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Entropy, Volume 13, Issue 2

February 2011 - 16 articles

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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
154 Citations
14,165 Views
16 Pages

21 February 2011

The impact of organic species which are present in the Earth’s atmosphere on the burst of new particles is critically important for the understanding of the molecular nature of atmospheric nucleation phenomena. Amines have recently been proposed as p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,500 Views
12 Pages

Size Effects on the Entropy Production in Oscillatory Flow between Parallel Plates

  • Federico Vazquez,
  • Miguel Angel Olivares-Robles and
  • Sac Medina

18 February 2011

The heat transfer problem of a zero-mean oscillatory flow of a Maxwell fluid between infinite parallel plates with boundary conditions of the third kind is considered. The local and global time-averaged entropy production are computed, and the conseq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,808 Views
14 Pages

17 February 2011

The cosmological constant Λ can be achieved as the result of entangled and statistically correlated minisuperspace cosmological states, built up by using a minimal choice of observable quantities, i.e., Ωm and Ωk, which assign the cosmic dynamics. In...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,980 Views
10 Pages

The Nature of Stability in Replicating Systems

  • Nathaniel Wagner and
  • Addy Pross

15 February 2011

We review the concept of dynamic kinetic stability, a type of stability associated specifically with replicating entities, and show how it differs from the well-known and established (static) kinetic and thermodynamic stabilities associated with regu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,121 Views
16 Pages

Microcanonical Description of (Micro) Black Holes

  • Roberto Casadio and
  • Benjamin Harms

14 February 2011

The microcanonical ensemble is the proper ensemble to describe black holes which are not in thermodynamic equilibrium, such as radiating black holes. This choice of ensemble eliminates the problems, e.g., negative specific heat (not allowed in the ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,078 Views
16 Pages

Information Theoretic Hierarchical Clustering

  • Mehdi Aghagolzadeh,
  • Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh and
  • Babak Nadjar Araabi

10 February 2011

Hierarchical clustering has been extensively used in practice, where clusters can be assigned and analyzed simultaneously, especially when estimating the number of clusters is challenging. However, due to the conventional proximity measures recruited...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,540 Views
19 Pages

10 February 2011

All contemporary living cells are composed of a collection of self-assembled molecular elements that by themselves are non-living but through the creation of a network exhibit the emergent properties of self-maintenance, self-reproduction, and evolut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,768 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2011

Neurons communicate via the relative timing of all-or-none biophysical signals called spikes. For statistical analysis, the time between spikes can be accumulated into inter-spike interval histograms. Information theoretic measures have been estimate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,715 Views
15 Pages

On the Dynamic Robustness of a Non-Endoreversible Engine Working in Different Operation Regimes

  • Norma Sanchez-Salas,
  • Juan C. Chimal-Eguia and
  • Florencio Guzman-Aguilar

8 February 2011

In this work, we focused mainly in the analysis of stability of a non-endoreversible Curzon-Ahlborn engine working in an ecological regime. For comparison purposes we also include the Maximum Efficient Power (MEP) regime taking into account the engin...

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