We often feel that our perceptual experience is richer than what we can express. For instance, when flashed with a large set of letters, we feel that we can see them all, while we can report only a few. However, the nature of this subjective impression remains highly debated: while many favour a dissociation between two forms of consciousness (access vs. phenomenal consciousness), others conten...

Glycopolymers are becoming more and more important in understanding biological interactions due to their unique recognition properties. Macromolecules with different chain lengths, compositions and architectures provide enormous diversity in the formation of primary and secondary structures that have a major effect on multivalent binding to lectins. It is crucial to control the precise structur...

The aim of this manuscript is to present for the first time the application of the finite element method for solving reaction-diffusion systems with cross-diffusion on continuously evolving domains and surfaces. Furthermore we present pattern formation generated by the reaction-diffusion system with cross-diffusion on evolving domains and surfaces. A two-component reaction-diffusion system with...

I thank the authors of the three responses to my article, ‘Have Ecosystem Services Been Oversold?’ [1], for providing a range of opinions that, to varying degrees, take the debate forward. In the most critical of the three letters, Potschin et al. [2] describe my paper as a caricature of the field, but then go on to caricature the paper itself. I did not claim that the ecosystem services (ES) p...

We investigate a model for pattern formation in the presence of Galilean symmetry proposed by Matthews and Cox [Phys. Rev. E 62, R1473 (2000)], which has the form of coupled generalized Burgers- and Ginzburg-Landau-type equations. With only the system size L as a parameter, we find distinct "small-L" and "large-L" regimes exhibiting clear differences in their dynamics and scaling behavior. The ...

Many two-dimensional physical systems have symmetries which are mathematically described by quantum groups (quasitriangular Hopf algebras). In this Letter we introduce the concept of a spontaneously broken Hopf symmetry and show that it provides an effective tool for analyzing a wide variety of phases exhibiting many distinct confinement phenomena.

Speleothems from continental North American caves have been dated by means of the (230)Th/(234)U method. Oxygen isotopic variations in the dated samples and phases of speleothem deposition can be interpreted in terms of climatic change. A glacial chronology constructed from the age and isotopic data lends support to the astronomical theory of climatic change.

Neutron diffraction experiments have been performed on a magnetically ordered CeCu2Si2 single crystal exhibiting A-phase anomalies in specific heat and thermal expansion. Below T(N) approximately 0.8 K antiferromagnetic superstructure peaks have been detected. The propagation vector of the magnetic order appears to be determined by the topology of the Fermi surface of heavy quasiparticles as in...

We describe a family of 32 subjects, including two healthy siblings without detectable pancreatic amylase in serum and five healthy relatives (one of them a sister) exhibiting subnormal pancreatic amylase activities. Comparisons of immunoreactive amylase concentrations with the corresponding amylase activities may justify the assumption of a "silent" Amy-2 allelic variant.