars enter the "graveyard" as members of binary systems.
		Once "spun-up", the pulsar is "born again" as a millisecond pulsar.
	astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu /academics/courses/astro201/pulsar_graph.htm (189 words)

	Computer storage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The time taken to access a given byte of information stored on a hard disk is typically a few thousandths of a second, or milliseconds.
		By contrast, the time taken to access a given byte of information stored in random access memory is measured in thousand-millionths of a second, or nanoseconds.
		The relevant unit of measurement is typically nanosecond for primary storage, millisecond for secondary storage, and second for tertiary storage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Computer_storage (2615 words)

	Universe Today - How Millisecond Pulsars Spin So Fast
		This large sample is a bonanza for astronomers seeking to test theories for the origin of millisecond pulsars, and increases the chances that they will find a critical transitional object such 47 Tuc W. 47 Tuc W stands out from the crowd because it produces more high-energy X-rays than the others.
		Most astronomers accept the binary spin-up scenario for creating millisecond pulsars because they have observed neutron stars speeding up in X-ray binary systems, and almost all radio millisecond pulsars are observed to be in binary systems.
		It links a millisecond pulsar with many of the properties of an X-ray binary, to J1808, an X-ray binary that behaves in many ways like a millisecond pulsar, thus providing a strong chain of evidence to support the theory.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/origin_of_millisecond_pulsars_47tucw.html?2072005 (819 words)

	Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars
		Millisecond radio pulsars (MRPs) are thought to be old neutron stars recycled to rapid rotation by accretion in LMXRBs (see Bhattacharya 1995, and references therein).
		The millisecond rotation period of the neutron stars in five LMXRBs (4U 1728-34, 4U 1636-53, KS 1731-26, X1743-29, and Aql X-1) is seen directly as a near coherent X-ray pulsation during X-ray bursts (Strohmayer et al.
		The pulsation amplitude of the millisecond pulsations during the burst is 5%
	ecf.hq.eso.org /~ralbrech/novdec97apjl/975587.html (3426 words)

	Polarimetry of Millisecond Pulsars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Millisecond pulsars have much shorter spin periods (\sim ms vs. \sim s), and weaker magnetic fields (B 10^8 G vs. \sim 10^12 G) than their slower counterparts.
		The characteristics of their emission regions may therefore be different from those of slow pulsars, and polarimetry is probably the best diagnostic for investigating this possibility.
		In addition, polarimetry data were obtained for two millisecond pulsars at the Effelsberg telescope in Germany, at 1400 MHz, using the new EBPP (Effelsberg--Berkeley--Pulsar--Processor).
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v28n4/aas189/abs/S074008.html (272 words)

	2.4 Normal and millisecond pulsars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Another relatively poorly understood area is the existence of solitary millisecond pulsars in the Galactic disk (which comprise just under 20% of all Galactic millisecond pulsars).
		Although it has been proposed that the millisecond pulsars have got rid of their companion by ablation, as appears to be happening in the PSR B1957+20 system [83
		The main reason for this difference surely lies in the fact that about 80% of the millisecond pulsars are members of binary systems (§ 2.4) which could not have survived had the neutron star received a substantial kick velocity.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /EMIS/journals/LRG/Articles/Volume4/2001-5lorimer/node7.html (1847 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: First view of a newborn millisecond pulsar? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This composite shows an artist's impression (center) of a millisecond pulsar and its companion with an insert of the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the region (upper left).
		The millisecond pulsar system lies in the globular cluster NGC 6397 in Ara (the Altar).
		Millisecond pulsar PSR J1740-5340, globular cluster NGC 6397
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=29458 (190 words)

	The Human is a Digital Mechanism.
		The shape of the pulse with time is incidental, it is the presence or absence of the pulse which matters in the data transmission.
		The propagation rate is about 1 millisecond per computation (the time required for the pulse to reach its peak, travel a short distance, and fire the next stage).
		For example, if the average number of terminal branches was 20, and the computation extended to a period allowing 10 stages of calculation (about 10 milliseconds), the signal from a single axon could reach far more than all of the cells in the brain.
	www.onelife.com /evolve/digman.html (3544 words)

	Millisecond Pulsar Animation
		For about 20 years astrophysicists have suspected that the most rapidly spinning neutron stars known, the millisecond radio pulsars, achieved their dizzying millisecond spin periods over a billion year accretion phase during which material is transferred to the neutron star from a binary companion.
		This transfer of material, which occurs via an accretion disk orbiting the neutron star, produces a torque on the neutron star that causes it slowly to spin faster and faster.
		All that remains at the end is a highly compact, rapidly rotating neutron star which produces a pair of radio beams and may be observable as a millisecond radio pulsar.
	heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/xte/Snazzy/Movies/millisecond.html (414 words)

	Millisecond at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A millisecond is one thousandth of a second.
		The word millisecond is formed by the prefix milli and the unit second.
		For a list of times on the order of 1-10 milliseconds, compare 1 E-3 s.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Millisecond.html (95 words)

	The Daily WTF - The Millisecond Converter
		Given the problem of converting milliseconds to minutes, I imagine that most of us would simply divide the number of milliseconds by 60,000.
		But any system that measures and stores enough milliseconds to make subtractable minute values is borked up enough as it is. At that point you might as well meaure fractional minutes (5.25 minutes = 5 minutes, 15 seconds).
		He needs to divide the milliseconds by 2 then multiply the resulting minutes by 2.
	thedailywtf.com /forums/48364/ShowPost.aspx (1608 words)

