Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

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Volume 314, issue 1, 2002

The physical modelling of society: a historical perspective pp. 1-14

Philip Ball

Power-law persistence in the atmosphere and in the oceans pp. 15-24

Armin Bunde and Shlomo Havlin

Networks in life: scaling properties and eigenvalue spectra pp. 25-34

I Farkas, I Derényi, H Jeong, Z Néda, Z.n Oltvai, E Ravasz, A Schubert, A.-L Barabási and T Vicsek

Quantum Parrondo's games pp. 35-42

A.P. Flitney, J. Ng and D. Abbott

Beneficial randomness of signals in a neuronal circuit pp. 43-52

S. Milošević, S. Blesić and Dj. Stratimirović

Noise-induced sensitization of human brain pp. 53-60

Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Ichiro Hidaka, Daichi Nozaki, Noriko Iso-o, Rika Soma and Shin Kwak

Reliability of neural encoding pp. 61-68

Preben Alstrøm, Ulrik Beierholm, Carsten Dahl Nielsen, Jesper Ryge and Ole Kiehn

Noise and determinism in cardiovascular dynamics pp. 69-76

Peter V.E. McClintock and Aneta Stefanovska

Gene Stanley, the n-vector model and random walks with absorbing boundaries pp. 77-82

M.T. Batchelor and B.I. Henry

Stochastic decision-making in the minority game pp. 83-91

D. Sherrington, A.C.C. Coolen and J.A.F. Heimel

Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of swarms of driven particles pp. 92-96

Werner Ebeling

Spatial scaling in persistence pp. 97-102

Purusattam Ray

Using percolation theory to predict oil field performance pp. 103-108

P.r King, S.v Buldyrev, N.v Dokholyan, S Havlin, E Lopez, G Paul and H.e Stanley

Is the Boston subway a small-world network? pp. 109-113

Vito Latora and Massimo Marchiori

Evolution of population in changing conditions pp. 114-119

Andrzej Pȩkalski

Spatio-temporal patterns in population dynamics pp. 120-124

A La Barbera and B Spagnolo

Buckling of spontaneously twisted ribbons pp. 125-129

A.d Drozdov, S.v Panyukov and Y Rabin

Qubit authentication pp. 130-139

Marcos Curty, David J. Santos, Esther Pérez and Priscila Garcı́a-Fernández

Distribution of backbone mass between non-parallel lines pp. 140-145

Luciano R da Silva, Gerald Paul, Shlomo Havlin, Don R Baker and H.Eugene Stanley

Delayed stochastic resonance with a 1-D ring pp. 146-150

Toru Ohira

The time-dependent traveling salesman problem pp. 151-155

Johannes Schneider

Replica integral equation theory for partly quenched electrolyte mixtures pp. 156-161

V. Vlachy, B. Hribar and O. Pizio

A lattice model for cytoskeletons’ dynamics: analysis of growth and shrinkage pp. 162-169

Tadaomi Furuta and Kuniyoshi Ebina

Localization, resonance and non-Hermitian quantum mechanics pp. 170-176

Naomichi Hatano, Takahiro Watanabe and Junko Yamasaki

Equation of state for systems with Goldstone bosons pp. 177-181

Massimo Campostrini, Martin Hasenbusch, Andrea Pelissetto, Paolo Rossi and Ettore Vicari

Towards a strong coupling theory for the KPZ equation pp. 182-191

Hans C Fogedby

Possible origin for the experimental scarcity of KPZ scaling in non-conserved surface growth pp. 192-199

Rodolfo Cuerno and Mario Castro

Lévy field distributions and anomalous spin relaxation in disordered magnetic systems pp. 200-207

P. Maass and F. Scheffler

Lévy flight random searches in biological phenomena pp. 208-213

G.m Viswanathan, F Bartumeus, Sergey V. Buldyrev, J Catalan, U.l Fulco, Shlomo Havlin, M.G.e da Luz, M.l Lyra, E.p Raposo and H Eugene Stanley

Random copolymers pp. 214-219

S.g Whittington

Percolation in dense storage arrays pp. 220-229

Scott Kirkpatrick, Winfried W Wilcke, Robert B Garner and Harald Huels

Complex dynamics of magnetic domain walls pp. 230-234

G Durin and S Zapperi

Concentration effects on two- and three-dimensional colloidal aggregation pp. 235-245

A.e González, F Martı́nez-López, A Moncho-Jordá and R Hidalgo-Álvarez

Reasoning from non-stationarity pp. 246-255

Zbigniew R. Struzik, Willem J. van Wijngaarden and Robert Castelo

Killer geometries in competing species dynamics pp. 256-263

Serge Galam, Bastien Chopard and Michel Droz

Some recent (and surprising) results on interface and contact line depinning in random media pp. 264-271

