This article examines New York City’s first attempt to regulate adult entertainment establishments through zoning provisions. Specifically, it discusses whether the adult-use zoning provisions comply with federal and state constitutional requirements, and it examines whether the adult-use amendments would cause a reduction in adult-use establishments in New York City, which would render the ame...

This paper investigates different strategies allowing integration of contextual information during the feature extraction stage of a cursive handwriting HMM-based recognition system. First we propose to use linear discriminant analysis (LDA) in order to integrate the class information during feature set building. Secondly several zoning strategies are used to integrate local contextual informat...

FEW analytical data exist for staurolite, in comparison with other metamorphic minerals such as garnet. However, using the microprobe, Hollister and Bence (1967) working with relatively inclusion-free specimens from the Kwoiek Area, British Columbia, established compositional zoning across staurolite in addition to compositional irregularities across sectoral twin boundaries. The staurolites st...

Oscillatory zoning, i.e., self-formation of spatial quasiperiodic oscillations in the composition of solid growing from aqueous solution, is analyzed theoretically. Keeping in mind systems like (Ba,Sr)SO4 , we propose a one-dimensional model that takes into account the nonideality of the solid solution and the system asymmetry, in particular, reflecting itself in different solubilities for such...

This paper presents a two-level based character recognition method in which a dynamically selection of the most promising zoning scheme for feature extraction allows us to obtain interesting results for character recognition. The first level consists of a conventional neural network and a look-up-table that is used to suggest the best zoning scheme for a given unknown character. The information...

A Microsoft Excel macro is described that enables rapid recognition of common opaque minerals. The program uses ore mineralogical features such as reflectance, anisotropy, bireflectance, Vickers Hardness and morphological features (bladed crystals, zoning and twinning) to identify possible candidates from a database of 200 common ore minerals. Reflectance can be estimated from the uncorrected l...

A multi-classifier formed by specialised classifiers for noise produced by an image is shown in this work. A study has been carried out in the case of cut images, where tree cases of specialization are considered. Classifiers based on neighbourhood criteria are used, the zoning global feature and the Euclidean distance too. Furthermore, the paper explains a modification of the Euclidean distanc...

Economists have long argued that systems of marketable permits are a cost-effective means of regulating externalities. Though these ideas have only recently been implemented in the field of pollution control, transferable development rights (TDRs) have been used for decades by city planners in many locales. Most opponents of permit trading contest the granting of property rights to the originat...