VIROLOGY: Leave It to Mimi

Don't leave it to chance.

Take It or Leave It ?

This research examines the consumer’s decision whether to make a purchase. I propose one psychological process underlying this decision, namely, a metacognitive process I call preference testing. Specifically, when deciding whether to purchase a particular option, people observe whether they have tested the option against alternative options for purchase. Seeing they have considered a competing...

Denial of Service? Leave it to Beaver

We present Beaver, a method and architecture to “build dams” to protect servers from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Beaver allows efficient filtering of DoS traffic using low-cost, high-performance, readily-available packet filtering mechanisms. Beaver improves on previous solutions by not requiring cryptographic processing of messages, allowing the use of efficient routing (avoiding overlays...

Don't leave home without it.

Time 25 minutes Introduction Here is a fun card game to help students practice the modal verbs of possibility 'may' and 'might' and the demonstrative pronouns 'this' and 'these'. Procedure Divide the students into groups of four. Give each group a set of picture cards. Ask the students to shuffle the cards and place them face down in a pile on the desk. Tell the students that they are going to ...

MiMI: Michigan Molecular Interactions

There is a proliferation of data sources in biology. A complete understanding of a biological problem often requires the integration of multiple data sources, each providing insights on certain aspects of the problem. Furthermore, different sources often represent data in different ways, even when they cover the same information. Researchers interested in a particular biological problem are for...