Serial Killer's Murder Pattern Followed Power Law, Study Finds. Researchers have discovered that the seemingly erratic behavior of the "Rostov Ripper," a prolific serial killer active in the 1980s, conformed to the same mathematical pattern obeyed by earthquakes, avalanches, stock market crashes and many other sporadic events.
The finding suggests an explanation for why serial killers kill. Mikhail Simkin and Vwani Roychowdhury, electrical engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles, modeled the behavior of Andrei Chikatilo, a gruesome murderer who took the lives of 53 people in Rostov, Russia between 1978 and 1990. Though Chikatilo sometimes went nearly three years without committing murder, on other occasions, he went just three days. Sports Betting Formulas 101 - Wager Journal. Constructal theory. Design in nature is flow.
The two sides of the constructal law are these: we predict the occurrence of design in nature, and we design devices for human use. Constructal law is a theory that the generation of design (configuration, pattern, geometry) in nature is a physics phenomenon that unites all animate and inanimate systems.[1] The constructal law was stated by Adrian Bejan in 1996 as follows: "For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.
"[2][3] The tree is the natural flow design for achieving flow access between one point and a volume. Richardson's law for the severity of violent conflicts. A theory of power-law distributions in financial market fluctuations : Abstract : Nature.