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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-3-10
pubmed:abstractText
We investigate if known extrinsic and intrinsic factors fully account for the complex features observed in recordings of human activity as measured from forearm motion in subjects undergoing their regular daily routine. We demonstrate that the apparently random forearm motion possesses dynamic patterns characterized by robust scale-invariant and nonlinear features. These patterns remain stable from one subject to another and are unaffected by changes in the average activity level that occur within individual subjects throughout the day and on different days of the week, since they persist during daily routine and when the same subjects undergo time-isolation laboratory experiments designed to account for the circadian phase and to control the known extrinsic factors. Further, by modeling the scheduled events imposed throughout the laboratory protocols, we demonstrate that they cannot account for the observed scaling patterns in activity fluctuations. We attribute these patterns to a previously unrecognized intrinsic nonlinear multi-scale control mechanism of human activity that is independent of known extrinsic factors such as random and scheduled events, as well as the known intrinsic factors which possess a single characteristic time scale such as circadian and ultradian rhythms.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
S
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0378-4371
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
c2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
337
pubmed:owner
NASA
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
307-18
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-5-5
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Non-random fluctuations and multi-scale dynamics regulation of human activity.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Polymer Studies, Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.