It is very difficult to guarantee the stability and accuracy of object tracking in real-world scenarios. Although probabilistic tracking has become popular, there are two major problems: discriminative appearance modeling and reliable particles selection. To address these issues, this paper presents a visual saliency inspired approach that can capture the varying appearance characteristic of ta...

Recent resuls from experiments at Fermilab and the Paul Scherrer Institute have constrained the parameter space available for a hypothetical particle Q produced in the decay π → μQ. This decay has been invoked to explain a peculiar feature of an event arrival time distribution observed in the KARMEN neutrino experiment.

Cosmological solutions of Einstein equation for a 5-dimensional space-time, in the case of a dust-filled universe, are presented. With these solutions we are able to test a hypothetical relation between the rest mass of a particle and the 5th dimension. Comparison with experiment strongly refutes the implied dependence of the rest mass on the cosmological time.

In nuclear physics, it is well known that the electromagnetic (Coulomb) interaction between final state products can drastically effect particle reaction rates. Near thresholds, for example, nuclear alpha decay is suppressed while nuclear beta decay is enhanced by final state Coulomb interactions. Here we discuss high energy physics enhancement and/or suppression of reactions wherein the potent...

The Information Artifact Ontology is an ontology in the domain of information entities. Core to the definition of what it is to be an information entity is the claim that an information entity must be ‘about’ something, which is encoded in an axiom expressing that all information entities are about some entity. This axiom comes into conflict with ontological realism, since many information enti...