The European Physical Journal Special Topics

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Editorial

Editorial p. 1

Benjamin Lindner, Udo Erdmann and Igor M. Sokolov

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01264-5

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Current characteristics of mesoscopic rings in quantum Smoluchowski regime p. 5

Sz. Rogoziński, L. Machura and J. Łuczka

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01265-4

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Anisotropic diffusion of a magnetically torqued ellipsoidal microparticle p. 15

O. Güell, P. Tierno and F. Sagués

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01266-3

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In silico analysis of microdomain-mediated trimer formation in the T cell membrane p. 21

E. Long, B. Henderson and A. Zaikin

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01267-2

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Wave propagation in heterogeneous bistable and excitable media p. 31

S. Alonso, J. Löber, M. Bär and H. Engel

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01268-1

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Brownian transport in narrow channels subject to transverse periodic force p. 41

P.K. Ghosh and F. Marchesoni

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01269-0

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Review

The rich phenomenology of Brownian particles in nonlinear potential landscapes p. 49

J.M. Sancho and A.M. Lacasta

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01270-7

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Effective phase description of noise-perturbed and noise-induced oscillations p. 63

J.T.C. Schwabedal and A. Pikovsky

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01271-6

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Delay control of coherence resonance in type-I excitable dynamics p. 77

R. Aust, P. Hövel, J. Hizanidis and E. Schöll

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01272-5

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Characteristics and synchronization of time-delay systems driven by a common noise p. 87

D.V. Senthilkumar and J. Kurths

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01273-4

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Oscillations vs. chaotic waves: Attractor selection in bistable stochastic reaction–diffusion systems p. 95

M. Sieber and H. Malchow

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01274-3

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On the estimation of persistence in geophysical time series p. 101

Ch. Zülicke and D.H.W. Peters

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01275-2

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Review

Stochastic self-sustained oscillations of non-autonomous systems p. 109

V. Anishchenko, T. Vadivasova and G. Strelkova

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01276-1

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Collective motion of active Brownian particles in one dimension p. 127

P. Romanczuk and U. Erdmann

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01277-0

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Low Reynolds number hydrodynamics of asymmetric, oscillating dumbbell pairs p. 135

Victor B. Putz and Dunkel Jörn

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01278-y

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Avalanches in a nonlinear oscillator chain in a periodic potential p. 145

D. Hennig, A.D. Burbanks and A.H. Osbaldestin

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01279-x

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Convoluted Gauss-Levy distributions and exploding Coulomb clusters p. 157

W. Ebeling, M.Yu. Romanovsky, I.M. Sokolov and I.A. Valuev

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01280-5

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Noisy saltatory spike propagation: The breakdown of signal transmission due to channel noise p. 171

Y. Li, G. Schmid and P. Hänggi

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01281-4

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Spontaneous dynamics and response properties of a Hodgkin-Huxley-type neuron model driven by harmonic synaptic noise p. 179

H. Nguyen and A.B. Neiman

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01282-3

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Resonant propagation of spike trains in delay-coupled neural subthreshold oscillators p. 189

B. Sancristóbal, J.M. Sancho and J. Garcia-Ojalvo

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01283-2

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Noisy activation kinetics induces bursting in the Huber-Braun neuron model p. 199

C. Finke, S. Postnova, E. Rosa Jr., J.A. Freund, M.T. Huber, K. Voigt, F.E. Moss, H.A. Braun and U. Feudel

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01284-1

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Enhanced information transmission with signal dependent noise in an array of LIF neurons p. 205

A. Nikitin, I.A. Khovanov, R.P. Morse and N.G. Stocks

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01285-0

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Theory for serial correlations of interevent intervals p. 211

T. Schwalger and B. Lindner

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01286-y

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Ticks of a Random clock p. 223

P. Jung and P. Talkner

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01287-x

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Statistical analysis of calcium oscillations p. 231

A. Skupin and M. Falcke

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01288-9

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Stimulus-induced response patterns of medium-embedded neurons p. 241

D.E. Postnov, A.P. Chetverikov and D.D. Postnov

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01289-8

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Review

A gentle introduction to the thermodynamics of biochemical stoichiometric networks in steady state p. 255

M. Kschischo

Published online: 01 October 2010

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2010-01290-3

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