Today, even bytes stored in expensive, professionally managed data centers, are vulnerable to loss and damage. The vulnerability increases when large volume of data must be stored indefinitely into the future, as required by emerging data services. The economic viability of these services depends on their keeping data unaltered. As disks outpace tapes in capacity growth, large scale storage sys...

The Twitter and Facebook accounts of the nursing community are fired up after the premier of MTV's new reality series, Scrubbing In, debuted a few weeks ago. A Jersey Shore version of nursing, Scrubbing In has enraged nurses from around the globe with its misguided representation of the nursing profession. Barbara Mildon (2013), president of the Canadian Nursing Association, which represents 15...

It is very difficult to over-emphasize the benefits of accurate data. Errors in data are generally the most expensive aspect of data entry, costing the users even much more compared to the original data entry. Unfortunately, these costs are intangibles or difficult to measure. If errors are detected at an early stage then it requires little cost to remove the errors. Incorrect and misleading da...

A novel and effective system was developed for the complete treatment of NOx from flue gases. The system consisted of photocatalytic or ozone oxidation of NOx, followed by scrubbing and biological denitrification. Maximum photocatalytic oxidation of NOx was achieved while using powdered TiO2 at a catalytic loading rate of 10 g/h, relative humidity of 50%, and a space time of 10 s. The used cata...

Removal of fly ash using wet scrubbers is widely used in the small and medium scale industries. Among the wet scrubbing methods, spray column falls into the simplest type category for its simple construction and various advantages. A novel pilot plant wet scrubber has been conceived, designed and fabricated. This paper distinctly focuses on the detailed design and fabrication of the ejector, wh...

Thil deterioration of the plant cover of the ci ty water catchment in the upper Tiritea V,alley is causing some concern to the Palmiorston North City Council. Many areas form,'rly in forest have been reduced to scrub', tussock and turf. Although most of the catchment has a "burnt-over" appearance IIthere is no definite record of fires. The, :,Iegetation of the Tararuas has been 'descrIbed by Zo...

The topic of global warming as a result of increased atomospheric CO2 concentration is becoming the most important environmental issue that the world faces today.[1] The capture and separation of CO2, especially CO2 from large point source, for example, fossil-fuel-fired electrical power–generation plants is critical to stabilize the atomospheric CO2 concentration.[2] The existing commercial CO...

In November 2010 electron cloud hallmarks appeared at the LHC when running beams with bunch spacings of 50ns. These hallmarks were pressure rise in the warm sections, heat loads in the cold regions, and emittance blow-up for last bunches in later batches [1]. Using a bunch spacing of 75 ns, pressure rises were detected in the machine as well, but at much more tolerable values (see Fig. 1). For ...