Current storage appliances have been traditionally designed to meet either the storage demands of a local or a wide area network. The grid is unique in that it escapes this limitation and allows users to share resources both within and between local area networks. However, this freedom creates many new challenges to storage appliances that would be used on the grid. NeST is a user-level softwar...

Current storage appliances have been traditionally designed to meet either the storage demands of a local or a wide area network. The grid is unique in that it escapes this limitation and allows users to share resources both within and between local area networks. However, this freedom creates many new challenges to storage appliances that would be used on the grid. NeST is a user-level softwar...

a two-year laboratory study on the biology (including self-fertilization) of bulinus truncatus, the intermediate host of schistosoma haematobium, s. bovis and paramphistomum microbotrium in iran, has revealed information on the longevity, reproduction, hatchability rate, hatching time during various months of the year, and growth and mortality rates of this snail. it was found that the reproduc...

Host finding and parasitization by Uscana lariophaga Steffan, a potential biocontrol agent of the storage pest Callosobruchus maculatus (Fabricius), were investigated in stored cowpea. Host finding was shown to be a function of distance, time, host patch size and the spatial position of U. lariophaga relative to the host patch. Uscana lariophaga females were able to find hosts up to 75 cm horiz...

The “How much information?” study produced by the school of information management and systems at the University of California at Berkeley [10], estimates that about 5 exabytes of new information was produced in 2002. It estimates that the amount of stored information doubled in the period between 1999 and 2002. It is believed that more data will be created in the next five years than in the hi...

Peer-to-peer storage networks aim at aggregating the unused storage in today’s resource-abundant computers to form a large, shared storage space. To lay over the extremely variant machines, networks and administrative organizations, peer-topeer storage networks must be aware of the capabilities of the constituent components to leverage their resources, performance and reliability. This paper re...

sunflower (helinathus annuus) is a susceptible host to the holoparasite hemp broomrape (orobanche ramosa) in central parts of iran, causing yield loss due to severe infestations. a field study was conducted in 2006 to evaluate the efficacy of glyphosate for controlling the parasitic weed hemp broomrape in sunflower. glyphosate was applied once or twice at five rates ranging from 0.075 to 0.450 ...

Field population densities of Ditylenchus dipsaci associated with shoot tissue of Phlox subulata were monitored during two consecutive growing seasons and intervening periods of overwintering and plant storage. The population density increased significantly through four peaks during the first growing season, and decreased significantly during storage at 5-7 C or overwintering in the field. Duri...

Nowadays, typical applications spawn a large set of heterogeneous computing and storage devices with very different technical properties. For instance, the “cloud” is a high-latency, low bandwidth, high-availability storage device but can be costly; smart-phones and tablets are replaced every couple of years and are very limited in term of battery usage; set-top boxes are always on at home and ...

Recently, the exclusive-or computation capability was added on high performance disks to provide an alternative way of implementing RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks). This alternative approach reduces the traffic on the storage channel and eliminates the XOR computation load on the host or RAID controllers. Therefore, it may be a better approach than the traditional RAID design to im...