Nonlinear Electrodynamics In Biological Systems

Author : W. Adey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 589 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461327899

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Nonlinear Electrodynamics in Biological Systems by W. Adey Pdf

The past half century has seen an extraordinary growth in the fields of cellular and molecular biology. From simple morphologi cal concepts of cells as the essential units of living matter there has been an ever-sharper focus on functional organization of living systems, with emphasis on molecular dynamics. Thus, life forms have come to be defined increasingly in terms of metabolism, growth, reproduction and responses to environmental perturbations. Since these properties occur in varying degrees in systems below the level of cellular organization, there has been a blurring of older models that restricted the concepts of life to cellular systems. At the same time, a search has begun for elemental as pects of molecular and atomic behavior that might better define properties common to all life forms. This search has led to an examination of nonlinear behavior in biological macromolecules, whether in response to electrical or chemical stimulation, for example, or as a means of signaling along a molecular chain, or as a means of energy transfer. Experimental knowledge in this area has grown rapidly in the past decade, and in some respects has outstripped theoretical models adequate to ex plain these new observations. Nevertheless, it can be claimed that there is now an impressive body of experiments implicating non linear, nonequilibrium processes as fundamental steps in sequential operations of biological systems.

Author : W Adey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1984-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461327903

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Nonlinear Electrodynamics in Biological Systems by W Adey Pdf

Author : James Lin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468480597

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Electromagnetic Interaction with Biological Systems by James Lin Pdf

Ever since the early 1940's, electromagnetic energy in the nonionizing spectrum has contributed to the enhanced quality of life in a variety of ways. Aside from their well-known roles in communication, entertainment, industry and science, electromagnetic energy has come into wide spread use in biology and medicine. In addition to the intended purposes, these energies produce other effects which have been shown to influence the life processes of living organisms. It is noteworthy that these energies are not only harmless in ordinary quantities but are actually necessary for modern life, indeed without which life as we know it would be impossible. The purpose of this book is to present a succinct summary of the interaction of electromagnetic fields and waves with biological systems as they are now known. The subject matter is interdisciplinary and is based primarily on presentations scheduled for a joint symposium at the XXII General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, held in Tel Aviv, Israel from Tuesday, August 25 to Wednesday, September 2, 1987. The symposium was jointly sponsored by the Bioelectromagnetics Society in cooperation with the International Radiation Protection Association. The choice of topics was made to facilitate the application and to stimulate the use of nonioni zing electromagnetic energy in biology and medicine, and to increase the awareness and to promote the consideration of radiation safety by electrical engineers and experimental physicists.

Author : Jan Walleczek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139427593

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Self-Organized Biological Dynamics and Nonlinear Control by Jan Walleczek Pdf

The growing impact of nonlinear science on biology and medicine is fundamentally changing our view of living organisms and disease processes. This book introduces the application to biomedicine of a broad range of interdisciplinary concepts from nonlinear dynamics, such as self-organization, complexity, coherence, stochastic resonance, fractals and chaos. It comprises 18 chapters written by leading figures in the field and covers experimental and theoretical research, as well as the emerging technological possibilities such as nonlinear control techniques for treating pathological biodynamics, including heart arrhythmias and epilepsy. This book will attract the interest of professionals and students from a wide range of disciplines, including physicists, chemists, biologists, sensory physiologists and medical researchers such as cardiologists, neurologists and biomedical engineers.

Author : Mae-Wan Ho,Fritz Albert Popp,Ulrich Warnke
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9810216653

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Bioelectrodynamics and Biocommunication by Mae-Wan Ho,Fritz Albert Popp,Ulrich Warnke Pdf

A comprehensive and up-to-date collection of papers on the role of electrodynamical activities in biocommunication is presented in this volume. It provides research findings, practical applications and theoretical investigations linking phenomena as diverse as the sensitivity of organisms to ultraweak ELF electromagnetic fields, noninvasive imaging by magnetic field tomography, coherent liquid crystalline mesophases in living organisms and coherent light emission from biological systems. The volume begins with chapters on the historical perspectives and the biophysical background necessary for understanding bioelectrical phenomena. This is followed by chapters dealing with the biological effects of external electromagnetic fields; the detection of endogenous electrodynamical and related activities and their practical applications; and finally, theoretical perspectives and overviews. It is recommended for undergraduates, graduates and research scientists in all disciplines who wish to be informed of the emerging discipline of bioelectrodynamics.List of Contributors: M Bischof, J J Chang, A S Davydov, D Edmonds, A French, C Gross, Q Gu, J Haffegee, M W Ho, A A Ioannides, R P Liburdy, W P Mei, R Pethig, F A Popp, P T Saunders; C W Smith, T Y Tsong, U Warnke, T M Wu, C L Zhang.

