Cloud computing usage has increased rapidly in many companies. Cloud computing offers many benefits in terms of low cost and accessibility of data. Ensuring the security of cloud computing plays a major role in the cloud computing, as customers often store important information with cloud storage providers but these providers may be unsafe. Customers are wondering about attacks on the integrity...

ALICEROBBIN ABSTRACT THISARTICLE EXAMINES SELECTED ECONOMIC and social indicators of our multiracial and multiethnic society at the end of the twentieth century to provide an information base for wise decisions about effective library services. The statistical profile describes the demography, economic well-being , and educational attainment of the principal racial and Hispanic origin groups. T...

The purpose of this study is to understand the critical quality-related factors that affect cloud computing success of hospitals in Taiwan. In this study, private cloud computing is the major research target. The chief information officers participated in a questionnaire survey. The results indicate that the integration of trust into the information systems success model will have acceptable ex...

Cloud Computing is an emerging technology for processing and storing very large amounts of data. Sometimes anomalies and defects affect part of the cloud infrastructure, resulting in a performance degradation of the cloud. This paper proposes a performance measurement framework for Cloud Computing systems, which integrates software quality concepts from ISO 25010.

While conducting a near-infrared (NIR) survey of “Digel Clouds”, which are thought to be located in the extreme outer Galaxy (EOG), Kobayashi & Tokunaga found star formation activity in “Cloud 2”, a giant molecular cloud at the Galactic radius of ∼ 20 kpc. Additional infrared imaging showed two embedded young clusters at the densest regions of the molecular cloud. Because the molecular cloud is...

Recently, the growing demand for various multimedia services and applications has imposed great challenges in terms of real-time processing, storing, analyzing and sharing of large media data. Federation among media cloud providers can be a promising solution for effectively hosting multimedia applications and provisioning of Quality of Service (QoS)assured services. In this paper, we address t...

A erosol particles resulting from human activity such as sulfate and carbonaceous aerosols have substantially increased the global mean aerosol burden since preindustrial times. Aerosol particles can affect the climate system via several mechanisms. The most prominent impacts are 1) the reflection of solar radiation back to space (a "direct" effect), 2) the absorption of solar radiation by soot...

We analyse extinction maps of nearby Giant Molecular Clouds to forge a link between driving processes of turbulence and modes of star formation. Our investigation focuses on cloud structure in the column density range above the self shielding threshold of 1 mag AV and below the star formation threshold – the regime in which turbulence is expected to dominate. We identify clouds with shallow mas...

I use high resolution N-body/SPH simulations to model the new proper motion of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) within the Milky Way (MW) halo and investigate the effects of gravitational and hydrodynamical forces on the formation of the Magellanic Stream (MS). Both the LMC and the MW are fully self consistent galaxy models embedded in extended cuspy ΛCDM dark matter halos. I find that ram-pres...