— For large scale distributed storage systems, flash memories are an excellent choice because flash memories consume less power, take lesser floor space for a target throughput and provide faster access to data. In a traditional distributed filesystem, even distribution is required to ensure load-balancing, balanced space utilisation and failure tolerance. In the presence of flash memories, in ...

Project management in the present time is characterized by rapid advancements in many technologies, hardly calculable risks and very tight deadlines for nearly all kinds of projects. Planning and steering of projects under these conditions turns out to be a really tough job even for the most experienced project managers. To deal responsibly with project sponsors or customers, they must consider...

NASA launched its Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) in January 2003. The primary goal of this laser altimeter mission is to provide determination of volumetric changes in the ice sheets, specifically in Antarctica and Greenland. The instrument performance requirements are driven by the scientific goal of determining a change in elevation on the centimetre level over the course of...

Under the premise that land administration is one of the necessary components of sustainable development and better land management, this article reviews how progressive titling could foster new land administration procedures and associated information systems. This review is based on the objectives of progressive titling as they are developed or currently implemented in various regions in the ...

Studies the effects of exposure to light of the laser diode Melles Griot (λ = 670nm), He-Ne laser (λ = 632.8nm) and argon laser (λ = 514nm) on selected soil micro-organisms, fungi that destroy old manuscripts, pictures, stone, etc. and on humification and mineralization of soil samples. Also studies exposure effects on seed growth and biomass production of a few species of cultivated plants and...

The Peninsular Malaysia Geodetic Vertical Datum 2000 (PMGVD2000) inherited several deficiencies due to offsets between local datums used, levelling error propagations, land subsidence, sea level rise, and slopes along the southern half of Malacca Strait on west coast South China Sea in east relative Port Klang (PTK) datum point. To cater for a more reliable elevation-based assessment both rise ...

Abstract The increasing demand for corn staple food, industry material and livestock feed shows that the development of farming is highly recommended. Utilization marginal land to meet needs supply can be implemented on post-gold mine in Sijunjung Regency. It crucial introduce cultivation technology develop as an adaptive crop post-mining land. aims produce harvest expected generate profit farm...

This article summarises some considerations surrounding a geoid-model-based vertical datum that have to be thought through before its implementation and adoption. Our examples are based on many Australian and some South-East Asian experiences, but these probably also apply elsewhere. Thekey considerations comprisedataquality andavailability, politics, anddifficulties thatusersmayencounterwhen a...

The NZGeoid09 gravimetric quasigeoid model of New Zealand was computed through FFT-based 11 Stokesian integration with a deterministically modified kernel and an iterative computation approach 12 that accounts for offsets among New Zealand’s 13 different local vertical datums (LVDs). NZGeoid09 is 13 an improvement over the previous NZGeoid05 due to use of the EGM2008 and DNSC08GRA models, 14 an...