Natural language processing

A. Mumford-Shah segmentation functional Mumford and Shah proposed this segmentation method based on a variational platform. Let Ω certainly be a bounded open amount of region R in addition to u_0 is preliminary image data. Segmentation of this kind of image into homogeneous items is completed via the search for a pair of components (u, K), where K is a number of contours, and u is usually a piecewise smooth approximation of u_0.The minimization of an energy functional (u, K) in a way that u…

In the known documentary, Food Inc., there are several sides people can take. In todays society, people are either very aware of what they put into their mouth or they are not and they just do not care. America is all about capitalism, and it comes as no surprise to anyone that our food system is all about making a profit. Through this documentary there has been many social changes such as people not wanting to state their personal opinions on this topic, to these businesses being the creation…

Eating is a daily need for everyone. Food gives your energy, strength and the ability to function throughout your busy day. As a college student, I am always on the move. Cooking healthy recipes and eating at steady meal times are something is not usually reality for me in the day to day. I am not alone and many campuses know this. Most college campuses provide small convent stores, cafés, coffee shops, food courts. At the University of Central Oklahoma, the campus is surrounded by food. There…

understanding for information processing is a board game. I took a few of my favorite boards games that I played numerous times growing up and I combined them into one game that depicts how I see information processing. Explanation of model: My model, a board game, is set up like a Shoots and Ladders board. The board as a whole represents the entire information process. There is a spinner for the board game and the spinner represents the stimulus in information processing. The spinner is spun…

Food, an essential ingredient to survive; yet, one of the more complicated things to produce. In the food industry, the market creates products designed around what the consumers want and needs. Although that may sound simple, it is rather more complex than that due to consumers wanting everything from convenient, non-genetically modified organisms (GMOs), paleo, organic, clean labels, gluten free, and affordable products. Each of these categories has either been a constant desire from the…

Do you really know what is in the meat that we eat? Eric Schlosser has written a book on the process of meat packing plants that begs the question (Fast Food Nation). His work bears a remarkable similarity to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle written almost one hundred years ago. Schlosser wrote his book from a different approach but contains shocking information of how our meat is still processed today. He is rightly known as the Upton Sinclair of today. Schlosser went on a meat packing tour and…

Whistle blowing. Snitching. Ratting. Tattling. Exposing. Blowing the lid off. The meat packing industry is not as it seems. Beware of the meat. Beware of the job. Things are not as they seem. Whatever the big meat packing companies have said, it is a lie. Immigrants to the United States were told about a better life, but it was also a lie. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle which exposed the reality of the meat packing companies in Chicago in the early 20th century. Likewise in the food documentary…

During the 1800s, and early 1900s, American life were involved in several social problems and bad conditions. These problems led to the Progressive Era, which goals were created to address these problems. The Progressive Era included better working conditions, women’ suffrage, democracy, and an end to child labor. Although reforms proposed during the Progressive Era still had some problems to be addressed, Progressive Reformers worked hard to solved the issues to their best of their ability in…

Harvard Calls USDA’s Food Plate inadequate Every new program has flaws. When the USDA’s Food Plate was introduce it had its critics. This new program was a revamp of the outdated Food Guide Pyramid. The Food Plate was viewed by many as a success for it was easy to view and fairly simple to understand. Harvard developed its own Plate and describes the differences between the two. The big difference being that the USDA version does not include valuable advice as to why the choices laid out…

What some people do not understand, is the word “natural” is not defined in the food industry. Which means that no one is regulating any requirements for manufacturers to be able to place “natural” on their labels. An example of this is Ben & Jerry’s ice cream who claims to have “All Natural” ingredients in 48 of their 53 ice cream flavors. When in reality contain ingredients such as, “fake vanilla, alkalized cocoa,…