Lessons From My Mother

My mother the gardener.

M Y MOTHER DIED AT AGE 90 YEARS FROM complications of a fall at home. The “at home” part was the triumph of her last decade. Having spent 3 years in a German slave camp during World War II, she was terrified of institutional settings. Assistedliving facilities and nursing homes were tantamount to prisons, in my mother’s view, and woe to anyone who suggested otherwise. As a HIPAA (Health Insuran...

My mother, the wave

The checkpoint of death ells that fail to turn on a signaling pathway as instructed go on to commit suicide, according to Olivier Micheau and Jürg Tschopp (University of Lausanne, Switzerland). This checkpoint mechanism may ensure that aberrant signalers do not survive to form tumors or inappropriate cell types. The mechanism explains how death and differentiation are coordinated from a single ...

To My Mother Моей Маме

1 Introduction Today, peer-to-peer technology has reached the peak of its popularity. Currently, P2P file sharing represents the dominant usage component of Internet bandwidth. Moreover, P2P networks enable sharing of other different computer resources and services, including distributed (collaborative) computing, processing cycles, instant messaging, CPU and storage resources, etc. Peer-to-pee...

My lessons in mentorship.

came as I worked toward my master’s degree. I hoped to attend conferences and publish, but I didn’t communicate these goals to my adviser. This was partly because I had just immigrated to the United States from a Hindu culture, where people earn things through good deeds rather than by asking for them. I focused on my work, hoping that my adviser would notice my efforts and present opportunitie...

Dedicated to My Whole Family, Especially My Mother, My Husband and My Children