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...

The presence of seismic threat multiplies the environmental hazard, especially for oil and gas production transport facilities in water areas. Currently, there are no normative maps general zoning areas inland marginal seas Russia, since practically detailed microzoning even individual parts Taking into account fact that intensive development offshore fields Northern Sea Route has begun, such b...

[1] We report on seismic and petrological data that provide new constraints on the geological evolution of the Amerasia Basin. A seismic reflection transect across the Makarov Basin, located between the Mendeleev and Lomonosov Ridges, shows a complete undisturbed sedimentary section of Mesozoic/Cenozoic age. In contrast to the Mendeleev Ridge, the margin of the Lomonosov Ridge is wide and shows...

It is accepted as a well-known fact that in different places on the Earth's crust, similar anthropogenic impact causes dissimilar response. Seismic zoning maps are not designed to predict such geodynamic hazards rock bursts, induced earthquakes, reactivation of tectonic faults, etc., and therefore require careful adjustments intense subsurface strata. In this regard, we consider classification ...

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...