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A fourth generation neutrino with a standard Higgs scalar solves both the solar neutrino and dark matter problems

scientific article published in February 1988

A general model for effects of temperature on ectotherm ontogenetic growth and development.

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A general model for ontogenetic growth

scientific article (publication date: 11 October 2001)

A general model for the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology

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A general model for the structure and allometry of plant vascular systems

scientific article published in Nature

A general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics

scientific article published on 10 April 2009

A new approach to y-scaling and the universal features of scaling functions and nucleon momentum distributions

scientific article published in July 1999

A quantitative, theoretical framework for understanding mammalian sleep

scientific article (publication date: 16 January 2007)

A simple solution to the solar neutrino and missing mass problems

scientific article published in January 1987

A theoretical physicist's journey into biology: from quarks and strings to cells and whales

scientific article published on 08 October 2014

A unified theory of urban living

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Allometric scaling of metabolic rate from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals

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Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants

scientific article published in Nature

An Introduction to String Field Theory

scientific article published in April 1987

Analyticity and the Borel summability of asymptotically free theories

scientific article published in September 1984

Are there really any experimental limits on a light Higgs boson?

scientific article published on 01 February 1989

Are there really any experimental limits on a light higgs boson?

scientific article published in July 1989

Asymptotic Estimate of then-Loop QCD Contribution to the Totale+e−Annihilation Cross Section

scientific article published on 23 December 1991

Asymptotic estimate of the n-loop QCD contribution to the total e+e- annihilation cross section

scientific article published on 01 September 1991

Asymptotic freedom and the infrared problem: A novel solution to the renormalization-group equations

scientific article published on 15 March 1983

Bigger cities do more with less

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Biological scaling: does the exception prove the rule?

scientific article published in February 2007

Bjorken Limit and Pole Dominance. I. TheωρπSystem and the Algebra of Fields

scientific article published on 25 October 1968

Bjorken Limit and Pole Dominance. II. Virtual πρ Scattering

scientific article published on 25 October 1968

Book review

scientific article published in February 1985

Branching ratio for a light Higgs boson to decay into micro+ micro- pairs

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Comment on `A critical understanding of the fractal model of metabolic scaling'

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Comment on the ultraviolet behavior of guage-dependent Green's functions in QCD

scientific article published on 15 September 1984

Confinement in Quantum Chromodynamics

scientific article published on 25 May 1981

Confinement, the Wilson loop and the gluon propagator

scientific article published in September 1982

Conjecture on the Approach to Scaling in Deep-Inelastic Electron Scattering and Some Comments on Electromagnetic Mass Differences

scientific article published on 15 April 1972

Construction of Veneziano-Like Formulas from Superconvergence

scientific article published on 25 September 1969

Correction: Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants

scientific article published in Nature

Coulomb Interference in High-Energy Scattering

scientific article published on 25 August 1968

Coulomb-nuclear interference with pions

scientific article published in December 1977

Current Algebras and Pole Dominance Applied to Three-Point Functions

scientific article published on 2 October 1967

Current Algebras and Pole Dominance: A Consistent Treatment of theAρπSystem

scientific article published on 25 April 1968

Dark Matter and the Solar Neutrino Problem: Can Particle Physics Provide a Single Solution?

scientific article published in December 1989

Detection of galactic halo magninos via their coherent interaction with heavy nuclei

scientific article published in January 1988

Effects of size and temperature on developmental time

scientific article published in May 2002

Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate

scientific article (publication date: 21 September 2001)

Elastic-inelastic connection in electron scattering and the choice of scaling variable

scientific article published in August 1976

Electromagnetic Structure of the Proton, Partons, and the Rise in the TotalppCross Section

scientific article published on 17 September 1973

Electron scattering from atoms, nuclei and nucleons

scientific article published in June 1975

Electroweak Contributions to Quark Masses

scientific article published on 8 September 1980

Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny

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Energy-momentum sum rule and the anomalous behavior of the structure functions of nuclear targets

scientific article published on 01 June 1985

Erratum: Production of Single W Mesons in Electron-Positron Colliding Beams and in Electron or Muon Scattering Experiments

scientific article published in October 1970

Experimental consequences and constraints for magninos

scientific article published in August 1987

Experimental consequences of quark structure

scientific article published in October 1974

Extensions and evaluations of a general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics

scientific article (publication date: 28 April 2009)

Extraction of Asymptotic Nucleon Cross Sections from Deuterium Data

scientific article published in February 1973

Final state interaction in quasi-elastic electron scattering by nuclei and y scaling

scientific article published in December 1991

Gauge Invariance and the Born Approximation in Pion Electroproduction

scientific article published on 25 December 1969

General infrared and ultraviolet properties of the gluon propagator in the axial gauge

scientific article published on 15 April 1983

Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations

TEDGlobal 2011

Glueballs and non-perturbative QCD

scientific article published in March 1997

Growth models based on first principles or phenomenology?

