In a software project as large and as rapidly evolving as the Linux kernel, automated testing systems are an integral component to the development process. Extensive build and regression tests can catch potential problems in changes before they appear in a stable release. Current systems, however, do not systematically incorporate the configuration system Kconfig. In this work, we present an ap...

You are in your office seeing patients when a nurse calls from the nursing home to report the urinalysis results of Mrs. X. Mrs. X, 75 years-old, with mild Alzheimer’s dementia, was admitted to the facility for rehabilitation and low back pain control after two falls. Her medical history also includes hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), osteoporosis, and ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common in older people, with the prevalence increasing with age in both sexes. UTI is a frequent reason for emergency admission to hospital. There are many conditions that contribute to older people being more at risk of UTI and the main preventive strategy is to avoid the use of indwelling urethral catheters. Where an indwelling catheter is inserted its cont...

This paper proposes an investigation of propagation behaviour of Ultra–Wide Bandwidth (UWB) signals in outdoor environments. Specifically, we first report on the results of an extensive measurement campaign that we have carried out in three selected scenarios, namely “forest”, “hilly” and “sub– urban” environments. Then, we present the statistical model that we have derived after post–processin...

∗Based on my talk at the symposium The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction held February 28–March 1 2015 at The New York Academy of Medicine: http://totalwebcasting.com/view/ ?id=hcf cided to build a contraption called the Spectacular Thermonuclear Unpredictable Population Incineration Device, abbreviated STUPID. It’s arguably the the most costly device ever built on this beautiful spinning...

1. The diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria should be based on results of culture of a urine specimen collected in a manner that minimizes contamination (A-II) (table 1). • For asymptomatic women, bacteriuria is defined as 2 consecutive voided urine specimens with isolation of the same bacterial strain in quantitative counts 10 cfu/mL (B-II). • A single, clean-catch voided urine specimen with ...

The human genome sequence database contains DNA sequences very like those of mycoplasma molds. It appears such moulds infect not only molecular Biology laboratories but were picked up by experimenters from contaminated samples and inserted into GenBank as if they were human. At least one mouldy EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) has transferred from public databases to commercial tools (Affymetrix HG...

This interesting, prospective, and randomised clinical study tested fi ve different approaches in the treatment of women suspected with uncomplicated urinary-tract infection (UTI): immediate, empirical, antibiotic therapy (AT); delayed (by 48 h), empirical AT; empirical AT offered to patients showing a certain clinical symptom score; empirical AT offered to patients with positive dipstick urina...