As David J. Chalmers claims, “virtual reality is a sort of genuine reality, virtual objects are real objects, and what goes on in truly real.” In this paper, I will suggest that the philosophical hypothesis we might live simulation can be considered to last most nihilistic episode series narrations about true apparent worlds Nietzsche sketched The Twilight Idols. argue Nietzsche’s prediction ob...

We report here the first identification of the worldwide spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-2-producing and carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae clone ST258 in Turkey, a country where the distantly-related carbapenemase OXA-48 is known to be endemic. Worryingly, this isolate was also resistant to colistin, now considered to be the last-resort antibiotic for carbapenem-resistant isolates.

The measurement of myocardial performance is of critical importance for the diagnosis and management of the patient with cardiac disease. Despite decades of investigation, the search for the optimal method to measure the contractile properties of the myocardium still continues. Extrapolations from experiments in isolated muscle preparations and the intact animal heart have resulted in invasive ...

Currently, two different solutions for filesystems on flash storage exist: Flash Translation Layers in combination with traditional filesystems and log-structured flash file systems. This paper analyzes the weaknesses of both approaches and derives a number of requirements that help avoiding these weaknesses. Finally the basic concept of a tree structured flash file system fulfilling all of the...