Author : Herbert Fröhlich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642733093

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Biological Coherence and Response to External Stimuli by Herbert Fröhlich Pdf

This book presents an extensive treatment of the introduction of modern physical concepts into biology. In particular, the concept of coherence finds wide applications and yields novel results in context with multiple problems as they arise in biology: these include long range resonant cellular effects and resonant interactions of biological tissues with low intensity electro-magnetic radiation. Extensive experimental support of the theoretical concept is presented.

Author : Peter Stavroulakis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783662060797

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Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields by Peter Stavroulakis Pdf

Reporting new results, this book covers the subject of biological effects of EMF in its entirety. Experimental verification of the theoretical results is given when at all possible, and the book is expected to open new areas of research, providing material for university course creation.

Author : Jack M. Winters,Savio L-Y. Woo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461390305

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Multiple Muscle Systems by Jack M. Winters,Savio L-Y. Woo Pdf

The picture on the front cover of this book depicts a young man pulling a fishnet, a task of practical relevance for many centuries. It is a complex task, involving load transmission throughout the body, intricate balance, and eye head-hand coordination. The quest toward understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often in the presence of unpredictable pertur bations, has a long history. However, despite a history of magnificent sculptures and drawings of the human body which vividly depict muscle ac tivity and interaction, until more recent times our state of knowledge of human movement was rather primitive. During the past century this has changed; we now have developed a considerable database regarding the com position and basic properties of muscle and nerve tissue and the basic causal relations between neural function and biomechanical movement. Over the last few decades we have also seen an increased appreciation of the impor tance of musculoskeletal biomechanics: the neuromotor system must control movement within a world governed by mechanical laws. We have now col lected quantitative data for a wealth of human movements. Our capacity to understand the data we collect has been enhanced by our continually evolving modeling capabilities and by the availability of computational power. What have we learned? This book is designed to help synthesize our current knowledge regarding the role of muscles in human movement. The study of human movement is not a mature discipline.

Author : Erol Başar,Theodore H. Bullock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642745577

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Brain Dynamics by Erol Başar,Theodore H. Bullock Pdf

This volume is based on contributions to the second Brain Dynamics Conference, held in Berlin on August 10-14, 1987, as a satellite conference of the Budapest Congress of the International Brain Research Organization. Like the volume resulting from the first conference, Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain, the present work covers new approaches to brain function, with emphasis on electromagnetic fields, EEG, event-related potentials, connectivistic views, and neural networks. Close attention is also paid to research in the emerging field of deterministic chaos and strange attractors. The diversity of this collection of papers reflects a multipronged advance in a hitherto relatively neglected domain, i. e., the study of signs of dynamic processes in organized neural tissue in order both to explain them and to exploit them for clues to system function. The need is greater than ever for new windows. This volume reflects a historical moment, the moment when a relatively neglected field of basic research into available signs of dynamic processes ongoing in organized neural tissue is expanding almost explosively to complement other approaches. From the topics treated, this book should appeal, as did its predecessor, to neuroscientists, neurologists, scientists studying complex systems, artificial intelligence, and neural networks, psychobiologists, and all basic and clinical investigators concerned with new techniques of monitoring and analyzing the brain's electromagnetic activity.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Consumer and Environmental Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B5142276

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The Effects of Traffic Radar Guns on Law Enforcement Officers by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Consumer and Environmental Affairs Pdf

Author : Francesco Musumeci,Larissa S. Brizhik,Mae-Wan Ho
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812384195

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Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems by Francesco Musumeci,Larissa S. Brizhik,Mae-Wan Ho Pdf

This volume contains papers based on the workshop ?Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding?, held in Italy in 2002. The meeting was a forum aimed at evaluating the potential and outlooks of a modern physics approach to understanding and describing biological processes, especially regarding the transition from the microscopic chemical scenario to the macroscopic functional configurations of living matter. In this frame some leading researchers presented and discussed several basic topics, such as the photon interaction with biological systems also from the viewpoint of photon information processes and of possible applications; the influence of electromagnetic fields on the self-organization of biosystems including the nonlinear mechanism for energy transfer and storage; and the influence of the structure of water on the properties of biological matter.

