The present article is a plea for the value and obvious relevance of reading in formation every generation students teachers. Reading brings us knowledge it usually comes as pleasant surprise. It helps guides our quest knowledge, especially when we break open different kinds texts – scientific, philosophical, literary, historical, to name few. Are there any lessons be learned? Can really find r...

Adolescence may be defined as the period of life 'rom the end of childhood, and indicated physically by the bodily changes associated with puberty, continuing until full physical development is achieved, and adult status in society is recognised. Unfortunately there is incomplete agreement as to the time-period involved. Some authors (Sandstrom) consider the years from 12-16, the age 10-12 bein...

We argue in favor of the presumed c o m m i t protocol by proposing two new presumed commit variants that sign$cantly reduce the cost of logging activities associated with the original presumed commit protocol. Furthermore, for read-only transactions, we apply our unsolicited updatevote optim’zationand show that the cost associated with this type of transactions is the same in both presumed com...

Introduction. Since the time of Riemann, there has been a close interplay between the study of the geometry of complex algebraic curves (or, equivalently, compact Riemann surfaces) and the topology of 2-manifolds. These connections arise from the uniformization theorem, which asserts that every simply connected Riemann surface is conformally equivalent to either the Riemann sphere, the plane, o...

Dynamic replication can be used to reduce bandwidth consumption and access latency in high performance “data grids” where users require remote access to large files. Different replication strategies can be defined depending on when, where, and how replicas are created and destroyed. We describe a simulation framework that we have developed to enable comparative studies of alternative dynamic re...