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Rensing, Ludger |
Temporal Disorder in Human Oscillatory Systems |
I05304 |
1987 |
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Mackey, Michael C |
Time???s Arrow: The Origins of Thermodynamic Behavior |
I00883 |
1992 |
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| Title | Temporal Disorder in Human Oscillatory Systems : Proceedings of an International Symposium University of Bremen, 8???13 September 1986 |
| Author(s) | Rensing, Ludger;Heiden, Uwe an der;Mackey, Michael C |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1987. |
| Description | IX, 259 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Rhythms of the heart and of the nervous and endocrine system, breathing, locomotory movements, sleep, circadian rhythms and tissue cell cycles are major elements of the temporal order of man. The dynamics of these systems are characterized by changes in the properties of an oscillator, transitions from oscillatory states into chaotic or stationary states, and vice versa, coupling or uncoupling between two or more oscillators. Any deviation from the normal range to either more or less ordered states may be defined as temporal disorder. Pathological changes of temporal organization, such as tremor, epileptic seizures, Cheyne-Stokes breathing, cardiac arrhythmicities and circadian desynchronization, may be caused by small changes in the order (control) parameters. One major aspect of the symposium was the analysis of characteristic features of these temporal control systems, including nonlinear dynamics of interactions, positive, negative and mixed feedback systems, temporal delays, and their mathematical description and modelling. The ultimate goal is a better understanding of the principles of temporal organization in order to treat periodic diseases or other perturbations of "normal" dynamics in human oscillatory systems |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642726378 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
2. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
3. BIOPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Time???s Arrow: The Origins of Thermodynamic Behavior |
| Author(s) | Mackey, Michael C |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 1992. |
| Description | 175 p. 1 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The Second Law of Thermodynamics has been called the most important law of nature: It is the law that gives a direction to processes that is not inherent in the laws of motion, that says the state of the universe is driven to thermal equilibrium. Its mathematical formulation is simple: The entropy of a closed system cannot decrease. Since the recognition that macroscopic phenomena have an atomic basis, it has remained a fundamental problem to reconcile the increase of entropy with the known reversibility of all the laws of microscopic physics. Professor Michael Mackey of McGill University here explores the dynamical basis for the Second Law, that is, he seeks to illuminate the fundamental dynamical properties required for the construction of a successful statistical mechanics. Aimed at physicists and applied mathematicians with an interest in the foundations of statistical mechanics, the book includes such new material as: a demonstration that the black body radiation law can be deduced from maximal entropy principles; a discussion of sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one state of thermodynamic equilibrium; a description of the behavior of entropy in asymptotically periodic systems; a necessary and sufficient condition for the evolution of entropy to a global maximum; and a presen- tation of the three main types of ergodic theorems and their proofs. He also explores the potential role of incomplete knowledge of dynamical variables, measurement imprecision, and the effects of noise in giving rise to entropy increases |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461395249 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
6. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
7. THERMODYNAMICS
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