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Fractal Physiology and Chaos in Medicine

Author : Bruce J. West
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814417807
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Fractal Physiology and Chaos in Medicine written by Bruce J. West and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional book is concerned with the application of fractals and chaos, as well as other concepts from nonlinear dynamics to biomedical phenomena. Herein we seek to communicate the excitement being experienced by scientists upon making application of these concepts within the life sciences. Mathematical concepts are introduced using biomedical data sets and the phenomena being explained take precedence over the mathematics.In this new edition what has withstood the test of time has been updated and modernized; speculations that were not borne out have been expunged and the breakthroughs that have occurred in the intervening years are emphasized. The book provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a new chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine.

Fractal Physiology

Author : James B Bassingthwaighte
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1461475724
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Fractal Physiology written by James B Bassingthwaighte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I know that most men, including those at ease with the problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. Joseph Ford quoting Tolstoy (Gleick, 1987) We are used to thinking that natural objects have a certain form and that this form is determined by a characteristic scale. If we magnify the object beyond this scale, no new features are revealed. To correctly measure the properties of the object, such as length, area, or volume, we measure it at a resolution finer than the characteristic scale of the object. We expect that the value we measure has a unique value for the object. This simple idea is the basis of the calculus, Euclidean geometry, and the theory of measurement. However, Mandelbrot (1977, 1983) brought to the world's attention that many natural objects simply do not have this preconceived form. Many of the structures in space and processes in time of living things have a very different form. Living things have structures in space and fluctuations in time that cannot be characterized by one spatial or temporal scale. They extend over many spatial or temporal scales.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author : Gabriele A. Losa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3764374128
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)

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Book Synopsis Fractals in Biology and Medicine by : Gabriele A. Losa

Download or read book Fractals in Biology and Medicine written by Gabriele A. Losa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is number four in a series of proceedings volumes from the International Symposia on Fractals in Biology and Medicine in Ascona, Switzerland which have been inspired by the work of Benoît Mandelbrot seeking to extend the concepts towards the life sciences. It highlights the potential that fractal geometry offers for elucidating and explaining the complex make-up of cells, tissues and biological organisms either in normal or in pathological conditions.

Where Medicine Went Wrong

Author : Bruce J. West
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812568832
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Where Medicine Went Wrong written by Bruce J. West and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Medicine Went Wrong explores how the idea of an average value has been misapplied to medical phenomena, distorted understanding and lead to flawed medical decisions. Through new insights into the science of complexity, traditional physiology is replaced with fractal physiology, in which variability is more indicative of health than is an average. The capricious nature of physiological systems is made conceptually manageable by smoothing over fluctuations and thinking in terms of averages. But these variations in such aspects as heart rate, breathing and walking are much more susceptible to the early influence of disease than are averages.It may be useful to quote from the late Stephen Jay Gould's book Full House on the errant nature of averages: ?? our culture encodes a strong bias either to neglect or ignore variation. We tend to focus instead on measures of central tendency, and as a result we make some terrible mistakes, often with considerable practical import.? Dr West has quantified this observation and make it useful for the diagnosis of disease.

Physiology, Promiscuity, and Prophecy at the Millennium

Author : Bruce J. West
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810238360
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Physiology, Promiscuity, and Prophecy at the Millennium written by Bruce J. West and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns the development of a theory of complex phenomena, using such concepts as fractals, chaos, and fractional derivatives; but, most important, the idea of an allometric control process is developed. In summary the theory attempts to explain why the distribution in the intensity of wars is the same as the relative frequency of the number of words used in languages and the number of species evolved over time from one or a few remote ancestors. The theory also describes the similarity in the variability of the number of births to teens in Texas to the number of sexual partners in homosexual liaisons. The data in both of the aforementioned categories are shown to have long-term memory, and it is this memory that also gives rise to inverse power laws in such physiological phenomena as the interbeat interval distribution of the human heart, the interstride interval distribution in the human gait, and memory in DNA sequences.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author : Gabriele A. Losa
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034881193
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Fractals in Biology and Medicine written by Gabriele A. Losa and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2000 leading scientists gathered at the Centro Seminariale Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, for the Third International Symposium on "Fractals 2000 in Biology and Medicine". This interdisciplinary conference provided stimulating contributions from the very topical field Fractals in Biology and Medicine. This volume highlights the growing power and efficacy of the fractal geometry in understanding how to analyze living phenomena and complex shapes.

