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The Thermodynamics of Social Processes: The Teen Birth Phenomenon
Nicola Scafetta, Patti Hamilton, Paolo Grigolini
We argue that a process of social interest is a balance of order and randomness, thereby producing a departure from a stationary diffusion process. The strength of this effect vani…
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Sporadic randomness, Maxwell's Demon and the Poincare' recurrence times
Gerardo Aquino, Paolo Grigolini, Nicola Scafetta
In the case of fully chaotic systems the distribution of the Poincare'recurrence times is an exponential whose decay rate is the Kolmogorov-Sinai(KS) entropy.We address the discuss…