THE BORING MONOPOLE

The Boring Monopole

We study false vacuum decays catalysed by magnetic monopoles which act as tunnelling sites with exponentially enhanced decay rates.The field Necklaces profiles describing the decay do not have the typically assumed $O(3)/O(4)$ symmetry, thus requiring an extension of the usual decay rate calculation.To numerically determine the saddle point solutio

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Aqueous Extracts of Organic Mulch Materials Have Nematicide and Repellent Effect on Meloidogyne incognita Infective Juveniles: A Laboratory Study

While the nematicidal effectiveness of mulching against root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) is calculated within organic crop protection, underlying mechanisms are not yet fully explored.Laboratory experiments were set up to determine whether mulch-derived substances cause mortality directly, or repel Meloidogyne juveniles from crop rhizosphere.

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The words of ecology to give territorial design a good future

A crux that urban planning has been dragging on for decades is the generalization with which it uses the words Scarf of ecology.A generalization that cannot be allowed in the face of a territorial project that is thirsty for truth about the ecosystem.The territorialist proposal, that already embraces the idea of ecological conversion by Langer, may

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