This article examines the current difficulties faced in penetrating the world of scholarly communication technology. While there have been large strides forward in the disintermediation of digital publishing expertise—most notably by the Public Knowledge Project—a substantial number of barriers remain. This paper examines a case study in terms of scholarly typesetting and the Journal Article Ta...

In this qualitative study I explore how Pagan women conceptualize aging, more specifically social aging, through the ritual process of being a Pagan and becoming a Crone. The central question of this research revolves around how older women who identify as Pagan experience, understand, and conceptualize their social aging and their role as aging women in American society. Semi-structured interv...

Digital identities allow friends to like us, governments to analyze us and media platforms to monetize us. As the internet has evolved, so has the creation, storage and access to digital identities. This paper presents the notion that modern digital identities are no longer natural extensions of the user, but alienated entities that exist outside of their control. To justify this claim, this re...

The application of assisted phytoextraction to the remediation of abandoned mining areas can be a valuable method to reclaim these areas without modifying soil and landscape characteristics. An in situ application of continuous phytoextraction technique was carried out in the area of Campo Pisano, near Iglesias (Sardinia, Italy) followed by a laboratory assisted phytoextraction test using the b...

Multipurpose constructed treatment wetlands are being used increasingly in the southwestern U.S. to reclaim water, provide habitat for wetlands wildlife, educate the public on issues related to water and wildlife conservation, and fulfill other goals. Whereas, man-made wetlands have proven effective for water treatment, one serious drawback is the potential of some wetlands to produce large num...

The Development Plan of Taranto port (S. Italy) predicts the dredging of approx.20 Mt sediments, ≥10% of which are polluted. By appointment of Italian Environment Ministry, a detailed experimental investigation was carried out at laboratory and pilot-scale levels on the best available techniques to reclaim the polluted sediment so to reuse it in a technic and cost effective manner. A short pre-...

InfiniBand System Area Networks (SANs) which use link-level flow control experience congestion spreading, where one bottleneck link causes traffic to block throughout the network. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end congestion control scheme that avoids congestion spreading, delivers high throughput, and prevents flow starvation. It couples a simple switch-based ECN packet marking mechanism...

Conventional methods of energy supply and operation of even CMOS circuits { a technology providing great savings in static energy loss{ are proving to be stumbling-blocks in realizing ultra-dense, petaaop machines, as both energy supply as well as its dissipation pose very diicult problems. Recently several research results have been reported on practical methods and architec-tures for adiabati...

We explore techniques for designing nonblocking algorithms that do not require advance knowledge of the number of threads that participate, whose time complexity and space consumption both adapt to various measures (rather than being based on predefined worst-case scenarios), and that can continue to reclaim memory even after thread failures. The techniques we introduce can be implemented using...

A flash memory device driver that supports a conventional UNIX file system transparently was designed. To avoid the limitations due to flash memory's restricted number of write cycles and its inability to be overwritten, this driver writes data to the flash memory system sequentially as a Log-structured File System (LFS) does and uses a cleaner to collect valid data blocks and reclaim invalid o...