Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) is a new technique for increasing areal data density in hard drives. Drivemanaged SMR (DM-SMR) drives employ a shingled translation layer to mask internal data management and support block interface to the host software. Two major challenges of designing an efficient shingled translation layer for DM-SMR drives are metadata overhead and garbage collection overh...

1. Neuronal activity resulting from stimulation by water waves occurs in ventral nerve cord-body wall preparations of the medicinal leech,Hirudo medicinalis. In segmental nerves, this activity consists of afferent compound action potentials with graded amplitudes resulting from simultaneous action potentials in many small sensory axons. Afferent input impinging on one segmental ganglion activat...

A retrospective cohort study of 14,457 workers at an aircraft maintenance facility was undertaken to evaluate mortality associated with exposures in their workplace. The purpose was to determine whether working with solvents, particularly trichloroethylene, posed any excess risk of mortality. The study group consisted of all civilian employees who worked for at least one year at Hill Air Force ...

In order to make up for the shortcomings of existing theory calculation methods circular diaphragm walls, an alternative method was developed with a clear concept based on cylindrical shell and superposition principle in elasticity named (CCSTCM). We took north anchorage foundation pit G3 Tongling Yangtze River Highway Railway Bridge as example calculated analyzed it by proposed CCSTCM, finite ...

In this study we investigated the effect of motivation on performance when using a BrainComputer Interface (BCI) based on sensorimotor rhythms (SMR). After pooling the data acquired with four different SMR-BCI protocols in one sample of N=41 participants, we found a positive correlation between the motivational components ”challenge” and ”incompetence fear” and accuracy in percent correct respo...

Reordering is one source of error in statistical machine translation (SMT). This paper extends the study of the statistical machine reordering (SMR) approach, which uses the powerful techniques of the SMT systems to solve reordering problems. Here, the novelties yield in: (1) using the SMR approach in a SMT phrase-based system, (2) adding a feature function in the SMR step, and (3) analyzing th...

Abstract Background and Aims Proton pump inhibitors (PPI) are commonly used in cancer patients. Multiple studies have found that PPI use is associated with a more than 2-fold increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) patients treated immune checkpoint (ICI). However, this association could possibly be explained by confounding indication for use. Method In population-based cohort study, we com...

Blue hydrogen production by steam methane reforming (SMR) with carbon capture is far the most commercialised method, and addition of a simultaneous in-situ CO2 adsorption process, sorption-enhanced (SESMR) can further decrease cost H2 production. Ni-based catalysts have been extensively used for SMR because their excellent activity relatively low price, but deposition, sulphation, sintering lea...