The European Physical Journal B

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Editorial

Modern Problems in Complexity p. 1

A. Carbone, J. A. Hertz, G. Kaniadakis and M. Lissia

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00147-4

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Two generalizations of the Boltzmann equation p. 3

T. S. Biró and G. Kaniadakis

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00112-3

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Extended Gaussian ensemble or q-statistics in hadronic production processes? p. 7

T. Osada, O. V. Utyuzh, G. Wilk and Z. Wodarczyk

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00105-2

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Fusion reactions in plasmas as probe of the high-momentum tail of particle distributions p. 11

M. Coraddu, M. Lissia, G. Mezzorani and P. Quarati

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00143-8

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Potential symmetry and invariant solutions of Fokker-Planck equation in cylindrical coordinates related to magnetic field diffusion in magnetohydrodynamics including the Hall current p. 17

A. H. Khater, D. K. Callebaut and T. N. Abdelhameed

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00138-5

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Nonextensive interpretation of radiative recombination in electron cooling p. 23

G. Maero, P. Quarati and F. Ferro

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00101-6

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The topological non-connectivity threshold in quantum long-range interacting spin systems p. 27

F. Borgonovi, G. L. Celardo and R. Trasarti-Battistoni

Published online: 08 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00035-y

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Critical exponents for the long-range Ising chain using a transfer matrix approach p. 33

R. F.S. Andrade and S. T.R. Pinho

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00114-1

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A new comprehensive study of the 3D random-field Ising model via sampling the density of states in dominant energy subspaces p. 39

N. G. Fytas and A. Malakis

Published online: 08 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00033-1

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Effect of weak disorder on the ground state of uniaxial dipolar spin systems in the upper critical dimension p. 45

A. V. Klopper, U. K. Rößler and R. L. Stamps

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00123-0

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Applications of correlation inequalities to low density graphical codes p. 51

N. Macris

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00129-6

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A definition of metastability for Markov processes with detailed balance p. 57

F. Leyvraz, H. Larralde and D. P. Sanders

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00097-9

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Monte Carlo studies of the square Ising model with next-nearest-neighbor interactions p. 63

A. Malakis, P. Kalozoumis and N. Tyraskis

Published online: 08 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00032-2

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The Topological Nonconnectivity Threshold and magnetic phase transitions in classical anisotropic long-range interacting spin systems p. 69

R. Trasarti-Battistoni, F. Borgonovi and G. L. Celardo

Published online: 20 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00061-9

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Spectral density method in quantum nonextensive thermostatistics and magnetic systems with long-range interactions p. 73

A. Cavallo, F. Cosenza and L. De Cesare

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00132-y

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f^-γ current fluctuations in organic semiconductors: evidence for percolation p. 77

A. Carbone, B. K. Kotowska and D. Kotowski

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00146-5

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A discrete nonlinear mass transfer equation with applications in solid-state sintering of ceramic materials p. 83

D. T. Hristopulos, L. Leonidakis and A. Tsetsekou

Published online: 08 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00034-0

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A kinetic approach to the calculation of surface tension of a spherical drop p. 89

V. Molinari, D. Mostacci and M. Premuda

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00133-x

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Distribution of return intervals of extreme events p. 95

C. Pennetta

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00140-y

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Physical meaning and measurement of the entropic parameter q in an inhomogeneous magnetic systems p. 99

M. S. Reis, V. S. Amaral, R. S. Sarthour and I. S. Oliveira

Published online: 20 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00065-5

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Long-range order and dynamic structure factor of a nematic under a thermal gradient p. 105

R. F. Rodríguez and H. Híjar

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00104-3

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Polydispersity effects in the dynamics and stability of bubbling flows p. 111

E. Salinas-Rodríguez, R. F. Rodríguez, J. M. Zamora and A. Soria

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00128-7

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Avalanches and Self-Organized Criticality in superconductors p. 117

R. J. Wijngaarden, M. S. Welling, C. M. Aegerter and M. Menghini

Published online: 20 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00063-7

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A precursor of market crashes: Empirical laws of Japan's internet bubble p. 123

T. Kaizoji

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00142-9

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Analysis of binarized high frequency financial data p. 129

N. Sazuka

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00139-4

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Persistence in financial markets p. 133

S. Jain and P. Buckley

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00134-9

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Characteristic time scales of tick quotes on foreign currency markets: an empirical study and agent-based model p. 137

A.-H. Sato

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00125-x

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Leptokurtic portfolio theory p. 141

R. Kitt and J. Kalda

Published online: 20 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00062-8

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Small scale behavior of financial data p. 147

A. P. Nawroth and J. Peinke

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00120-3

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Micro-economic analysis of the physical constrained markets: game theory application to competitive electricity markets p. 153

E. Bompard, Y. C. Ma and E. Ragazzi

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00122-1

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An econophysics approach to analyse uncertainty in financial markets: an application to the Portuguese stock market p. 161

A. Dionisio, R. Menezes and D. A. Mendes

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00113-2

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On statistical properties of traded volume in financial markets p. 165

