This paper presents a complete analytical solution to describe tidal groundwater level fluctuations in a coastal subsurface system. The system consists of two aquifers and a leaky layer between them. Previous solutions of Jacob [Flow of groundwater, in: H. Rouse (Ed.), Engineering Hydraulics, Wiley, New York, 1950, pp. 321–386], Jiao and Tang [Water Resour. Res. 35 (3) (1999) 747], Li and Jiao ...

In the emerging research area of protocol processors (PP) there exist many hardware platform proposals. One example of such a platform solution has been proposed by the author in a series of papers, mainly focusing on datapath organization and optimization. The proposed platform is unique since the fast path process incoming packets before storage in the input buffer. This paper proposes that a...

SSDs use multiple NAND flash memory chips as storage media and deploy large sized RAM inside it in order to maintain the FTL mapping table. The rest portion of the inner RAM can be used as buffer. The buffer absorbs the read/write requests by file systems and thus the resulting write requests to NAND flash memory is determined by the buffer replacement scheme. The block-level LRU replacement sc...

We describe an architecture of an enterpriselevel storage control system that addresses the issues of storage management for storage area network (SAN) -attached block devices in a heterogeneous open systems environment. The storage control system, also referred to as the “storage virtualization engine,” is built on a cluster of Linux-based servers, which provides redundancy, modularity, and sc...

Environmental sampling has become increasingly important in the food industry for monitoring the presence of specific pathogens such as Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica. Several microbiological media are available for storage and transport of environmental samples from the processing plant to the test laboratory. In this study, we quantified the survival of L. monocytogenes, S. Ty...

Working memory (WM) tasks require not only distinct functions such as a storage buffer and central executive functions, but also coordination among these functions. Neuroimaging studies have revealed the contributions of different brain regions to different functional roles in WM tasks; however, little is known about the neural mechanism governing their coordination. Electroencephalographic (EE...

A temperature independent pH buffer has been developed from a combination of buffers of opposite-sign temperature coefficients, and utility in low temperature spectroscopy and storage of pH sensitive compounds is demonstrated.

A FLUSH command has been used for decades to enforce persistence and ordering of updates in a storage device. The command forces all the data in the volatile buffer of the storage device to non-volatile media to achieve persistency. This lump-sum approach to flushing has two performance consequences. First, it slows down nonvolatile materialization of the writes that actually need to be made du...

The on-chip interconnection network (OCIN) is an integrated solution for system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The buffer architecture and size, however, dominate the performance of OCINs and affect the design of routers. This work analyzes different buffer architectures and uses a data-link two-level FIFO (first-in first-out) buffer architecture to implement high-performance routers. The concepts of s...

We have previously shown that ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) suppresses the storage-dependent degradation of 57-kDa protein, which is a possible marker for freshness and quality of royal jelly (RJ) through the inhibition of a proteinase in RJ. We suggested that EDTA could be useful as a preservative agent to maintain the quality of RJ. Here, we report the effects of other metal chelator...