Numerical and experimental investigations of intermittency in chaotic systems often lead to claims of universal classes based on the scaling of the average length of the laminar phase with parameter variation. We demonstrate that the scaling in general depends on the choice of the threshold used to define a proper laminar region in the phase space. For sufficiently large values of the threshold...

We report measurements of the pressure dependence of the low-temperature magnetization that show that the two pressure induced magnetic transitions in UGe2 are of first order. Further, the pressure dependence of the uniform susceptibility relative to the superconducting transition is not as expected if the latter is driven by the proximity to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. Our data ins...

The differential equation for the fourth-order statistical moment of the field of a plane wave propagating in a two dimensional random medium is solved numerically. Results are presented for the scintillation index when the index-of-refraction correlation function of the medium is Gaussian and gamma (ratio of diffraction length to scattering length) is 50. It is pointed out that the solution ha...

For moments of leptoproduction structure functions we show that all dependence on the renormalization and factorization scales disappears provided that all the ultraviolet logarithms involving the physical energy scale Q are completely resummed. The approach is closely related to Grunberg’s method of Effective Charges. A direct and simple method for extracting ΛMS from experimental data is advo...

Recently an interesting idea has been put forward by Robinson and Wilczek that the incorporation of quantized gravity in the framework of Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories results in a correction to the running of gauge coupling and, as a consequence, increase the grand unification scale and asymptotic freedom. In this Letter it is shown by explicit calculations that this correction depend...

Rapid evolutionary change over a few generations has been documented in natural populations. Such changes are observed as organisms invade new environments, and they are often triggered by changed interspecific interactions, such as differences in predation regimes. However, in spite of increased recognition of antagonistic male-female mating interactions, there is very limited evidence that su...