What is important is to see to it that the effectiveness of the existing antibiotics is ensured and that we use them for purely medicinal purposes Furthermore, Merkel emphasized that this is a global health problem and that all nations must work together to solve this problem of antibiotic-resistant bugs. Some projects like the STRAMA network in Sweden provide a very good model that other count...

Groups of starved, virgin adult male or female bed bugs were stimulated to search for a host by the presence of a heated artificial feeder. Some of the bed bug groups were allowed to obtain a blood meal and some were not. After the removal of the feeder, bed bugs were observed throughout the scotophase to record their searching and aggregation behavior. Groups of male and female bed bugs that w...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are systems in which software and hardware components interact with each other. Understanding the specific nature root cause of CPS bugs would help to design better verification validation (V&V) techniques for these such as domain-specific mutants. We look at from an open-source perspective, trying understand what kinds occur a set CPSs belonging different domains....

Context: Bug fixing is an integral part of software development and maintenance. A large number of bugs often indicate poor software quality, since buggy behavior not only causes failures that may be costly but also has a detrimental effect on the user’s overall experience with the software product. The impact of long lived bugs can be even more critical since experiencing the same bug version ...

Little is known about the potential for acoustic communication in bed bugs, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), or the use of sound as cues in host location, although many hemipterans are known to communicate with sound. Most behavioral research has focused on bed bug pheromones that are used in aggregation and as alarm signals. We investigated the influence of sound as a deterrent and...

My main research interests are software system, program analysis, and software engineering. The goal of my research is to help programmers build more efficient software systems. Everyone wants software to run faster. Slow and inefficient software can easily frustrate end users and has already caused several highly publicized failures. Although researchers devoted decades to improving software p...

Memory-related program failures in multithreaded programs can be caused by a variety of bugs. Concurrency bugs can occur due to unexpected or incorrect thread interleavings during execution. Other kinds of memory bugs, such as buffer overflows and uninitialized reads, may also occur in multithreaded as well as single-threaded programs. Most prior techniques for isolating these bugs are speciali...

Context: Mobile applications support a set of user-interaction features that are independent of the application logic. Rotating the device, scrolling, or zooming are examples of such features. Some bugs in mobile applications can be attributed to user-interaction features. Objective: This paper proposes and evaluates a bug analyzer based on userinteraction features that uses digital image proce...

Assassin bugs (Stenolemus bituberus) hunt web-building spiders by invading the web and plucking the silk to generate vibrations that lure the resident spider into striking range. To test whether vibrations generated by bugs aggressively mimic the vibrations generated by insect prey, we compared the responses of spiders to bugs with how they responded to prey, courting male spiders and leaves fa...

During system call execution, it is common for operating system kernels to read userspace memory multiple times (multi-reads). A critical bug may exist if the fetched userspace memory is subject to change across these reads, i.e., a race condition, which is known as a double-fetch bug. Prior works have attempted to detect these bugs both statically and dynamically. However, due to their imprope...