Dissociative seizures are paroxysmal episodes of disturbed behaviour that bear some resemblance to epileptic seizures and are not attributable to any organic disorder, including epilepsy. Dissociative seizures are common, accounting for up to 20% of patients treated for alleged pharmacoresistant epilepsy. In many cases, the correct diagnosis is missed for several years, while patients take anti...

The authors present a rare case of double skin tumors: acral lentiginous melanoma and metatypical carcinoma. The tumors were manifested as gradually enlarging ulcerations on the leg and sole of the foot that did not respond to standard treatment. The skin biopsies showed advanced acral lentiginous melanoma on the sole and metatypical carcinoma of the lower leg. Soon after the diagnosis was made...

Active templates are a semi-automatic visual mechanism for generating algorithms for manipulating pointer-based data structures. The programmer creates a picture showing the affected part of a data structure before and after a general-case manipulation. Code for the operation is compiled directly from the picture, which also provides the development environment with enough information to genera...