Intermittent accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars are an exciting new type of sources. Their pulsations appear and disappear either on timescales of hundreds of seconds or on timescales of days. The study of these sources add new observational constraints to present models that explain the presence or not of pulsations in neutron star LMXBs. In this paper we present preliminary results on spectr...

External cavity modes (ECMs) of a semiconductor laser with phase-conjugate feedback are defined as time-periodic pulsating intensity solutions exhibiting a frequency close to an integer multiple of the external cavity frequency. As the feedback rate progressively increases from zero, they sequentially appear as stable attractors in the bifurcation diagram. We construct a simple analytical appro...

We point out the existence of some simple string solitons in AdS 5 × S 5 , which at the same time are spinning in AdS 5 and pulsating in S 5 , or vice-versa. This introduces an additional arbitrary constant into the scaling relations between energy and spin or R-charge. The arbitrary constant is not an angular momentum, but can be related to the amplitude of the pulsation. We discuss the soluti...

The antennal pulsating organ of mosquitoes consists of two vesicles, each sending a blood-vessel to the antenna of its side and each connected to the aorta by a muscle. Contraction of the muscle causes blood to enter the vesicle through a valve and relaxation allows an elastic contraction of the vesicle so that the blood is discharged through the blood-vessel to the antenna. The organ appears t...

We consider a diffusional-thermal model with twostep competitive reactions for premixed combustion wave propagation in one spatial dimension. Numerical investigation of the flame speed of the system for different fuel types shows the existence of regions where two stable travelling combustion wave solutions co-exist solutions pertaining to the fast and slow branches. A hysteresis type phenomena...