Jean Vannimenus

Particle banding in rotating fluids: a new pattern-forming system pp. 272-277

S.g Lipson and G Seiden

Temporal fractal structures: origin of power laws in the world-wide Web pp. 278-283

Bosiljka Tadić

Dendritic shape at high undercoolings pp. 284-290

R González-Cinca

Pattern formation in solutal convection: vermiculated rolls and isolated cells pp. 291-298

Julyan H.E Cartwright, Oreste Piro and Ana I Villacampa

Rigorous results on wetting, rough and heterogeneous substrates pp. 299-303

Salvador Miracle-Solé

The growth of grain avalanches pp. 304-309

Jean Rajchenbach

Complex fluid behavior: coupling of the shear stress with order parameter tensors of ranks two and three in nematic liquid crystals and in tetradic fluids pp. 310-319

Siegfried Hess

Cascades of popping bubbles pp. 320-324

N Vandewalle, H Caps and S Dorbolo

Spreading of a mercury droplet on thin gold films pp. 325-330

Avraham Be'er, Yossi Lereah, Aviad Frydman and Haim Taitelbaum

Complexity in the stepwise ideal gas Carnot cycle pp. 331-344

Francesco di Liberto

The controversial piston in the thermodynamic limit pp. 345-354

Christian Gruber and Séverine Pache

Identifying complexity by means of matrices pp. 355-361

S Drożdż, J Kwapień, J Speth and M Wójcik

Constrained geometries in soap froth dynamics pp. 362-369

H.j Ruskin and Y Feng

Novel approach to the analysis of the non-Debye dielectric spectrum broadening pp. 370-378

Ya.E. Ryabov and Yuri Feldman

Thermodynamic and structural aspects of the polyamorphic transition in yttrium and other rare-earth aluminate liquids pp. 379-390

Martin C. Wilding, Paul F. McMillan and Alexandra Navrotsky

Fluctuation and dissipation in liquid crystal electroconvection pp. 391-395

Walter I Goldburg, Yadin Y Goldschmidt and Hamid Kellay

Melting in two dimensions: first-order versus continuous transition pp. 396-404

V.N. Ryzhov and E.E. Tareyeva

New toppling dynamics for the self-organized critical rainfall model pp. 405-410

Roberto F.S Andrade, Suani T.R Pinho, Sandro C Fraga and Ana P.M Tanajura

Critical phenomena in binary and ternary polymer blends pp. 411-418

Petr Štěpánek, Terry L. Morkved, Kasiraman Krishnan, Timothy P. Lodge and Frank S. Bates

Boiling leading to self-organized convection near the gas–liquid critical point pp. 419-426

Akira Onuki

Can heat flow backward? Unusual thermal phenomena observed in near-critical fluids pp. 427-436

D Beysens, Y Garrabos, R Wunenburger and C Lecoutre

The renormalization group and optimization of non-extensive entropy: criticality in non-linear one-dimensional maps pp. 437-441

A Robledo

Heterogeneous nucleation at a planar surface pp. 442-447

S Toxvaerd

The critical behaviour of the long-range Potts chain from the largest cluster probability distribution pp. 448-453

Katarina Uzelac and Zvonko Glumac

Off-equilibrium response function in coarsening systems pp. 454-461

F. Corberi, A. de Candia, E. Lippiello and M. Zannetti

How does water freeze inside carbon nanotubes? pp. 462-469

Kenichiro Koga, G.T. Gao, Hideki Tanaka and X.C. Zeng

Relation between structural and dynamical anomalies in supercooled water pp. 470-476

Paulo.A Netz, Francis.W Starr, Marcia C Barbosa and H.Eugene Stanley

Structural and dynamical heterogeneity of stable and metastable water pp. 477-484

G.G. Malenkov

Water in complex environments such as living systems pp. 485-491

Philippa M Wiggins

Instantaneous normal mode analysis of short-time dynamics in hydrogen-bonded liquids pp. 492-500

G. Garberoglio and R. Vallauri

Neutron diffraction studies of structural phase transformations for water–ice in confined geometry pp. 501-507

John Dore, Beau Webber, Monika Hartl, Peter Behrens and Thomas Hansen

A theory for discriminating the mechanism responsible for the water density anomaly pp. 508-513

Giancarlo Franzese and H. Eugene Stanley

Further notes concerning the partial pair correlation functions of liquid (ambient) water pp. 514-520

László Pusztai

Features of the structural arrest in a glass-forming polymer melt pp. 521-525

A Barbieri and D Leporini

Fluctuations in liquids and glasses pp. 526-529

Alexander Z Patashinski and Mark A Ratner

Single particle dynamics of a confined Lennard–Jones mixture in the supercooled regime pp. 530-538

