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Everything about Proxy server
Computer system that receives and forwards requests
In computer networking, a proxy server is an intermediary server application between a client requesting a resource and the server then providing that resource. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Proxy serverA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A multiancestry genome-wide association study of unexplained chronic ALT elevation as a proxy for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with histological and radiological validationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Counterfeit ladyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Accumulation of Deficits as a Proxy Measure of AgingCited 2,619 times
- Go sideways: Reverse proxyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Squid (software)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Adjective Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
Noun An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
Noun The authority to act for another, especially when written.
Noun The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Accumulation of Deficits as a Proxy Measure of Aging
An n-alkane proxy for the sedimentary input of submerged/floating freshwater aquatic macrophytes
Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low- and high-resolution proxy data
Using the class 1 integron-integrase gene as a proxy for anthropogenic pollution
How Do Risk Factors Work Together? Mediators, Moderators, and Independent, Overlapping, and Proxy Risk Factors
Cash Flow Patterns as a Proxy for Firm Life Cycle
SNAP: a web-based tool for identification and annotation of proxy SNPs using HapMap
On estimating firm-level production functions using proxy variables to control for unobservables
🆕 Influential since 2022
A multiancestry genome-wide association study of unexplained chronic ALT elevation as a proxy for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with histological and radiological validation
NIRVP: A robust structural proxy for sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis across scales
From mechanisms to markers: novel noninvasive EEG proxy markers of the neural excitation and inhibition system in humans
A Proxy Re-Encryption Approach to Secure Data Sharing in the Internet of Things Based on Blockchain
Decentralized federated learning through proxy model sharing
📚 Books worth reading
Counterfeit ladyJude Deveraux · 1984
SickenedJulie Gregory · 1776
SickenedJulie Gregory · 2004
Proxy contests for corporate controlEdward Ross Aranow · 1957
Darling Rose GoldStephanie Wrobel · 2020- 📕Munchausen by ProxyLouisa Lasher, Mary S. Sheridan · 2014
Nearer than the skyGreenwood, T. · 2000
Medical child abuseThomas A. Roesler · 2009
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