Fifty Things About My Mother

Things my mother never taught me.

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: Things I wish my mother taught me

I discuss the key features of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) as a numerical method — in particular the key differences between SPH and more standard grid based approaches — that are important to the practitioner. These include the exact treatment of advection, the absence of intrinsic dissipation, exact conservation and more subtle properties that arise from its Hamiltonian formulation s...

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...