This work provides a diagnosis of the position, in terms competitiveness, export flows Mexican food industry compared to total world industry, 2001-2016 period. The analysis was made based on measurements revealed comparative advantage, by applying Indices Normalized Revealed Comparative Advantage Yu, Cai and Leung (heir well-known Balassa Index), Vollrath’s Relative Commercial Advantage, using...

Structured peer-to-peer (p2p) overlay networks like CAN, Chord, Pastry and Tapestry offer a novel platform for a variety of scalable and decentralized distributed applications. They provide efficient and fault-tolerant routing, object location and load balancing within a selforganizing overlay network. One important aspect of these systems is how they exploit network proximity in the underlying...

Multicast is a key component of applications such as multimedia streaming, multi-player gaming and generic publishsubscribe and event notification services. IP multicast has a number of technological, practical, and business obstacles [3], and thus is not widely used. An alternative, ApplicationLevel Multicast (ALM), has been proposed to support similar functionalities. A survey of existing ALM...

This research focuses on the analysis of mixtures of free phytosterols (FPSs) with fully hydrogenated soybean oil (FHSO):soybean oil (SO) mixtures as a potential zero-trans substitute for various types of shortenings. Oil binding capacity as well as the thermal, rheological and structural properties of FHSO:SO blends containing 0, 20 and 25wt.% β-sitosterol or stigmasterol were investigated in ...

Distributed hash tables (DHTs), used in a number of current peer-to-peer systems, provide efficient mechanisms for resource location. Systems such as Chord, Pastry, CAN, and Tapestry provide strong guarantees that queries in the overlay network can be resolved in a bounded number of overlay hops, while preserving load balance among the peers. A key distinction in these systems is the way they h...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has a major economic impact throughout the world and is a considerable threat to food security. Current FMD virus (FMDV) vaccines are made from chemically inactivated virus and need to contain intact viral capsids to maximize efficacy. FMDV exists as seven serotypes, each made up by a number of constantly evolving subtypes. A lack of immunological cross-reactivity b...

The Desktop Grid technology consists mainly in exploiting personal computer, geographically dispersed, to deliver massive compute power to investigate complex and demanding problems in a variety of different scientific fields. However, as resources number increases, the need for scalability and decentralization becomes more and more essential. Since such properties are exhibited by Peer-to-Peer...

A cross-sectional study was carried out to investigate the prevalence and antibiotic resistance patterns of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from kitchen sponges used in food establishments of Jimma town, between October, 2010 and June, 2011. A total of 201 kitchen sponge samples from 20 restaurants, 101 hotels, 47 cafeterias and 33 pastry shops were enrolled in this study. Antibiotics susceptibi...