Mariano Lagasca

Mariano la Gasca y Segura (1776–1839) was a Spanish botanist, writer and doctor. He was the director of Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

Early life

Mariano la Gasca y Segura was born in Zaragoza, in Spain on October 4, 1776, to a wealthy Catholic family. He studied at the local elementary school and afterwards he continued his ecclesiastical studies in Tarragona. During his studies in Tarragona he developed an interest for medicine and botany. After finishing his studies in Tarragona, he started travelling until eventually studying medicine at first in Zaragoza, and later in Valencia and Madrid.

Career

In 1800 he moved to Madrid where he met Antonio José Cavanilles, a well-known botanist and doctor and became his disciple. In Madrid he cooperated in various fields José Demetrio Rodriguez, and co-published with him a botanical book titled Description of certain plants of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (Spanish: 'Descripción de algunas plantas del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid') in 1801.

Lag

In online gaming, lag is a noticeable delay between the action of players and the reaction of the server in a video game. Although lag may be caused by high latency, it may also occur due to insufficient processing power in the client (screen-lag). Screen-Lag can also happen in single player games as well.

The tolerance for lag depends heavily on the type of game. For instance, a strategy game or a turn-based game with a low pace may have a high threshold or even be mostly unaffected by high delays, whereas a twitch gameplay game such as a first-person shooter with a considerably higher pace may require significantly lower delay to be able to provide satisfying gameplay. But, the specific characteristics of the game matter. For example, fast chess is a turn-based game that is fast action and may not tolerate high lag. And, some twitch games can be designed such that only events that don't impact the outcome of the game introduce lag, allowing for fast local response most of the time.

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