Thermodynamics and Pattern Formation in Biology - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3110113686 ISBN 13: 9783110113686

Verlag: De Gruyter, 1988

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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- General Problems -- Some Basic Principles for the Formation of Structure in Nonlinear Systems of Thermodynamic Kind -- Topologically Stable Patterns in Condensed Matter -- New Types of Order and Stochastic Regimes in Nonlinear Media -- Chirality Wave Propagation and the First Evolutionary Catastrophe -- Nonlinear Bioenergetics -- Selection Between Aging Species -- Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biochemical Systems -- Pattern Formation and Wave Propagation in Chemical Systems -- Spatial Ordering Processes in Chemical Reactions -- Evolution of Populations of Biothermodynamic Systems Including Birth and Death-Processes -- Monitoring Oscillating Chemical Reactions: The Rate of Heat Production and the Simultaneous Measurement of Other Physical Signals -- Rate Limiting Steps in Oscillating Plant Glycolysis: Experimental Evidence for Control Sites Additional to Phosphofructokinase -- Dynamic Structures in the Fructose-6-Phosphate/Fructose' 1,6-Bisphosphatase Cycle -- Pattern Formation in Biological Systems -- Morphogenesis of Behaviour and Information Compression in Biological Systems -- Model of Pattern Generation on Plants, Based on the Principles of Minimal Entropy Production -- Structures in Models of Morphogenesis -- Self-Organisation of Biological Morphogenesis: General Approaches and Topo-Geometrical Models -- Topological and Thermodynamic Structures of Morphogenesis -- Fractal Shapes of Cell Membranes and Pattern Formation by Dichotomous Branching Processes -- Autowave Mechanochemical Model for Physarum Shuttle Streaming -- Statistical Geometry of Tissues -- Surface Changes and Shape Formation During Organism Growth -- List of Contributors -- References -- Subject Index -- Backmatter

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3110113686
• ISBN 13: 9783110113686
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 531
• Herausgeber: Lamprecht Ingolf, Zotin A. I.
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