Reply to E Baggott and SL Morgan

Both separation and eccentricity can limit precise position judgements: a reply to Morgan and Watt.

Weber's law is ubiquitous in position judgements. In a variety of position acuity tasks, the position threshold is proportional to the separation of the reference features. Recently, we (Klein & Levi, 1987; Levi, Klein & Yap, 1988) suggested that two sensory processes may serve to limit position acuity, and thus contribute to Weber's law for position. One is the target separation, and the other...

When is it coevolution? A reply to Morgan-Richards et al

I recently hypothesised that some characteristics of fleshy fruits in New Zealand could result from coevolution with wētā (Burns 2006a). Morgan-Richards et al. (2008) expand on the subject by offering some suggestions on how this hypothesis could be tested and by conducting several small field trials. In the process they argue emphatically against the hypothesis. I am delighted that Morgan-Rich...

On the Morgan-shalen Compactification of the Sl(2,c) Character Varieties of Surface Groups

A gauge theoretic description of the Morgan-Shalen compactification of the SL(2, C) character variety of the fundamental group of a hyperbolic surface is given in terms of a natural compactification of the moduli space of Higgs bundles via the Hitchin map.

In Reply: In reply to: "e-Iatrogenesis: The most critical consequence of CPOE and other HIT"

epl draft Reply Reply to the Comment by S . E . Sebastian and N . Harrison

In their comment, Sebastian and Harrison (SH) suggest that our torque and force measurements in SrCu2(BO3)2 [1] are incorrect due to a non-linear regime in the cantilever operation and deny the importance of Dzyaloshinski-Moriya (DM) interaction in torque measurements. In this reply, we show that their arguments are incorrect and why neither the torque measurements [1, 2] nor the magnetization ...