	Neverwinter Nights: Millisecond accuracy
		One would assume from the name "millisecond" that the accuracy is to the millisecond
		My question was to what extent what is called "one millisecond" in the toolset actually corresponds to what in REAL time is one millisecond.
		One thing I've heard, however, is that milliseconds aren't updated during the running of a script.
	nwn.bioware.com /forums/viewtopic.html?forum=63&topic=415301 (818 words)

	LCD arsenal lauds its millisecond response - News - LCD TVs
		The industry norm dropped from 25 milliseconds three years ago to about eight milliseconds for LCD computer monitors and 16 milliseconds for LCD TVs by the end of 2005.
		Below eight milliseconds, any difference in quality would be more difficult to see, with the exception of video gamers dealing with intense motion, said Erik Willey, a senior product manager at ViewSonic.
		The slim differences, say between six milliseconds and two milliseconds, may not affect the average computer user, but it might for avid gamers, who usually embrace cutting-edge products and might be more inclined to notice a little blurring while gripped in an action sequence.
	cnet.com.au /hometheatre/tvs/0,39026023,40061162,00.htm (2251 words)

	Astronomers weigh 'recycled' millisecond pulsar
		This pulsar spins every 2.9 milliseconds, or 340 times per second; the pulsar and its white dwarf companion star orbit their common center of gravity every 1.5 days.
		If this mass is typical, we can infer that a millisecond pulsar can be produced with the accretion of less than 0.2 solar masses from its companion.
		If this is the case, then the pulsar recycling process must be messy: more than half a solar mass must have been lost from the companion as a wind of ejected gas as it evolved from a normal main sequence star to a white dwarf.
	www.physorg.com /news9837.html (1123 words)

	Newsvine - Millisecond Response the 'Spec Du Jour'
		SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Unless you're an Olympic athlete, milliseconds should hardly make a difference in your life.
		Blurring from motion in video is an inherent drawback of LCD displays — an effect that doesn't exist for plasma panels or traditional CRTs.
		For instance, ViewSonic says that its VX924 monitor has response times of 3 milliseconds for gray-to-gray and 6 milliseconds for fl-to-white, while its VX922 is 2 milliseconds for both gray-to-gray and fl-to-white.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/03/12/130339-millisecond-response-the-spec-du-jour (1028 words)

	Calendar (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2)
		forces an immediate recomputation of the calendar's milliseconds and all fields.
		The currently set time for this calendar, expressed in milliseconds after January 1, 1970, 0:00:00 GMT.
		indicating the raw offset from GMT in milliseconds.
	java.sun.com /j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html (3642 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: INTEGRAL spectroscopy of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 in outburst
		INTEGRAL spectroscopy of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 in outburst
		The transient X-ray accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 was observed during its February/March 2003 outburst by INTEGRAL, partly simultaneously with the XMM-Newton and RXTE satellites.
		For this source, with shortest orbital period of any known binary radio or X-ray millisecond pulsar, we constrain the companion mass M
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=37579 (215 words)

	New optical recording technique can see millisecond nerve impulses - oemagazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		New optical recording technique can see millisecond nerve impulses
		Previous attempts in other laboratories to record fast electrical signals in live cells with SHG had achieved, at best, about 1-second resolution and were not detecting impulses a few milliseconds in duration.
		The biophysicists have applied for a patent on the process, titled "Nonlinear Optical Detection of Fast Cellular Electrical Activity," through the Cornell Research Foundation.
	oemagazine.com /newscast/2004/021704_newscast01.html (456 words)

	Web Development: generation of random number using current millisecond as the seed
		Title: generation of random number using current millisecond as the seed
		i want to generate a random number using current time, millisecond as the seed for randomization.
		To have the milliseconds as base of the random numbers:
	www.experts-exchange.com /Web/Q_21567427.html (614 words)

	gizmag Article: ViewSonic announces one millisecond video response time LCD
		Available later this year, the technology features the latest ViewSonic OverDrive chip, a plug-in replacement for a microprocessor designed to speed up the PC in which it is used.
		This is ideal for handling complex PC gaming and motion video applications with an ultra-fast response time that eliminates ghosting and delay.
		The one millisecond response time matches the speed and performance requirements of users such as gamers who enjoy immersive gaming action, digital content enthusiasts and fast Internet surfers.
	gizmag.com /go/5169 (535 words)

	ABC 7 News - Millisecond Response the 'Spec Du Jour' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In fact, a 16-millisecond response time translates roughly to 60 frames per second - the rate of fluid, full-motion video - and thus theoretically eliminates obvious blurring.
		Blurring from motion in video is an inherent drawback of LCD displays - an effect that doesn't exist for plasma panels or traditional CRTs.
		Note that other key features - contrast ratio, resolution, brightness, and cable inputs - are today generally more important to the quality and price of an LCD display than millisecond response times.
	www.wjla.com /news/stories/0306/309873.html (1166 words)

	Inquisit by Millisecond Software LLC
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	www.millisecond.com (944 words)

	Nucleic acid fragmentation on the millisecond timescale using a conventional X-ray rotating anode source: application ...
		Nucleic acid fragmentation on the millisecond timescale using a conventional X-ray rotating anode source: application to protein-DNA footprinting -- Henn et al.
		Nucleic acid fragmentation on the millisecond timescale using a conventional X-ray rotating anode source: application to protein–DNA footprinting
		To minimize the path of the X-ray beam outside the vacuum, the sample is positioned inside the cap of the Eppendorf, which is held by a modified EH as in B. After the sample is positioned, the MMS is switched on, and the ES is controlled by a remote box for millisecond exposure.
	nar.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/29/24/e122 (4841 words)

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