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Entropy, Volume 15, Issue 1

January 2013 - 20 articles

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Articles (20)

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
22,283 Views
35 Pages

Is Encephalopathy a Mechanism to Renew Sulfate in Autism?

  • Stephanie Seneff,
  • Ann Lauritzen,
  • Robert M. Davidson and
  • Laurie Lentz-Marino

22 January 2013

This paper makes two claims: (1) autism can be characterized as a chronic low-grade encephalopathy, associated with excess exposure to nitric oxide, ammonia and glutamate in the central nervous system, which leads to hippocampal pathologies and resul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,130 Views
9 Pages

22 January 2013

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest towards compression-based methods and their applications to remote sensing, as these have a data-driven and parameter-free approach and can be thus succesfully employed in several applications, especi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,015 Views
11 Pages

21 January 2013

Maximum entropy method has been successfully used for underdetermined systems. Network design problem, with routing and topology subproblems, is an underdetermined system and a good candidate for maximum entropy method application. Wireless ad-hoc ne...

  • Review
  • Open Access
78 Citations
17,151 Views
34 Pages

18 January 2013

Information flow, or information transfer as it may be referred to, is a fundamental notion in general physics which has wide applications in scientific disciplines. Recently, a rigorous formalism has been established with respect to both determinist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,023 Views
24 Pages

17 January 2013

Process modeling by means of Gaussian-based algorithms often suffers from redundant information which usually increases the estimation computational complexity without significantly improving the estimation performance. In this article, a non-arbitra...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
15 Citations
17,341 Views
28 Pages

16 January 2013

Biosemiotic entropy involves the deterioration of biological sign systems. The genome is a coded sign system that is connected to phenotypic outputs through the interpretive functions of the tRNA/ribosome machinery. This symbolic sign system (semiosi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,113 Views
25 Pages

16 January 2013

The use of exergy to correlate energy-utilization efficiencies and energy research investments is described. Specifically, energy and exergy losses are compared with energy research and development expenditures, demonstrating that the latter correlat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
12,001 Views
22 Pages

11 January 2013

We present a framework for the estimation of transfer entropy (TE) under the conditions typical of physiological system analysis, featuring short multivariate time series and the presence of instantaneous causality (IC). The framework is based on rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
7,139 Views
14 Pages

11 January 2013

This study deals with the combined effects of convective heating and suction/injection on the entropy generation rate in a steady flow of an incompressible viscous fluid through a channel with permeable walls. The model equations for momentum and ene...

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