TY - JOUR A1 - Braun, Holger A1 - Ditlevsen, Peter D. A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Mudelsee, Manfred T1 - Limitations of red noise in analysing Dansgaard-Oeschger events N2 - During the last glacial period, climate records from the North Atlantic region exhibit a pronounced spectral component corresponding to a period of about 1470 years, which has attracted much attention. This spectral peak is closely related to the recurrence pattern of Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events. In previous studies a red noise random process, more precisely a first-order autoregressive (AR1) process, was used to evaluate the statistical significance of this peak, with a reported significance of more than 99%. Here we use a simple mechanistic two-state model of DO events, which itself was derived from a much more sophisticated ocean-atmosphere model of intermediate complexity, to numerically evaluate the spectral properties of random (i.e., solely noise-driven) events. This way we find that the power spectral density of random DO events differs fundamentally from a simple red noise random process. These results question the applicability of linear spectral analysis for estimating the statistical significance of highly non-linear processes such as DO events. More precisely, to enhance our scientific understanding about the trigger of DO events, we must not consider simple "straw men" as, for example, the AR1 random process, but rather test against realistic alternative descriptions. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www.clim-past.net/volumes_and_issues.html U6 - https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-85-2010 SN - 1814-9324 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ebeling, Werner A1 - Molgedey, Lutz A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Schwarz, Udo T1 - Entropy, complexity, predictability, and data analysis of time series and letter sequences N2 - The structure of time series and letter sequences is investigated using the concepts of entropy and complexity. First conditional entropy and transinformation are introduced and several generalizations are discussed. Further several measures of complexity are introduced and discussed. The capability of these concepts to describe the structure of time series and letter sequences generated by nonlinear maps, data series from meteorology, astrophysics, cardiology, cognitive psychology and finance is investigated. The relation between the complexity and the predictability of informational strings is discussed. The relation between local order and the predictability of time series is investigated. Y1 - 2002 UR - http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~kropp/myown/book.html SN - 3-540-41324-3 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Engbert, Ralf A1 - Scheffczyk, Christian A1 - Krampe, Ralf-Thomas A1 - Rosenblum, Mikhael A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold T1 - Tempo-induced transitions in polyrhythmic hand movements N2 - We investigate the cognitive control in polyrhythmic hand movements as a model paradigm for bimanual coordination. Using a symbolic coding of the recorded time series, we demonstrate the existence of qualitative transitions induced by experimental manipulation of the tempo. A nonlinear model with delayed feedback control is proposed, which accounts for these dynamical transitions in terms of bifurcations resulting from variation of the external control parameter. Furthermore, it is shown that transitions can also be observed due to fluctuations in the timing control level. We conclude that the complexity of coordinated bimanual movements results from interactions between nonlinear control mechanisms with delayed feedback and stochastic timing components. T3 - NLD Preprints - 41 Y1 - 1997 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14380 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Feudel, Ulrike A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Neiman, Alexander T1 - The cumulant approach for investigating the noise influence on mode-locking bifurcations T3 - Preprint NLD Y1 - 1995 VL - 16 PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Florence, Gerson A1 - Dahlem, Markus A. A1 - Almeida, Antônio-Carlos G. A1 - Bassani, José W. M. A1 - Kurths, Jürgen T1 - The role of extracellular potassium dynamics in the different stages of ictal bursting and spreading depression : a computational study N2 - Experimental evidences point Out the participation of nonsynaptic mechanisms (e.g., fluctuations in extracellular tons) in epileptiform bursting and spreading depression (SD). During these abnormal oscillatory patterns, it is observed an increase of extracellular potassium concentration [K+](o) and a decrease of extracellular calcium concentration [Ca2+](o) which raises the neuronal excitability. However, whether the high [K+](o) triggers and propagates these abnormal neuronal activities or plays a secondary role into this process is unclear. To better understand the influence of extracellular potassium dynamics in these oscillatory patterns, the experimental conditions of high [K+](o) and zero [Ca2+](o) were replicated in an extended Golomb model where we added important regulatory mechanisms of ion concentration as Na+-K+ pump, ion diffusion and glial buffering. Within these Conditions, simulations of the cell model exhibit seizure-like discharges (ictal bursting). The SD was elicited by the interruption of the Na+- K+ pump activity, mimicking the effect of cellular hypoxia (an experimental protocol to elicit SD, the hypoxia-induced SD). We used the bifurcation theory and the fast-slow method to analyze the interference of K+ dynamics in the cellular excitability. This analysis indicates that the system loses its stability at a high [K+](o), transiting to an elevated state of neuronal excitability. Effects of high [K+](o), are observed in different stages of ictal bursting and SD. In the initial stage, the increase of [K+](o) creates favorable conditions to trigger both oscillatory patterns. During the neuronal activity, a continuous growth of [K+](o) by outward K+ flow depresses K+ Currents in a positive feedback way. At the last stage, due to the depression of K+ currents, the Na+-K+ pump is the main mechanism in the end of neuronal activity. Thus, this work suggests that [K+](o) dynamics may play a fundamental role in these abnormal oscillatory patterns. