This paper assesses the extent to which schools in the University of California (UC) system were able to restore racial diversity among admitted students using race-neutral polices after California’s ban on racebased affirmative action. Using administrative data from the UC from before and after the ban on racecontingent admissions policies, we present evidence that UC campuses changed the weig...

Color image acquisition and image processing have become a key in modern data applications. In order to provide high quality images, the field of accurate acquisition is most important in respect to all further processing steps. This is especially true for color correction and white balancing on color sensors. But a whole variety of current image sensors possess an incorrect color rendition due...

introduction: machine vision, which uses image processing techniques, is a branch of artificial intelligence that simulates human vision. these systems can be used for quality control, sorting and grading of agricultural products. unlike engineering materials, agricultural fruits are living tissues that continue living even after they are harvested from trees or bushes. therefore, the post-harv...

meat color is an important quality trait influencing the purchase decisions of consumers at the point of sale. maintaining the cherry-red color of fresh meat desirable to consumers is critical to retailing, and discolorationinduced quality deterioration leads to a $1 billion annual revenue loss in the US meat industry. the redox chemistry of myoglobin and its interactions with other biomolecule...

In this paper, we will address the issues and the challenges for achieving photo-quality output with bi-level digital printing technologies. We will present the case study of transforming a 4-color Hewlett Packard Indigo liquid electrophotographic digital press, into a 6-color printer that can print images that are comparable, in terms of image quality and image permanence, to the traditional p...