There is striking evidence that the dynamics of the Earth crust is controlled by a wide variety
of mutually dependent mechanisms acting at different spatial and temporal scales. The …

We introduce and study a simple idealized model to describe breaking processes by analysing
the current-carrying properties of a random network consisting of insulators and fuses. By …

This Research Topic in “Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience” contains a collection of original
contributions and review articles on the hypothesis that the normal, healthy brain resides in …

The 1/f-like decay observed in the power spectrum of electro-physiological signals, along with
scale-free statistics of the so-called neuronal avalanches, constitutes evidence of criticality …

Networks of living neurons exhibit an avalanche mode of activity, experimentally found in
organotypic cultures. Here we present a model that is based on self-organized criticality and …

We here relate the occurrence of extreme market shares, close to either 0 or 100%, in the
media industry to a percolation phenomenon across the social network of customers. We …

We develop a new approach for studying the random resistor network by focusing on the
distribution of voltage drops across each bond We introduce a simple model which provides a …

Recent physiological measurements have provided clear evidence about scale-free
avalanche brain activity and EEG spectra, feeding the classical enigma of how such a chaotic …

Earthquakes and solar flares are phenomena involving huge and rapid releases of energy
characterized by complex temporal occurrence. By analyzing available experimental catalogs…

We investigate the breakdown properties of a random resistor-fuse network in which each
network element behaves as a linear resistor if the voltage drop is less than a threshold value, …