Words that should be seen but not written

Staphylococcus lugdunensis; a pathogen that should be considered in Iran

Background: Staphylococcus lugdunensis is Gram-positive cocci of the staphylococcaceae family. S. lugdunensis despite having a clotting factor (wall coagulase), was classified in the coagulase negative staphylococcus group (CoNS) for lack of free coagulase. Although this bacterium is part of the human normal flora, in terms of virulence, S. lugdunensis is in second place after S. aureus. S. lug...

Visualization Techniques for Surveillance: Visualizing What Cannot Be Seen and Hiding What Should Not Be Seen

Introduction Video surveillance (closed-circuit television, CCTV) systems are becoming ubiquitous; you can hardly take a walk in a modern city center without being recorded by surveillance cameras, even less so inside shops and malls. A large shopping mall can have hundreds of cameras installed, a football stadium maybe one hundred. Typically, these cameras are connected to a control center, wh...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Medications that should not be crushed

Daes That Should Not Be Solved

The closing decades of the 20th century have seen many scientists recognize that their mathematical models are in fact instances of DAEs, or of ODEs with invariants. Such a recognition has often carried with it the beneet of aaording a new, sometimes revealing, computational look at the old problem. But one must not conclude that reformulating a mathematical model as a DAE is always a good idea...