Should my age or health condition influence my decision to become an organ and tissue donor? No. While medical history and age are factors, most people CAN donate. Medical history and age factors are assessed for donation potential at the time of the individual’s death. People are strongly encouraged not to “rule themselves out” because they think their organs, tissue and eyes wouldn’t be suita...

In most software product developments including many kinds of critical-software, there are several issues left unsolved around its availability, reliability, pricing and legal matter in component-based system building up. For example, how do you meet the needs for *reliable* build up method even reusing *unreliable* components? What methods or approaches do you think the best for software reuse...

Recently developed experimental and numerical environments have helped breathe life into the various control theories found in textbooks and have thereby greatly changed the educational experience of students of automatic control. Nonlinear balance beams, inverted pendulums, and distributed parameter thermal systems are now widely available for hands-on experimentation. Many students react quit...

PURPOSE Despite numerous calls for reform over several decades, medical educators have been unable to address many significant challenges. Potentially, employing new metaphors and looking at the teaching and learning of medicine in a new way will facilitate the development of creative solutions. MAIN FINDINGS In this paper we propose the metaphor of medicine as a performing art. Building on t...

if we think of the graph as modeling a network, the vulnerability measure the resistance of the network to disruption of operation after the failure of certain stations or communication links. many graph theoretical parameters have been used to describe the vulnerability of communication networks, including connectivity, integrity, toughness, binding number and tenacity.in this paper we discuss...