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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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Magnetocaloric effect in nano- and polycrystalline manganite La0.7Ca0.3MnO3
La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 samples were prepared in nano- and polycrystalline forms by the sol–gel and solid state reaction methods, respectively, and structurally characterized by synchrotron X-ray diffraction. The magnetic...
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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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Influence of Information Flow in the Formation of Economic Cycles
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Magneto-transport characterization of Dy123 monodomain superconductors
We consider textured materials of the DyBa2Cu3O7 type seeded with a Nd123 seed as initiator. They are grown with an excess 20% Dy211 phase on a Dy2O3 substrate. We report chemical characterization, electrical res...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Inversion of the Biot-Savart Law: An Approach Based on Discrete Sine and Cosine Transforms
In this paper, we expose the key features of an algorithm based on the DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform) that permits one to invert the Biot-Savart law without artifacts although the number of data is finite.
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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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Chapter
Charge- and Spin-Density-Wave Superconductors: Pseudogap Puzzle in the Cuprates
Charge- (CDWs) and spin-density waves (SDWs) are collective states with long-range order existing in solids and competing with superconductivity. CDWs and SDWs (hereafter we shall also use the abbreviation DWs...
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Electronic Thermal Conductivity of Partially-Gapped CDW Superconductors
Long ago it was theoretically shown that the electronic thermal conductivity κel of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors freezes out below superconducting critical temperature Tc [1, 2, 3]. On the cont...
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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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Field Dependent Exponents of Superconducting Fluctuations
The electrical resistivity of a quasi monocrystalline Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O y sample ...