A consistency/latency tradeoff arises as soon as a distributed storage system replicates data. For low latency, modern storage systems often settle for weak consistency conditions, which provide little, or even worse, no guarantee for data consistency. In this paper we propose the notion of almost strong consistency as a better balance option for the consistency/latency tradeoff. It provides bo...

barbari is a common iranian flat bread that has a short shelf life. the effect of low density polyethylene/clay nanocomposite film was investigated for the package and shelf life of the flat bread when stored at different temperatures and relative humilities with different percentages of nanoparticles. nanoclay concentrations of 2% and 6% were used for the nanocomposite and pure polyethylene wa...

Many modern machine learning (ML) algorithms are iterative, converging on a final solution via many iterations over the input data. This paper explores approaches to exploiting these algorithms’ convergent nature to improve performance, by allowing parallel and distributed threads to use loose consistency models for shared algorithm state. Specifically, we focus on bounded staleness, in which e...

Caching of Web documents improves the response time perceived by the clients. Cache replacement algorithms play a central role in the response time reduction by selecting a subset of documents for caching so that an appropriate performance metric is maximized. At the same time, the cache must take extra steps to guarantee some form of consistency of the cached data. Cache consistency algorithms...

Host-side flash-based caching offers a promising new direction for optimizing access to networked storage. Current work has argued for using host-side flash primarily as a read cache and employing a write-through policy which provides the strictest consistency and durability guarantees. However, write-through requires synchronous updates over the network for every write. For write-mostly or wri...

BACKGROUND A psychocomportemental questionnaire has been devised by the consensus group of the Société Française de Médecine du Sport to characterise and quantify, using a list of functional and psychocomportemental signs, a state of "staleness", for which no biological indicator is unanimously recognised. OBJECTIVES To determine the relation between this diagnostic method and two hormones (c...

We identify an opportunity to share data among mobile apps hosted in the cloud, thus helping users improve their mobile experience, while resulting in cost savings for the cloud provider. In this work, we propose a platform for sharing data among mobile apps hosted in the cloud. A “sharing” is specified by a triple consisting of: (a) a set of data sources to be shared, (b) a set of specified tr...

Attribute staleness arises due to the physical distribution of authorization information, decision and enforcement points. This is a fundamental problem in virtually any secure distributed system in which the management and representation of authorization state are not globally synchronized. This problem is so intrinsic that it is inevitable an access decision will be made based on attribute va...