The gap between the access time of primary and secondary storage technologies, often called the access gap, has long constrained the performance of computer systems. Unfortunately, this gap is growing, not shrinking. While today’s technologies improve the capacity of both of these storage media at a furious pace, they are not as successful at reducing access times. Instead, the speed of computa...

PURPOSE/AIMS To assess the effect of storage temperature on the viability, phenotype, metabolism, and morphology of cultured human oral keratinocytes (HOK). MATERIALS AND METHODS Cultured HOK cells were stored in HEPES- and sodium bicarbonate-buffered Minimum Essential Medium (MEM) at nine temperatures in approximately 4 °C increments from 4 °C to 37 °C for seven days. Cells were characterize...

The corneas of New Zealand albino rabbits were isolated with a sclero-corneal rim for storage in a modified tissue culture medium (M-K medium) at 4° C. The corneas were either mounted in the specular microscope for daily observation of the endothelial layer and comeal thickness while being bathed in the storage medium at 4° C, or sealed in vials with the storage media. The vials were stored at ...

Advancement in the technology has generated immense data which has become a burning issue for data storage experts. To accommodate the data and cope up with demand, computer scientist are striving to produce the improved, dense and reliable data storage medium. The main challenge for the development of optimum data storage medium is enhancement in storage capacity, reliability and security. Var...

Background: Blood is permanently exposed to oxidation stress and therefore has a high antioxidants capacity. Many different factors increasing the demand for the antioxidant capacity can be observed in the stored blood of donors. Consequently, damage to erythrocytes by free radicals may occur. So it is useful to control the alternation of anti-oxidant enzymes in stored blood at different days o...

The optical disk is a computer-addressable binary storage medium with very high capacity. More than 1010 bits of information can be recorded on a 12-cm-diameter optical disk. The natural two-dimensional format of the data recorded on an optical disk makes this medium particularly attractive for the storage of images and holograms, while parallel access provides a convenient mechanism through wh...

This is the first of a series of newly prepared guidelines on alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion. Further guidelines including the use of cell salvage and of pharmacological approaches to blood conservation will be published in due course. Decades of clinical application demonstrate that it is quite feasible to auto-transfuse blood that has been collected and stored for an interval of...