Fractality and self-organized criticality of wars

Fractals

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 351-357

  Roberts, D C ^a   Turcotte, D L ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 0001389839     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X98000407     Document Type: Article

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