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1 online resource (vii, 314 pages) : illustrations |
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Mathematics and biosciences in interaction |
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Mathematics and biosciences in interaction.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Fractal Structures in Biological Systems -- Mandelbrot's Fractals and the Geometry of Life: A Tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot on his 80th Birthday -- Gas Diffusion through the Fractal Landscape of the Lung: How Deep Does Oxygen Enter the Alveolar System-- Is the Lung an Optimal Gas Exchanger-- 3D Hydrodynamics in the Upper Human Bronchial Tree: Interplay between Geometry and Flow Distribution -- Fractal Aspects of Three-Dimensional Vascular Constructive Optimization -- Cognition Network Technology: Object Orientation and Fractal Topology in Biomedical Image Analysis. Method and Applications -- The Use of Fractal Analysis for the Quantification of Oocyte Cytoplasm Morphology -- Fractal Structures in Neurosciences -- Fractal Analysis: Pitfalls and Revelations in Neuroscience -- Ongoing Hippocampal Neuronal Activity in Human: Is it Noise or Correlated Fractal Process-- Do Mental and Social Processes have a Self-Similar StructureThe Hypothesis of Fractal Affect-Logic -- Scaling Properties of Cerebral Hemodynamics -- A Multifractal Dynamical Model of Human Gait -- Dual Antagonistic Autonomic Control Necessary for 1/f Scaling in Heart Rate -- Fractal Structures in Tumours and Diseases -- Tissue Architecture and Cell Morphology of Squamous Cell Carcinomas Compared to Granular Cell Tmours' Pseudo-epitheliomatous Hyperplasia and to Normal Oral Mucosae -- Statistical Shape Analysis Applied to Automatic Recognition of Tumor Cells -- Fractal Analysis of Monolayer Cell Nuclei from Two Different Prognostic Classes of Early Ovarian Cancer -- Fractal Analysis of Vascular Network Pattern in Human Diseases -- Quantification of Local Architecture Changes Associated with Neoplastic Progression in Oral Epithelium using Graph Theory -- Fractal Analysis of Canine Trichoblastoma -- Fractal Dimension as a Novel Clinical Parameter in Evaluation of the Urodynamic Curves -- Nonlinear Dynamics in Uterine Contractions Analysis -- Computer-Aided Estimate and Modelling of the Geometrical Complexity of the Corneal Stroma -- The Fractal Paradigm -- Complex-Dynamical Extension of the Fractal Paradigm and Its Applications in Life Science -- Fractal-like Features of Dinosaur Eggshells -- Evolution and Regulation of Metabolic Networks -- Cytoskeleton as a Fractal Percolation Cluster: Some Biological Remarks -- A Mistery of the Gompertz Function -- Fractional Calculus and Symbolic Solution of Fractional Differential Equations -- Fox-Function Representation of a Generalized Arrhenius Law and Applications |
| Summary |
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 10-13 March 2004 and was dedicated to Professor Benoît Mandelbrot in honour of this 80th birthday. The symposium was the fourth of a series that originated back in 1993, always in Ascona. This title highlights the potential that fractal geometry offers for elucidating and explaining the complex make-up of cells, tissues and biological organisms either in normal, abnormal and tumoral conditions |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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OhioLINK electronic book center |
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SpringerLink |
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Medicine -- Mathematics -- Congresses
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Biomathematics -- Congresses
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Fractals -- Congresses
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Fractals
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Computational Biology
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Nonlinear Dynamics
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
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MEDICAL.
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Essays.
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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Medicine -- Mathematics.
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Biomathematics.
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Fractals.
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Biomédecine.
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Sciences de la vie.
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Biomathematics
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Fractals
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Medicine -- Mathematics
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Losa, G. A. (Gabriele A.), 1941-
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| LC no. |
2006530410 |
| ISBN |
3764371722 |
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9783764371722 |
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3764374128 |
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9783764374129 |
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6610427267 |
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9786610427260 |
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