Swift-detected GRB 080307 showed an unusual smooth rise in its X-ray light curve around 100 s after the burst, at the start of which the emission briefly softened. This ‘hump’ has a longer duration than is normal for a flare at early times and does not demonstrate a typical flare profile. Using a two-component power-law-to-exponential model, the rising emission can be modelled as the onset of t...

A new species of Coulmannia, Coulmannia rossensis, is described from the Ross Sea, Antarctica. It is most similar to Coulmannia ramosae Castelló, 2004, but can easily be distinguished from this species bythe males yielding a pair of granulate humps on the dorsum of the pereonites 1-6 and a single granulate hump on the pereonite 7 and the free pleonite. Coulmannia rossensissp. n. is sexually dim...

We have studied 34 consecutive patients receiving Cotrel- Dubousset instrumentation for a single and flexible thoracic scoliotic curve, evaluating the rib hump deformity from a single CT scan through the apical vertebra of the curve. Using two measures of rotation we found a mean improvement of 25% in the rotation of the vertebra after operation. Any, usually minor, deterioration occurred in th...

Travelling-wave solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation (DPE) are investigated. The solutions are characterized by two parameters. Hump-like, loop-like and coshoidal periodicwave solutions are found; hump-like, loop-like and peakon solitary-wave solutions are obtained as well. Hone and Wang showed a connection between the DPE and the Vakhnenko equation (VE). Comparing the solutions of the ...

Molecular-beam epitaxy enables ultrathin functional materials to be combined in heterostructures create emergent phenomena at the interface. Magnetic skyrmions are an example of exciting phase found such heterostructures. SrRuO3 and SrRuO3-based have been center debate on whether a hump-like feature appearing Hall resistivities is sufficient evidence prove presence material. To address ambiguit...

We argue that the unusual peak-dip-hump features observed in photoemission experiments on Bi2212 at T ø Tc can be explained by the interaction of the fermionic quasiparticles with overdamped spin fluctuations. We show that the strong spin-fermion interaction combined with the feedback effect on the spin damping due to superconductivity yields the fermionic spectral function AskF , vd which simu...

Shortening the duration of a Gaussian-shaped 2-kHz tone-pip causes the intensity-difference limen !DL" to depart from the ‘‘near-miss to Weber’s law’’ and swell into a mid-level hump #Nizami et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 2505–2515 !2001"$. For some subjects the size of this hump approaches or exceeds the size reported for longer tones under forward masking, suggesting that forward masking mi...

Sticky-price models often suggest that relative price distortion is a major cost of in‡ation. We provide an intuition for this: Even at low rates, in‡ation strongly a¤ects price dispersion which in turn has an impact on the economy qualitatively similar to, and of the order of magnitude of, a negative shift in productivity. The utility cost of price dispersion is quanti…ed and its impact on opt...

We consider the Banach-Mackey property for pairs of vector spaces E and E′ which are in duality. Let A be an algebra of sets and assume that P is an additive map from A into the projection operators on E. We define a continuous gliding hump property for the map P and show that pairs with this gliding hump property and another measure theoretic property are Banach-Mackey pairs,i.e., weakly bound...