Overview: Unsolved problems of noise and fluctuations

Chaos

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 526-538

  Abbott, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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EID: 0035457946     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1398543     Document Type: Article

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