Measuring memory with the order of fractional derivative

Maolin Du1, Zaihua Wang, Haiyan Hu

  • 1Institute of National Defense Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, 210007 Nanjing, China.

Scientific Reports
|December 6, 2013
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