“…It has successfully been applied to various fields such as DNA sequence s, long-time weather records, cloud structures, geology, and solid state physics. Fractals naturally appear in many physical situations (Alvarez-R amirez, Rodriguez, & Echeverria, 2009;Coniglio, de Arcangelis, & Herrman n, 1989;de Moura, Vieira, Irmao, & Silva, 2009;Govindan et al, 2007;Kantelha rdt, Koscielny-Bun de, Rego, Havlin, & Bunde, 2001;Peng, Buldyrev, Havlin, et al, 1994 ). One reason to employ the DFA method is to avoid spurious detection of correlations that are artifacts of nonstationa rities in the time series.…”