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Andrei
Khrennikov
International Center for Mathematical Modeling in Physics, Engineering
and Cognitive Science, Växjö University, S-35195, Sweden;
E-mail:
[email protected]
Received: 10 September 2007; in
revised form: 7 March 2008 / Accepted: 7 March 2008 / Published: 29
March 2008
Full Paper: Bell-Boole
Inequality: Nonlocality or Probabilistic Incompatibility of Random
Variables?
Entropy 2008,
10, 19-32 (PDF format 187 K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10020019
Laurance
R. Doyle 1, Brenda McCowan 2, Sean F. Hanser 3, Christopher Chyba 4, Taylor Bucci 1 and J. Ellen Blue 5
1
SETI Institute, Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, 515 N.
Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; E-mails:
[email protected],
[email protected]
2 Population Health and Reproduction, School of
Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616,
USA; E-mail:
[email protected]
3 Ecology Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA 95616,
USA; E-mail:
[email protected]
4
Department of Astrophysical Sciences, 122 Peyton Hall, Princeton
University Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA; E-mail:
[email protected]
5 SRI Consulting, 4300 Bohannon Drive, Suite 200, Menlo Park, CA 94025,
USA; E-mail:
[email protected]
Received: 28 November 2007; in
revised form: 21 April 2008 / Accepted: 21 April 2008 / Published: 14
May 2008
Article: Applicability
of Information Theory to the Quantification of Responses to
Anthropogenic Noise by Southeast Alaskan Humpback Whales
Entropy 2008,
10, 33-46 (PDF format 362 K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10020033
Shu-Kun Lin
Book Review: Asymmetry:
The Foundation of Information.
By Scott Muller.
Springer: Berlin. 2007. VIII, 165 p. 33 illus., Hardcover. CHF 139.50.
ISBN: 978-3-540-69883-8
Entropy 2008,
10, 47-48 (PDF format 21 K)
DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10020047
Michael Nosonovsky * and Sven K. Esche
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology,
Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail:
[email protected]
Received: 20 March 2008; in revised
form: 9 June 2008 / Accepted: 14 June 2008 / Published: 16 June 2008
Short Note: A Paradox of
Decreasing Entropy in Multiscale Monte Carlo Grain Growth Simulations
Entropy 2008,
10, 49-54 (PDF format 513 K)
DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10020049
Shu-Kun Lin
Book
Review: Symmetry Rules:
How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry. By Joe Rosen.
Springer:
Berlin. 2008, XIV, 305 p. 86 illus., Hardcover. CHF 70. ISBN:
978-3-540-75972-0
Entropy 2008,
10, 55-57 (PDF format 28 K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10020055
A. D. Kirwan, Jr.
College of Marine and Earth Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark,
Delaware 19716, USA; E-mail:
[email protected]
Received: 26 March 2008; in revised
form: 12 June 2008 / Accepted: 15 June 2008 / Published: 17 June 2008
Article: Quantum and Ecosystem Entropies
Entropy 2008,
10, 58-70 (PDF format 171 K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10020058
Yun Gao 1, Ioannis Kontoyiannis 2,* and Elie Bienenstock 3
1 Knight Equity Markets, L.P., Jersey City, NJ 07310, USA
2 Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and
Business, Athens 10434, Greece
3 Division of Applied Mathematics and Department of Neuroscience, Brown
University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
E-Mails:
[email protected];
[email protected];
[email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 6 March 2008; in revised
form: 9 June 2008 / Accepted: 17 June 2008 / Published: 17 June 2008
Article: Estimating the Entropy of Binary Time
Series: Methodology, Some Theory and a Simulation Study
Entropy 2008,
10, 71-99 (PDF format 354 K);
DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10020071
(This paper belongs to the special issue "Facets of Entropy - Papers
presented at the workshop in Copenhagen (24-26 October 2007)")
Carlos Silva and Kalyan Annamalai *
Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station,
Texas 77843-3123, USA; E-mails:
[email protected];
[email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 17 December 2007; in
revised form: 17 June 2008 / Accepted: 18 June 2008 / Published: 20
June 2008
Article: Entropy Generation and Human Aging:
Lifespan Entropy and Effect of Physical Activity Level
Entropy 2008,
10, 100-123 (PDF format 783
K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10020100
Angelo Plastino 1,*, Angel R.
