in this research, nano materials with tubular structures are added to sae 20w50 engine oil to study the rate of their effects on the properties of engine oil. multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) and vanadium oxide nanotubes (vonts) has been used as two different additive materials, one of them is carbonic and the other is metallic oxides and their effect on  different parameters containing v...

This work analyzes a process known as flash pyrolysis, which produces bio fuels using biomass for power generation. A life-cycle assessment of flash pyrolysis of wood waste was conducted to study whether a flash pyrolysis plant set up locally would be environmentally friendly. The results obtained show that the process of flash pyrolysis of wood waste is in fact environmentally friendly, and th...

The case on contact shots from firearms with a flash suppressor is rare. When a rifle fitted with a flash suppressor is fired, the emerging soot-laden gas in the barrel escapes from the slits of the flash suppressor. If the shot is contact or near contact, the flash suppressor will produce a characteristic "flower-like" pattern of seared, blackened zones around the entrance. This paper presents...

The performance of recent mobile devices is highly related to storage and file system. However, the current EXT4 file system is not optimized for NAND flash memory. In this paper, we propose a novel flash-aware file system block allocation technique, which reserves several address regions for hot file. The scheme significantly reduces the garbage collection overhead within the flash memory. In ...

In recent years, disasters caused by flash floods with many casualties have occurred frequently in China. In order to effectively prevent flash flood disasters, the State Council approved the National Flash Flood Control Planning (NFFCP) in 2006. In this planning, non-structural measures are recommended as the first step to be adopted in the prevention of flash floods, debris flow and landslide...

Flash memory is prevalent in modern servers and devices. Coupled with the scaling down of flash technology, the popularity of flash memory motivates the search for methods to increase flash reliability and lifetime. Erasures are the dominant cause of flash cell wear, but reducing them is challenging because flash is a write-once medium— memory cells must be erased prior to writing. An approach ...

'Flash-forwards' - mental images of suicide - have been reported in selected Caucasian samples. Perceptions of defeat and entrapment are considered to be associated with suicidal ideation. We aimed to investigate (1) the presence of suicidal flash-forwards in people with recent suicidal ideation versus those without such ideation in an Asian sample, and (2) associations between suicidal flash-f...

Big data real-time processing aims for faster retrieval of data and analysis. Lately, in order to accelerate real-time processing, big data platforms are trying to exploit NAND flash based storage devices, especially SSDs. NoSQL DBMSs have been used for real-time management of big data which significantly depends on index structures to efficiently manage data. Previous research about flash-awar...

In this paper, a new design for a low power CMOS flash Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is proposed. A 6-bit flash ADC, with a maximum acquisition speed of 1GHz, is implemented in a 1.2 V analog supply voltage. HSpice simulation results for the proposed flash ADC verifying the analytical results are also given. It shows that the proposed 6-bit flash ADC consumes less power i n a commercial 90n...

Recently, flash memory is widely used in embedded applications since it has strong points: non-volatility, fast access speed, shock resistance, and low power consumption. However, due to its hardware characteristics, it requires a software layer called FTL (flash translation layer). We present a new FTL algorithm called LSTAFF (Large STAFF). LSTAFF is designed for large block flash memory. That...