In this paper we present our ongoing work for getting the discrimination power of the Fuzzy Texture Spectrum encoding. The model we propose provides the classes encoded by the spectrum having outstanding power for getting homogeneous, granulated and structured texture image characterization. Moreover, we provide the membership functions allowing getting the degrees to which an image (or image p...

Allelic distribution of 15 STR loci (D3S1358, D5S818, D7S820, D13S317, vWA, FGA, TH01, TPOX, CSF1PO, D16S539, D8S1179, D21S11, D18S51, D19S433, and D2S1338) were analyzed in 80 unrelated Moroccan men from two regions using AmpF/STR Identifiler kit. The combined power of exclusion (PE) was 0.999993525 and the combined power of discrimination (PD) was >0.999999999. Comparisons with other publishe...

The Hall-Roeger methodology for the testing of market power is applied to Irish manufacturing industries for the period 1991-1999. The paper adapts their methodology to permit discrimination between input and output-price-based sources of market power. The empirical results do not indicate much evidence of significant imperfect competition in output markets but the results do point to evidence ...

Fast oscillations in neural assemblies have been proposed as a mechanism to facilitate stimulus representation in a variety of sensory systems across animal species. In the olfactory system, intervention studies suggest that oscillations in the gamma frequency range play a role in fine odor discrimination. However, there is still no direct evidence that such oscillations are intrinsically alter...

Most color indexing techniques proposed in the literature are similar: Images are represented by color histograms, and a metric on the color histogram space is used to determine the similarity of images. In this paper we determine the limits of these color indexing techniques. We propose two functions to measure the discrimination power of indexing techniques: The capacity (how many distinguish...

The performance of a number of different measures of nonlinearity in a time series is compared numerically. Their power to distinguish noisy chaotic data from linear stochastic surrogates is determined by Monte Carlo simulation for a number of typical data problems. The main result is that the ratings of the different measures vary from example to example. It therefore seems preferable to use a...

A simple model demonstrates that there is no theoretical connection between the extent of price discrimination and the extent of market power. D 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

“Of all forms of human rights, nothing could be more basic than the rights to life and survival. A natural extension of these rights it the right to development. By providing individuals with equal access to education, employment and participation in community life, society provides a platform for individual development.” Per Ms. Anna Wu Hung-yuk, Chairperson of the Hong Kong Equal Opportunitie...