Endmember extraction and spectral unmixing is a very challenging task in multispectral/hyperspectral image processing due to the incompleteness of information. In this paper, a new method for endmember extraction and spectral unmixing of hyperspectral images is proposed, which is called as minimum distance constrained nonnegative matrix factorization (MDC-NMF). After being compared with a newly...

According to Fox’s (2000) recent history of the Great Depression in Victoria, efforts to assist the unemployed were characterised by an overarching desire to ‘remoralise’ unemployed people and promote a ‘reinvigorated work ethic’. Book reviewer, Brian Dickey summarises Fox’s argument saying that ‘the notion that the unemployed had lost their moral standing and hence their rights to full partici...

Moral psychology is often ignored in ethical theory, making applied ethics difficult to achieve in practice. This is particularly true in the new field of animal ethics. One key feature of moral psychology is recognition of the moral primacy of those with whom we enjoy relationships of love and friendship--philia in Aristotle's term. Although a radically new ethic for animal treatment is emergi...

The incumbent approach to defining our reasonable expectations of privacy (REP) fails to account for the evolved threats ushered by the Internet context. As a result, the privacy controls it anchors are being applied in an inconsistent, ad hoc, and precarious manner. This paper briefly introduces a novel approach to domesticate REP and operationalize its application through privacy controls by ...

O of the most fundamental tensions within clinical research arises from the need to balance the goal of advancing the frontiers of science in order to improve the standard of care available to future persons with the goal of responding with diligence and compassion to the important interests and health needs of the research participants who make such progress possible (Jonas 1969; see also Lond...