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Effects of agents' mobility on opinion spreading in Sznajd model
Under synchronous updating and allowing the agents to move in the lattice or underlying network, we find that the Sznajd model always reaches a consensus as a steady state, – because agent frustrations are ...
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Clusters in weighted macroeconomic networks: the EU case. Introducing the overlap** index of GDP/capita fluctuation correlations
GDP/capita correlations are investigated in various time windows (TW), for the time interval 1990–2005. The target group of countries is the set of 25 EU members, 15 till 2004 plus the 10 countries which joine...
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Drastic events make evolving networks
Co-authorship networks of neighbouring scientific disciplines, i.e. granular (G) media and networks (N) are studied in order to observe drastic structural changes in evolving networks. The data is taken from a...
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Cluster structure of EU-15 countries derived from the correlation matrix analysis of macroeconomic index fluctuations
The statistical distances between countries, calculated for various moving average time windows, are mapped into the ultrametric subdominant space as in classical Minimal Spanning Tree methods. The Moving Aver...
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High frequency (daily) data analysis of the Southern Oscillation Index. Tsallis nonextensive statistical mechanics approach
Daily data of the Southern Oscillation Index between 1999 and mid-2006 has been analyzed in order to obtain the shape and tails of the partial distribution functions (PDF) of the variability of the index. A m...
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On the genre-fication of music: a percolation approach
We analyze web-downloaded data on people sharing their music library. By attributing to each music group usual music genres (Rock, Pop ...), and analysing correlations between music groups of different genres ...
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Limit current density in 2D metallic granular packings
The electrical properties of a 2D packed metallic pentagons have been studied. The electrical characterization of such metallic pentagon heaps, like i-V measurements, has been achieved. Two distinct regimes have ...
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Foam imbibition in microgravity
We report an experimental study of aqueous foam imbibition in microgravity with strict mass conservation. The foam is in a Hele-Shaw cell. The bubble edge width ℓ is measured by image analysis. The penetration...
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Are EUR and GBP different words for the same currency?
The British Pound (GBP) is not part of the Euro (EUR) monetary system. In order to find out arguments on whether GBP should join the EUR or not correlations are calculated between GBP exchange rates with respect ...
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Mechanistic approach to generalized technical analysis of share prices and stock market indices
Classical technical analysis methods of stock evolution are recalled, i.e. the notion of moving averages and momentum indicators. The moving averages lead to define death and gold crosses, resistance and support ...
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False Euro (FEUR) exchange rate correlated behaviors and investment strategy
We have searched for correlations and anticorrelations with respect to currencies as CHF, DKK, JPY, and USD in order to understand the EUR behavior. In order to do so we have invented a false euro (FEUR) dating b...
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Special issue on Econophysics
What is “Econophysics"? Who is an “econophysicist"? The coining of a new scientific term, composed of the names of two fields, traditionally considered to be far from each other, brings new dreams to investiga...
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Simultaneous measurements of thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity and thermopower with application to copper and ceramic superconductors
A home made experimental set-up allows us to measure the thermal conductivity, the thermopower and the thermal diffusivity simultaneously in the temperature range (20-300 K). Therefore the specific heat can be...
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Monte-Carlo analysis of tracer diffusion mechanisms in YBa2Cu3O6+c
A method for estimating, via the Monte-Carlo simulation, the most often realized diffusion mechanisms in 2D ordered structures is presented. Taking as an example the diffusion of oxygen ions in 123 — YBCO high te...
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Visualizing the log-periodic pattern before crashes
We present a method for visualizing the pattern which we believe to be a precursor signature of financial crashes (or ruptures). The log-periodicity of the pattern is investigated through the envelope function...
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Low q-moment multifractal analysis of Gold price, Dow Jones Industrial Average and BGL-USD exchange rate
An estimate of the low q-moment values of the assumed multifractal spectrum of Gold price, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and Bulgarian Lev - USA Dollar (BGL-USD) exchange rate over a 6 1/2 year time span ha...
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Multi-affine analysis of typical currency exchange rates
For foreign currency exchange rates, multi-affine analysis can put quantitatively into evidence the differences between correlated (daily closing market) values and random walks in time dependent data. The H(q) s...
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How the financial crash of October 1997 could have been predicted
From the analysis of (closing value) stock market index like the Dow Jones Industrial average and the S&P500 it is possible to observe the precursor of a so-called crash. This is shown on the Oct. 1987 and Oct...
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Two dimensional self-organized transitions for propagation in random media
A simple so-called dynamic epidemic model, for the evolution of an advancing interface through a two-dimensional medium containing mobile impurities is investigated. A short range repulsion between the front a...
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Field dependence of the electrothermal conductivity of high-Tc superconductors
The field dependence of the electrothermal conductivity P=S/ρ of high-Tc superconductors is calculated using a kinetic Boltzmann-like theory for either an s-wave or a d-wave gap parameter symmetry. The charge car...