When Germany declared war on Russia in August 1914, Erich Maria Remarque was 16 years old. Growing up in Osnabrueck, near the Dutch border, he’d harbored literary aspirations. But he was training to ...

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Predicate pushdown is a widely adopted query optimization. Existing systems and prior work mostly use pattern-matching rules to decide when a predicate can be pushed through certain operators like ...

Classical conditioning is a way to learn using unconscious associations. Pavlov discovered classical conditioning when dogs started to salivate at the sound of a bell before they got food. The ...

Relative pronouns can be translated as ‘who’, 'whom', ‘which’, ‘that’ or 'whose'.