There is a considerable mismatch between current intakes of vitamin D by many European populations and recommended target intakes for the vitamin [1]. While traditional fortification of milk and other dairy products remains important in tackling inadequate intake, additional strategic approaches to fortification, including biofortification, of a wider range of foods, have the potential to incre...

Structured peer-to-peer (p2p) overlay networks like CAN, Chord, Pastry and Tapestry [3, 6, 5, 9] provide a self-organizing substrate for large-scale peer-to-peer applications. These systems provide efficient, fault-tolerant routing, object location and load balancing within a selforganization overlay network. In this paper, we show how redundant information that is collected as part of the norm...

This paper presents Scribe, a scalable application-level multicast infrastructure. Scribe supports large numbers of groups, with a potentially large number of members per group. Scribe is built on top of Pastry, a generic peer-topeer object location and routing substrate overlayed on the Internet, and leverages Pastry’s reliability, self-organization, and locality properties. Pastry is used to ...

This B.Sc. thesis report documents an implementation of the Pastry Distributed Hash Table (DHT) for the Network Simulator 3 (NS-3) simulation environment. To our knowledge, this thesis constitutes the first and only effort to cover the lack of any Pastry implementation for the NS-3 discrete event simulator. Given that NS-3 comes as an open source distribution, it is expected to meet the high de...

This paper presents Scribe, a large-scale event notification infrastructure for topic-based publishsubscribe applications. Scribe supports large numbers of topics, with a potentially large number of subscribers per topic. Scribe is built on top of Pastry, a generic peer-to-peer object location and routing substrate overlayed on the Internet, and leverages Pastry’s reliability, self-organization...

BACKGROUND International travel contributes to the worldwide spread of multidrug resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Rates of travel-related faecal colonization with extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae vary for different destinations. Especially travellers returning from the Indian subcontinent show high colonization rates. So far, nothing is known about region-speci...

BACKGROUND Salmonella, one of the primary indicators of food safety, is a common cause of food poisoning of an epidemic nature around the world. These microorganisms can colonize the gastrointestinal tract of both people and animals, and next contaminate not only eggs, milk, meat and dairy products, but also vegetables, fruit, grains and even spices. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to an...

Quality systems established at Union or national level, including farm certification schemes for agricultural and food products, provide consumers with assurances about the quality characteristics of products production process used as a result farmers' participation in these schemes, confer added value to concerned increase their market opportunities.Until June 2022, Romania received, from Eur...