Chaotic Dynamics

Author : Tamás Tél
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521547833
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Chaotic Dynamics written by Tamás Tél and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear introduction to chaotic phenomena for undergraduate students in science, engineering, and mathematics.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author : G. Losa
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034889364
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Fractals in Biology and Medicine written by G. Losa and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Volume 2" explores the potential of the fractal geometry in understanding how to analyse natural shapes. The volume devotes special emphasis to the complex field of human tumours.

Bioelectromagnetic and Subtle Energy Medicine

Author : Paul J. Rosch
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482233207
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Bioelectromagnetic and Subtle Energy Medicine written by Paul J. Rosch and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioelectromagnetic and Subtle Energy Medicine focuses on a wide variety of evidence-based bioelectromagnetic and subtle energy therapies for disorders ranging from cancer, cardiomyopathy, and Parkinson's disease to depression, anxiety, and pain. Since publication of the first edition more than a decade ago, there have been so many advances in these and other diseases, that a thorough revision is required for this resource to remain the gold standard in a burgeoning field. This second edition updates previous topics and features many new chapters describing novel approaches that promise to replace drugs or surgery because they are more effective and much safer, such as rTMS for depression, MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound for bone and uterine tumors, and TheraBionic LEET for liver cancer. Others discuss biological water (H3O2) that acts like a battery, health benefits of Earthing, malignant and other brain tumors from cell and cordless phones, visualizing and measuring energy fields in humans and nature, making sense of homeopathy and "memory of water," basic science support for acupuncture, electrosensitivity, ion cyclotron resonance, the role of the pineal gland, the health effects of solar storms and terrestrial influences, and why Bioelectric Resonance Therapy bridges Chinese and Western medicine. This is only a sampling of the 50 chapters contributed by authorities from the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, China, Japan, and Iran.

Nature’s Patterns and the Fractional Calculus

Author : Bruce J. West
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110535130
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Nature’s Patterns and the Fractional Calculus written by Bruce J. West and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complexity increases with increasing system size in everything from organisms to organizations. The nonlinear dependence of a system’s functionality on its size, by means of an allometry relation, is argued to be a consequence of their joint dependency on complexity (information). In turn, complexity is proven to be the source of allometry and to provide a new kind of force entailed by a system‘s information gradient. Based on first principles, the scaling behavior of the probability density function is determined by the exact solution to a set of fractional differential equations. The resulting lowest order moments in system size and functionality gives rise to the empirical allometry relations. Taking examples from various topics in nature, the book is of interest to researchers in applied mathematics, as well as, investigators in the natural, social, physical and life sciences. Contents Complexity Empirical allometry Statistics, scaling and simulation Allometry theories Strange kinetics Fractional probability calculus

The Complexity Paradox

Author : Kenneth Mossman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199330360
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Complexity Paradox written by Kenneth Mossman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living systems exhibit a fundamental contradiction: they are highly stable and reliable, yet they have the capacity to adapt to changing environmental conditions. This paradoxical behavior arises from the complexity of life--a high degree of order and cooperation that emerges from relatively simple interactions among cellular components. The Complexity Paradox proposes inventive, interdisciplinary approaches to maintaining health and managing and preventing disease by considering the totality of human biology, from the cellular level on up to entire populations of individuals. From the perspective of complexity, which acknowledges that there are limits to what we can know, Kenneth L. Mossman opens the door to understanding essential life processes in new and extraordinary ways. By tying together evolution, functional dynamics, and investigations into how the body processes energy and uses genetic information, Mossman's analysis expresses a unified theory of biology that fills a critical niche for future research in biology, medicine, and public health.

Fractals in Biology and Medicine

Author : Theo F. Nonnenmacher
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034885016
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Fractals in Biology and Medicine written by Theo F. Nonnenmacher and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fractals in Biology and Medicine" explores the potential of fractal geometry for describing and understanding biological organisms, their development and growth as well as their structural design and functional properties. It extends these notions to assess changes associated with disease in the hope to contribute to the understanding of pathogenetic processes in medicine. The book is the first comprehensive presentation of the importance of the new concept of fractal geometry for biological and medical sciences. It collates in a logical sequence extended papers based on invited lectures and free communications presented at a symposium in Ascona, Switzerland, attended by leading scientists in this field, among them the originator of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot. "Fractals in Biology and Medicine" begins by asking how the theoretical construct of fractal geometry can be applied to biomedical sciences and then addresses the role of fractals in the design and morphogenesis of biological organisms as well as in molecular and cell biology. The consideration of fractal structure in understanding metabolic functions and pathological changes is a particularly promising avenue for future research.