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00225193 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.01.032 SN - 0022-5193 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fujiwara, Naoya A1 - Kurths, Jürgen T1 - Spectral universality of phase synchronization in non-identical oscillator networks N2 - We employ a spectral decomposition method to analyze synchronization of a non-identical oscillator network. We study the case that a small parameter mismatch of oscillators is characterized by one parameter and phase synchronization is observed. We derive a linearized equation for each eigenmode of the coupling matrix. The parameter mismatch is reflected on inhomogeneous term in the linearized equation. We find that the oscillation of each mode is essentially characterized only by the eigenvalue of the coupling matrix with a suitable normalization. We refer to this property as spectral universality, because it is observed irrespective of network topology. Numerical results in various network topologies show good agreement with those based on linearized equation. This universality is also observed in a system driven by additive independent Gaussian noise. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/101159 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2009-00078-6 SN - 1434-6028 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Guasti, Giovanna A1 - Engbert, Ralf A1 - Krampe, Ralf T. A1 - Kurths, Jürgen T1 - Phase transitions, complexity, and stationarity in the production of polyrhythms N2 - Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Experiment 3 Data 4 Symbolic dynamics 4.1 Symbolic dynamics as a tool for data analysis 4.2 2-symbols coding 4.3 3-symbols coding 5 Measures of complexity 5.1 Word statistics 5.2 Shannon entropy 6 Testing for stationarity 6.1 Stationarity 6.2 Time series of cycle durations 6.3 Chi-square test 7 Control parameters in the production of rhythms 8 Analysis of relative phases 9 Discussion 10 Outlook T3 - NLD Preprints - 57 Y1 - 2000 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14933 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Helland, Vanessa Carolina Figuera A1 - Gapelyuk, Andrej A1 - Suhrbier, Alexander A1 - Riedl, Maik A1 - Penzel, Thomas A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Wessel, Niels T1 - Investigation of an automatic sleep stage classification by means of multiscorer hypnogram N2 - Objectives: Scoring sleep visually based on polysomnography is an important but time-consuming element of sleep medicine. Where-as computer software assists human experts in the assignment of sleep stages to polysomnogram epochs, their performance is usually insufficient. This study evaluates the possibility to fully automatize sleep staging considering the reliability of the sleep stages available from human expert sleep scorers. Methods: We obtain features from EEG, ECG and respiratory signals of polysomnograms from ten healthy subjects. Using the sleep stages provided by three human experts, we evaluate the performance of linear discriminant analysis on the entire polysomnogram and:only on epochs where the three experts agree in their-sleep stage scoring. Results: We show that in polysomnogram intervals, to which all three scorers assign the same sleep stage, our algorithm achieves 90% accuracy. This high rate of agreement with the human experts is accomplished with only a small set of three frequency features from the EEG. We increase-the performance to 93% by including ECG and respiration features. In contrast, on intervals of ambiguous sleep stage, the sleep stage classification obtained from our algorithm, agrees with the human consensus scorer in approximately 61%. Conclusions: These findings suggest that machine classification is highly consistent with human sleep staging and that error in the algorithm's assignments is rather a problem of lack of well-defined criteria for human experts to judge certain polysomnogram epochs than an insufficiency of computational procedures Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www.schattauer.de/index.php?id=103&L=1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3414/Me09-02-0052 SN - 0026-1270 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Itoh, Naoki A1 - Kurths, Jürgen T1 - Change-point detection of climate time series by nonparametric method N2 - In one of the data mining techniques, change-point detection is of importance in evaluating time series measured in real world. For decades this technique has been developed as a nonlinear dynamics. We apply the method for detecting the change points, Singular Spectrum Transformation (SST), to the climate time series. To know where the structures of climate data sets change can reveal a climate background. In this paper we discuss the structures of precipitation data in Kenya and Wrangel Island (Arctic land) by using the SST. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&issn=20780958&genre=journal SN - 2078-0958 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Pikovskij, Arkadij A1 - Scheffczyk, Christian T1 - Roughening interfaces in deterministic dynamics N2 - Two deterministic processes leading to roughening interfaces are considered. It is shown that the dynamics of linear perturbations of turbulent regimes in coupled map lattices is governed by a discrete version of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation. The asymptotic scaling behavior of the perturbation field is investigated in the case of large lattices. Secondly, the dynamics of an order-disorder interface is modelled with a simple two-dimensional coupled map lattice, possesing a turbulent and a laminar state. It is demonstrated, that in some range of parameters the spreading of the turbulent state is accompanied by kinetic roughening of the interface. T3 - NLD Preprints - 3 Y1 - 1994 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13447 ER -