We study the dual Higgs mechanism induced by monopole condensation based on the dual gauge formalism in the maximally abelian (MA) gauge in the lattice QCD. To examine “monopole condensation” in QCD, we study the monopole part or the monopole-current system appearing in the MA gauge by extracting the dual gluon field Bμ. First, we investigate the inter-monopole potential using the dual Wilson l...

BACKGROUND Self-poisoning with pesticides is a major reason for high suicide rates in rural areas of many developing countries. Safer storage of pesticides may be one means of prevention. We have conducted a study to assess the acceptability and use of lockable boxes for storing pesticides in rural Sri Lanka. METHODS Four hundred lockable metal storage boxes were given to farming households, ...

With the enormous growth in data amount day by day storage demands have been imposed crucial requirements for data center, where data access plays essential role in estimation of data storage systems effectiveness. For that, there were a lot of efforts have been done to speed up searching in huge storage systems. Deduplication, one of the latest technologies in storage systems world, is founded...

This paper presents sizing, energy management strategy, and cost analysis for a configuration consisting of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, fuel cell (FC) storage system, and reverse osmosis (RO) desalination technology for combined power and fresh water production. In this system, PV is the main power supply source; fuel cell is a storage system accompanied by Hydrogen production and storage d...

This chapter is to introduce NAND flash channel model, error correction codes (ECC) and signal processing techniques in flash memory. There are several kinds of noise sources in flash memory, such as random-telegraph noise, retention process, inter-cell interference, background pattern noise, and read/program disturb, etc. Such noise sources reduce the storage reliability of flash memory signif...