We have repeated our earlier observations of the Infrared and submllllmeter background radiation. While the measured values of the infrared background radiation remain unchanged, we have failed to observe the high flux previously reported for the 0.4 to 1.3 mm range. This indicates that the flux cannot have been galactic or cosmic, but further observations are needed to rule out a solar cycle d...

We propose a novel statistical measure for robust event detection, called ’Radial Reach filter’ (RRF). The capability of detecting new objects (events) from a time-series image is an important problem of vision systems. The usual method of detecting new objects is simple background subtraction that is to subtract current image from a background image. However, simple background subtraction is s...

The sudden drop of the beam life time and bursts of background radiation were detected in many machines and associated with microscopic dust particles. We present the model of the dust particle dynamics explaining the long time of the dust events observed in the PEP-II B-factory and BEPC-II machines.

Pulsed-field gel electrophoretic analysis of 2,144 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from patients in Spanish hospitals over a 7-year period revealed 17 predominant profiles. Typing showed the replacement of Iberian clone E1 (ST247-MRSA-I) by two prevalent clones, E7 and E8, that are closely related to each other and have the same genetic background as ST125-MR...

In order to determine high school entrance level in the Netherlands, nowadays, much value is attached to the results of a national test of educational achievement (CITO), administered around age 12. Surprisingly, up until now, no attention has been paid to the etiology of individual differences in the results of this national test of educational achievement. No attempt has been made to address ...

Pseudocapsular exfoliation occurs in most races and countries but appears to be particularly common in Norway and in the Eastern European and Mediterranean countries. It is rare in American Negroes, only two cases having been reported (Gradle and Sugar, 1947), and in Negroes in the West Indies (Connell, I970), and has not been reported in Negroes elsewhere outside South Africa (Bartholomew, I97...

In this paper we present an approach for automatically detecting and tracking humans in very long video sequences. The detection is based on background subtraction using a multi-mode Codeword method. We enhance this method both in terms of representation and in terms of automatically updating the background allowing for handling gradual and rapid changes. Tracking is conducted by building appea...

We have repeated our earlier observations of the Infrared and submllllmeter background radiation. While the measured values of the infrared background radiation remain unchanged, we have failed to observe the high flux previously reported for the 0.4 to 1.3 mm range. This indicates that the flux cannot have been galactic or cosmic, but further observations are needed to rule out a solar cycle d...

This paper describes a framework for recognizing human actions in videos by incorporating a new set of visual cues that represent the context of the action. We develop a weak foreground-background segmentation approach in order to robustly extract not only foreground features that are focused on the actors, but also global camera motion and contextual scene information. Using dense point trajec...