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Debugging data format
stabs is a debugging data format for storing information about computer programs for use by symbolic and source-level debuggers. The information is stored in symbol table strings ("stabs"). Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: StabsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Promising stabs in the Dark: theory virtues and pursuit-worthiness in the Dark Energy problemInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Eindimensionale finite ElementeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The STABS, a measure of test anxiety for behavior therapy: Normative dataCited 72 times
- Go sideways: Dbx (debugger)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: DWARFA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun plural of stab
Verb third-person singular simple present indicative of stab
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The STABS, a measure of test anxiety for behavior therapy: Normative data
Brief Sharp Stabs of Head Pain and Giant Cell Arteritis
Two Rapid Fatalities from Stonefish Stabs
Extracephalic Jabs/Idiopathic Stabs. VÅGÅ Study of Headache Epidemiology
Class Characteristics of Serrated Knife Stabs to Cartilage
Tool Mark Striations in Pig Skin Produced by Stabs From a Serrated Blade
Striation patterns in serrated blade stabs to cartilage
An investigation of the psychometric properties of the Social Thoughts and Beliefs Scale (STABS) and structure of cognitive symptoms in participants with social anxiety disorder and healthy controls
🆕 Influential since 2022
Promising stabs in the Dark: theory virtues and pursuit-worthiness in the Dark Energy problem
Lethal injuries in single stabs to the trunk – A study on homicides and suicides in Sweden
'Rather than Succour, My Memories Bring Eloquent Stabs of Pain' On the Ambiguous Role of Memory in Grief
From Tics to Stabs: Renaming Cluster Tics in Cluster Headache—A Cross‐Sectional Study
A True Friend Stabs You in the Front: Astell’s Admonisher Conception of a Friend
📚 Books worth reading
Eindimensionale finite ElementeMarkus Merkel · 2010- 📕Počvite na Republika MakedonijaǴorǵi Filipovski · 1995
- 📕How to prevent needlestick injuriesUnited States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration · 1998
- 📕Stab resistance of personal body armor · 2000
CONTEMPORARY KNIFE TARGETINGChristopher and Michael D. Janich Grosz · 2006
Dünnwandige Stab- und StabschalentragwerkeJohannes Altenbach, Wolfgang Kissing · 1994
Double-taille périnéo-hypogastriqueRafael Lavista · 1890
De thoracis vulneribus ense inflictisAmbroise Tranquille Sassard · 1783
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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