Cover design: Blue Splatter.
Richard P. Taylor
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The Case of the Missing Third.
Robin Robertson, pg. 1
Keywords: philosophy, psychophysics, Gestalt psychology, imprinting, archetypes, Cantor sets, Bateson
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Dynamical Models of Happiness.
J. C. Sprott, pg. 23
Keywords: happiness, hedonics, differential equations, chaos, van der Pol equation
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Mapping Knowledge to Boolean Dynamic Systems in Bateson s Epistemology.
Thomas E. Malloy, Gary C. Jensen, & Timothy Song, pg. 37
Keywords: Epistemology, Bateson, knowledge, Boolean networks, mental process, logical operators, emergence, description, tautology, explanation, representation
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Unnatural Selection: Talent Identification and Development in Sport.
Angela Abbott, Chris Button, Gert-Jan Pepping, & Dave Collins, pg. 61
Keywords: talent, sports, personnel selection, development, self-organization
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Perceptual and Physiological Responses to the Visual Complexity of Fractal Patterns.
R. P. Taylor, B. Spehar, J. A. Wise, C. W. G. Clifford, B. R. Newell, C. M. Hagerhall, T. Purcell, & T. P. Martin, pg. 89
Keywords: fractals, aesthetics, visual perception
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Fractal Aesthetics: Cover Art For 2005.
Richard P. Taylor, pg. 115
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Book Review: Complex-Valued Neural Networks: Theories and Applications. Edited by Akira Hirose.
pg. 117
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Cover design: Bubbles.
Richard P. Taylor
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Observing Collectivities as Simplex Systems: The Combinatory Systems Approach.
Piero Mella, pg. 121
Keywords: agent-based models, cellular automata, path dependence, combinatory systems, self-organizing processes, chaos, social dynamics
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Everybody Else Is: Networks, Power Laws and Peer Contagion in the Aggressive Recess Behavior of Elementary School Boys.
Keith Warren, Gheorghe Craciun, & Dawn Anderson-Butcher, pg. 155
Keywords: school, aggression, power law, intervention
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Origins of Group Coordination: Nonlinear Dynamics and the Role of Verbalization.
Stephen J. Guastello, Benjamin R. Bock, Philip Caldwell, & Robert W. Bond, Jr., pg. 175
Keywords: coordination, synchronization, chaos, self-organization, work team, game theory, implicit learning
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Discreteness or Convexity of the State Space: Implications for Nonlinear Economics.
Mohammed H. I Dore, pg. 209
Keywords: general equilibrium, social choice, discrete methods, convexity, invariant measure of value, nonlinearity, geometric dimension, chaotic dynamics
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Book Review: Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life, by Mitchell Whitelaw.
pg. 229
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Book Review: Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing, by Nancy Forbes.
pg. 231
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Cover graphic: "Cobwebs".
Richard P. Taylor
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Third Nature: The Co-Evolution of Human Behavior, Culture, and Technology.
William A. Johnston, pg. 235
Keywords: three natures, co-evolution, institutional order, fitness landscapes
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The Psychophysics of Tactile Amplitude Summation: A test of the Nonlinear Model.
Doug Mahar, pg. 281
Keywords: tactile perception, hypoadditivity, hyperadditivity, psychophysics, nonlinear dynamics
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A Rugged Landscape Model for Self-Organization and Emergent Leadership in Creative Problem Solving and Production Groups.
Stephen J. Guastello, Joanna Craven, Karen M. Zygowicz, & Benjamin R. Bock, pg. 297
Keywords: leadership, emergence, swallowtail catastrophe, creative problem solving, group productivity, self-organization
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Path-Dependent Economic Evolution with Capital Accumulation and Education.
Wei-Bin Zhang, pg. 335
Keywords: education, saving, growth, multiple equilibrium points, path-dependent
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Book Review: Voices from the Field: An Introduction to Human Systems Dynamics, Edited by Glenda Eoyang.
pg. 359
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Book Review: Unstable Singularities and Randomness, Their Importance in the Complexity of Physical, Biological and Social Sciences, By Joseph P. Zbilut.
pg. 363
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Book Review: Mind and Causality, Edited by Alberto Peruzzi.
pg. 367
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Manuscripts Accepted and Forthcoming Special Issues.
pg. 370
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Cover graphic: "Fracture".
Richard P. Taylor
Keywords:
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Introduction to Nonlinear Methodology, Part I: Challenges We Face and Those That We Offer.
Robert A. M. Gregson & Stephen J. Guastello, pg. 371
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The Danger of Wishing for Chaos.
Patrick McSharry, pg. 375
Keywords: chaos, nonlinear dynamics, correlation dimension, Lyapunov exponent, surrogates
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Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of Noisy Time Series.
Andrew Heathcote & David Elliott, pg. 399
Keywords: nonlinear dynamics, fractal dimension, prediction, time series, measurement noise
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Methodological Issues in the Application of Monofractal Analyses in Psychological and Behavioral Research.
Didier Deligni res, Kjerstin Torre, & Lo c Lemoine, pg. 435
Keywords: fractal analysis, fractional Gaussian noise, fractional Brownian motion, Hurst exponent, series length
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Statistical Distributions and Self-organizing Phenomena: What Conclusions Should be Drawn?.
Stephen J. Guastello, pg. 463
Keywords: inverse power law, exponential distribution, leadership emergence, self-organization
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Identifying Ill-Behaved Nonlinear Processes Without Metrics: Use of Symbolic Dynamics.
Robert A. M. Gregson, pg. 479
Keywords: identifiability, psychometrics, nonstationarity, chaos, entropy, Markov, symbolic dynamics, two attractors
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Bios Data Analyzer.
H. Sabelli, A. Sugerman, L. Kovacevic, L. Kauffman, L. Carlson-Sabelli, M. Patel, & J. Konecki, pg. 505
Keywords: bios, time series analysis, creativity, economics, heart rate variation
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Ad Hoc Reviewers for 2005 / Color Figures for 2005 / Manuscripts Accepted for Volume 10 (2006).
pg. 539
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