The respiration of individual 'Hass' and 'Fuerte' fruit was monitored during storage at 8oC and 10oC respectively for 14 days, under a continuous flow of humidified air containing ethylene (C2H4) at 0, 0.01, 0.05, 0.25, 1.0 and 5.0 μL.L. Respiration rates of 'Fuerte' fruit under 0.01 μL.L C2H4 were significantly higher than the controls after 3.3 days of storage, but for 'Hass' fruit respiratio...

The long term storage of hospital clinical records is becoming a big problem. A great reduction in the bulk of case notes can be achieved by compartmentalizing unstructured case notes. Such a system has many advantages for medical staff, and its widespread use would do much to alleviate storage problems in future years.

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the color stability of bulk-fill and nanohybrid resin-based composites polished with 3 different, multistep, aluminum-oxide impregnated finishing and polishing disks. MATERIALS AND METHODS Disk-shaped specimens (8 mm in diameter and 4 mm in thickness) were light-cured between two glass slabs using one nanohybid bulk-fill (Tetric EvoCeram, Ivoclar Vivade...

Coding techniques for storage systems are gaining traction in data center (DC) applications, owing to their data survivability performance, and more recently, to their ability to mitigate traffic congestion. This paper considers stochastic allocation schedules in networks that admit bulk file requests, across three drive blocking models. We consider a block-based code and a stochastic schedulin...

Network attached storage devices improve I/O performance by separating control and data paths and eliminating host intervention during data transfer. Devices are attached to a high speed network for data transfer and to a slower network for control messages. Hierarchical mass storage systems use disks to cache the most recently used les and tapes (robotic and manually mounted) to store the bulk...

This paper discusses some fundamental aspects of Distributed File Systems (DFS) for Storage Area Networks (SANs). Many desirable features make a SAN DFS attractive to a production environment that processes huge volumes of bulk data and requires high bandwidth. Throughout the discussion, the traditional server-attached storage model is compared against the distributed network-attached storage m...

Cloud-based storage services have established themselves as a paradigm of choice for supporting bulk storage needs of modern networked services and applications. Although individual storage service providers can be trusted to do their best to reliably store the user data, exclusive reliance on any single provider or storage service leaves the users inherently at risk of being locked out of thei...

Increasingly scientific discoveries are driven by analyses of massively distributed bulk data. This has led to the proliferation of high-end mass storage systems, storage area clusters and data centers as storage fabric elements for the Grid, offering excellent price/performance ratio and good storage speeds, but increasing maintenance and administrative costs. A promising alternative then, is ...