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Skjeltorp, Arne T |
Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales |
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2008 |
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Skjeltorp, Arne T |
Dynamics of Complex Interconnected Systems: Networks and Bioprocesses |
I05608 |
2006 |
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| Title | Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales |
| Author(s) | Skjeltorp, Arne T;Belushkin, Alexander V |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2008. |
| Description | XIV, 186 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Evolution is a critical challenge for many areas of science, technology and development of society. The book reviews general evolutionary facts such as origin of life and evolution of the genome and clues to evolution through simple systems. Emerging areas of science such as "systems biology" and "bio-complexity" are founded on the idea that phenomena need to be understood in the context of highly interactive processes operating at different levels and on different scales. This is where physics meets complexity in nature, and where we must begin to learn about complexity if we are to understand it. Similarly, there is an increasingly urgent need to understand and predict the evolutionary behavior of highly interacting man-made systems, in areas such as communications and transport, which permeate the modern world. The same applies to the evolution of human networks such as social, political and financial systems, where technology has tended to vastly increase both the complexity and speed of interaction, which is sometimes effectively instantaneous. The book contains reviews on such diverse areas as evolution experiments with microorganisms, the origin and evolution of viruses, evolutionary dynamics of genes and environment in cancer development, aging as an evolution-facilitating program, evolution of vision and evolution of financial markets |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402087615 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
2. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
3. BIOPHYSICS
4. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
7. DYNAMICS
8. EBOOK
9. EBOOK - SPRINGER
10. ECONOMIC POLICY
11. ECONOMICS
12. ERGODIC THEORY
13. Evolutionary Biology
14. Political Economy/Economic Systems
15. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
16. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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| Title | Dynamics of Complex Interconnected Systems: Networks and Bioprocesses |
| Author(s) | Skjeltorp, Arne T;Belushkin, Alexander V |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2006. |
| Description | XV, 209 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume comprises the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held at Geilo, Norway, 11-21 April 2005, the eighteenth ASI in a series held every two years since 1971. The objective of this ASI was to identify and discuss areas where synergism between modern physics and biology may be most fruitfully applied to the study of bioprocesses for molecular recognition, and of networks for converting molecular reactions into usable signals and appropriate responses. Many fields of research are confronted with networks. Genetic and metabolic networks describe how proteins, substrates and genes interact in a cell; social networks quantify the interactions between people in the society; the Internet is a complex web of computers; ecological systems are best described as a web of species. In many cases, the interacting networks manifest so-called emergent properties that are not possessed by any of the individual components. This means that the detailed knowledge of the components is insufficient to describe the whole system. Recent work has indicated that networks in nature have so-called scale-free characteristics, and the associated dynamic network modelling shows unexpected results such as an amazing robustness against accidental failures, a property that is rooted in their inhomogeneous topology. Understanding these phenomena and turning them to use in chemical and biological threat detection and response will require exploring a wide range of network structures as well |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402050305 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Amorphous substances
2. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
3. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
4. Biomaterials
5. BIOPHYSICS
6. Complex fluids
7. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
8. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
9. EBOOK
10. EBOOK - SPRINGER
11. SOCIAL SCIENCES
12. Social Sciences, general
13. Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics
14. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
15. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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