Avalanches in the lung: A statistical mechanical model.
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Albert-László Barabási,1,2 Sergey V. Buldyrev,1 H. Eugene Stanley,1 and Béla Suki3 1Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 2Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 3Respiratory Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (Received 10 March 1995)
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 76 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996