exceed the current state of the art retrieval performance on these datasets, particularly on queries with poor initial recall where techniques like query expansion suffer. Overall we show that soft-assignment is always beneficial for retrieval with large vocabularies, at a cost of increased storage

Abstract—Reversible watermarking enables the embedding of useful information in a host signal without any loss of host information. Tian’s difference-expansion technique is a high-capacity, reversible method for data embedding. However, the method suffers from undesirable distortion at low

oods have devastated bank-dweller communities repeatedly. Urban expansion in the river basin has disentitled those communities dependent on the river by removing their control over its water resources. In addition, a lack of information about the river's characteristics has led to dangerous

of this communication is to report observations which indicate that expansion of plasma volume plays a significant part in the production of anemia prior to splenectomy and is possibly alone responsible for the anemia which persists following splenectomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Observations were made on 57 patients

. If recent entry and exit rates continue in the years ahead, then more than 6 percent of the nonelderly adult population will soon be receiving DI benefits. The rapid expansion of the beneficiary population has three main causes. First, a set of congressional reforms in 1984 to Disability Insurance screening

Abstract We give an algorithm to compute asymptotic expansions of exp-log functions. This algorithm automatically computes the necessary asymptotic scale and does not suffer from problems of indefinite cancellation. In particular, an asymptotic equivalent can always be computed for a given exp

Many attempts to introduce TRIZ into organizations have suffered from a lack of application results with “bottom line ” impact. When TRIZ methods are utilized, the authors have found that the results are not routinely implemented. Where TRIZ applications have lead to implementation, experience has

Many attempts to introduce TRIZ into organizations have suffered from a lack of application results with “bottom line ” impact. When TRIZ methods are utilized, the authors have found that the results are not routinely implemented. Where TRIZ applications have lead to implementation, experience has

We give an algorithm to compute asymptotic expansions of exp-log functions. This algorithm automatically computes the necessary asymptotic scale and does not suffer from problems of indefinite cancellation. In particular, an asymptotic equivalent can always be computed for a given exp-log function.

. It has also been seen as providing for expansion of executive power, and a broader authority for the federal government. Those that argue in its favor claim that the government was confronted with the quandary known as the lesser-of-evils—i.e., given policy choices where no alternative is optimum