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