The authors of the paper “Mutiny on the Balint” in this month’s issue of Family Medicine report on an exploration with their family medicine residents of the purposes and methods of running a residencybased Balint group. A recent study from the United Kingdom by Pinder and colleagues addresses similar questions, most importantly: What is the relevance of Balint groups as a method by which to tr...

Quorum sensing (QS) plays an important role in virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, blocking of QS ability are viewed as viable antimicrobial chemotherapy and which may prove to be a safe anti-virulent drug. Bioactive components from Piper betle have been reported to possess antimicrobial ability. This study envisages on the anti-QS properties of ethanolic extract of P. betle leaf (PbLE) using ...

Visual programming has particular appeal for explicit parallel programming, particularly coarse grain MIMD programming. Explicitly parallel programs are multi-dimensional objects; the natural representations of a parallel program are annotated directed graphs: data flow graphs, control flow graphs, etc. where the nodes of the graphs are sequential computations. A visually based (directed graph)...