Benford’s law is a counterintuitive statistical law asserting that the distribution of leading digits, taken from a large ensemble of positive numerical values that range over many orders of scale, is logarithmic rather than uniform (as intuition suggests). In this paper we explore Benford’s...

We deduce a relativistic transformation of the canonical distribution function from basic principles; that is, from relativistic canonical transformations of dynamical variables. The thermodynamics which is obtained from such a distribution coincides with the recent proposal put forward by Ares...

By using the concept of volume introduced by Nakamura in relativistic thermodynamics, a relativistic thermodynamical theory is proposed. A comparison is presented between the new theory, the van Kampen covariant theory and the Rohrlich proposal. A relativistic thermometer is proposed by using...

Small-angle light and X-ray scattering are used to study the morphology of reinforcing fillers in organic rubbers. The data, which extend over six orders of magnitude in length scale, reveal a complex morphology of the powders consisting of primary particles, aggregates and agglomerates. The...

Integrins are essential receptors for the development and functioning of multicellular animals because they mediate cell adhesion and migration, and regulate cell proliferation and apoptosis. Ligand-dependent activation of integrins involves the formation of receptor clusters and this has been...

We show that allelomimesis is a generic mechanism that could explain why the cluster-size distribution D(s) of diverse social aggregates such as animal groups and socio-economic entities all fit into a power-law distribution: D(s)∝s−τ, where τ is the critical exponent. Roughly,...