Privacy and personhood revisited: a new framework for substitute decisionmaking for the incompetent, incurably ill adult.

Decisionmaking for the incompetent terminally ill patient: a compromise in a solution eliminates a compromise of patients' rights.

A centralized privacy-preserving framework for online social networks

There are some critical privacy concerns in the current online social networks (OSNs). Users' information is disclosed to different entities that they were not supposed to access. Furthermore, the notion of friendship is inadequate in OSNs since the degree of social relationships between users dynamically changes over the time. Additionally, users may define similar privacy settings for their f...

Injectable Estradiol Valerate, as a Substitute for Estradiol Pellets in Breast Cancer Animal Model

The ability to maintain and study human tissues in in-vivo environment has proved to be a valuable tool in breast cancer research for several decades. The most widely tissues have been xenografts established human breast cancer cell lines into athymic nude mice. The aim of this study was to provide a new accurate and affordable method for the establishment of breast cancer xenograftin nude mice...

Medical decisionmaking for incompetent persons: the Massachusetts substituted judgment model.

Sweep Line Algorithm for Convex Hull Revisited

Convex hull of some given points is the intersection of all convex sets containing them. It is used as primary structure in many other problems in computational geometry and other areas like image processing, model identification, geographical data systems, and triangular computation of a set of points and so on. Computing the convex hull of a set of point is one of the most fundamental and imp...