Havlin, S.; Buldyrev, S.V.; Bunde, A.; Goldberger, A.L.; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 273 (1999) 1, pp. 46-69
The purpose of this talk is to describe some recent progress in applying scaling concepts to various systems in nature. We review several systems characterized by scaling laws such as DNA sequences, heartbeat rates and weather variations. We discuss the finding that the exponent α quantifying...