In this paper we propose a distributed, replicated block device for The Grid based on the the replication algorithm of Y. Amir[1]. The end goal is to support application-specified semantics, both wrt. replication strategy and the consistency model used for reads and writes. We list the proposed features of the Grid Block Device and discuss various methods of implementation.

1Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Amir Emami Zeydi, Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran. Tel: +98-9355952357, Fax: +98-51385915...

drawal, we cannot accept the notion, implied by Jacquet's formulation, that the only compounds that can induce opiatelike dependence are those that can also produce EMB, and that an ACTH receptor is critically involved in this effect. SHIMON AMIR RICHARD BLAIR PETER SHIZGAL ZALMAN AMIT Concordia University, Centerfor Research on Drug Dependence, 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal, Que...

HODJAT HAJIAN,* AMIR GHOBADI, SINA ABEDINI DERESHGI, BAYRAM BUTUN, AND EKMEL OZBAY NANOTAM-Nanotechnology Research Center, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey Department of Physics, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey UNAM-Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University...

A novel method for supplier selection by two competitors, including multiple criteria Mehrdad Agha Mohammad Ali Kermani a , Hamidreza Navidi b & Farid Alborzi c a Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran b Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran c Department of Industrial Engineering, Amir Kabir...

Amir A. Farajian,1,* Olga V. Pupysheva,1 Howard K. Schmidt,2 and Boris I. Yakobson1,3 1Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA 2Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA 3Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA Received 19 June 2007; revised manuscript received 21 April ...

Citation Mann, Tyler J., Alexander W. H. Speed, Richard R. Schrock, and Amir H. Hoveyda. “Catalytic Z-Selective Cross-Metathesis with Secondary Silyland Benzyl-Protected Allylic Ethers: Mechanistic Aspects and Applications to Natural Product Synthesis.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 52, no. 32 (August 5, 2013): 8395-8400. As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201302538 Publisher...

Reed F. Beall, MA, is a PhD candidate in the Institute of Population Health at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. Jason W. Nickerson, RRT, PhD, is a Clinical Investigator at the Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario. Amir Attaran, DPhil, LLB, is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Law, Population Health and Global Development Policy at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa...

Alexander Gersten1, Jacqueline Perle2, Dov Heimer3, Amir Raz4 and Robert Fried5 1Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 2Department of Psychology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY 3Pulmonary Unit, Soroka University Hospital, Beer-Sheva 4McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal 5City University of New York...

Prepublished online August 21, 2007; Moura, Marie-Chistine Lecomte, Marc Benhamou and Veronique Witko-Sarsat Chahrazade Kantari, Magali Pederzoli-Ribeil, Omid Amir-Moazami, Valerie Gausson-Dorey, Ivan Cruz scramblase 1 and interference with macrophage phagocytosis apoptosis: evidence for a functional association with phospholipid Proteinase 3, the Wegener autoantigen, is externalized during neu...