Parallax is a distributed storage system that uses virtualization to provide storage facilities specifically for virtual environments. In Parallax, fragmentation occurs when the block addresses visible to the guest virtual machine are sequentially placed, but the corresponding physical addresses are not. Because of the copyon-write (CoW) nature of Parallax, as virtual disks are created, cloned,...

We studied how stimulus attributes (angle polarity and perspective) and data-driven signals (motion parallax and binocular disparity) affect recovery of 3-D shape. We used physical stimuli, which consisted of two congruent trapezoids forming a dihedral angle. To study the effects of the stimulus attributes, we used 2 × 2 combinations of convex/concave angles and proper/reverse perspective cues...

The reality of suffering and the existence natural moral evils appear to present significant obstacles doctrine God’s omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence. Theodicy is an attempt resolve problem evil. One formerly prominent theodicean response can be termed “compensation theodicy” (or “afterlife theodicy”), premised on notion that, in words philosopher Stephen Maitzen, “Heaven swamps every...