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Modern scientific research centers require the fast, fault-tolerant storing systems for the collecting and processing of large amounts of scientific data originating from different sources and serving a great variety of client applications all over the world. This problem has great importance in many fields of science, such as geoinformatics, climate modeling, high-energy physics, astrophysics, and others. It is reasonable to use the concept of distributed computing to preprocess, normalize and aggregate scientifi...

Reverse vending machines (RVM) are a key part of used plastic containers utilization system in Europe and the United States. Waste recognition and sorting in RVM machines can be performed by any of the following procedures: by determining the container material (e.g. using the IR-spectrometer), by recognition of the container type by its shape, or by the barcode identification.[1] These three basic control-procedures make any attempt of the fraud completely impossible. But at the same time, it makes the RVM too ex...