Thermodynamics and Pattern Formation in Biology / / ed. by A. I. Zotin, Ingolf Lamprecht.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Medicine and Life Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Akhromeyeva, T. S.,; Beloussov, L. V.,; Betz, A.,; Busse, H.-G.,; Davydov, A. S.,; Ebeling, W.,; Engel, A.,; Epstein, I. R.,; Eschrich, K.,; Haken, H.,; Hofmann, E.,; Isaeva, V. V.,; Jean, R. V.,; Keller, J. U.,; Kerner, B. S.,; Kretschmer, M.,; Kreuzberg, K.,; Krinskii, V. I.,; Kurdjumov, S. P.,; Lakirev, A. V.,; Lamprecht, I.,; Malinetskii, G. G.,; Malyghin, S. N.,; Mazenko, V. G.,; Mikhailov, A. S.,; Mineev, V. P.,; Müller, S. C.,; Nonnenmacher, T. F.,; Osipov, V. V.,; Plesser, Th.,; Potapov, A. B.,; Presnov, E. V.,; Prokofiev, E. A.,; Rivier, N.,; Romanovskii, Yu. M.,; Samarskii, A. A.,; Schellenberger, W.,; Teplov, V. A.,; Timchenko, G. V.,; Volovik, G. E.,; Zeldovich, Ya. B.,; Zotin, A. I.,
• HerausgeberIn: Lamprecht, Ingolf,; Zotin, A. I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 518 p.)

Table of Contents

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