The new possibility to explain the nature of the thermal X-ray composites (TXCs) as projection effect of 2-or 3-dimensional shell-like supernova remnants (SNRs) evolved in a nonuniform medium is proposed. X-ray and radio morphologies as well as basic theoretical features of such an SNR and surrounding medium are considered. It is shown that the theoretical properties of the shell-like SNR evolv...

The outward–pointing principal null direction of the Schwarzschild Rie-mann tensor is null hypersurface–forming. If the Schwarzschild mass spontaneously jumps across one such hypersurface then the hypersurface is the history 1 of an outgoing light–like shell. The outward– pointing principal null direction of the Kerr Riemann tensor is asymptotically (in the neighbourhood of future null infinity...

The interstellar medium in galaxies is a turbulent environment with a plethora of holes, bubbles and shells. All these shell-like structures are thought to be closely related to the formation, evolution and death of stars. In most cases, they are likely created by the winds of OB stars and supernovae. The material collected along the borders of shells may fragment, become unstable under its own...

We have studied the hole charging spectra of self-assembled InAs quantum dots in perpendicular magnetic fields by capacitance-voltage spectroscopy. From the magnetic-field dependence of the individual peaks we conclude that the s-like ground state is completely filled with two holes but that the fourfold degenerate p shell is only half filled with two holes before the filling of the d shell sta...

The scattering intensity of polydisperse systems of core-shell and layered hard spheres is considered. The Percus-Yevick solution for the partial structure factors is cast in a form suitable for numerical and analytical treatment. Closed-form, analytical expressions are given for an effective hard-sphere model of the scattering intensity of particles with an internal layered structure and a siz...

This paper presents a new modelling technique for the deformation of thin anatomical structures like membranes and hollow organs. We show that the behaviour of this type of surface tissue can be abstracted with a modelling of their elastic resistance using shell theory. In order to apply the shell theory in the context of medical simulation, our method propose to base the geometrical reconstruc...

We study how the effect of closed-string tachyon condensation can enter into the on-shell effective action of open-string tachyons in the bosonic case. We also consider open-string one-loop quantum corrections to the on-shell action. We use a sigma-model approach with boundary terms, and we utilize some results of boundary string field theory (BSFT) to define the on-shell effective action. We r...

The dielectric spectroscopy of Anabaena 7120 protoplast suspensions has been investigated over the frequency range of 40 Hz-110 MHz. The protoplast suspensions showed a complicated dielectric dispersion consisting of at least four distinct sub-dispersions with the increasing frequencies due to the Maxwell-Wagner interfacial polarization. The double-shell model, in which an equivalent shell of t...

MERLIN observations of the unusually slow nova V723 Cas are presented. Nine epochs of 6 cm data between 1996 and 2001 are mapped showing the initial expansion and brightening of the radio remnant, the development of structure and the final decline. A radio light curve is presented and fitted by the standard Hubble flow model for radio emission from novae in order to determine the values of vari...