The traditional routing protocols for delay tolerant networks (DTN) usually take the strategy of spreading multiple copies of one message to the networks. When one copy reaches destination, the transmission of other copies not only waste the bandwidth but also deprive other messages of the opportunities for transmission. This paper brings up a mechanism to eliminate the redundant copies. By add...

The recent affiliation of The Methodist Hospital (TMH) with Weill Medical College (WMC) of Cornell University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the first transcontinental primary affiliation between major, not-for-profit academic health centers (AHCs) in the United States. The authors describe the process followed, the issues involved, the initial accomplishments, and the opportunities envis...

We have devized a methodology that mines sequential navigation patterns from a website's logs to enable us to identify the most signi cant associative links in the networks. Spreading activation can then be applied to the generated network of weighted hyperlinks enabling the content-dependent, semantic retrieval of nodes in the network. This approach to information retrieval avoids many of the ...

Many local breeds are currently at risk because of replacement by a limited number of specialized commercial breeds. Concurrently, for many breeds, allelic diversity within breeds declines because of inbreeding. Gene banking of germplasm may serve to secure the breeds and the alleles for any future use, for instance to recover a lost breed, to address new breeding goals, to support breeding sch...

Sport and more specifically football is an important asset in youth lives. It is widely considered that biological maturity influences physical performance. Relationships between body size and performance are partly confounded by age. In fact, age is positively associated to strength and motor performance, even when height and weight are controlled. Studies on young footballer have been start...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: AI: Artificial Insemination; ANFs: AntiNutritional Factors; BHP: Black Head Persian (sheep); BSE: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; EAZ: East African Zebu; ET: Embryo transfer; FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization; LN: Liquid Nitrogen; MAS: Marker Assisted Selection; MARI: Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute; MOET: Multiple Ov...

The initial part of this paper explores and rejects three standard views of how scientific laws might be systematically connected with physical necessity or possibility. The first concerns laws and their consequences, the second concerns the so-called counterfactual connection, and the third concerns a possible worlds construction of physical necessity. The remaining part introduces a neglected...

There are a number of persuasive arguments as to why sexual pleasure should be included in sexual health work with young people, including the suggestion that this would provide young people with accounts of gender and sexuality that are more critical and holistic than those presented in the popular media, pornography and current sex education curricula. This paper considers the possibilities f...