Plans to Join With Our Society

Noncoding RNAs: 'our turn' to join the p53 network.

What is our contract with society?

I recently interviewed a young woman for a summer job in our division who had just graduated from college and was preparing applications for medical school. Partly to enhance her medical school applications, but mostly because of her own inner beliefs, she had worked part-time at a number of places over the past few years that dealt directly with attempts to correct some of the problems in our ...

How efficient is our radix join implementation?

We recently published a paper [2] that examines the design choices available to create a high-performance main-memory hash join algorithm. We experimentally evaluated four hash join variants on two different architectures, and we showed that an algorithm that does not do any partitioning on the input tables often outperforms the other more complex partitioning-based join alternatives. Our claim...

Drugs in Our Society

In November, 1963, a small private symposium met at Johns Hopkins Univers^ to explore what were the major problems in making safe and effective drugs avails. from both the academic and industrial fields were present. In addition, the gt?f. included economists, the president of a drug company, lawyers and an Eng'1^ social scientist (Professor Richard Titmuss). In the course of their deliberation...

Violence in our society.

Violent interactions between parent and child, and between spouses, occur at a high rate in the United States. In response to this situation, several federal agencies are involved in various research projects whose goal is a better understanding of the roots of violence. Among these agencies are the Division of Injury Epidemiology and Control (Centers for Disease Control), the Office of Minorit...