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The current financial crisis has revealed serious flaws in models, measures and, potentially, the...

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The history of mankind is a story of ascent to unprecedented levels of comfort, productivity and ...

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Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as un...

After a major disaster, when investigators are piecing together the story of what happened, a str...

Some of the major industrial disasters could have been prevented. When the facts of what happened...