This paper presents a novel method for classifying an image into one of predeened classes in a data bank by applying mutual information to a representation of the Fourier amplitude domain. Template and test images are made translation and rotation invariant through the Fourier-Mellin transform. While mutual information could be employed here, we choose instead to apply it to the lower dimension...

Contributors to Encounters 23, 2022

"Plague added the finishing touches to the great misery of Bristol; its inhabitants resembled prisoners more than citizens, being so low with taxation, so poor in habit, and so dejected in countenance." (Skeete 1645, quoted Latimer) En^6,? hundred years ago the final and most dramatic epidemic of the plague struck ann andJ an^ t^le terrible visitation at Marseilles in 1720, epidemic plague disB...

This paper investigates whether and to what extent there is a conflict of interest between artists and their publishers, regarding to whether and to what degree illegal distributions of their copyrighted recordings should be prevented. This conflict arises because artists also earn their profit from other market activities such as giving live performances, in addition to their share of profits ...

A number of creative people claim to have benefited from psychotherapy which utilized psychedelic drugs. Actor Cary Grant attributed "a new assessment of life" to LSD (Gaines, 1963). Blues singer Ronnie Gilbert, in 1964, was mired in a deep depressive state from which she found it impossible to break free. In desperation, she entered LSD therapy and, during the following six months, went throug...