1. (a,b)-Trees As we saw in the previous section, the efficiency of standard operations on binary search trees depends on the maximum tree height. Using height balancing, we ensure that trees cannot degenerate linearly but instead have logarithmic height. Let us extend this approach to more general trees. Motivation: assume tree nodes are stored in secondary storage (hard disk). Comparisons of ...

If these statements are taken literally (which the theory allows us to do), they imply that God modified the design of the universe after the Fall (cf. Rom. 8:20−22). If he carried this through consistently, so that all parts of the universe conformed to the new design, then, after the Curse, the universe would again have been a going concern, and would again have appeared to have a history tha...

Background and Objectives: In the original in vitro method for evaluation of iron bioavailability using caco-2 cell model, ferritin formation by cells is considered as a functional indicator of both absorption and utilization of iron. However, as iron is measured in the tested material and then ferritin concentration is measured in caco-2 cell lysate, it is almost impossible to have a concrete ...

Update summarization is to summarize a document collection B given that the users have already read another document collection A, which has time stamp prior to that of B. An important and challenging issue in update summarization is that contents in B already covered by A should be excluded from the update summary. In this paper, we propose a graphbased regularization framework MarginRank for ...

Volume 1, no. 6, e00668-13, 2013. The species infected by the five bacteriophages was misidentified as Paenibacillus larvae. The article title should read as given above, and the organism identified as Paenibacillus larvae should be identified as Brevibacillus laterosporus throughout. Page 1: The abstract should read as follows. “Brevibacillus laterosporus is a secondary invader following Europ...

To overcome their substantial barriers to fluent reading, students with dyslexia need to be enticed to read more, and to read texts with carefully controlled lexical content. We describe and show examples from a prototype of the new Raft story assembly engine, which generates an interactive text that has A) variable plot and B) lexical content which is individualized by decoding pattern.