The results indicated rapid transmission over a wide range of values of per-act transmissibility.
But such rapid transmission turned out to be at the core of the problem.
With swine flu's potential for rapid transmission, camp poses unusual challenges for the adults charged with the campers' care.
That would include more efficient solar cells and the rapid transmission of information in various kinds of computer.
The age of rapid transmission of information by computers makes it almost impossible to insure confidentiality, said Ms. Lesch.
"The adoption of agriculture," Diamond notes in his most recent book, "The World Until Yesterday," provided "ideal conditions for the rapid transmission of microbes".
Mobile phone technology allows electronic data entry at the point of collection and rapid transmission of information to a central database.
To address that problem, Percival's team also embedded in the device a proprietary algorithm for rapid transmission of the digitized images it captured.
Operating out of the colonized Indian Ocean world, Gandhi saw firsthand how a global empire depended on the rapid transmission of information over vast distances.
Schwann cells develop from multipotent neural crest cells and form myelin sheaths around axons that allow rapid transmission of action potentials.
"When exposed to extreme heat, the paint expands to form a heat shield of sorts, capable of sufficiently slowing down the rapid transmission of fire from one dwelling to the next," explains Stemmett.
