The discovery of the Higgs particle required a signal of five sigma significance. The rigid application of that condition is a convention that disregards more specific aspects of the given experiment. In particular, it does not account for the characteristics of the look elsewhere effect in the individual experimental context. The paper relates this aspect of data analysis to the question as to...

At 3DV Systems Ltd. we developed and built a true 3D video camera (Zcam), capable of producing RGB and D signals where D stands for distance or depth to each pixel. The new RGBD camera makes it possible to do away with color based background substitution known as chroma-key as well as creating a whole gallery of new effects and applications such as multilayer foreground as well as background su...

A brief overview is given on the status and prospects of searches for CP nonconservation effects in weak decays of strange, charmed, and beauty hadrons, on the search for permanent electric dipole moments of particles, and on present and future high energy CP tests at colliders. 1 Talk given at the 20th Johns Hopkins Workshop, Heidelberg, June 1996

Inflation is a well-known phenomenon to most of us. Together with unemployment inflation is one of the typical diseases of modern economies. However, inflationary processes are not restricted to the economic sphere in the proper sense. Consider for instance the English words gentleman and lady, which in their original meaning denoted persons from the nobility, but today are often used synonymou...