Network control in which the control station invites tributary stations to transmit in the sequence specified by the control station,
In point-to-point or multipoint communication, the process whereby stations are invited one at a time to transmit,
In automated HF radio systems, a technique for measuring and reporting channel quality.
The sequential interrogation of devices for various purposes, such as avoiding contention, determining operational status, or determining readiness to send or receive data. Computer science shares this definition of the word.
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We are currently polling teens and children and will furnish these figures in a future issue of the Vegetarian Journal.
Whenever you consider poll results such as these, be sure to remember the margin of error, which can make a great deal of difference, especially in subgroups.
According to this poll, the people most likely to never eat meat, poultry, or fish are those living on both coasts, residents of large cities, and women working outside the home.
The results nearly match those of a poll taken in October 2004, which showed 48 percent considered Bush a "uniter" and 48 percent called him a "divider," with 4 percent having no opinion.
Bush's inauguration was viewed by 69 percent, more than two-thirds of respondents, as a celebration by the winning presidential candidate's supporters rather than a celebration of democracy by all Americans, as 29 percent saw it.
Another 20 percent said it is acting as commander in chief of the military, up from 9 percent in a poll taken eight months before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.