Goodies and Baddies

Cancer and the Immune System

The immune system interacts with developing cancer in ways that can protect the host against hyperproliferation but that may also contribute to malignancy. Understanding the mechanisms behind the protective and harmful effects of the innate and adaptive immune systems in their exchanges with tumor cells will help to unravel how to harness our natural defenses with targeted therapeutics. This is...

GOODIES: GO Based Data Mining Tool for Characteristic Attribute Interpretation on a Group of Biological Entities

Foveon X3 Detector: Real goodies or eyecandy?

This paper investigates Foveons X3 sensor [6] , which vertically stacks three sensor layer that absorb light of different colors, talks about the operating principle of this type of sensors, and the advantages and disadvantages of such design.

"Goodies" in Exchange for Consumer Information on the Internet: The Economics and Issues

A recent phenomenon in Internet marketing is the evolution of “virtual” organizations that provide free e-mail services or promotional rebates or even cash to “qualified” online consumers who are willing to interact with them. In order to qualify for such “goodies” the consumers provide these organizations information on their demographics, likes and dislikes, shopping/product preferences, etc....

Developing with UML - Goodies, Pitfalls, Workarounds

The object-oriented modeling language UML offers various notations for all phases of application development. The user is left alone, however, when applying UML in up-to-date application development involving distribution, data management, and component-oriented mechanisms. Moreover, various shortcomings have been encountered, most notably w.r.t. refinement of model elements throughout the deve...