Drinking coffee, rehearsing civility, making subjects

Heavy coffee drinking and epilepsy

Dietary habits have been rarely associated with seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy. We report a case of a man with a partial symptomatic epilepsy whose daily habit of heavy coffee drinking was associated with an increased seizure frequency. This patient witnessed a dramatic decrease in the frequency of his seizures after stopping coffee ingestion. Caffeine is a global stimulant and the...

New Grounds for Drinking Coffee

Coffee drinking and cancer of the pancreas.

Naturally Rehearsing Passwords

We introduce quantitative usability and security models to guide the design of password management schemes — systematic strategies to help users create and remember multiple passwords. In the same way that security proofs in cryptography are based on complexity-theoretic assumptions (e.g., hardness of factoring and discrete logarithm), we quantify usability by introducing usability assumptions....

Workplace Civility: A Confucian Approach