Highly pathogenic (HP) H5N1 avian influenza (AI) is enzootic in several countries of Asia and Africa and constitutes a major threat, at the world level, for both animal and public health. Ducks play an important role in the epidemiology of AI, including HP H5N1 AI. Although vaccination can be a useful tool to control AI, duck vaccination has not proved very efficient in the field, indicating a ...

This paper analyzes the provision of end-to-end Quality of Service between nodes in a mobile ad hoc network and a fixed IP network that supports Differentiated Services. The ad hoc network incorporates the Stateless Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (SWAN) model to perform admission control for real-time traffic flows. We propose a new protocol, named DS-SWAN (Differentiated Services-SWAN), where end-to...

This paper focuses on the Dirichlet and Dirichlet-multinomial distributions to analyze one definition of cycle based three economic performance regimens: augmentation, stagnation diminution. We use data from 142 economies grouped in seven clusters during second half last century, a period which has witnessed various structural changes. Furthermore, this advances investigate what probabilities a...

This article presents a model of macroeconomic growth that combines in a single formalization two complementary views on innovation and economic growth, the technologygap approach and the Kaldorian theory of cumulative causation. The model suggests that what matters for economic growth in the long run is the existence of a good match between the patterns of technological change, income distribu...

This, our Inaugural Article as Academy Members, is ironically our swan song from the field of the actin cytoskeleton. By reviewing what we have learned and what we think is going on during development, we hope to lure you, the reader, into applying your skills to the bristle cell. The processes of the assembly and disassembly of actin bundles is laid out in time and space in an organism that le...

We define a numerical invariant, the differential Swan conductor, for certain differential modules on a rigid analytic annulus over a p-adic field. This gives a definition of a conductor for p-adic Galois representations with finite local monodromy over an equal characteristic discretely valued field, which agrees with the usual Swan conductor when the residue field is perfect.