Plastino 2, Evaldo M. F. Curado 3 and Montse
Casas 4
1 Exact Sciences Faculty, National University La Plata (UNLP),
IFLP-CCT-CONICET, Argentinia; E-mail:
[email protected]
2
CREG-UNLP and Conicet, Argentina; Department of Physics, University of
Pretoria, South Africa; Instituto Carlos I de Fisica Teorica y
Computacional, Universidad de Granada, Spain; E-mail:
[email protected]
3 CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; E-mail:
[email protected]
4 Departament de Fisica and IFISC, Universitat de les Illes Balears,
07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain; E-mail:
[email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 5 March 2008; in revised
form: 14 June 2008 / Accepted: 22 June 2008 / Published: 24 June 2008
Article: Incremental Entropy Relation as an
Alternative to MaxEnt
Entropy 2008,
10, 124-130 (PDF format 158 K);
DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10020124
(This paper belongs to the special issue "Facets of Entropy - Papers
presented at the workshop in Copenhagen (24-26 October 2007)")
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Jan Naudts
Department of Physics, University of Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171,
2020 Antwerpen, Belgium; E-mail:
[email protected]
Received: 26 February 2008; in
revised form: 1 July 2008 / Accepted: 14 July 2008 / Published: 28 July
2008
Article: Generalised
Exponential Families and Associated Entropy Functions
Entropy 2008,
10, 131-149 (PDF format 206
K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10030131
(This paper belongs to the special issue "Facets of Entropy - Papers
presented at the workshop in Copenhagen (24-26 October 2007)")M. Paul GoughSpace Science Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QT, United Kingdom; E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 7 March 2008; in revised form: 23 June 2008 / Accepted: 28 July 2008 / Published: 30 July 2008Article: Information Equation of StateEntropy 2008,
10, 150-159 (PDF format 206
K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10030150
Gian Paolo BerettaUniversitŕ di Brescia, via Branze 38, Brescia, I-25123, Italy, E-mail:
[email protected]Temporary address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 3-237, Cambridge, MA 01239, USA
Received: 17 December 2007; in revised form: 30 July 2008 / Accepted: 30 July 2008 / Published: 14 August 2008
Article: Modeling
Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of a Discrete Probability Distribution:
General Rate Equation for Maximal Entropy Generation in a
Maximum-Entropy Landscape with Time-Dependent ConstraintsEntropy 2008,
10, 160-182 (PDF format 235
K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10030160(This paper belongs to the special issue "Facets of Entropy - Papers
presented at the workshop in Copenhagen (24-26 October 2007)") Mojdeh Golmohammadi and Alejandro D. Rey *Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B2, Canada
E-mail:
[email protected] * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 28 July 2008; in revised form: 18 August 2008 / Accepted: 19 August 2008 / Published: 23 August 2008Article: Entropic Behavior of Binary Carbonaceous MesophasesEntropy 2008,
10, 183-199 (PDF format 392 K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10030183(This paper belongs to the special issue "Configurational Entropy") Joseph V. Michalowicz 1, Jonathan M. Nichols 2,* and Frank Bucholtz 21
U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Optical Sciences Division, Washington,
D.C. 20375, USA (Permanent Address: SFA, Inc., Crofton, MD 21114, USA)
2 U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Optical Sciences Division, Washington, D.C. 20375, USA
E-mail:
[email protected]* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 16 June 2008; in revised form: 14 August 2008 / Accepted: 18 August 2008 / Published: 25 August 2008
Article: Calculation of Differential Entropy for a Mixed Gaussian DistributionEntropy 2008,
10, 200-206 (PDF format 1373 K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10030200 Rodolfo PinalDepartment of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, Purdue University, 575 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Tel.: +1-765-496-6247; E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 24 June 2008; in revised form: 20 August 2008 / Accepted: 20 August 2008 / Published: 26 August 2008
Article: Entropy of Mixing and the Glass Transition of Amorphous MixturesEntropy 2008,
10, 207-223 (PDF format 229 K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10030207(This paper belongs to the special issue "Configurational Entropy") Hans BehringerFaculty of Physics, University of Bielefeld, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany
E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 30 June 2008; in revised form: 27 August 2008 / Accepted: 2 September 2008 / Published: 5 September 2008Article: Qualitative Picture of Scaling in the Entropy FormalismEntropy 2008,
10, 224-239 (PDF format 203 K); DOI:
10.3390/entropy-e10030224 Gustavo L. Ferri 1, Felipe Olivares 2, Flavia Pennini 2,3, Angel Plastino 3, Angel R. Plastino 4,5,6,* and Montserrat Casas 7
1 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Peru y Uruguay, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
2 Departamento de Fısica, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Av. Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile
3
Exact Sciences Fac., National University La Plata and IFLP-CCT-CONICET,
C.C. 727, 1900 La Plata, Argentina; E-Mail:
[email protected]4 Instituto Carlos I de Fısica Teorica y Computacional, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
5 CREG-National, University La Plata and CONICET, Argentina
6 Physics Department, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
