Presents the first Rate Distortion Bounds for Voice and Video that actually lower bound the operational rate distortion performance of the best-performing voice and video codecs. This is essential reading…

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On the island of Barbados, two families separated by wealth and privilege tragically collide, falling into a Machiavellian web of revenge and betrayal over a span of twelve years that…

A partition of the Lusatian Culture, which had appeared earlier , became more pronounced under the strong influence of the East Hallstatt cultural and productive center in the eastern Alpine…

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A guide to data compression standards and techniques and their applications. The ideas and motivation behind the various compression methods are presented, and insight is provided into the evolution of…

Concerns about the cost and environmental consequences of the traditional American model of burial-embalming, casket, vault, single perpetual grave-are prompting the first significant challenges to American disposition practices since the…