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(Sackler NAS Colloquium) Self-Organized Complexity in the Physical, Biological, and Social Sciences
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Front Matter i-vi  
Introduction: Self-organized complexity in the physical, biological, and social sciences 2463-2465 (skim)
Fractal dynamics in physiology: Alterations with disease and aging 2466-2472 (skim)
Allometric scaling of metabolic rate from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals 2473-2478 (skim)
Proteins: Paradigms of complexity 2479-2480 (skim)
Turbulence in nature and in the laboratory 2481-2486 (skim)
What might we learn from climate forecasts? 2487-2492 (skim)
'Waves' vs. 'particles' in the atmosphere's phase space: A pathway to long-range forecasting? 2493-2500 (skim)
Positive feedback, memory, and the predictability of earthquakes 2501-2508 (skim)
Unified scaling law for earthquakes 2509-2513 (skim)
Self-organization in leaky threshold systems: The influence of near-mean field dynamics and its implications for earthquakes, neurobiology, and forecasting 2514-2521 (skim)
Predictability of catastrophic events: Material rupture, earthquakes, turbulence, financial crashes, and human births 2522-2529 (skim)
Self-organization, the cascade model, and natural hazards 2530-2537 (skim)
Complexity and robustness 2538-2545 (skim)
Natural variability of atmospheric temperatures and geomagnetic intensity over a wide range of time scales 2546-2553 (skim)
Wavelet analysis of shoreline change on the Outer Banks of North Carolina: An example of complexity in the marine sciences 2554-2560 (skim)
Self-organized complexity in economics and finances 2561-2565 (skim)
Random graph models of social networks 2566-2572 (skim)
Scaling phenomena in the Internet: Critically examining criticality 2573-2580 (skim)
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