Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has been shown to be effective in recovering from synonymy and polysemy in text retrieval applications. However, since LSI ignores class labels of training documents, LSI generated representations are not as effective in classification tasks. To address this limitation, a process called ‘sprinkling’ is presented. Sprinkling is a simple extension of LSI based on au...

Allochthonous subsidies to marine ecosystems have mainly focused on biogeochemical cycles, but there has also been recent interest in how terrestrial carbon (C) influences food webs. In the Baltic Sea, pine (Pinus sylvestris) pollen is found large amounts shallow bays early summer. Pollen a significant C-source freshwater and may be important coastal We examined consumption of autochthonous res...

This paper concerns sprinklings into Minkowski space (Poisson processes). It proves that there exists no equivariant measurable map from sprinklings to spacetime directions (even locally). Therefore, if a discrete structure is associated to a sprinkling in an intrinsic manner, then the structure will not pick out a preferred frame, locally or globally. This implies that the discreteness of a sp...

In text classification, one key problem is its inherent dichotomy of polysemy and synonym; the other problem is the insufficient usage of abundant useful, but unlabeled text documents. Targeting on solving these problems, we incorporate a sprinkling Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) with background knowledge for text classification. The motivation comes from: 1) LSI is a popular technique for info...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION We present a new method to treat recurrent seromas, which is based on our experience with a patient who had recurrent groin seroma and was treated successfully with a sprinkling of talcum powder in the seroma cavity. CASE PRESENTATION A 67-year-old Caucasian man with a suprapubic recurrent right groin hernia underwent inguinal hernioplasty with a polypropylene plug....

A key issue for agriculture in irrigated arid lands is the control of soil salinity, and this is one of the goals for irrigated districts when changing from flood to sprinkling irrigation. We combined soil sampling, proximal electromagnetic induction, and satellite data to appraise how soil salinity and its distribution along a previously flood-irrigated field evolved after its transformation t...

Estimating canopy interception of water by plants during rainfall or sprinkler irrigation is a critical step for evaluating water-use efficiency. Most existing experimental studies and mathematic models of canopy interception have paid little attention to the interception losses of water by herbaceous plants. To better understand the canopy interception processes of herbaceous plants and to est...