Author : R.K. Mishra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400918900

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Molecular and Biological Physics of Living Systems by R.K. Mishra Pdf

The living organisms and systems possess extraordinary properties of programmed development, differentiation, growth, response, movement, duplication of key molecules and in m any cases higher mental functions. But the organisms are physical objects so they must follow laws of physics yet they do not seem to obey them. Physicists cannot easily persuade themselves to accept this as finally true. Non-living objects are governed by these laws of physics and they can explain these properties. However, in the living systems too phenomena encountered like coupled non-linear interactions, manybody effects, cooperativity, coherence, phase transitions, reversible metastable states are being understood better with the aid of powerful theoretical and experimental techniques and hope is raised that these may let us understand the mysteriousness of life. Contributors to this volume are a small fraction of rapidly growing scientific opinion that these aspects of living bodies are to be expected in a hitherto inadequately suspected state of matter which is in the main directed by these physical properties pushed almost to limit. This state of matter, the living matter, deserves to be called The Living State. Mishra proposes that given hydrogenic orbitals, atoms showing easy hybridisability and multiple valances, molecules with low-lying electronic levels, "loosestructure", and a metabolic pump in thermodynamically open system, various fundamental properties of living state can emerge automatically. Structurally these are all known to be present.

Author : Jürgen Appell,Nguyen Thi Hien,Lyubov Petrova,Irina Pryadko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783110709865

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Systems with Non-Smooth Inputs by Jürgen Appell,Nguyen Thi Hien,Lyubov Petrova,Irina Pryadko Pdf

The authors present a completely new and highly application-oriented field of nonlinear analysis. The work covers the theory of non-smooth input-output systems and presents various methods to non-standard applications in mathematics and physics. A particular focus lies on hysteresis and relay phenomena, electric circuits with diode nonlinearities, and biological systems with constraints.

Author : Giorgio Franceschetti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468457063

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Electromagnetic Biointeraction by Giorgio Franceschetti Pdf

This book collects the revised lectures held at Capri (Italy) in the period 2-6 May, 1988 in occasion of the International Course on "Worldwide Nonionizing Radiation Safety Standards: Their Rationales and Problems". The Course was organized by IRECE (Institute for Research in Electromagnetism and Electronic Components) of CNR (Italian National Council for Research) and was directed by professors Giorgio Franceschetti and Om P. Gandhi. The idea for this course arose from the continuing wide disparity in the electromagnetic (EM) radiation safety standards worldwide, and the confusion that this has caused in the public mind. The safety guidelines in the western countries have been nearly three orders of magnitude greater than the safety levels in the Eastern European countries. Even though the former have been slightly reduced and the latter have been increased somewhat in recent years, there is still a wide gap in the EM safety standards that are used. With the ever increasing use of EM energy the public is becoming increasingly aware of and concerned about the potential biohazards of EM fields. This problem is compounded by inadequate knowledge of nonthermal mechanisms of interaction of EM fields with biological systems. The lecturers for the Course were the recognized leaders in their respective areas within the discipline of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields.

Author : F. Gutmann,H. Keyzer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461321057

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Modern Bioelectrochemistry by F. Gutmann,H. Keyzer Pdf

As stated by Buckminster Fuller in Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth, "Synergy is the behavior of whole systems unpredicted by separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts". In a similar vein, one might define an intellectual synergy as "an improvement in our understanding of the behavior of a system unpredicted by separately acquired viewpoints of the activities of such a system". Such considerations underlie, and provide a motivation for, an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of unraveling the deeper mysteries of cellular metabolism and organization, and have led a number of pioneering spirits, many represen ted in the pages which follow, to consider biological systems from an elec trochemical standpoint. is itself, of course, an interdisciplinary branch of Now electrochemistry science, and there is no doubt that many were introduced to it via Bockris and Reddy's outstanding, wide-ranging and celebrated textbook Modern Electrochemistry. If I am to stick my neck out, and seek to define bioelec trochemistry, I would take it to refer to "the study of the mutual interac tions of electrical fields and biological materials, including living systems".