We provide numerical evidence that the electrocardiogram data collected from pigs during induced ventricular fibrillation cannot be described by a monotonic nonlinear transformation of linearly filtered noise. To establish this we use surrogate techniques and apply two test statistics: (1) the Takens' maximum likelihood estimator of the Grassberger-Procaccia correlation dimension and (2) an imp...

It is shown that the wavelet correlation dimension is a very relevant quantity for the characterization of rough surfaces by remote sensing means. First, the concept of correlation length is generalized to surfaces with wide power spectrum. Second, it is demonstrated that, in the framework of the small-perturbation theory, the wavelet correlation dimension can be retrieved from a knowledge of t...

The potential use of a nonlinear deterministic framework for understanding the dynamic nature of solute transport processes in subsurface formations is investigated. Time series of solute particle transport in a heterogeneous aquifer medium, simulated using an integrated probability/Markov chain (TP/MC) model, groundwater flow model, and particle transport model, are studied. The correlation di...

Some properties of d-dimensional disordered models with long-range random hopping amplitudes are investigated numerically at criticality. We concentrate on the correlation dimension d2 (for d = 2) and the nearest level spacing distribution Pc(s) (for d = 3) in both the weak (b ≫ 1) and the strong (b ≪ 1) coupling regime, where the parameter b plays the role of the coupling constant of the model...

Previous studies (Doxas, Dennis, & Oliver, 2010) show that natural language discourse exhibits a two-scale structure with a lower dimension at short distances and larger dimension at long distances. We attempt to search for the source of this constraint in the visual input that goes into forming episodic experiences in human beings. This information is assumed to be approximated well by images ...

This study of the behaviour of rainfall dynamics at different temporal scales identifies the type of approach most suitable for transformation of rainfall data from one scale to another. Rainfall data of four different temporal scales, i.e. daily, 2-day, 4-day and 8-day, observed over a period of about 25 years at the Leaf River basin, Mississippi, USA, are analysed. The correlation dimension m...

We investigate the dynamics of electrons in the vicinity of the Anderson transition in d = 3 dimensions. Using the exact eigenstates from a numerical diagonalization, a number of quantities related to the critical behavior of the diffusion function are obtained. The relation η = d − D 2 between the correlation dimension D 2 of the multifractal eigenstates and the exponent η which enters into co...

A method for detecting significant and regionally specific correlations between sensory input and the brain's physiological response, as measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is presented in this paper. The method involves testing for correlations between sensory input and the hemodynamic response after convolving the sensory input with an estimate of the hernodynamic respo...