iSCSI protocol, used in building IP-based storage networks, is becoming more important because it realizes consolidation of storage at low cost, since security is a critical issue for the iSCSI protocol, on which remote storage is accessed over the IP networks. iSCSI can employ IPsec, which offers strong encryption. However, IPsec encryption processing degrades the performance of storage access...

We explore an alternative definition of unit in a monoidal category originally due to Saavedra: a Saavedra unit is a cancellative idempotent (in a 1-categorical sense). This notion is more economical than the usual notion in terms of left-right constraints, and is motivated by higher category theory. To start, we describe the semi-monoidal category of all possible unit structures on a given sem...

conclusions considering the personal and background characteristics of personnel and understanding their association with stress and stressful situations encompasses the ability to persevere and adapt to contextual stressors. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 3643 anonymous questionnaires were disseminated among nurses in different hospitals in tehran, iran, by utilizing multi...

medication errors account for about 78% of serious medical errors in intensive care unit (icu). so far no study has been performed in iran to evaluate all type of possible medication errors in icu. therefore the objective of this study was to reveal the frequency, type and consequences of all type of errors in an icu of a large teaching hospital. the prospective observational study was conducte...

abstract in this study, we applied recently developed panel unit root and cointegration techniques to examine the long-run real income per capita and price elasticities for demand of electricity in selected middle east and north african (mena) countries using an annual data series from 1990 to 2011.our main finding from the panel analysis is that the demand for electricity is highly price elast...

The max-sum loopy belief propagation (LBP) algorithm was shown in [4] to produce strong results in a simple decentralised supply chain formation (SCF) scenario where goods are traded in single units. In this paper, we demonstrate the performance of LBP in a multi-unit SCF scenario with additional constraints. We also provide experimental analysis of LBP’s performance in dynamic scenarios where ...