P. Gallo, R. Pellarin and M. Rovere

Competition between crystallization and glassification for particles with short-ranged attraction. Possible applications to protein crystallization pp. 539-547

E. Zaccarelli, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, G. Foffi, G.D. McCullagh, A. Lawlor and K.A. Dawson

Chemical order lifetimes in liquids, and a second fictive temperature for glassformers pp. 548-559

Luz-Maria Martinez and C.Austen Angell

Metastable melting and pressure-induced amorphisation of GeSe2 pp. 560-566

Tor Grande, Svein Stølen, Andrzej Grzechnik, Wilson A. Crichton and Mohamed Mezouar

Slow dynamics in self-organizing systems pp. 567-574

János Kertész, János Török, Supriya Krishnamurthy and Stéphane Roux

Finding diffusive directions in supercooled liquids by partial minimization of the potential energy pp. 575-582

J Chowdhary and T Keyes

Ergodicity in simple and not so simple systems and Kubo's condition pp. 583-591

M.Howard Lee

Adaptive elastic properties of chromatin fiber pp. 592-599

Eli Ben-Haı̈m, Annick Lesne and Jean-Marc Victor

Understanding conserved amino acids in proteins pp. 600-606

Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Leonid A. Mirny and Eugene I. Shakhnovich

A simple model for DNA denaturation transition pp. 607-612

Maria Serena Causo, Barbara Coluzzi and Peter Grassberger

Modeling of complex protein structures pp. 613-622

Peter Zipper and Helmut Durchschlag

Sensitivity of the non-linear dynamics of lysozyme “Liesegang rings” to small asymmetries pp. 623-635

M Lappa, D Castagnolo and L Carotenuto

Non-linear behaviour of Lysozyme crystallisation pp. 636-645

C. Piccolo, M. Lappa, A. Tortora and L. Carotenuto

Replication associated mutational pressure generating long-range correlation in DNA pp. 646-654

Paweł Mackiewicz, Maria Kowalczuk, Dorota Mackiewicz, Aleksandra Nowicka, Małgorzata Dudkiewicz, Agnieszka Łaszkiewicz, Mirosław R. Dudek and Stanisław Cebrat

The shape of parallel surfaces: porous media, fluctuating interfaces and complex fluids pp. 655-662

Klaus R Mecke

Chaotic behavior in electro-rotation pp. 663-671

E Lemaire and L Lobry

Torroidal convection roll in a three-dimensional granular system pp. 672-677

J Talbot and P Viot

Approach for the structure analysis of complex molecular systems at computer simulation pp. 678-685

N.n Medvedev

Challenges and opportunities in complex materials: silica-reinforced elastomers pp. 686-695

Dale W. Schaefer, Chetan Suryawanshi, Peyman Pakdel, Jan Ilavsky and Pete R. Jemian

Nanobubbles: the big picture pp. 696-705

Phil Attard, Michael P. Moody and James W.G. Tyrrell

Numerical simulation of creeping fluid flow in reconstruction models of porous media pp. 706-713

C. Manwart and R. Hilfer

Correlation between molecular dynamics and thermal hysteresis in the 60/40 vinylidene fluoride and trifluoroethylene ferroelectric copolymer pp. 714-721

E.López Cabarcos, A.F. Braña, B. Frick and F. Batallan

Adam Smith's invisible hand is unstable: physics and dynamics reasoning applied to economic theorizing pp. 722-727

Joseph L McCauley

Mesoscopic behavior of economical flows by stochastic dynamics pp. 728-735

Yoshitake Yamazaki and Herbert Gleiter

Fat tails and colored noise in financial derivatives pp. 736-742

Josep Perelló and Jaume Masoliver

A model for distribution of high-tax payers pp. 743-748

Keizo Yamamoto, Sasuke Miyazima, Rajindar K. Koshal and Yuko Yamada

Waiting-times and returns in high-frequency financial data: an empirical study pp. 749-755

Marco Raberto, Enrico Scalas and Francesco Mainardi

Volatility in financial markets: stochastic models and empirical results pp. 756-761

Salvatore Miccichè, Giovanni Bonanno, Fabrizio Lillo and Rosario Mantegna

Random magnets and correlations of stock price fluctuations pp. 762-767

Bernd Rosenow, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Vasiliki Plerou and H.Eugene Stanley

Blue Skies Research and the global economy pp. 768-773

Donald W Braben

The US business cycle: power law scaling for interacting units with complex internal structure pp. 774-785

Paul Ormerod

Stock market context of the Lévy walks with varying velocity pp. 786-795

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