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Image Comics superhero
Albert Francis "Al" Simmons, better known as Spawn, is an antihero appearing in a monthly comic book of the same name published by American company Image Comics, as well as in a number of films, television series, and video game adaptations set in the Image Universe. Created by Todd McFarlane, Spawn first appeared in Spawn #1. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Spawn (character)A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Estimating ASHRAE Guideline 36 energy savings for multi-zone variable air volume systems using Spawn of EnergyPlusInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: SpawnThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Spawn: a distributed computational economyCited 383 times
- Go sideways: CogliostroA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Man of Miracles (comics)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
Verb To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
Verb To bring forth in general.
Verb To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Spawn: a distributed computational economy
Whale sharks Rhincodon typus aggregate to feed on fish spawn in Belize
Results of pop-up satellite tagging of spawning size class fish in the Gulf of Maine: do North Atlantic bluefin tuna spawn in the mid-Atlantic?
Weight development over time in parous women—The SPAWN study—15 years follow-up
Female Sticklebacks Prefer To Spawn With Males Whose Nests Contain Eggs
Recurrent Die-Offs of Adult Coho Salmon Returning to Spawn in Puget Sound Lowland Urban Streams
When Does this Fish Spawn? Fishermen’s Local Knowledge of Migration and Reproduction of Brazilian Coastal Fishes
Whale Sharks, Rhincodon typus, Aggregate around Offshore Platforms in Qatari Waters of the Arabian Gulf to Feed on Fish Spawn
🆕 Influential since 2022
Estimating ASHRAE Guideline 36 energy savings for multi-zone variable air volume systems using Spawn of EnergyPlus
Spawn: coupling Modelica Buildings Library and EnergyPlus to enable new energy system and control applications
Seasonal habitat utilization provides evidence for site fidelity during both spawn and non-spawning seasons in Lake Ontario cisco Coregonus artedi
The key technologies of Ganoderma lucidum liquid spawn preparation and scale expansion
Characterization and yield performance of spawn prepared from Hypsizygus ulmarius (Bull.) Redhead and some Pleurotus species (Agaricomycetes)
📚 Books worth reading
SpawnTodd McFarlane, Brian Holguin · 2008
Methods in reproductive aquacultureElsa Cabrita, Paz Herraez · 2008- 📕Applied DynamicsHaim Baruh · 2014
- 📕Dissolved oxygen, temperature, survival of young at fish spawning sitesJohn J. Peterka · 1976
Quantitative relations between fishing mortality, spawning stress mortality and biomass growth rate (computed with numerical model FISHMO)Taivo Laevastu · 1983
A new freezing technique for sampling salmonid reddsWilliam S. Platts · 1980- 📕Estimates of the recreational harvest and spawn deposition for surf smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus pretiosus) at Ross Point, Washington in 1991 and 1992Darcy A. Wildermuth · 1993
- 📕Studies of the surf smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus) in Puget SoundDan Penttila · 1978
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