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Membranes, dissipative structures, and evolution / edited by G. Nicols and R. Lefever.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in chemical physics ; v. 29.
- Advances in chemical physics ; v. 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biological control systems--Congresses.
- Biological control systems.
- Biophysics--Congresses.
- Biophysics.
- Membranes (Biology)--Congresses.
- Membranes (Biology).
- Biochemistry--Congresses.
- Biochemistry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Edition:
- 99th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Wiley, c1975.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Filled with cutting-edge research reported in a cohesive manner not found elsewhere in the literature, each volume of the Advances in Chemical Physics series serves as the perfect supplement to any advanced graduate class devoted to the study of chemical physics.
- Contents:
- MEMBRANES, DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES, AND EVOLUTION; CONTENTS; STABILITY AND SELF-ORGANIZATION IN OPEN SYSTEMS; DISSIPATIVE INSTABILITIES, STRUCTURE, AND EVOLUTION; STUDIES IN DISSIPATIVE PHENOMENA WITH BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; FINITE FLUCTUATIONS, NONLINEAR THERMODYNAMICS, AND FAR- FROM- EQUILIBRIUM TRANSITIONS BETWEEN MULTIPLE STEADY STATES; THE HAMILTON-JACOBI-EQUATION APPROACH TO FLUCTUATION PHENOMENA; FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ARTIFICIAL ENZYME MEMBRANES: ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROSPECTS; THE GLOBAL STABILITY OF PREY-PREDATOR SYSTEMS WITH SECOND- ORDER DISSIPATION
- A SHORT REMARK ABOUT VARIOUS DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURESSPATIOTEMPORAL ORGANIZATION IN CHEMICAL AND CELLULAR SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL MODELS FOR BACTERIAL MOTION AND CHEMOTAXIS; THE MOLECULAR VARIATIONS OF CYTOCHROME c AS A FUNCTION OF THE EVOLUTION SPECIES; THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN: MECHANISMS BASED ON POSITIONAL INFORMATION; A MEMBRANE MODEL FOR POLAR TRANSPORT AND GRADIENT FORMATION; PERIODICAL SIGNALS IN THE SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF PLANT CELLS; STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT IN BIOMEMBRANES; ION TRANSPORT THROUGH ARTIFICIAL LIPID MEMBRANES; PHYSIOCHEMICAL PROBLEMS IN EXCITABLE MEMBRANES
- EXCITABILITY AND IONIC SELECTIVITY, COMMON PROPERTIES OF MANY LIPIDIC DERIVATIVESTHERMODYNAMIC CONSIDERATIONS OF THE EXCITABLE MEMBRANES BEHAVIOR; MEMBRANE EXCITATION; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
- Notes:
- "An Interscience publication."
- "Many of the papers published in this volume were presented at an EMBO conference ... held in Brussels, November 22-24, 1972."
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612362606
- 9781282362604
- 1282362607
- 9780470143810
- 0470143819
- 9780470144145
- 0470144149
- OCLC:
- 700680882
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