Segregation, Inequalities and Discrimination

Stigmatization, Discrimination, Racism, Injustice, and Inequalities in the COVID-19 Era

Segregation , Discrimination , and African - American Theater Entry during Jim Crow ∗

We examine the role of residential segregation and racial discrimination in determining the entry of movie theaters serving African-American customers in the 1950s. These theaters provided an alternative to the segregated theaters of the Jim Crow era. Consistent with preference externalities in racial and ethnic enclaves, we find that a greater degree of residential segregation leads to more Af...

Spatial arrangement in texture discrimination and texture segregation

We investigated the role of spatial arrangement of texture elements in three psychophysical experiments on texture discrimination and texture segregation. In our stimuli, oriented Gabor elements formed an iso-oriented and a randomly oriented texture region. We manipulated (1) the orientation similarity in the iso-oriented region by adding orientation jitter to the orientation of each Gabor; (2)...

Some inequalities for information divergence and related measures of discrimination

Inequalities which connect information divergence with other measures of discrimination or distance between probability distributions are used in information theory and its applications to mathematical statistics, ergodic theory and other scientific fields. We suggest new inequalities of this type, often based on underlying identities. As a consequence we obtain certain improvements of the well...

Harmonic segregation through mistuning can improve fundamental frequency discrimination.

This study investigated the relationship between harmonic frequency resolution and fundamental frequency (f(0)) discrimination. Consistent with earlier studies, f(0) discrimination of a diotic bandpass-filtered harmonic complex deteriorated sharply as the f(0) decreased to the point where only harmonics above the tenth were presented. However, when the odd harmonics were mistuned by 3%, perform...