We used a variety of statistical measures to identify the point process that describes the maintained discharge of retinal ganglion cells (RGC's) and neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the cat. These measures are based on both interevent intervals and event counts and include the interevent-interval histogram, rescaled range analysis, the event-number histogram, the Fano factor,...

The equivalency between the power law behavior of Multiscale Entropy (MSE) and of power spectra opens a promising path for interpretation of complex time-series, which is explored here for the first time for atmospheric fields. Additionally, the present manuscript represents a new independent empirical validation of such relationship, the first one for the atmosphere. The MSE-fractal relationsh...

Jessica L. Green*, John Harte and Annette Ostling Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Although scaling relationships that characterize fractal species distributions offer an exciting pot...

Molecular recognition is a central issue for nearly every biological mechanism. The analysis of molecular recognition to date has been conducted within the framework of classical chemical kinetics, in which the kinetic orders of a reaction have positive integer values. However, recent theoretical and experimental advances have shown that the assumptions inherent in this classical framework are ...

In the last decade, the fractal dimension has become a popular parameter to characterize image textures. Also in radiographs, various procedures have been used to estimate the fractal dimension. However, certain characteristics of the radiographic process, e.g., noise and blurring, interfere with the straightforward application of these estimation methods. In this study, the influence of quantu...

Based on the actual experiment signals of draft tube, the correlation dimension analysis has been carried on using the time domain signals. Through correlation dimension analysis of pressure fluctuating under different load, the results indicate that the pressure fluctuation conditions in draft tube are not same under different load, the corresponding fractal correlation dimensions are also dif...

Many archaeological patterns are fractal. Fractal analysis, therefore, has much to contribute to archaeology. This article offers an introduction to fractal analysis for archaeologists. We explain what fractals are, describe the essential methods of fractal analysis, and present archaeological examples. Some examples have been published previously, while others are presented here for the first ...

Traffic flow has traditionally been viewed either as a stochastic process, or as a kinematic fluid. In the case of the former usually only the equilibria and mean results have been of interest. In the latter situation traffic has been viewed as having a continuous differentiable density (perhaps with occasional shocks). Neither of these properly address the nature of traffic if the inherent tra...

The complexity of spontaneous cerebral blood volume (CBV) fluctuations can emerge from random, fractal, or chaotic processes. Our aims were to define the contribution of these patterns to the observed complexity and to evaluate the effect of age and gender on it. The total hemoglobin content as the measure of CBV was monitored by near-infrared spectroscopy on volunteers (men n = 19, age = 20 to...