At the end of the nineteenth century, Hong Kong was in the midst of a malaria and plague epidemic which caused a fierce dispute within the medical community over disease theories and quarantine practices.However, the Hong Kong CARTRIDGE colonial authorities and medical community did not immediately accept the theory of etiology based on germ theory

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Using persistent memory (PM) for an in-memory database (IMDB) system significantly extends data processing capacity and reduces service downtime for the recovery process in case of system failure.However, it requires an index structure tailored for the characteristics of PM to recover the consistent state from system failure.The processor flushes d

Biodiesel is considered as a renewable biofuel-based substitute for fossil diesel as the properties of biodiesel are similar to those of normal diesel fuel.However, biodiesel has some properties which a negative effect on engine combustion.Binary and ternary fuel blends (blends of biodiesels with the opposite properties) are the best environmentall