Fractals in Biology and Medicine: Volume IVGabriele A. Losa, Danilo Merlini, Theo F. Nonnenmacher, Ewald R. Weibel Springer Science & Business Media, 30 mar 2006 - 314 This book is a compilation of the presentations given at the Fourth International Symposium on Fractals in Biology and Medicine held in Ascona, Switzerland on - th 13 March 2004 and was dedicated to Professor Benoît Mandelbrot in honour of his 80 birthday. The Symposium was the fourth of a series that originated back in 1993, always in Ascona. The fourth volume consists of 29 contributions organized under four sections: Fractal structures in biological systems Fractal structures in neurosciences Fractal structures in tumours and diseases The fractal paradigm Mandelbrot’s concepts such as scale invariance, self-similarity, irregularity and iterative processes as tackled by fractal geometry have prompted innovative ways to promote a real progress in biomedical sciences, namely by understanding and analytically describing complex hierarchical scaling processes, chaotic disordered systems, non-linear dynamic phenomena, standard and anomalous transport diffusion events through membrane surfaces, morphological structures and biological shapes either in physiological or in diseased states. While most of biologic processes could be described by models based on power law behaviour and quantified by a single characteristic parameter [the fractal dimension D], other models were devised for describing fractional time dynamics and fractional space behaviour or both (- fractional mechanisms), that allow to combine the interaction between spatial and functional effects by introducing two fractional parameters. Diverse aspects that were addressed by all bio-medical subjects discussed during the symposium. |
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How Deep Does | 17 |
Is the Lung an Optimal Gas Exchanger? | 30 |
Interplay between | 43 |
H K Hahn M Georg and H O Peitgen 55 | 67 |
Pitfalls and Revelations in Neuroscience | 84 |
Do Mental and Social Processes have a SelfSimilar Structure? The Hypothesis | 107 |
Scaling Properties of Cerebral Hemodynamics | 121 |
Fractal Analysis of Vascular Network Pattern in Human Diseases | 187 |
Fractal Analysis of Canine Trichoblastoma | 203 |
ComputerAided Estimate and Modelling of the Geometrical Complexity | 223 |
ComplexDynamical Extension of the Fractal Paradigm and Its Applications | 233 |
Evolution and Regulation of Metabolic Networks | 257 |
S Traverso | 270 |
Fractional Calculus and Symbolic Solution of Fractional Differential Equations | 287 |
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Dual Antagonistic Autonomic Control Necessary for 1f Scaling in Heart Rate | 141 |
Statistical Shape Analysis Applied to Automatic Recognition | 165 |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Tom 4 Gabriele A. Losa,Danilo Merlini,Theo F. Nonnenmacher,Ewald R. Weibel Ograniczony podgląd - 2005 |
Fractals in Biology and Medicine: Volume IV Gabriele A. Losa,Danilo Merlini,Theo F. Nonnenmacher,Ewald R. Weibel Podgląd niedostępny - 2005 |
Fractals in Biology and Medicine Theo F. Nonnenmacher,Gabriele A. Losa,Ewald R. Weibel Podgląd niedostępny - 1994 |
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