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Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities

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Hadronic models for the photoproduction ofψ's

scientific article published in March 1976

Hard-Pion Results from the Algebra of Fields

scientific article published on 25 April 1969

How reliable is the biological time clock?

scientific article published in Nature

Life’s Universal Scaling Laws

scientific article published in September 2004

Maybe the quark-parton model can survive electron-positron annihilation

scientific article published in February 1975

Measuring Light-Cone Singularities

scientific article published on 15 November 1970

Modelling universality and scaling

scientific article published in Nature

On Theory in Ecology

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On the Importance of First Principles in Ecological Theory Development

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PCAC and the possibility of scaling in electropion production

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

Perturbation theory, asymptotic series and the renormalisation group

scientific article published in May 2000

Phenomenological Model for the Electromagnetic Structure of the Proton

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Physiology: Why does metabolic rate scale with body size?

scientific article published in February 2003

Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor from Coulomb Interference

scientific article published on 25 October 1967

Plant energetics and population density

Possible evidence for quark substructure from electron-positron colliding-beam experiments

scientific article published in July 1974

Predicting maximum tree heights and other traits from allometric scaling and resource limitations

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Production of Single W Mesons in Electron-Positron Colliding Beams and in Electron or Muon Scattering Experiments

scientific article published in January 1970

REMARKS AND RIGOROUS BOUNDS RELATING TO THE DECAY Z → πγ AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE ANOMALY

scientific article published on 30 October 1990

RESPONSE TO FORUM COMMENTARY ON “TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY”

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Relativistic Effects in the Form Factors ofHe3andH3

scientific article published on 6 September 1965

Remarks concerning inelastic electron scattering from 3He

scientific article published in April 1967

Response to Comments on "Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny"

scientific article published on 3 September 2009

Revisiting a model of ontogenetic growth: estimating model parameters from theory and data

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Scaling and universality in urban economic diversification

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Scaling in deep inelastic pion electroproduction

scientific article published in September 1973

Scaling laws in urban supply networks

scientific article published in April 2006

Scaling of number, size, and metabolic rate of cells with body size in mammals

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Scaling relations for a functionally two‐dimensional plant:Chamaesyce setiloba(Euphorbiaceae)

scientific article published on April 13, 2009

Scattering from Coulomb‐Like Potentials without Divergences or Cutoffs. I. Formalism: Generalized Lippmann‐Schwinger Equations

scientific article published in April 1967

Systems approaches to the networks of aging

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Tensor- and Scalar-Meson Dominance

scientific article published on 25 July 1969

The Döppler effect in the extraction of total neutron cross sections from deuterium data with particular emphasis on asymptotic hadron and deep inelastic electron scattering

scientific article published in December 1972

The EMC effect: Asymptotic freedom with nuclear targets

scientific article published in 1984

The Wall Street jungle, deconstructed

scientific article published in November 2014

The challenges and scope of theoretical biology

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

The construction of gauge invariant actions for arbitrary spin and bosonic string field theories

scientific article published in January 1986

The dynamics of mergers and acquisitions: ancestry as the seminal determinant

scientific article published in November 2014

The ecological and evolutionary energetics of hunter-gatherer residential mobility

scientific article published on May 2016

The fourth dimension of life: fractal geometry and allometric scaling of organisms.

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The fractal nature of nature: power laws, ecological complexity and biodiversity

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The general structure of composite propagators from the renormalization group and analyticity

scientific article published in January 1987

The importance of quantitative systemic thinking in medicine

scientific article published on April 18, 2012

The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content

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The mortality of companies

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The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization

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The origin of universal scaling laws in biology

scientific article published in February 1999

The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology

scientific article published in 2004

The rate of DNA evolution: effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock

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The scaling of human interactions with city size

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Theorem on the Lightest Glueball State

scientific article published in September 1996

Theorem on the Vanishing ofZ2: Evidence from Electron Scattering that the Proton Really Is a Composite Particle

scientific article published on 13 September 1971

Theorems and Bounds Relating to the Two-Photon Decay of the Pion

scientific article published on 18 June 1973

Total neutron cross sections may not be what they seem to be

scientific article published in December 1971

Toward a metabolic theory of ecology

scientific article published in 2004

Toward a systems biology framework for understanding aging and health span

scientific article published on 17 February 2009

Towards an analytic solution of QCD; The glueball mass gap

scientific article published in September 1987

Unraveling why we sleep: Quantitative analysis reveals abrupt transition from neural reorganization to repair in early development

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation and Crime across Cities

scientific article published on November 10, 2010

Urban Scaling and the Production Function for Cities

scientific article published on March 27, 2013

Urban Science: Integrated Theory from the First Cities to Sustainable Metropolises

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When is the Deuteron Six Quarks?—Possible Evidence Against Dimensional Scaling

scientific article published on 29 November 1976

Why Do Neutrinos Produce MoreW's Than Muons?

scientific article published in January 1971

Why are large cities faster? Universal scaling and self-similarity in urban organization and dynamics

scientific article published in June 2008

Wisdom in Numbers

scientific article published on May 1, 2013