J. de Souza, L. G. Moyano and S. M. Duarte Queirós

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00130-1

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Compromise and synchronization in opinion dynamics p. 169

A. Pluchino, V. Latora and A. Rapisarda

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00131-0

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Pair approximation models for disease spread p. 177

J. Benoit, A. Nunes and M. Telo da Gama

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00096-x

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On the genre-fication of music: a percolation approach p. 183

R. Lambiotte and M. Ausloos

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00115-0

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Asymptotic regime in N random interacting species p. 189

A. Fiasconaro, D. Valenti and B. Spagnolo

Published online: 16 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00058-4

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Bonabeau model on a fully connected graph p. 195

K. Malarz, D. Stauffer and K. Kułakowski

Published online: 16 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00059-3

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Moment equations for a spatially extended system of two competing species p. 199

D. Valenti, L. Schimansky-Geier, X. Sailer and B. Spagnolo

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00102-5

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Epidemics in small world networks p. 205

M.M. Telo da Gama and A. Nunes

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00099-7

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Effects of population mixing on the spread of SIR epidemics p. 209

H. Fukś, A. T. Lawniczak and R. Duchesne

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00136-7

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A selfsimilar behavior of the urban structure in the spatially inhomogeneous model p. 215

E. Y. Echkina, O. I. Inovenkov and D. P. Kostomarov

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00145-6

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The backbone of a city p. 221

S. Scellato, A. Cardillo, V. Latora and S. Porta

Published online: 20 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00066-4

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Role of connectivity in congestion and decongestion in a communication network p. 227

N. Gupte and B. K. Singh

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00119-8

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Network traffic behaviour near phase transition point p. 231

A. T. Lawniczak and X. Tang

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00141-x

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A generalized approach to complex networks p. 237

L. da F. Costa and L. E.C. da Rocha

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00107-0

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Olami-Feder-Christensen model on different networks p. 243

F. Caruso, V. Latora, A. Pluchino, A. Rapisarda and B. Tadić

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00110-5

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Modeling the Internet p. 249

M. Ángeles Serrano, M. Boguñá and A. Díaz-Guilera

Published online: 16 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00057-5

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Statistical indicators of collective behavior and functional clusters in gene networks of yeast p. 255

J. Živković, B. Tadić, N. Wick and S. Thurner

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00103-4

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Non-extensive trends in the size distribution of coding and non-coding DNA sequences in the human genome p. 259

Th. Oikonomou and A. Provata

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00121-2

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Unfolding designable structures p. 265

C. L. Dias and M. Grant

Published online: 08 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00036-x

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Avalanche dynamics of idealized neuron function in the brain on an uncorrelated random scale-free network p. 271

K. E. Lee and J. W. Lee

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00144-7

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Evolving Stochastic Learning Algorithm based on Tsallis entropic index p. 277

A. D. Anastasiadis and G. D. Magoulas

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00137-6

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Gravitational structure formation, the cosmological problem and statistical physics p. 285

L. Pietronero and F. Sylos Labini

Published online: 16 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00056-6

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q-deformed Fermions p. 291

P. Narayana Swamy

Published online: 16 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00055-7

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Dissociative attachment of an electron to a molecule: kinetic theory p. 295

A. Rossani and A. M. Scarfone

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00111-4

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Diffusion in flashing periodic potentials p. 299

B. Spagnolo and A. Dubkov

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00108-y

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Lyapunov modes and time-correlation functions for two-dimensional systems p. 305

T. Taniguchi and G. P. Morriss

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00098-8

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Application of large deviation theory to the mean-field -model p. 311

I. Hahn and M. Kastner

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00100-7

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Symplectic integration approach for metastable systems p. 315

E. Klotins

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00127-8

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Modulational instability in asymmetric coupled wave functions p. 321

I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00106-1

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Monte Carlo simulations of bosonic reaction-diffusion systems and comparison to Langevin equation description p. 327

Su-Chan Park

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00126-9

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Statistical theory of spectra: statistical moments as descriptors in the theory of molecular similarity p. 333

D. Bielińska-Wąż, P. Wąż and S. C. Basak

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00124-y

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Marked signal improvement by stochastic resonance for aperiodic signals in the double-well system p. 339

R. Mingesz, Z. Gingl and P. Makra

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00135-8

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Statistical-mechanical description of classical test-particle dynamics in the presence of an external force field: modelling noise and damping from first principles p. 345

I. Kourakis and A. P. Grecos

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00116-y

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Classical q-deformed dynamics p. 351

A. Lavagno, A. M. Scarfone and P. Narayana Swamy

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00109-x

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Numerical study of the oscillatory convergence to the attractor at the edge of chaos p. 355

R. Tonelli and M. Coraddu

Published online: 20 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00064-6

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Maxwell-Jüttner distributions in relativistic molecular dynamics p. 361

A. Aliano, L. Rondoni and G. P. Morriss

Published online: 12 April 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00117-x

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Thermoeconomic analysis of an irreversible Stirling heat pump cycle p. 367

U. Lucia and G. Gervino

Published online: 20 February 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00060-x

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