A fairly recent development in the forest industry is the use of shift work in logging in the southeastern U.S. Logging company owners are implementing shift work as an opportunity to increase production and potentially reduce the cost of producing each unit of wood, without consideration of the potential impacts on the logging crew. There are many documented physiological and psychological imp...

Application frameworks and domain-specific languages (DSLs) (both here called high-level tools) aid developers when developing programs for next-generation, highly concurrent systems. An increase in the use of high-level tools, however, creates a problem: the prevention and detection of defects in the high-level program. Traditional debuggers, designed for operating on highly popular, line-orie...

Greenhouse-gas emissions resulting from logging are poorly quantified across the tropics. There is a need for robust measurement of rain forest biomass and the impacts of logging from which carbon losses can be reliably estimated at regional and global scales. We used a modified Bitterlich plotless technique to measure aboveground live biomass at six unlogged and six logged rain forest areas (c...

The effects of logging on ecosystem sustainability are controversial. Surprisingly, existing data are inadequate to allow a comprehensive evaluation of logging effects on biodiversity, composition, and productivity since appropriate comparisons of stands of similar ages and differing disturbance histories are rare. We addressed this issue using a study of 2000 plots in 80 southern boreal forest...

As the world becomes an interconnected network where objects and humans interact with each other, new challenges and threats appear in the ecosystem. In this interconnected world, smart objects have an important role in giving users the chance for life-logging in smart environments. However, smart devices have several limitations with regards to memory, resources and computation power, hinderin...

In the rollback recovery of large-scale long-running applications in a distributed environment, pessimistic message logging protocols enable failed processes to recover independently, though at the expense of logging every message synchronously during fault-free execution. In contrast, coordinated checkpointing protocols avoid message logging, but they are poor in scalability with a sharply inc...

Although optimistic fault tolerance methods using message logging and checkpointing have the potential to provide highly e cient transparent fault tolerance in distributed systems existing methods are limited by several factors Coordinating the asynchronous message logging progress among all processes of the system may cause signi cant over head limiting their ability to scale to large systems ...

Drilling industry and its technical services are among the complex and advanced technology-based industries in the cycle of oil exploration and production. In this regard, the logging services role as one of the pillars of technical services is very important due to technological complexity and the importance of the results in the evaluation of oil and gas reservoirs. The complexity had caused ...

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is an emerging memory technology that combines the best properties of current hard disks and main memories by providing non-volatility, high density, high speed, and byte addressability. This provides an opportunity to redesign systems and their software stacks to improve performance and to reduce the complexity. Present-day database systems are designed and optimized ...