This paper presents the metric histogram, a new and efficient technique to capture the brightness feature of images, allowing faster retrieval of images based on their content. Histograms provide a fast way to chop down large subsets of images, but are difficult to be indexed in existing data access methods. The proposed metric histograms reduce the dimensionality of the feature vectors leading...

Issues relevant to web-based communities in the Pacific Islands are described. A brief geographic and demographic overview is provided, and unique cultural, social and educational challenges are discussed, with particular attention to Hawaii, American Samoa, and Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia as illustrative cases. The computer and allied web-based technologies are viewed as serving some...

This Special Issue consists of selected papers from the annual international Sustainable Asia Conference (SAC) 2016, held on Jeju Island, South Korea, from 28 June to 2 July 2016. SAC 2016 is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in sustainable development issues for Asia. In this special issue, most of the papers emphasize the importance of ...

Computer softwares for processing Thai language are developed at National Museum of Ethnology,Osaka,Japan. We use a popular intelligent terminal TEKTRONIX 4051 for inputting and editing,IBM 370 model 138 for KWIC making and sorting, and CANON's laser beam printer for final output. Using these systems,"Kotmai Tra Sam Duang"(the Three Seals Law)which contains many kind of laws and ordinances proc...

In this paper, the electric-discharge machining (EDM) of non-contact seal grooves was studied. Two types of material, namely: tungsten carbide and silicon carbide were tested by EDM due to their hard machining behaviors. The geometry of seal grooves is another reason why grinding or other precision machining processes cannot be applied. Four parameters of EDM processes were studied, namely: ele...

The State college choral society, sponsored by Music council, will present its annual winter concert in Chancellor's hall, Thursday at 8:30 o'clock. Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichordist of world fame, will appear as guest soloist. Mr. Kirkpatrick was to have appeared at last year's winter concert, but a sudden illness forced him to cancel the engagement at the last minute. Kirkpatrick Well Known M...

Australia is leading the way in promoting the use of the Internet as a means of strengthening local communities. The Australian Domain Name Authority (auDA) has announced the release of Community Geographic Domain Names (CGDN), to be solely used by not-for-profit, self-funded local community groups. As Australian communities attempt to establish a management group and develop a website under th...

Vikramaditya Prakash is an Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington. He has a Bachelor of Architecture from Chandigarh, India , and an MA. and Ph.D. in History ofArchitecture and Urbanism from Cornell University. His research interest is in interdisclipinary architectural culture studies, focusing on the postcolonial architecture ofSouth Asia. I speak today as a...

Metacercariae of the micropha\lid trematode Microphallus paragrapsi Smith 1983 were found in r.he nervous system of the smooth pebble crab Philyra laevis (Bell 1855). Sporocysts of M. paragrapsi were found in the hepatopancreas of the intertidal gastropod Assiminea brazieri (Tenison Woods 1876). Under laboratory conditions, cercariae were found to emerge from the snail host and invade the inter...

Information on oceanic migrations and spawning areas of tropical Pacific freshwater eels (genus Anguilla) is very limited. Lake Letas and its single outflowing river, Mbe Solomul on Gaua Island, Vanuatu, were surveyed for large migrating individuals. Twenty-four Anguilla marmorata (87 to 142 cm), 39 A. megastoma (50 to 131 cm), and 3 A. obscura (119 to 126 cm) were caught. Seven individuals wer...