7 Departament de Fısica and IFISC, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail:
[email protected]Received: 5 March 2008; in revised form: 25 August 2008 / Accepted: 25 August 2008 / Published: 19 September 2008Article: Deformed Generalization of the Semiclassical EntropyEntropy 2008,
10, 240-247 (PDF format 168 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030240(This paper belongs to the special issue "Facets of Entropy - Papers
presented at the workshop in Copenhagen (24-26 October 2007)") Paolo V. GiaquintaUniversitŕ
degli Studi di Messina, Dipartimento di Fisica, Contrada Papardo, 98166
Messina, Italy. E-Mail:
[email protected]Received: 31 July 2008; in revised form: 30 August 2008 / Accepted: 11 September 2008 / Published: 19 September 2008Article: Entropy and Ordering of Hard Rods in One DimensionEntropy 2008,
10, 248-260 (PDF format 256 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030248 Imre CsiszárRényi
Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O.Box 127,
H1364 Budapest, Hungary. E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 1 September 2008 / Accepted: 12 September 2008 / Published: 19 September 2008
Article: Axiomatic Characterizations of Information MeasuresEntropy 2008,
10, 261-273 (PDF format 187 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030261(This paper belongs to the special issue "Facets of Entropy - Papers
presented at the workshop in Copenhagen (24-26 October 2007)")
Evguenii Kozliak 1,* and Frank L. Lambert 21 Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
2 Department of Chemistry, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041, USA. E-mail:
[email protected]* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 24 June 2008; in revised form: 10 September 2008 / Accepted: 15 September 2008 / Published: 20 September 2008Article: Residual Entropy, the Third Law and Latent HeatEntropy 2008,
10, 274-284 (PDF format 270 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030274(This paper belongs to the special issue "Configurational Entropy")
Oleg K. Vorov 1, Dennis R. Livesay 2 and Donald J. Jacobs 1,*1 Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
2 Department of Computer Science and Bioinformatics Research Center, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
E-mails:
[email protected] (O.V.);
[email protected] (D.L.);
[email protected] (D.J.)
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 8 August 2008; in revised form: 10 September 2008 / Accepted: 19 September 2008 / Published: 20 September 2008
Article: Conformational Entropy of an Ideal Cross-Linking Polymer ChainEntropy 2008,
10, 285-308 (PDF format 556 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030285(This paper belongs to the special issue "Entropies of Polymers")
John C. Dethridge and Anthony J. Guttmann *ARC
Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne,
Victoria 3010, Australia
E-mail:
[email protected];
[email protected]* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 17 May 2008 / Accepted: 9 September 2008 / Published: 24 September 2008Article: Prudent Self-AvoidingWalksEntropy 2008,
10, 309-318 (PDF format 164 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030309(This paper belongs to the special issue "Concepts
of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at
University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007")
Tommaso RuggeriDepartment
of Mathematics and Research Center of Applied Mathematics (CIRAM),
University of Bologna, Via Saragozza 8, 40123 Bologna, Italy
Received: 3 May 2008 / Accepted: 4 September 2008 / Published: 24 September 2008
Article: The Entropy Principle
from Continuum Mechanics to Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws: The
Modern Theory of Extended ThermodynamicsEntropy 2008,
10, 319-333 (PDF format 164 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030319(This paper belongs to the special issue "Concepts
of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at
University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007")
Michael I. OjovanThe
University of Sheffield, Immobilisation Science Laboratory, Department
of Engineering Materials, Sir Robert Hadfield Building, Mappin Street,
Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom
E-mail:
[email protected]; http://www.shef.ac.uk/materials/staff/mojovan.html
Received: 31 July 2008; in revised form: 9 September 2008 / Accepted: 22 September 2008 / Published: 24 September 2008Article: Configurons: Thermodynamic Parameters and Symmetry Changes at Glass TransitionEntropy 2008,
10, 334-364 (PDF format 1075 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030334(This paper belongs to the special issue "Configurational Entropy")
Phil BroadbridgeAustralian Mathematical Sciences Institute, c/o University of Melbourne, 111 Barry St., Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia
E-mail:
[email protected]
Received: 3 May 2008 / Accepted: 21 September 2008 / Published: 25 September 2008
Article: Entropy Diagnostics for Fourth Order Partial Differential Equations in Conservation FormEntropy 2008,
10, 365-379 (PDF format 201 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030365(This paper belongs to the special issue "Concepts
of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at
University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007")
Phil AttardSchool of Chemistry F11, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
E-mail:
[email protected]
Received: 3 May 2008 / Accepted: 4 September 2008 / Published: 25 September 2008
Article: The Second Entropy: A Variational Principle for Time-dependent SystemsEntropy 2008,
10, 380-390 (PDF format 158 K); DOI:
10.3390/e10030380(This paper belongs to the special issue "Concepts
of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at
University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007")