Fractal Sustainability

Author : Isabel Canto de Loura
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317133633
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Fractal Sustainability written by Isabel Canto de Loura and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though the fractal approach to sustainability and organizational change management is not new, no authors so far seem to have truly attempted to use fractals as a mathematical means to map and measure organizational sustainability. Several sustainability maturity models and change management models and frameworks, concepts and computer generated systems came to the fore during the past two decades. They provided a set of useful tools for managers, academics and students to refer to, or on which to base their own actions and plans. However, one issue remains: most of those models and frameworks share a rather similar linear ‘skeleton’; the main difference between them is the quantitative variety of steps within each phase, stage, and parameter and how in depth each of these is presented. The authors' work addresses a clear gap in the literature and in applied research, as it emphasizes the relevance of using a complex mathematically-based but user-friendly fractal approach. Readers are able to better understand, implement, map and measure change management processes leading to a sustainability-focused mindset. Subsequent chapters guide you through the steps towards creating committed sustainability-based strategies, attitudes, actions and practices across all levels in the broad organizational context. This text is essential reading for students researching business and management and who are interested in the Fractal Sustainability concept.

The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare

Author : Joachim P Sturmberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319262211
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare written by Joachim P Sturmberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visionary reframing of health and healthcare uses a complexity science approach to building healthcare systems that are accessible, effective, and prepared for change and challenges. Its holistic map for understanding the human organism emphasizes the interconnectedness of the individual’s physical, psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural functioning. Applications of this approach are described in primary, specialist, and emergency care and at the organizational and policy levels, from translating findings to practice, to problem solving and evaluation. In this model, the differences between disease and illness and treating illness and restoring health are not mere wordplay, but instead are robust concepts reflecting real-world issues and their solutions. Based on the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Systems and Complexity for Healthcare, topics covered include: • Coping with complexity and uncertainty: insights from studying epidemiology in family medicine • Anticipation in complex systems: potential implications for improving safety and quality in healthcare • Monitoring variability and complexity at the bedside • Viewing mental health through the lens of complexity science • Ethical complexities in systems healthcare: what care and for whom? • The value of systems and complexity thinking to enable change in adaptive healthcare organizations supported by informatics • If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the theory: implications for health system reform The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare will interest and inspire health and disease researchers, health professionals, health care planners, health system financiers, health system administrators, health services administrators, health professional educators, and, last but not least, current and future patients.

Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World

Author : V. Kärkkäinen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137268999
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World written by V. Kärkkäinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious approaches directed toward the articulation of a pneumatological theology in its broadest sense, especially in terms of attempting to conceive of a spirit-filled world.

Methodology and Clinical Applications of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Analysis

Author : Marco Di Rienzo
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051994360
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Methodology and Clinical Applications of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Analysis written by Marco Di Rienzo and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e VOUS! is a complete introductory French program that makes learning French easier through its flexible and accessible approach. Now in its second edition, this innovative book integrates the best aspects of theories in second-language acquisition and focuses on the skills crucial to the learning and use of a foreign language in order to provide readers with a comprehensive introduction to French language and culture. The program incorporates high-frequency vocabulary that is of interest to today's readers, grammar explanations that are complete and comprehensible, a focus on all skills, task-based activities, and high-interest cultural topics that invite cross-cultural comparisons. The new, enhanced second edition of e VOUS! offers streamlined, visually enhanced grammar presentations, updated study tools, and optional access to the iLrn Heinle Learning, which includes an updated eBook, 40 new video-based pronunciation tutorials, 20 new culture videos, additional practice activities, and more!

Fractional Calculus View of Complexity

Author : Bruce J. West
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 149873801X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Fractional Calculus View of Complexity written by Bruce J. West and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a text devoted to a pedagogical presentation of a specialized topic nor is it a monograph focused on the author's area of research. It accomplishes both these things while providing a rationale for why the reader ought to be interested in learning about fractional calculus. This book is for researchers who has heard about many