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Rights & Permissions Free Resources PDF FORMAT Display this book on your site! Related Titles (NAS Colloquium) Molecular Kinesis in Cellular Function and Plasticity (Sackler NAS Colloquium) Nanoscience:Underlying Concepts and Phenomena Other Related Titles (Sackler NAS Colloquium) Self-Organized Complexity in the Physical, Biological, and Social Sciences (2002) National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Predictability of catastrophic events: Material rupture, earthquakes, turbulence, financial crashes, and human births." (Sackler NAS Colloquium) Self-Organized Complexity in the Physical, Biological, and Social Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2002. Please select a format: Page 2522   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 2522 Front Matter (R1-R6) Introduction: Self-organized complexity in the physical, biological, and social sciences (2463-2465) Fractal dynamics in physiology: Alterations with disease and aging (2466-2472) Allometric scaling of metabolic rate from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals (2473-2478) Proteins: Paradigms of complexity (2479-2480) Turbulence in nature and in the laboratory (2481-2486) What might we learn from climate forecasts? (2487-2492) 'Waves' vs. 'particles' in the atmosphere's phase space: A pathway to long-range forecasting? (2493-2500) Positive feedback, memory, and the predictability of earthquakes (2501-2508) Unified scaling law for earthquakes (2509-2513) Self-organization in leaky threshold systems: The influence of near-mean field dynamics and its implications for earthquakes, neurobiology, and forecasting (2514-2521) Predictability of catastrophic events: Material rupture, earthquakes, turbulence, financial crashes, and human births (2522-2529) Self-organization, the cascade model, and natural hazards (2530-2537) Complexity and robustness (2538-2545) Natural variability of atmospheric temperatures and geomagnetic intensity over a wide range of time scales (2546-2553) Wavelet analysis of shoreline change on the Outer Banks of North Carolina: An example of complexity in the marine sciences (2554-2560) Self-organized complexity in economics and finances (2561-2565) Random graph models of social networks (2566-2572) Scaling phenomena in the Internet: Critically examining criticality (2573-2580)

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