Multipath routing of traffic demands, known also as bifurcated routing or load sharing, has been studied for various telecommunication networks for a long time. An advantage of multipath routing is that it gives a demand the opportunity to use multiple paths through the network to send its traffic. In a single-commodity situation, this benefit can be clearly seen. When multiple demands (multi-comm

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There has recently been an increased interest among academic scholars on the importance of elections per se as promoters for democratic change in semi-democratic contexts. This study positions itself somewhat on the side of this debate asking; when do elections in electoral authoritarian regimes result in democratic consequences? Recognising that elections can be as well a tool for democratic empo

Previous studies on dispositional optimism and pessimism have showed that high level of optimism predicted less perceived stress and less health problems. Some studies also show that optimists tend to use active coping strategies more than pessimists do. The aim of the current study was to investigate the role of optimism in relation to coping with stress at work. An Internet based questionnaire w

Popular Abstract in English Foods, microorganisms, and humans have been tightly associated from the start of human history. Foods are not only the source of nutrients for humans, but also good media for microorganisms. Although we humans discovered the existence of microorganisms relatively recently, we have been dealing with them for hundreds and thousands of years. We have used some microorganisStaphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) is the most common enterotoxin found in outbreaks of staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP). Based on the amount of SEA produced, S. aureus strains were divided into two main groups, high- and low-SEA-producing strains. The differences in the amounts of SEA formed were found to be associated with the levels of expression of the sea gene and the bacteriophage version

Syftet med detta Forska och Väx-projekt har varit att öka konkurrenskraften för InView AB genom att tillsammans med forskare bedriva användarcentrerad utveckling av tjänster på ippi-systemet i fyra olika kommuner med lokala behov. Projektet har genomförts med mål att ta fram ett tjänsteutbud som svarar upp till kommunens behov av en ny plattform för hållbar och kvalitetssäkrad kommunikation i äldr