Dr. Leo S. Rowe

Author's Response to Dr. Leo

Khush Mittal I read the paper by Chi et al. with interest. The authors found a greater hypoxia response gene expression in carcinomas than stromal cells grown in vitro, but were not sure of the underlying explanation (see Discussion in [1]). The underlying explanation may be the difference in mitotic activity and hence metabolic activity between these two cell types, such that hypoxia may be pr...

Leo Tolstoy′s anti-war perspective

The article considers the representation of war in Leo Tolstoy's artistic and journalistic work. The concept of "War" is a key notion in the writer's works. The paper describes the lexicon embodying the topic. To express the essence of the concept, Leo Tolstoy uses such words as sumasshestviye (madness), zlo (evil), and nasiliye (violence). The article analyzes the evolution of attitu...

LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer

Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are heavily dependent upon the optimizer’s estimates for the number of rows that will result at each step of the QEP for complex queries involving many predicates and/or operations. These estimates, in turn, rely upon statistics on the database and modeling assump...

Dr. K. S. Ray

Dr H. S. Davidson

interests of this ancient Society; we recall the occasions on which, by means of papers and discussion, he contributed so profitably to our deliberations out of his large experience; but we remember, perhaps, more even than these, the appeal of a personality that charmed us alike by its simplicity, its sympathy and its sincerity. The loss the Society has sustained in the death of Davidson is a ...