P eople rely on and use software for many tasks, ranging from launching spacecraft, writing reports, and communicating with other people. But, because of bugs, people are not always happy with software. Sometimes, software does not do what it should and this can make users unhappy or sometimes have very serious effects on the world. Software should be a tool that people can rely on, but often i...

BACKGROUND Illicit drug use has become an increasing public health and social concern in the past decades worldwide. Intravenous injection has an elevated risk of infection. Needle embolism is a rare complication of intravenous drug users, Retained broken needles can lead to local complications, such as infection, but they also have the potential to embolize to heart or lung, and lead to seriou...

This paper presents a software package whose aim is to provide a tool to be used for reliability indices analysis in radial distribution system. It contains all the main elements found in practical system. The software package employs the Graphical User Interface (GUI) capabilities of Matlab. The main advantage of the proposed package is that the reliability indices analysis can find in differe...

The Beier-Neely feature-based image-morphing method is studied. Then, software implementing the Beier-Neely image-morphing method, designed and developed by the author, is presented. The software consists of three programs. The first program is a graphical user interface (GUI) used to manually select feature line segments. The second program is a morphing program that generates a morphing image...

Introduction Modern designers of graphical user interfaces, or GUIs, have obtained design patent protection for creative computer software displays, a realm previously limited to copyright. The difference in protection is important. Design patents do not require copying, while copyright does. Design patents do not have a fair use defense, while copyright does. Design patents do not exclude prot...

background kaposi sarcoma (ks) is an angioproliferative tumor that mainly involves mucocutaneous tissues, but extracutaneous spread to lymph nodes, gi tract, lungs, liver, pancreas, heart, and testes can occur in aids-associated ks. patients with pulmonary ks may be symptomatic or present with an asymptomatic abnormality on chest radiography. patient and method a 28-year-old man presented with ...

Evidence accumulating from clinical observations, neuroimaging and neuropathological studies suggests that illicit drug abuse accentuates the adverse effects of HIV on the central nervous system (CNS). Experimental investigation in cell culture models supports this conclusion. Injecting drug abuse is also a risk factor for the acquisition of HIV infection, the incidence of which continues to ri...