Flower wars

Clone Wars

Code clones, the result of the ”copy&paste” programming technique, have negative impact on software quality and on the efficiency of the software maintenance process. Although copying may be the fastest way of creating a new feature, after a while it is really hard to detect and maintain the multiple instances of the same code snippets. Based on static source code analysis, clone detectors try ...

Cell wars.

Turf Wars

Turf wars in organizations commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to share jurisdiction over a project with other agents. Agents with jurisdiction decide...

Slice wars vs dose wars in multiple-row detector CT.

he short answer is yes. At this oint in time, it seems that the soalled slice wars with regard to the umber of slices provided per comuted tomographic (CT) gantry roation may be reaching a plateau. At he same time, increasing concerns bout radiation dose due to CT exminations are fueling the efforts to educe radiation dose and leading o the beginning of the so-called ose wars. Since 1998, there...

Survivors after blood wars.

survival such as GVHD and leukemia risk group. Elmaagacli and colleagues propose several explanations for these results (see figure). First, myeloid cells are a reservoir for CMV. It is possible that viral reactivation in AML blasts makes them a target for subsequent attack by virus-specific cytotoxic T cells (CTLs). Alternatively, CMV reactivation in AML cells may up-regulate leukocyte fixatio...