There are numerous approaches towards restoration of art, including computer applications as aid to manual performance. However, to our knowledge, it has not been attempted to recuperate high quality images of missing or presumably destroyed works of art. While these works will never again be available in their original form, it may be feasible to considerably enhance the quality of preserved p...

Nanotechnology is an emerging technology that could impact a wide range of industries in the near future. Nanotechnology involves production and use of extremely small particles (1 – 100 nm size scale), wherein the particle synthesis is controlled or manipulated at the molecular level (1). The nanoparticles are often used for industrial/commercial applications due to their extremely high reacti...

This work focuses on scenarios that require the continual storage of large amounts of data. Such systems require the ability to either continually increase the total storage space or reclaim existing contents. Traditional storage systems provide persistence for all stored objects to perpetuity, relegating object reclamation to applications. Our key insight is that not all of the new data are eq...

In the article state of irrigation-land-reclamation Ferghana valley in condition cotton monopoly 1950-1970 is closely observed. Besides, measures on improvement irrigation system by Soviet government and their results are analyzed grounds primary sources. KEY WORDS: valley, irrigation-land-reclamation, monopoly, government, system, collective farm, drainage, collector, virgin lands.

Improving the understanding of cropland change and its driving factors is a current focus for policy decision-makers in China. The datasets of cropland and cropland changes from the 1970s to the 2000s were used to explore whether climate change has produced spatiotemporal changes to cropland in northern China since the 1970s. Two representative indicators of heat and water resources, which are ...

We identify a design pattern for concurrent data structures, called teleportation, that uses besteffort hardware transactional memory to speed up certain kinds of legacy concurrent data structures. Teleportation unifies and explains several existing data structure designs, and it serves as the basis for novel approaches to reducing the memory traffic associated with fine-grained locking, and wi...