Title | Nonlinear Oscillations in Biology and Chemistry [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a meeting held at the University of Utah, May 9-11, 1985 / edited by Hans G. Othmer |
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Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1986 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93318-9 |
Descript | VI, 294 p. online resource |
Biological Systems -- Oscillations and Chaos in the Pancreatic ?-Cell -- On Different Mechanisms for Membrane Potential Bursting -- A Mitotic Oscillator with a Strange Attractor and Distributions of Cell Cycle Times -- An Analysis of One- and Two-Dimensional Patterns in a Mechanical Model for Morphogenesis -- Chemical Systems -- Electrically Coupled Belousov-Zhabotinskii Oscillators: Experimental Observations of Chaos in a Chemical System and Identification of Its Source in the Field-Noyes Equations -- Losing Amplitude and Saving Phase -- Spiral Waves in Excitable Media -- Neurophysiology -- Biomechanical and Neuromotor Factors in Mammalian Locomotor-Respiratory Coupling -- Analysis of a VCON Neuromime -- Coupled Oscillators and Locomotion by Fish -- Experimental Studies of Chaotic Neural Behavior: Cellular Activity and Electroencephalographic Signals -- Mathematical Methods -- A Period-Doubling Bubble in the Dynamics of Two Coupled Oscillators -- Bistable Behavior in Coupled Oscillators -- Continuation of Arnold Tongues in Mathematical Models of Periodically Forced Biological Oscillators -- Averaging and Synchronization of Weakly Coupled Systems -- Variational Principles for Periodic Solutions of Autonomous Ordinary Differential Equations -- A Numerical Analysis of Wave Phenomena in a Reaction Diffusion Model -- On a Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equation Describing Transmission Lines, Cell Movement, and Branching Random Walks