Cluster-based and iSCSI-based storage systems rely on standard TCP/IP-over-Ethernet for client access to data. Unfortunately, when data is striped over multiple networked storage nodes, a client can experience a TCP throughput collapse that results in much lower read bandwidth than should be provided by the available network links. Conceptually, this problem arises because the client simultaneo...

To my father To my mother To my wife and my family Acknowledgement I would like first to thank my supervisors Didier Dumur, Cristina Stoica, Teodoro Alamo and Eduardo Camacho who have encouraged and supported me since the beginning of my thesis. I am grateful for their help, their availability to correct my last minute papers. I am grateful to As. Prof. José De Dona and Prof. Vincenç Puig for r...

It is a common notion that during the reign of Muslim kings or Sultans, Sanskrit was not given much attention, and one reasons it declined. Many research papers have appeared from time to in support against this idea. Similarly, there are many contradictory statements books History regarding Sultan Mahmood Shah I Gujarat. Scholarships recent years pointed out some data disprove things been said...

As its name implies, cognitive engineering requires attention to the properties of both human cognition and engineering systems. Bennett and Malek (this issue) have done an exemplary job of investigating properties of human cognition that are pertinent to the design of animated mimic displays for process control systems. In so doing, however, they may have inadvertently overlooked some potentia...

under 5 Years of Age Presenting to a Diarrheal Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1996 to 2007 Daniel Leung, MD; Sumon Das, MBBS; M.A. Malek; A.S.G. Faruque, MBBS, MPH; Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, MBBS, MMed; Edward T. Ryan, MD, DTMH, FIDSA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Ba...

We propose a solution methodology for the multi-product newsboy model with constraints that is based on quadratic programming and a triangular presentation of the area under the cumulative probability distribution function of the demand. The methodology allows easier application of this important inventory control model that could be of particular interest in supply chain management as well as...

with chalcogens by ion implantation and pulsed laser melting Brion P. Bob, Atsushi Kohno, Supakit Charnvanichborikarn, Jeffrey M. Warrender, Ikurou Umezu, Malek Tabbal, James S. Williams, and Michael J. Aziz Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Department of Applied Physics, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan Research School of Physics...