Book: Plague Wars

Leaves from My Plague Note-Book

Cause of death in Plague.?Death may occur in plague either from syncope or asphyxia. In any case of plague, but especially in the pneumonic forms, there is a tendency for the respiration rate to be increased out of proportion to the pulse and temperature. I frequently noted that when the pulse and temperature rose just before death, the respiration rate rapidly fell and vice versa. I append a f...

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Plague

Plague is a disease that has been present for thousands of years and described since the earliest medical accounts. It occurs today worldwide, and may present in a variety of clinical forms. Bubonic disease, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague are seen in addition to a number of other less common manifestations. As an agent of bioterrorism,Yersinia pestis could pose an extreme threat if rel...

Clone Wars

Code clones, the result of the ”copy&paste” programming technique, have negative impact on software quality and on the efficiency of the software maintenance process. Although copying may be the fastest way of creating a new feature, after a while it is really hard to detect and maintain the multiple instances of the same code snippets. Based on static source code analysis, clone detectors try ...

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