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xviiiContents7.2.4 Ground State Energy of the Chemical Elements(Mendeleev’s Table) and of Doped Fullerenes . . . . . ...... 2657.3 Economics . . ...............................................2667.4 Computer Sciences . . . . . . ....................................2697.4.1 OptimizationAlgorithms .............................2697.4.2 Analysis of Time Series and Signals . . ..................2757.4.3 Analysis of Images . . . . . .............................2797.4.4 PING Internet Experiment . . . .........................2807.5 Biosciences . ...............................................2817.6 CellularAutomata ..........................................2827.7 Self-Organized Criticality ....................................2837.8 Scale-Free Networks . . . . ....................................2837.8.1 The Natal Model ....................................2907.8.2 Albert–Barabasi Model . . .............................2917.8.3 Non-Growing Model .................................2947.8.4 Lennard–Jones Cluster . . .............................2957.9 Linguistics . . ...............................................2957.10 Other Sciences . . ...........................................295Part IVLast (But Not Least)8 Final Comments and Perspectives.................................3058.1 Falsifiable Predictions and Conjectures, and Their Verifications . . . . 3058.2 Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . .............................3088.3 OpenQuestions ............................................326Appendix A Useful Mathematical Formulae .........................329Appendix B Escort Distributions and q-Expectation Values ............335B.1 FirstExample ..............................................335B.2 Second Example . ...........................................339B.3 Remarks ..................................................339Bibliography .......................................................343Index .............................................................381

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