BACKGROUND From November 2008 to October 2010, 565 military personnel sustained blast injury in Southernmost Thailand and 99 personnel, affected by multiple injuries, were transferred to Phramongkutklao Hospital. No data on the effect of blast injury to the ears among Thai military personnel have been reported. This study aims 1) to determine the prevalence of Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SNHL) ...

Storage Area Networks (SAN) have become one of the most widely used solution for high performance enterprise storage applications. However, the infrastructures of SANs are very complex and varied among different vendors. It is important to understand the behavior of these SANs in order of enhancing performance of the applications that run on them. The main idea of this paper is to understand th...

Why are distributed systems more interesting now than they may have been one or two dozen years ago? A number of advances in computing technology had a profound effect on distributed systems. Network connectivity increased by a factor of a thousand since the 1980s. Connectivity within a local area network (LAN) moved from shared to switched networking, allowing the network to scale without incr...

Blast injury is becoming more common in the non-military population but it is still rare to see such injuries and deaths unrelated to terrorist acts. The exact mechanisms involved in blast injuries are unclear. Civilian physicians and surgeons need to have a basic understanding of the patho-mechanics and physiological effects of blast injuries. We report a case where a 31-year-old male accident...

Due to the explosive growth of data volume by mobile devices and SNS(Social Networking Service), Big Data has recently become one of the important issues in the networking world. Big traffic is generated as Big Data processing steps and multiple regionally distributed data centers are included, and/or data are delivered among clusters for the purpose of storage hierarchy management. Therefore, ...

given the potential for carbon storage in plant tissues, this approach has a serious interest in recent decades. therefore, the ability of carbon storage in astragalus gossypinus and astragalus parrowianus were examined in part of alpine pastures in kermanshah province. after determining the representative districts, according to 4 main aspect and 5 category elevation was determined representat...

Background: An ammonia gas explosion poses immediate health hazards such as respiratory tract burns, skin and eye irritation, and potential death within seconds. It also causes long-term negative impacts on biodiversity, affecting aquatic life and vegetation. An explosion in the Firuzabad sodium carbonate factory in Iran led to massive ammonia gas leakage and the poisoning of several employees....

Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP) describes mechanisms that allow the interconnection of islands of Fibre Channel storage area networks over IP-based networks to form a unified storage area network in a single Fibre Channel fabric. FCIP relies on IP-based network services to provide the connectivity between the storage area network islands over local area networks, metropolitan area networks, or...