Self-organized biological dynamics & nonlinear control
Subtitle: toward understanding complexity, chaos, and emergent function in living systems
By: edited by Jan Walleczek.
Contributors: Walleczek, Jan, 1964-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Cellular signal transduction.; Self-organizing systems.; Nonlinear systems.
Other titles: Self-organized biological dynamics and nonlinear control.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The frontiers and challenges of biodynamics research / Jan Walleczek; title: Pt. 1. Nonlinear dynamics in biology and response to stimuli. External signals and internal oscillation dynamics : principal aspects and response of stimulated rhythmic processes / Friedemann Kaiser ; Nonlinear dynamics in biochemical and biophysical systems : from enzyme kinetics to epilepsy / Raima Larter, Robert Worth and Brent Speelman ; Fractal mechanisms in neuronal control : human heartbeat and gait dynamics in health and disease / Chung-Kang Peng, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff and Ary L. Goldberger ; Self-organizing dynamics in human sensorimotor coordination and perception / Mingzhou Ding ... [et al.] ; Signal processing by biochemical reaction networks / Adam P. Arkin; title: Pt. 2. Nonlinear sensitivity of biological systems to electromagnetic stimuli. Electrical signal detection and noise in systems with long-range coherence / Paul C. Gailey ; Oscillatory signals in migrating neutrophils : effects of time-varying chemical and electric fields / Howard R. Petty ; Enzyme kinetics and nonlinear biochemical amplification in response to static and oscillating magnetic fields / Jan Walleczek and Clemens F. Eichwald ; Magnetic field sensitivity in the hippocampus / Stefan Engström, Suzanne Bawin and W. Ross Adey; title: Pt. 3. Stochastic noise-induced dynamics and transport in biological systems. Stochastic resonance : looking forward / Frank Moss ; Stochastic resonance and small-amplitude signal transduction in voltage-gated ion channels / Sergey M. Bezrukov and Igor Vodyanoy; title: Ratchets, rectifiers, and demons : the constructive role of noise in free energy and signal transduction / R. Dean Astumian; title: Cellular transduction of periodic and stochastic energy signals by electroconformational coupling / Tian Y. Tsong; title: Pt. 4. Nonlinear control of biological and other excitable systems. Controlling chaos in dynamical systems / Kenneth Showalter ; Electromagnetic fields and biological tissues : from nonlinear response to chaos control / William L. Ditto and Mark L. Spano ; Epilepsy : multistability in a dynamic disease / John G. Milton; title: Control and perturbation of wave propagation in excitable systems / Oliver Steinbock and Stefan C. Müller ; Changing paradigms in biomedicine : implications for future research and clinical applications / Jan Walleczek.