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Title	Fractal physiology and chaos in medicine
Creator	West, Bruce J.
Contributors	World Scientific (Firm)
Description-Abstract	This exceptional book is concerned with the application of fractals and chaos, as well as other concepts from nonlinear dynamics to biomedical phenomena. Herein we seek to communicate the excitement being experienced by scientists upon making application of these concepts within the life sciences. Mathematical concepts are introduced using biomedical data sets and the phenomena being explained take precedence over the mathematics. In this new edition what has withstood the test of time has been updated and modernized; speculations that were not borne out have been expunged and the breakthroughs that have occurred in the intervening years are emphasized. The book provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a new chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine.
Description-Table Of Contents	1. Introduction. 1.1. What is linearity? 1.2. Why uncertainty? 1.3. How does nonlinearity change our view? 1.4. Complex networks. 1.5. Summary and a look forward -- 2. Physiology in fractal dimensions. 2.1. Complexity and the lung. 2.2. The principle of similitude. 2.3. Allometry relations. 2.4. Fractal signals. 2.5. Summary -- 3. Dynamics in fractal dimensions. 3.1. Nonlinear bio-oscillators. 3.2. Nonlinear bio-mapping. 3.3. Measures of strange attractors. 3.4. Summary and perspective -- 4. Statistics in fractal dimensions. 4.1. Complexity and unpredictability. 4.2. Fractal stochastic dynamics. 4.3. Physiologic time series. 4.4. Summary and viewpoint -- 5. Applications of chaotic attractors. 5.1. The dynamics of epidemics. 5.2. Chaotic neurons. 5.3. Chemical chaos. 5.4. Cardiac chaos. 5.5. EEG data and brain dynamics. 5.6 Retrospective -- 6. Physiological networks: the final chapter? 6.1. Introduction to complex networks. 6.2. The decision making model (DMM). 6.3. Criticality. 6.4. Finale.
Publisher	World Scientific Pub. Co.
Subject	Chaotic behavior in systems. Fractals. Physiology -- Mathematical models. Medicine -- Mathematical models.
Identifier	9789814417808 (electronic bk.) ; 9789814417792 ; http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8577#t=toc
Language	eng
Type	Electronic books.
Format-Extent	xi, 332 p. : ill.
Date	c2013.
Relation-Is Part Of	Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science . 16
OCLC number	874498240
CONTENTdm number	549

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