This paper explores how the impact of retirement on self-assessed illness varies spatially across the UK. Curves of age-specific limiting long term illness rates reveal a 'retirement kink'-where the rise in illness rates with age slows or declines at retirement age indicating possible health improvement after retirement. The kink is negligible in the affluent South East and most prominent in th...

One-loop corrections to kink masses in a family of (1+1)-dimensional field theoretical models with two scalar fields are computed. A generalized DHN formula applicable to reflection and reflectionless potentials is obtained. It is thus shown how half-bound states arising in the spectrum of the second order fluctuation operator around TK1 kinks and the vacuum play a central rôle in the computati...

Unconventional sensual, erotic, and sexual behaviors (herein referred to as kink behaviors) investigated by academia are based largely on clinical and criminal cases, and most published, peer-reviewed, quantitative research on these behaviors is based almost exclusively on male participants. For this study, information was collected and analyzed from 1580 female participants recruited from the ...

A semiclassical 2D ensemble Monte Carlo simulator is used to perform a physical microscopic analysis of kink effect in InAs/AlSb High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs). Due to the small bandgap of InAs, these devices are very susceptible to suffer impact ionization processes, with the subsequent hole transport through the structure, both implicated in the kink effect. The results indicate t...

In this paper, kink scattering in the dimensional reduction of bosonic sector a one-parameter family generalized Wess-Zumino models with three vacuum points is discussed. The value model parameter determines specific location vacua. influence arrangements (evolving from collinear vacua to placed at vertices an equilateral triangle) on investigated. Two different regimes can be distinguished: fi...

We predict theoretically that surface of an optical lattice imprinted in defocusing nonlinear media can support shock, or kink waves. Such new surface waves contain a modulationally stable pedestal and are strongly localized at the edge of the optical lattice due to Bragg-type reflection. The kink steepness and localization degree can be controlled by the lattice depth. We found two types of ki...

In this work we review the efforts that have been done to study the excitation of the standing fast kink body mode in coronal loops. We mainly focus on the time-dependent problem, which is appropriate to describe flare or CME induced kink oscillations. The analytical and numerical studies in slab and cylindrical loop geometries are reviewed. We discuss the results from very simple one-dimension...

We studied the kink-antikink collision process for the "double sine-Gordon" (DSG) equation in 1+1 dimensions at different values of the potential parameter R>0. For small values of R we discuss the problem of resonance frequencies. We give qualitative explanation of the frequency shift in comparison with the frequency of the discrete level in the potential well of isolated kink. We show that in...

We present detailed energy dispersions near the Fermi level along the high symmetry line GammaX on the monolayer and bilayer strontium ruthenates Sr2RuO4 and Sr3Ru2O7, determined by high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. A kink in the dispersion is clearly shown for the both ruthenates. The energy position of the kink and the slope in the low-energy part near the Fermi level...

Processes of the nucleation and motion of kinks, determining the dislocation mobilities in crystals with high Peierls barriers, are reviewed. Various mechanisms of an influence of point defects on the kink dynamics are analyzed. To demonstrate these mechanisms experimental data are presented obtained with two-level intermittent loading of Si, Ge, and bulk SiGe alloy single crystals. The instabi...