The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) provides a repository of known software, file profiles, and file signatures for use by law enforcement and other organizations involved with computer forensic investigations. The NSRL is comprised of three major elements: 1. A physical library of commercial software packages. 2. A database of information about each file within each software package...

With the advancement of cloud-computing technologies and the growth in distributed software applications, a great deal of research that has been focused on the concepts and implementations of distributed file systems to support these application. Since its inception in 1999 by Peter Braam at Carnegie Mellon University, the Lustre distributed file system has gained both the technical, as well as...

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise , without the prior written permission of the National Drug Court Institute. INTRODUCTION The Editorial Board is pleased to present the second issue of the National Drug Court Institute Review...

The international data have indicated a growing trend of alcohol use worldwide during recent years. Although alcohol use is against cultural norms and religious law in Iran, anecdotal reports from substance abuse treatment providers show that there is demand for alcohol treatment in the country. A recent national report also documented alcohol use disorders in Iran. Development and implementati...

The Afghanistan Ministry of Interior (MoI) conducted nationwide urinary drug screening of Afghanistan National Police (ANP) officers for tetrahydrocannabinol, opiates, d-Methamphetamine, and benzoylecgonine -- commonly referred to as cocaine -- between November 2009 and July 2010. The testing was accomplished in concert with the MoI's Personnel Asset Inventory. ANP members used standardized kit...

BACKGROUND The RxNorm and NDF-RT (National Drug File Reference Terminology) are a suite of terminology standards for clinical drugs designated for use in the US federal government systems for electronic exchange of clinical health information. Analyzing how different drug products described in these terminologies are categorized into drug classes will help in their better organization and class...

Input/output (I/O) operations can represent a significant proportion of the run-time when large scientific applications are run in parallel. Although there have been advances in the form of file-format libraries, file-system design and I/O hardware, a growing divergence exists between the performance of parallel file-systems and compute processing rates. The effect is often a bottleneck when an...