Colony-Level 3D Photogrammetry Reveals That Total Linear Extension and Initial Growth Do Not Scale With Complex Morphological Growth in the Branching Coral, Acropora cervicornis

The ability to quantify changes in the structural complexity of reefs and individual coral colonies that build them is vital to understanding, managing, and restoring the function of these ecosystems.However, traditional methods for quantifying coral growth in situ fail to accurately quantify the diversity of morphologies observed both among and wi

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First Order Framework for Gauge k-Vortices

We study vortices in generalized Maxwell-Higgs models, with the inclusion of a quadratic kinetic term with the covariant derivative of the scalar field in the Lagrangian density.We discuss the stressless condition and show that the presence of analytical solutions helps us to define the model compatible with the existence of first order Travel Fee

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Seals of the Personages from the Alexiad Found in Veliki Preslav

The study involves two groups of seals: 1) seals of the individuals who can be identified as the Alexiad personages: Alexios Komnenos as sebastos and megas domestikos (the first group) and emperor (the second one); his brother Adrianos Komnenos as protosebastos (the first group), protosebastos and megas domestikos of all the West (the second one) a

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Radio Emission and Electric Gaps in Pulsar Magnetospheres

The origin of pulsar radio emission is one of the old puzzles in theoretical astrophysics.In this Letter, we present a global kinetic plasma simulation that shows from first principles how and where radio emission can be produced in pulsar magnetospheres.We observe the self-consistent formation of electric gaps that periodically ignite electron-pos

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