PHYSICA A Abstracted/Indexed in: Current Contents: Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences/EI Compendex Plus/Engineering Index/INSPEC Volume 247, Nos. 1—4 15 December 1997 Contents Random systems Directed percolation with an absorbing boundary K.B. Lauritsen, K. Sneppen, M. Markosova and M.H. Jensen l An effective medium model for the electric conductivity of an N-component anisotropic and percolating mixture J.M.V.A. Koelman and A. de Kuijper 10 Low-frequency Raman scattering in model disordered solids: percolators above threshold O. Pilla, G. Viliani, R. Dell Anna and G. Ruocco 23 Aspects of dielectric breakdown in a model for disordered non-linear composites A.K. Gupta and A.K. Sen 30 Wavelet cascades J. Giesemann, M. Greiner and P. Lipa 41 Cluster growth by diffusion-limited aggregation in shear flow T. Kovacs and G. Bardos 59 Effects of convection and friction on size segregation in vibrated granular beds T. Elperin and E. Golshtein 67 Branched critical multifractality and morphological phase transitions A. Bershadskii 79 Lyapunov exponent of random walkers on a bond-disordered lattice L. Acedo and M.H. Ernst 91 Fluids, solids, interfaces and supramolecular fluids Diameters of rotationally and vibrationally excited diatomic molecules Y.E. Gorbachev, F.J. Gordillo-Vazquez and J.A. Kunc 108 Generalized collective mode approach in the dielectric theory of dipolar systems 1.P. Omelyan 121 Mutual diffusion in a liquid mixture of argon and krypton J.C. Lee 140 A note on stages of evolution in a 2D froth H.J. Ruskin and Y. Feng 153 Rods near curved surfaces and in curved boxes K. Yaman, M. Jeng, P. Pincus, C. Jeppesen and C.M. Marques 159 Microscopic theory for hopping transport in glass-forming liquids ' C.Z.-W. Liu and I. Oppenheim 183 Contents continued inside 0378-4371( 19971215 )247:1-4;1-Q PHYSICA A Volume 247, Nos. 1-4 15 December 1997 Contents (continued) Counterion condensation on ionic oligomers G.S. Manning and U. Mohanty Aggregation of colloidal particles induced by polymer chains: The RISM integral equation theory P.G. Khalatur, L.V. Zherenkova and A.R. Khokhlov Melting of a colloidal crystal P.S. Kuhn, A. Diehl, Y. Levin and M.C. Barbosa A new model for size-distribution function in living polymers F. Aliotta, M.E. Fontanella, M. Sacchi and C. Vasi Effect of pressure and of doping on superconductivity in the double-mercury-layer cuprate Hg, (N = 2). A quantitative analysis based on indirect-exchange pairing L. Jansen and R. Block Dynamical processes Mode competition in a system of two parametrically driven pendulums; the role of symmetry E.J. Banning, J.P. van der Weele and M.M. Kettenis 281 Noise-sustained currents in quasigeostrophic turbulence over topography A. Alvarez, E. Hernandez-Garcia and J. Tintoré 312 Damage spreading in the ‘sandpile’ model of SOC A. Bhowal 327 3D self-locking of self-avoiding walks A.A. Ovchinnikov and V.V. Atrazhev 331 Rates and mean first passage times R. Miiller, P. Talkner and P. Reimann 338 Universal properties of the mA + nB > 9 diffusion-limited reaction T. Sasamoto, S. Mori and M. Wadati 357 Relaxation of coherent states and two scaling laws of characteristic times in quantum chaos M. Kollmann and H.W. Capel 379 Path functional theory for optimal transport in steady state urban traffic networks H. Lehmann 405 Fokker—Planck equation and non-linear hydrodynamic equations of a system of several Brownian particles in a non-equilibrium bath J.-E. Shea and I. Oppenheim 417 A simulation technique for many spheres in quasi-static motion under frame-invariant pair drag and Brownian forces R.C. Ball and J.R. Melrose 444 Testing predictability of symbolic sequences using time-delay embedding 473 L. Cao Scaling properties of coding and non-coding DNA sequences A. Provata and Y. Almirantis 482 Contents continued on previous page PHYSICA A Volume 247, Nos. 1-4 15 December 1997 Contents (continued) Mathematical statistical physics SCOZA for continuous spins J.S. Hoye and G. Stell Exact solutions for inelastic neutron scattering from planar Ising ferromagnets M. Khatun and J.H. Barry Transport properties in reacting mixture of polyatomic gases A. Chikhaoui, J.P. Dudon, E.V. Kustova and E.A. Nagnibeda An efficient Monte Carlo algorithm for overcoming broken ergodicity in the simulation of spin systems I. Andricioaei and J.E. Straub Fisher’s information measure in a Tsallis’ nonextensive setting and its application to diffusive processes F. Pennini and A. Plastino Cumulative author index of Volumes 241 to 247 Index of authors and papers to Volume 247