Cover Art: 'Rising'.
B. Ferris
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Human Physiological Benefits of Viewing Nature: EEG Responses to Exact and Statistical Fractal Patterns.
C. M. Hagerhall, T. Laike, M. Kuller, E. Marcheschi, C. Boydston, & R. P. Taylor, pg. 1
Keywords: attention restoration theory, restorative environments, landscape preference, nature, biophilia
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Pathway to Psychological Change from the Structural Stability Theory.
Roger Cerf, pg. 13
Keywords: emergence, resistance, psychoanalysis, conflict, decision
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Recurrent Multi-Day Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol Intake in Violent Relationships.
David Katerndahl, Sandra Burge, Robert Ferrer, Johanna Becho, & Robert Wood, pg. 41
Keywords: nonlinear dynamics, systems theory, domestic violence, battered women, intimate partner violence, alcohol use
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A Dynamical View of High School Attendance: An Assessment of Short-term and Long-term Dependencies in Five Urban Schools.
Matthijs Koopmans, pg. 65
Keywords: school attendance, self-organized criticality, ARFIMA, Hurst exponent
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Fractals and Dynamics in Art and Design.
Stephen J. Guastello, pg. 81
Keywords: fractal, aesthetics, design, photography
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Manuscripts Accepted for Publication.
pg. 100
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Cover Art: 'Work with the Boundaries'.
K. Dooley
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Heart Rate Complexity and Attentional Orienting: A New Look at the Role of Vagal Tone.
Maria Balle, Alfonso Morillas, Miquel Tortella-Feliu, & Xavier Bornas, pg. 101
Keywords: attentional orienting, heart rate, scaling, allometric control
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On the Interplay between Order Parameter Dynamics and System Parameter Dynamics in Human Perceptual-Cognitive-Behavioral Systems.
T. D. Frank, pg. 111
Keywords: perceptual-cognitive-behavioral system, self-organization, order parameters, system parameter dynamics, functional fixedness
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Fractal Coordination in Adults' Attention to Hierarchical Visual Patterns.
Ramon D. Castillo, Heidi Kloos, John G. Holden, & Michael J. Richardson, pg. 147
Keywords: perceptual organization, Gestalt, fractal exponents, emergence, soft-assembly
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Catastrophe Models for Cognitive Workload and Fatigue in N-Back Tasks.
Stephen J. Guastello, Katherine Reiter, Matthew Malon, Paul Timm, Anton Shircel, & James Shaline, pg. 173
Keywords: working memory, cognitive workload, fatigue, catastrophe
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Complexity and Behavioral Economics.
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. & Marina V. Rosser, pg. 201
Keywords: complexity, behavioral economics, bounded rationality
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Manuscripts Accepted for Publication.
pg. 227
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Cover Art: 'Self-assembling Nanobots Swarming over Chicago'.
Matthew Malon
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Detecting Nonlinearity and Edge-of-Chaos Phenomena in Ordinal Data.
Rachel Heath, pg. 229
Keywords: entropy, symbolic dynamics, mood ratings, order, depression, complexity
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Modeling Outcomes of Partner Violence Using Cusp Catastrophe Modeling.
David A. Katerndahl, Sandra K. Burge, Robert L. Ferrer, Robert Wood, & Johanna Becho, pg. 249
Keywords: systems theory, battered women, domestic violence, models, psychological, nonlinear dynamics
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The Complexity of Primary Care Psychology: Theoretical Foundations.
E. H. Smit & J. J. L. Derksen, pg. 269
Keywords: nonlinear dynamical systems, philosophy, psychology, theory, health care reform
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Estimating Appropriate Lag Length for Synchronized Physiological Time Series: The Electrodermal Response.
Stephen J. Guastello, Katherine Reiter, & Matthew Malon, pg. 285
Keywords: nonlinear time series, lag lengths, Theiler window, synchronization, mutual entropy
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A Model of Animal Spirits via Sentiment Spreading.
Orlando Gomes, pg. 313
Keywords: animal spirits, waves of optimism and pessimism, sentiment propagation, steady-state analysis, transitional dynamics, endogenous fluctuations, interactive Markov chain
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Manuscripts Accepted for Publication.
pg. 344
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Cover Art: 'Tear Down These Walls'.
Kyle Findlay
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Complex Adaptive Behavior and Dexterous Action.
Steven J. Harrison & Nicholas Stergiou, pg. 345
Keywords: biomechanics, variability, robustness, dynamical systems theory, 1/f scaling, nonlinear analysis, synergetics, self-organized criticality, multifractals
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Dimension and Complexity in Human Movement and Posture.
Steven Morrison & Karl M. Newell, pg. 395
Keywords: posture, fractal dimension, entropy, principal components analysis
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What Can Biosignal Entropy Tell Us About Health and Disease? Applications in Some Clinical Fields.
Borja Vargas, David Cuesta-Frau, Raul Ruiz-Esteban, Eva Cirugeda, & Manuel Varela, pg. 419
Keywords: complexity, clinical practice, diabetes, fever, aging
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Differential Diagnosis: Shape and Function, Fractal Tools in the Pathology Lab.
Giorgio Bianciardi, pg. 437
Keywords: human pathology, differential diagnosis, cancer, atherosclerosis, fractal analysis
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Different Faces of Variability in the Adaptive Process of Motor Skill Learning.
Umberto Cesar Correa, Rodolfo Novelino Benda, Dalton Lustosa de Oliveira, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, Andrea Michele Freudenheim, & Go Tani, pg. 465
Keywords: adaptation, motor learning, hierarchical organization, internal-external variability
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Training the Antifragile Athlete: A Preliminary Analysis of Neuromuscular Training Effects on Muscle Activation Dynamics.
Adam W. Kiefer & Gregory D. Myer, pg. 489
Keywords: antifragile, intermittency, piecewise determinism, recurrence quantification, electromyography
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The Complexity of the Psychological Self and the Principle of Optimum Variability.
Stephen J. Guastello, pg. 511
Keywords: self, complexity, entropy, complex adaptive systems, optimum variability
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Healthy Variability in Organizational Behavior: Empirical Evidence and New Steps for Future Research.
Jose Navarro & Rita Rueff-Lopes, pg. 529
Keywords: healthy variability, organizational research, organizational behavior, unhealthy stability
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What is Optimum Variability?.
David Schuldberg, pg. 553
Keywords: variability, optimality, health, complexity, chaos, homeostasis, nonlinear dynamics, time series
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Manuscripts Accepted for Publication / Ad Hoc Reviewers for 2014.
pg. 569
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