Food Some cultures consume blood, sometimes in the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, or in a cured, salted form for times of food scarcity, and others use blood in stews such as jugged hare. Some cultures and people do not consume meat or animal food products for cultural, dietary, health, ethical, or ideological reasons. Vegetarians choose to forgo food from animal sources to varying degrees. Vegans do not consume any foods that are or contain ingredients from an animal source. Adulteration is a legal term meaning that a food product fails to meet the legal standards. One
Arbitrarily varying channel Arbitrarily varying channel An arbitrarily varying channel (AVC) is a communication channel model used in coding theory, and was first introduced by Blackwell, Breiman, and Thomasian. This particular channel has unknown parameters that can change over time and these changes may not have a uniform pattern during the transmission of a codeword. formula_1 uses of this channel can be described using a stochastic matrix formula_2 formula_3, where formula_4 is the input alphabet, formula_5 is the output alphabet, and formula_6 is the probability over a given set of states formula_7, that the transmitted input formula_8 leads to the received output formula_9.