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Threads per inch - The phrase threads per inch describes the number of thread in a square inch of fabric. Such as the Incas who had 120 threads per inch (TPI) in their weavings of royal tunics.
Rice-hull bagwall construction - ... of welded or woven steel mesh (remesh or "poultry wire") on both sides (wired together between bag layers with, for example, rebar tie-wire) and then stuccoed, to form building walls. Advantages (compared to earth-bag or cob) include less weight to handle/process, far better insulation values (around 3 - 4 per inch), use of an agricultural-waste product and the sequestration of CO2.
Scheduling discipline - Scheduling disciplines are algorithms of distributing resources among parties which simultaneously and asynchronously request them. Scheduling disciplines are used in routers (to handle packet traffic) as well as in operating systems (to share CPU time among threads and processes).
Light Weight Kernel Threads - Light Weight Kernel Threads or LWKT is a term from computer science in general and in DragonFlyBSD in particular. LWKTs differ from normal kernel threads in that they can preempt normal kernel threads.
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