Reliability models of longevity can be usefully extended in several directions. In particular, rather than simply optimizing parameters within a structure that is tightly defined a priori, it may be more illuminating to examine interactions between highand low-level design decisions, by analogy with the engineering principle of ”Total Quality Management.” The sources of decay are more various a...

Decompilation is reconstruction of a program in a high-level language from a program in a low-level language. Possibility and feasibility of decompilation is a subject of controversy over last years. We present several arguments supporting the idea that in spite of impossibility of full automatic decompilation there exist methods and techniques that cover most of decompilation process for wide ...

This paper discusses the use of design patterns during the transition phase from analysis to design of object-oriented systems. Pattern mining, which is the process of finding and documenting design patterns, usually takes place during or after the development of a software system. This paper introduces several new design patterns that were discovered through the experience of teaching object-o...

background: stroke is one of the most frequent causes of death and disability worldwide and has significant clinical and socioeconomic impact. hyperlipidemia and inflammation play major roles in atherothrombosis and in stroke. this study is conducted to compare the high sensitive c-reactive protein (hs-crp) levels and the lipid profile parameters between stroke patients and control group and de...

This letter introduces the "mode determination" problem relative to a bimodal image corrupted by noise, i.e., the problem of estimating the mean intensity level of each of the two homogoneous regions constituting a bimodal image. The mode determination problem can be seen as a generalization of the threshold determination problem. This generalization is introduced to cope with the low performan...