Content Addressable Storage (CAS) is increasingly being used as a technique to provide for space savings when storing datasets. In this paper we analyze the performance of CAS on real-world applications and discuss the effects on space savings, savings in network bandwidth and on resultant error resilience of data. We find that a chunksize of 1 KB can provide up to 84% space savings and even hi...

A comprehensive method for evaluating kernel quality was established by estimating in detail the of 27 pecan cultivars introduced into China and exploring major trait differences among different pecan. The contents crude fat, protein, soluble sugar, tannin; fatty acid composition; amino mineral element composition were analyzed tested using national standards principal component analysis (PCA),...

The increasing demand for effective forest fire prevention instruments has faced operational and future Earth observation instruments with the challenge of producing updated and reliable maps of vegetation moisture. Various empirical band-ratio indexes have been proposed so far, based on multispectral remote sensing data, that have been found to be related to vegetation moisture expressed in te...

We introduce pyndri, a Python interface to the Indri search engine. Pyndri allows to access Indri indexes from Python at two levels: (1) dictionary and tokenized document collection, (2) evaluating queries on the index. We hope that with the release of pyndri, we will stimulate reproducible, open and fastpaced IR research.

Aim: Validated instruments exist measuring parts of personal health, ill-health and lifestyle, but there are few, if any, instruments “grasping the big picture” of wellness and ethos. Accordingly the aim was to develop and establish the psychometric properties of a 74-item Ethos towards Wellness Questionnaire (EtWeQ) with regards to content and construct validity, as well as homogeneity and sta...

As temperatures rise and water availability decreases, the decit is gaining attention regarding future agricultural production. Drought stress a global issue adversely affects productivity of different crops. In this study, drought-tolerant varieties oats were screened to determine that may be employed in drought-prone areas achieve sustainable development mitigate impact climate change. To do ...

Several methods have been proposed to evaluate queries over a native XML DBMS, where the queries specify both path and keyword constraints. These broadly consist of graph traversal approaches, optimized with auxiliary structures known as structure indexes; and approaches based on information-retrieval style inverted lists. However, no published literature addresses methods of combining structur...