conclusions this study provides support for the hypothesis that humans are probably infected after contact with swine sources. the findings emphasize the importance of checking the country of origin of swine and of improving sanitary control measures from the veterinary standpoint to prevent the spread of hev infection in italy. materials and methods a total of 327 hev sequences of swine and hu...

the environment belongs to everybody, but as a result of incorrect use of natural resources by a minority and selfish groups, the environment has been polluted. the environmental specialists have stated the danger and suggested some solutions. the writer belives that besides of all solutions, there is another way which suggests the change of mans attitude towards the world and himself. in this ...

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The Agile All Photonic Network (AAPN) is a high speed transparent agile optical transport network. A key issue in these all photonic networks is the distributed scheduling method employed at the edge nodes and the manner of co-ordination with the core switching state. In this paper we compare several classes of resource sharing methods. Optical Burst Switching (OBS) and two classes of Optical T...

The so-called media convergence to the Internet is foreseen. As a consequence of this convergence, MANs will face new demands not only in terms of bandwidth, but also in terms of services. To meet these new demands, new MAN architectures are required. WDM-based MAN architectures that tackle the first problem are available not only in the literature, but also on the market. In this paper we deal...

In this paper, photonic technologies for the realization of high-capacity optical time-division multiplexed (OTDM) local and metropolitan area networks (LANs and MANs) are addressed including all-optical techniques such as ultra short pulse generation, all-optical clock recovery, optical multiplexing/demultiplexing, and optical packet compression/decompression. Furthermore, the new trends in hi...