We examine the phenomenology of a low-energy extension of the Standard Model, based on the gauge group SU(3) ⊗ SU(2) ⊗ U(1) ⊗ SO(3), with SO(3) operating in the shadow sector. This model offers νe → νs and νμ → ντ oscillations as the solution of the solar and atmospheric neutrino problems. Moreover, it provides a neutral heavy shadow lepton X that could play the role of a cold dark matter parti...

Shadow detection and removal in various real life scenarios including surveillance system, indoor outdoor scenes, and computer vision system remained a challenging task. Shadow in traffic surveillance system may misclassify the actual object, reducing the system performance. However, shadow causes problems in computer vision applications such as segmentation, object detection and object countin...

To help conceptualize technology enhanced reflective learning in the workplace and guide the development of reflection tools, the Computer Supported Reflective Learning (CSRL) model has been developed in the MIRROR FP7 EU project. This paper presents the CSRL model in its version 1.2.1, which compared to previous versions has a stronger focus on the triggering of reflection, on changes to work ...

Many large, half-sib sire families are an integral component of chicken genetic improvement programs. These family structures include a sufficient number of individuals for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) at high statistical power. However, realizing this statistical power through individual or selective genotyping is yet too costly to be feasible under current genotyping methodologies. G...

Successfully detecting shadows in still images is challenging yet has wide applications. Shadow properties and features are very important for shadow detection and processing. The aim of this work is to find some new physical properties of shadows and use them as shadow features to design an effective shadow detection method for outdoor color images. We observe that although the spectral power ...

We performed angle-resolved photoemission experiments on overdoped single crystal Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+x samples with Tc values as low as 55K and very narrow transitions as measured by AC susceptibility. The photoemission data indicate the presence of a " shadow " peak in the quasiparticle spectral function A(ω) shifted by (π, π) from the conventional quasiparticle peak. The ratio of the shadow...

We examine the phenomenology of a low-energy extension of the Standard Model, based on the gauge group SU(3) ⊗ SU(2) ⊗ U(1) ⊗ SO(3), with SO(3) operating in the shadow sector. This model offers νe → νs and νμ → ντ oscillations as the solution of the solar and atmospheric neutrino problems. Moreover, it provides a neutral heavy shadow lepton X that could play the role of a cold dark matter parti...

A theory is developed and applied to determine whether an object submerged in an ocean waveguide and insonified only by surface-generated noise can be detected with conventional sensing arrays. An expression for the total noise-field covariance of a stratified waveguide with a submerged object present is derived using full-field wave theory. This is evaluated by numerical wave-number integratio...

A theoretical scheme developed earlier [Y. V. Kalyuzhnyi et al., Chem. Phys. Lett. 443, 243 (2007)] is used to calculate the full phase diagram of polydisperse athermal polymer-colloidal mixture with polydispersity in both colloidal and polymeric components. In the limiting case of bidisperse polymer-colloidal mixture, theoretical results are compared against computer simulation results. We pre...