A new generation of storage systems exploit decreasing storage costs to allow applications to take snapshots of past states and retain them for long durations. Over time, current snapshot techniques can produce large volumes of snapshots. Indiscriminately keeping all snapshots accessible is impractical, even if raw disk storage is cheap, because administering such large-volume storage is expens...

by Spencer Greene R e c e n t n e w s t h a t t h e University's Board of Governors will be considering South-Afr icarelated investments prompted a mixed reaction f rom Rice faculty members last week. Professors w h o spoke to the Thresher expressed a general air of caution, many describing the issue as "complex" and declining fur ther comment without detailed study of the subject. Several, how...

Brown, who is general campaign chairman, said that more than $9 million has already been secured in pre-announcement contributions and commitments. Of that amount, some $6,120,000 represents i n d i vidual gif ts and pledges f rom members of Rice University's Board of ^Governors, through its Governors' Nucleus Fund. The remaining $3 million of the total $9,381,597 campaign nucleus was obtained ...

there are different methods used for threshing of grain crops. usual threshers operate based on the impact force (in threshing unit) that may damage the grains. in another method named axial-flow, grain damage is less so these types of the harvesting machines are being used more than before. in this study one of the common rice threshers (model t30) locally made in ashtad company was modified t...

Loose clothing worn by Indian women get accidently entangled in moving wheel of motor bike or crop thresher and cause accidental strangulation. This study is about the patients admitted in department of otorhinolaryngology with history of accidental strangulation due to long scarf. This study showed that women in rural area are at risk of accidental strangulation due to long scarf getting entra...

By SUSAN BRIDGES Thresher Editorial Staff University President K. S. Pitzer today dismissed Hugh Rice Kelly's appeal fo r hearing toy an impartial cqmmittee in the case of disciplinary action taken against him. Pitzer did this by confirming the action of Dean of Students S. W. Higginbotham in placing Kelly on probation and removing him f rom the editorship of the Thresher. He stated in a let te...

kermanshah province is the main producer of various chickpea cultivars in iran. in this study a laboratory peg-tooth thresher was employed for chickpea threshing. the effect of cylinder speed (9, 12, 15 m/s), concave clearance (12, 14, 16 mm), feed rate (80, 160, 240 kg/h) and material moisture content (5, 10, 15% w.b.) was studied on percentage of grain damage, threshing efficiency and percent...

The objective of this article is to design and characterize the technical performance agricultural residue grinding function integrated into operation a multi-purpose cereal thresher. For farmer, equipment will have advantage realize out threshing, grinding, water pumping. Water pumping allowwatering residues after their grinding.The Functional Analysis (FA) was used identify new useful functio...

The bu i ld ing former ly k n o w n as Autry Court n o w h a s a n e w n a m e a n d a new face , a f te r a lmos t two yea rs of cons t ruc t i on . Former Rice baske tba l l p layer Bobby Tudor (Hanszen '82) fulf i l led a l ong t ime d r e a m w h e n he d o n a t e d $7 mil l ion for Autry r enova t ions , wh ich began in February of 2007. Tudor Fieldh o u s e h a d its g r a n d o p e n i ...