Some time ago, in the garden of a friend’s house, my 5-year-old son and his chum were struggling over possession of a water hose. (They were in conflict.) Each wanted to use it first to water the garden. (They had a competitive orientation.) Each was trying to tug it away from the other and both were crying. Each was very frustrated, and neither was able to use the hose to sprinkle the flowers ...

Tuna is one of the fish source nutrition for humans because it contains high-quality protein and omega-3 fatty acids, which are beneficial health. can be processed into various products, such as tuna-shredded. But still has a drawback, i.e., lower-fiber content. To enrich fiber tuna-shredded, fortification with banana blossoms developed functional food preventing gout arthritis. The aims this s...

A series of trials was performed with sheep and goats to compare mechanically shredded with conventionally (control) harvested alfalfa hay. Shredded hay tended to contain less CP and more cell wall constituents than the control; digestibility of NDF in vitro also was increased by shredding. Intake of DM and digestibilities of NDF and ADF were increased in sheep fed shredded hay. Digestibilities...

Robust network design concerns the design of networks to support uncertain or varying traffic patterns. An especially important case is the VPN problem, where the total traffic emanating from any node is bounded, but there are no further constraints on the traffic pattern. Recently, Fréchette et al. [10] studied a generalization of the VPN problem where in addition to these socalled hose constr...

A Virtual Private Network is a logical network established on top of a public packet switched network. To guarantee that quality of service requirements, specified by customers, can be met, the network service provider needs to reserve enough resources on the network and allocate/manage them in an optimal way. Traffic engineering algorithms can be used by the Network Service Provider to establi...