This article examines the development of the ‘cultural competition’ as a site for the production of multiple identities by Indian American youths on American college campuses. Through the examination of two categories of folk dance competitions (bhangra and raas-garba) at a private university in Washington, DC, we argue that these competitions appear to resist hybridity and produce rhetoric tha...

In the past, some efforts have been made to seek for automated systems to ease the job with monitoring laboratory animals. Commonly, these methods involve visually analyzing video recordings of the animal traversing a specially built runway [1,2,4]. Very recently, a more automated method, the “CatWalk” [3], uses a runway with internal reflection to increase contrast so image analysis software c...

Aircraft do not follow the same route each ight so an accurate analysis of the underlying areas aaected by noise cannot be achieved by considering individual aircraft tracks. This paper describes a method for combining multiple images of aircraft tracks to obtain anàverage' ight path using the Distance Transform as a pre-processing step. The procedures used to average the images of aircraft tra...