The simple read/write interface exposed by traditional disk I/O systems isinadequate for low-locality update-intensive workloads because it limits theflexibility of the disk I/O systems in scheduling disk access requests ...

A good storage system provides efficient, flexible, and expressive abstractions that allow for more concise and non-specific code to be written at the application layer. However, because I/O operations can differ dramatically ...

This thesis is a comparative analysis of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote and Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla with a central focus on the ways in which the authors blur the line between fiction and reality. Bearing in mind the ...

<p>Ethanol, with its high energy density, likely production from renewable sources, ease of storage and distribution, is almost the ideal combustible for fuel cells wherein its chemical energy can be converted directly ...

With reduced size and dimensions, semiconductor nanostructures have dramatic difference in electrical properties than their bulk counterparts. These differences have raised many interesting topics, such as quantum Hall ...

Nanofibrous membranes generated by the electrospinning technique possess several unique structural properties, such as high surface and bulk porosity, high surface-to-volume ratio and interconnected pores, and have attracted ...

This dissertation examines two previously unexplored concepts in Spanish nineteenth-century culture, those of the fallen man and the male angel. It explores these two categories in canonical texts such as Tormento (1884), ...