The terrorist use of a cargo container to smuggle a nuclear weapon or radiological material which could be used in a radiological dispersion device (RDD) is a serious threat currently being addressed by the US and other governments. The US government has negotiated through the Container Security Initiative (CSI) placing Customs and Border Protection inspectors in 20 major overseas ports to help...

In chunk-based deduplication systems, logically consecutive chunks are physically scattered in different containers after deduplication, which results in the serious fragmentation problem. The fragmentation significantly reduces the restore performance due to reading the scattered chunks from different containers. Existing work aims to rewrite the fragmented duplicate chunks into new containers...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of storage on expressed colostrum kept at room and refrigeration temperature in 2 different types of containers (steel and plastic) at different time intervals (0 hours to 7 hours). DESIGN Prospective immunological study. SETTING Maternity ward. METHODS Colostrum was collected from 60 healthy lactating mothers and tested for total and differential cell coun...

We studied the influence of the aromatic sidewalls on the ability of acyclic CB[n]-type molecular containers (1a-1e) to act as solubilizing agents for 19 insoluble drugs including the developmental anticancer agent PBS-1086. All five containers exhibit good water solubility and weak self-association (Ks ≤ 624 M(-1)). We constructed phase solubility diagrams to extract Krel and Ka values for the...

R efuse is collected all around the world. The following collecting methods are mentioned in the literature: bags (plastic and paper), bins (110–150 l), drums (110–210 l), twowheeled containers (80–360 l), and four-wheeled containers (300–1800 l). Over all, the job of a refuse collector can be characterised by frequent lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of heavy objects. In the Netherla...

VectoBac DT, a tablet formulation of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) was evaluated for the potential control of dengue vectors in various types of potable water containers. On introduction to containers, the tablet sinks to the bottom and the Bti toxins are found concentrated at the sides and the base, while the treated water column is free of Bti toxins within 24 hours after tablet in...

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Recently, an increasing number of public cloud vendors added Containers as a Service (CaaS) to their service portfolio. This is an adequate answer to the growing popularity of Docker, a software technology allowing Linux containers to run independently on a host in an isolated environment. As any software can be deployed in a container, the nature of containers differs and thus assorted allocat...

By means of an apparatus featuring a set of suspended baited containers, search abilities of 4 capuchin monkeys (Cebus apeUa) were evaluated. The experiment featured different spatial configurations of the search space. Results showed that monkeys exhaustively searched 9 containers spatially distributed as a 3 × 3 matrix, a cross, a line, or a circle. Search efficiency was higher when the searc...

We consider the implementation of an algorithm for the transfer of citrus using an intelligent model for trains, this research is performed based on the problem of packing in containers (Bin Packing), so that objects or boxes should be accommodated in a finite number of cubes considering to minimize the use of containers. The problem of packing containers will be understood and made according t...