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  title info:
    title: Natural Time Analysis: The New View of Time
    sub title: Precursory Seismic Electric Signals, Earthquakes and other Complex Time Series
  name:
    name part: Varotsos, Panayiotis A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Sarlis, Nicholas V.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Skordas, Efthimios S.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 452 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book deals with the theory and the applications of a new time domain, termed natural time domain, that has been forwarded by the authors almost a decade ago (P.A. Varotsos, N.V. Sarlis and E.S. Skordas, Practica of Athens Academy 76, 294-321, 2001; Physical Review E 66, 011902, 2002). In particular, it has been found that novel dynamical features hidden behind time series in complex systems can emerge upon analyzing them in this new time domain, which conforms to the desire to reduce uncertainty and extract signal information as much as possible. The analysis in natural time enables the study of the dynamical evolution of a complex system and identifies when the system enters a critical stage. Hence, natural time plays a key role in predicting impending catastrophic events in general. Relevant examples of data analysis in this new time domain have been published during the last decade in a large variety of fields, e.g., Earth Sciences, Biology and Physics. The book explains in detail a series of such examples including the identification of the sudden cardiac death risk in Cardiology, the recognition of electric signals that precede earthquakes, the determination of the time of an impending major mainshock in Seismology, and the analysis of the avalanches of the penetration of magnetic flux into thin films of type II superconductors in Condensed Matter Physics. In general, this book is concerned with the time-series analysis of signals emitted from complex systems by means of the new time domain and provides advanced students and research workers in diverse fields with a sound grounding in the fundamentals of current research work on detecting (long-range) correlations in complex time series. Furthermore, the modern techniques of Statistical Physics in time series analysis, for example Hurst analysis, the detrended fluctuation analysis, the wavelet transform etc., are presented along with their advantages when natural time domain is employed.
  table of contents: Part I Seismic Electric Signals -- 1. Introduction to Seismic Electric Signals-V -- Part II -- 2. Natural Time. Background-F -- 3. Entropy in Natural Time-E -- Part III Natural Time Applications -- 4. Natural Time Analysis of Seismic Electric Signals-AS -- 5. Natural Time Investigation of the Effect of Significant Data Loss on Indentifying Seismic Electric Signals-ASL -- 6. Natural Time Analysis of Seismicity-AEQ -- 7. Indentifying the Occurence Time of an Impending Mainshock-AIM -- 8. Natural Time Analysis of Dynamical Models-AD -- 9. Natural Time Analysis of Electrocardiograms-AEL -- References.
  note: by Panayiotis A. Varotsos, Nicholas V. Sarlis, Efthimios S. Skordas.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics and Environmental Physics
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter Physics
  classification: GB5000-5030
  classification: 551
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783642164491
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16449-1
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    record change date: 20151125162227.0
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