(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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