BACKGROUND Well-characterized biochemical, structural, and physiological changes occur when red blood cells (RBCs) are stored for a period of time and are collectively called the storage lesion. METHODS Key study results are summarized and contrasted and new data from recently completed randomized controlled trials will be discussed. RESULTS It is unclear whether in vitro changes to RBCs th...

The charging infrastructure plays a key role in the healthy and rapid development of the electric vehicle industry. This paper presents an energy management and control system of an electric vehicle charging station. The charging station (CS) is integrated to a grid-connected hybrid power system having a wind turbine maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controlled subsystem, photovoltaic (PV) MP...

This paper proposes three near optimal (to a desired degree) deterministic charge and discharge policies for the maximization of profit in a grid-connected storage system. The changing price of electricity is assumed to be known in advance. Three near-optimal algorithms are developed for the following three versions of this optimization problem: 1) The system has supercapacitor type storage, co...

Every controlled atmosphere (CA) conference has included recommendations for controlled atmospheres that purport to produce the optimal storage atmosphere for specific horticultural crops. However, the natural variability in the raw material and its dynamic response to processing and storage conditions may render it impossible to identify a truly optimal storage atmosphere. Additional refinemen...

Emerging large-scale data-storage technologies such as Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS), being server-less, trade datasharing and security semantics for high throughput and availability. This paper addresses the issue of data-sharing by presenting a Reader-Writer locking mechanism that is controlled by the storage device. Shared-read and exclusive-write access to s...

This paper focuses on studying cloud storage data protection model and implementing encrypted storage of user data in double-key form. User data are encrypted with symmetric encryption algorithm and this secret key is encrypted with asymmetric encryption algorithm. The private key is managed and controlled by users. In this way, users guarantee the security of their own data with the sole priva...