What is important is to see to it that the effectiveness of the existing antibiotics is ensured and that we use them for purely medicinal purposes Furthermore, Merkel emphasized that this is a global health problem and that all nations must work together to solve this problem of antibiotic-resistant bugs. Some projects like the STRAMA network in Sweden provide a very good model that other count...

I take the first part of the title of my essay from a character in Mary Wroth’s Urania , dubbed the Lady of the Oddest Passion, who makes a fleeting appearance in book 3. 1 This lady, described as “most loving, most discreet” (452), is loved by, and in return loves equally, two men. All three were content with this situation for a time, but ultimately the Lady is pressed to choose between the s...

Groups of starved, virgin adult male or female bed bugs were stimulated to search for a host by the presence of a heated artificial feeder. Some of the bed bug groups were allowed to obtain a blood meal and some were not. After the removal of the feeder, bed bugs were observed throughout the scotophase to record their searching and aggregation behavior. Groups of male and female bed bugs that w...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are systems in which software and hardware components interact with each other. Understanding the specific nature root cause of CPS bugs would help to design better verification validation (V&V) techniques for these such as domain-specific mutants. We look at from an open-source perspective, trying understand what kinds occur a set CPSs belonging different domains....

An 84-year-old female presented with a 2-day history of abdominal pain, vomiting, and constipation/obstipation. She had a prior history of abdomino-perineal resection for carcinoma of rectum 15 years ago. On examination, the abdomen was distended with increased bowel sounds. There was increased tenderness in the medial aspect of the thigh, no palpable inguinal mass, or any evidence of hernia. C...

A 20-year-old woman presented to the emergency department at 0730 hrs with a 3-hour history of sharp right-sided chest pain without radiation. She denied having shortness of breath, cough or fever. She had not sustained any trauma or undergone any surgical procedure recently. Although a smoker, she had no other significant past medical or family history. At the time, she was not on any prescrip...

Context: Bug fixing is an integral part of software development and maintenance. A large number of bugs often indicate poor software quality, since buggy behavior not only causes failures that may be costly but also has a detrimental effect on the user’s overall experience with the software product. The impact of long lived bugs can be even more critical since experiencing the same bug version ...

Little is known about the potential for acoustic communication in bed bugs, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), or the use of sound as cues in host location, although many hemipterans are known to communicate with sound. Most behavioral research has focused on bed bug pheromones that are used in aggregation and as alarm signals. We investigated the influence of sound as a deterrent and...

My main research interests are software system, program analysis, and software engineering. The goal of my research is to help programmers build more efficient software systems. Everyone wants software to run faster. Slow and inefficient software can easily frustrate end users and has already caused several highly publicized failures. Although researchers devoted decades to improving software p...