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are controlled by nerve impulses sent to motor units causing muscle contractions. Skeletal muscles are made up of bundles of fibres, containing many nuclei, connected to the bone by connective tissue attachments called tendons. Its function is to position parts…

exist, but the most common types of networks are Local-Area Networks (LANs), and Wide-Area Networks (WANs). In a LAN, computers are connected together within a "local" area (for example, an office or home). In a WAN, computers are farther apart…

Bridges are used to interconnect LANs using one or more of the IEEE 802.x standards, that is Ethernet or Token Ring LAN environments and also others. Bridges are devices with two or more ports, which connect LANs at the Data Link layer of the OSI Model…

Naomi is the same sentiment that is held by the fictional Ruth toward Aunt Sid. In the same way that Ruth attaches herself to Naomi, the fictional Ruth seems to want to be Aunt Sid's daughter, rather than May's. A very literal connection between Boaz…

) initiated a research program. They selected J.C.R. Licklider of MIT to head the work and develop it. Later Leonard Kleinrock of UCLA who developed the theory of packet switching, which was used to create the basis of Internet connections. His thesis was titled…

networks (LANs, computers linked together in a central location, such as a business or government organization) around the world. In this sense, the Internet IS a network of computers. It just isn't a directly connected network; it's more roundabout, more…

war in America. The first connected the ARPAnet were the Four DEC PDP-10 computers. They were located in the respective computer research labs of UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. The network expended, and different models…

competitive relationship which now exists among the four companies. Indeed this competition is set to increase with the recent development of information technology and the soon occurrence of 3G License permitted by the Chinese government (Yang, 2003, pp3-4…

, such as ADSL, HDSL, and RADSL. Connection speed for DSL ranges from 1.44 Mbps to 512 Kbps downstream and around 128 Kbps upstream. Unlike traditional connections DSL such as analog modems and IDSN, DSL deliver continuous “always on” access. That means multimedia…

There are many kinds of networks, however this paper will be about networking computers. As we move further and further into the paperless society, the need for people to be connected and able to exchange data just as fast as they could by handing…