Bricks or Storage Nodes SNs holding a dozen or more disks are cost-effective building blocks for ultrareliable storage. We describe the Multilevel RAID MRAID paradigm for protecting both SNs and their disks. Each SN is a k-disk-failure-tolerant kDFT array, while replication or -node failure tolerance NFTs paradigm is applied at the SN level. We provide the data layout for RAID5/5 and RAID6/5 MR...

In many countries, healthcare services are not currently provided in a sustainable manner. Healthcare systems and institutions are still largely based on providing acute and reactionary care; this approach is not well suited to the increasing burden of chronic disease in an aging population that requires more preventative and long-term care (World Health Organization, 2002: tinyurl.com/d5mf4dp)...

FREDDO, Ademir Roberto. Folkoncept: a Method for Supporting Conceptual Modeling of Ontologies starting with Knowledge Acquisition from Folksonomies. 2010. 225p. Thesis – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica e Informática Industrial, Federal University of Technology of Paraná. Curitiba, 2010. In this work, we present a method called Folkoncept for supporting conceptual modeling of on...

Acetic acid extracts of sediments from four Clark Fork River reservoirs,--Milltown, Thompson Falls, Noxon Rapids, and Cabinet Gorge--indicate that mining and smelting operations in the upper drainage have enriched metal concentrations throughout the river. Milltown Reservoir contains metal values over 10 times the background levels for copper, zinc, and arsenic. Enrichment over background decre...

Embedded systems envelopment are currently being challenged to provide global solutions that reconcile three conflicting agendas: enrichment/refinement of system functionalities, reduction of time-to-market and production costs, and compliance with nonfunctional requirements. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) can help development master these complexities by both separating concerns and systematic...

To test whether large amounts of phosphorus (P) are accumulated in the floodplain during dry antecedent conditions, and whether they would be released as the predominant source of P in the overlaying floodwater, in accord with the Flood Pulse Concept, we calculated the mass balance of P in an intermittent floodplain wetland after environmental water application. The P mass balance was calculate...

Public health and long-term care spending is set to rise... Public spending on health and long-term care is likely to put considerable pressure on government budgets in the future. Such spending has already risen over the past three decades, accelerating since the turn of the century to reach almost 7% of GDP for OECD countries on average in 2005.1 OECD projections suggest that in the absence o...

The basic body plan of a plant is established early in embryogenesis when cells differentiate, giving rise to the apical and basal regions of the embryo. Using chlorophyll fluorescence as a marker for chloroplasts, we have detected specific patterns of chloroplast-containing cells at specific stages of embryogenesis. Non-randomly distributed chloroplast-containing cells are seen as early as the...

Population ageing is an issue affecting policymakers in industrialised countries all over the world. On average across OECD countries, there has been a large increase in the share of the elderly population in recent decades due to rising life expectancy and declining fertility rates. This development is projected to continue over the next decades. The rise in the share of the population aged 80...

Recently, the field of neuroimaging analysis has seen a large number of studies which use machine learning methods to make predictions about the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in mildly demented subjects. Among these, Multi-Kernel Learning (MKL) has emerged as a powerful tool for systematically aggregating diverse data views, and several groups have shown that MKL is uniquely suited to...