Tasty Cookies, Inc.: A Master Budget Case

Accuray, Inc.: A Neurosurgical Business Case Study

Accuray Incorporated designs, develops and sells the CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiosurgery System, an image-guided radiosurgical instrument used to ablate diverse benign and malignant lesions. In 2001, Accuray received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the CyberKnife for radiosurgical treatment of lesions anywhere in the body where radiation is indicated. From its i...

Tasty genetic bloomer

Erickson HP: Structure of a fibronectin type III domain from tenascin phased by MAD analysis of the selenomethionyl protein. Gazetteer Tsukuba Science City Where is it? Sixty kilometres northeast of Tokyo and forty from the airport — just far enough to be inconvenient for both. The city has an estimated population of 180 000 and covers an area of about 27 km 2. How old is it? Although it's now ...

Context Cookies

In an ambient intelligence world, devices work in order to support people carrying out their everyday life activities in a natural way. Therefore, it is necessary to know the entities in the environment and to consider new interaction schemas with them. This paper proposes an autonomous and lively mechanism to refresh the context information while users interact with the environment using Near ...

Two Tasty Servings of Pi

Perhaps no concept has captured the mathematical imagination more than the circle ratio π, while no mathematical symbol has evoked more mystery, romanticism and popular appeal than π itself. Why this fascination with math-ematics' most famous number? For the professional mathematician, π has long presented a challenge, being taciturn by nature and yielding up its splendours only grudgingly. Whe...

Internet Cookies: Security Implications