This introductory article presents the special Discussion and Debate volume “From black swans to dragon-kings, is there life beyond power laws?” We summarize and put in perspective the contributions into three main themes: (i) mechanisms for dragon-kings, (ii) detection of dragon-kings and statistical tests and (iii) empirical evidence in a large variety of natural and social systems. Overall, ...

Previous studies have found broad distributions, resembling power laws for different measures of the size of rainfall events. We investigate the large-event tail of these distributions and find in one measure that tropical cyclones account for a large proportion of the very largest events outside the scaling regime, i.e., beyond the cutoff of the power law. Tropical cyclones are sufficiently ra...

John Paul Vargheese, Peter Travers, Jeff Pan Computing Science University of Aberdeen Kings College Aberdeen, AB24 5UA, UK [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kathryn Vincent, Claire Wallace, Anna Kabedeva School of Social Science University of Aberdeen Kings College Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, UK [email protected] [email protected] anna.kabedeva.11@aberdeen....

Samy I McFarlane1† & Fadi A El-Atat2 †Author for correspondence 1†SUNY-Downstate and Kings County Hospital Centers, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 50, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA Tel: +1 718 270 3711 Fax: +1 718 270 6358 2SUNY-Downstate and Kings County Hospital Centers, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 50 Brooklyn, NY, 1...

Peter Ackroyd has suggested (l 968) that knowing too much background may prevent us from reading some texts as they were meant to be read. Certainly it is hard to read 2 Kings 16 without "static" from what we know from other sources. For example, because we enjoy a reasonably full knowledge of the Syro-Ephraimite War, we may assume connections in this text that are simply not present. Again, we...

A king in a directed graph is a node from which each node in the graph can be reached via paths of length at most two. There is a broad literature on tournaments (completely oriented digraphs), and it has been known for more than half a century that all tournaments have at least one king [Lan53]. Recently, kings have proven useful in theoretical computer science, in particular in the study of t...

Melting and homogeneity in germanium–silicon alloys and a modified micro-manufactured assembly for stable high pressure and temperature measurements G. Serghiou, N. Odling, R. Hunter, A. Abbie, B. Armstrong & C. Lathe a School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, UK b The Grant Institute, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, King...