Despite recent interest in understanding the effects of human-induced global change on carbon (C) storage in terrestrial ecosystems, most studies have overlooked the influence of a major element of global change, namely biological invasions. We quantified ecosystem C storage, both above- and below-ground, on each of 18 islands off the coast of New Zealand. Some islands support high densities of...

In cloud storage services, a wide range of sensitive information may be leaked to the host server via the exposure of access pattern albeit data is encrypted. Many security-provable schemes have been proposed to preserve the access pattern privacy; however, they may be vulnerable to attacks towards data integrity or availability from malicious users. This is due to the fact that, preserving acc...

Flash memory does not allow data to be updated in place, and the copy-on-write strategy is adopted by most flash storage devices. The copy-on-write strategy in modern FTLs provides an excellent opportunity for offloading the burden of guaranteeing the transactional atomicity from a host system to flash storage and for supporting atomic update propagation. This paper presents X-FTL as a model ca...

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Because of the outstanding performance of SSD, it has been deployed in storage system large-scaly. However, the limited lifespan of SSDs has always been the critical shortcoming holding back the footsteps of SSD popularization. We will propose an adaptive data reduction strategy for SSD-based caches in virtualized environment, which can expand the lifespan and capacity of SSD. The adaptive data...

Intercalation pseudocapacitive Li(+) storage has been recognized recently in metal oxide materials, wherein Li(+) intercalation into the lattice is not solid-state diffusion-limited. This may bridge the performance gap between electrochemical capacitors and battery materials. To date, only a few materials with desired crystal structure and with well-defined nanoarchitectures have been found to ...

Probiotic microbes may confer a variety of positive health effects on the host. Until now, development probiotic products has mainly focused Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species, which generally tolerate stresses encountered during processing, storage delivery well. In recent years, newly-discovered gut have gained attention due to their association with healthy host conditions. However, t...

Fruits and vegetables are extremely susceptible to decay and easily lose commercial value after harvest. Different strategies have been developed to control postharvest decay and prevent quality deterioration during postharvest storage, including cold storage, controlled atmosphere (CA), and application of biotic and abiotic stimulus. In this review, mechanisms related to protein level response...

There are several shortcomings in the existing data migration techniques in Hierarchical Storage Systems (HSS). The first and the most important among them is that data migration policies are user defined hence static and reactive. Secondly, data migration at the host side is not yet completely explored. The other major drawbacks are that each storage tier is modelled as an agent; the data migr...

Compression is widely used in storage systems to reduce the amount of data that is written to physical storage devices, in order to improve both bandwidth and price per GB. In SSDs, which use NAND flash devices, compression also helps to improve endurance, which is limited to a fixed number of raw bytes written to the media, and to reduce garbage-collection overheads. Compression is typically i...