Mr. J. D. Griffith Davies, O.B.E.

The Late Mr. John W. Davies

Griffith: Curare

IF anyone had suggested a few years ago that I should present a paper on the clinical use of curare I would have been inclined to laugh, for to most of us curare has always been a fabulous poison vaguely connected with South American Indians and detective novels, useful in the physiological laboratory, but far removed from the realm of practical therapeutics. Nevertheless I have now to report i...

OBE: Outlier by Example

Outlier detection in large datasets is an important problem. There are several recent approaches that employ very reasonable definitions of an outlier. However, a fundamental issue is that the notion of which objects are outliers typically varies between users or, even, datasets. In this paper, we present a novel solution to this problem, by bringing users into the loop. Our OBE (Outlier By Exa...

Griffith Conrad Evans

Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. University of Rome on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard. He began his teaching career in 1912 as assistant professor of mathematics at the newly established Rice Institute , now Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He became professor there in 1...

A multiscale Griffith criterion

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