Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Biological Processes / / ed. by A. I. Zotin, Ingolf Lamprecht.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adjemian, L. Z.,; Alekseev, V. V.,; Arshavsky, I. A.,; Bataille, J.,; Breslav, I. S.,; Bunimovich, L. A.,; Byzova, Yu. B.,; Chernavskaya, O. D.,; Chernavsky, D. S.,; Dontsova, G. V.,; Dorfman, N. L.,; Ebeling, W.,; Edelen, D. G. B.,; Engel-Herbert, H.,; Furukawa, Hiroshi,; Glushko, A. A.,; Grinin, A. P.,; Grudnitzky, V. A.,; Haken, H.,; Hasegawa, H.,; Insarov, G. E.,; Isaev, G. G.,; Kappen, N. G. van,; Kapranov, V. N.,; Kestin, J.,; Khanin, M. A.,; Klimontovich, Yu. L.,; Konovalov, S . A.,; Koryagin, V. V.,; Kuni, F. M.,; Lapkin, V. V.,; Lopushanskaya, A. I.,; Malek-Mansour, M.,; Malyghin, S. N.,; Nicolis, G.,; Novozhilova, T. Yu.,; Platonov, A. A.,; Presnov, E. V.,; Prigogine, I.,; Prits, A. K.,; Rabinovich, E . Z.,; Romanovsky, Yu. M.,; Rozonoer, L. I.,; Semenov, S. M.,; Shmeleva, A. M.,; Sinay, Ja. G.,; Storonkin, B. A.,; Timonin, V. I.,; Vasiliev, V. A.,; Virodov, I. P.,; Zotin, A. I.,; Zotina, R. S.,; Zubarev, D. N.,
• HerausgeberIn: Lamprecht, Ingolf,; Zotin, A. I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Monograph -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- I . General Problems of Statistical Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics -- Statistical Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Irreversible Processes -- Thermodynamical Approach to the Analysis of Statistical Properties of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems -- The Problem of Entropy Increase and Stability of Motion in Quantum Mechanics -- On the Relation Between the H-Theorem and the Principle of Minimum Entropy Production -- II. The Phase Transition and Nonequilibrium Fluctuations -- Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Chemical Systems -- Synergetics. Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Selforganization in Biological Systems -- Brownian Motion in Autooscillation Systems and in Phase Transition Processes -- Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Irreversible Processes Far from Thermal Equilibrium -- III. Kinetic Equations -- Generalized Fokker-Planck Equation in the Theory of Irreversible Processes -- The Diffusion Approximation for Markov Processes -- Extremal Principles and Catastrophe Theory for Stochastic Models of Nonlinear Irreversible Processes -- IV. The Problem of Phenomenological Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics -- Irreversible Thermodynamics far from Equilibrium -- On the Structuring of Thermodynamic Fluxes: A Direct Implementation of the Dissipation Inequality -- Axiomatic Models of Phenomenological Thermodynamics -- Axiomatic Approach to Irreversible Thermodynamics and Variational Principles -- The Second Lyapunov Method and The Variational Principle -- V. Ecology and Populations -- The Rate of Correlation Decay in One-Dimensional Ecological Models -- Kinetics and Nonequilibrium Processes and Ecology -- Mathematical Modelling of Biocenosis on the Basis of Haldane-Semevsky Principle -- Natural Selection and Optimality Principles -- Statistical Thermodynamic Model of Stationary Population -- VI. Reaction of Organisms to External Factors -- Effects of External Influences on the Types of Transition Processes Observed in the Energy Metabolism of Organisms -- Rate of Temperature Adaptation of Respiratory Metabolism in Soil Invertebrates -- Relationship Between Maximal Metabolism, Body Weight and Standard Metabolism of Animals -- Kinetics of Transition Processes in Living Systems - Load, Adaptation, Stability -- Dynamic Characteristics of Heat and Water Exchange in Man -- Relation of Stimuli Controlling Lung Ventilation During Transient and Stable Periods of Exercise -- VII. Ontogenesis -- Kinetics of Constitutive Processes During Development and Growth of Organisms -- Stochastic Description of Growth and Aging in Animals -- Thermodynamic Estimation of Development and Growth of Microorganisms -- Transition Process in Ontogenesis as a Characteristics of Changes in the Stability of Animals to External Influences -- On Specific Peculiarities of Transition Processes in Ontogenesis of Mammals -- Stable Orbitals and Transition Processes in the Models of Biological Systems -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index