TY - BOOK ID - 77861967 TI - Self-organized biological dynamics & nonlinear control : toward understanding complexity, chaos, and emergent function in living systems PY - 2000 SN - 1107115221 1280415010 9786610415014 051117392X 1139145835 0511066082 0511059779 0511327803 0511535333 0511068212 9780511059773 9780511066085 9780511068218 0521624363 9780521624367 9780521624367 0521624363 9780511535338 9780521026079 0521026075 9781107115224 9781280415012 6610415013 9781139145831 9780511327803 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cellular signal transduction. KW - Self-organizing systems. KW - Nonlinear systems. KW - Systems, Nonlinear KW - System theory KW - Learning systems (Automatic control) KW - Self-optimizing systems KW - Cybernetics KW - Intellect KW - Learning ability KW - Synergetics KW - Cellular information transduction KW - Information transduction, Cellular KW - Signal transduction, Cellular KW - Bioenergetics KW - Cellular control mechanisms KW - Information theory in biology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77861967 AB - The growing impact of nonlinear science on biology and medicine is fundamentally changing our view of living organisms and disease processes. This book introduces the application to biomedicine of a broad range of interdisciplinary concepts from nonlinear dynamics, such as self-organization, complexity, coherence, stochastic resonance, fractals and chaos. It comprises 18 chapters written by leading figures in the field and covers experimental and theoretical research, as well as the emerging technological possibilities such as nonlinear control techniques for treating pathological biodynamics, including heart arrhythmias and epilepsy. This book will attract the interest of professionals and students from a wide range of disciplines, including physicists, chemists, biologists, sensory physiologists and medical researchers such as cardiologists, neurologists and biomedical engineers. ER -