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A01=Michael C. Mackey
Action potential
Addition
Ambiguity
Analog computer
Aplastic anemia
Arbitrary unit
Arnold tongue
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Author_Michael C. Mackey
Autocorrelation
Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Bifurcation diagram
Bigeminy
Bloating
Bursting
Calculation
Cardiac arrhythmia
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Category=PSV
Cell death
Central pattern generator
Chaos theory
Complex dynamics
Diffeomorphism
Differential equation
Dimension
Disease
Disinhibition
Dissipation
Dynamical system
Ectopic beat
Ectopic pacemaker
Electrical alternans
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Fibrillation
Heart block
Heart failure
Hopf bifurcation
Hyperventilation
Initial condition
Instability
Iteration
Limit cycle
Mathematics
Mechanical ventilation
Multifocal atrial tachycardia
Negative feedback
Neutrophil
Nonlinear system
Ordinary differential equation
Oscillation
Parameter
Parasystole
Period-doubling bifurcation
Phase plane
Phase space
Physiology
Poisson point process
Prediction
Premature atrial contraction
Premature ventricular contraction
Repolarization
Rotation number
Stimulation
Stimulus (physiology)
Sucrose gap
Supraventricular tachycardia
Tachycardia
Time evolution
Time series
Van der Pol oscillator
Ventricular fibrillation
Ventricular flutter
Ventricular tachycardia
Winding number
Product details
- ISBN 9780691084961
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 1988
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In an important new contribution to the literature of chaos, two distinguished researchers in the field of physiology probe central theoretical questions about physiological rhythms. Topics discussed include: How are rhythms generated? How do they start and stop? What are the effects of perturbation of the rhythms? How are oscillations organized in space? Leon Glass and Michael Mackey address an audience of biological scientists, physicians, physical scientists, and mathematicians, but the work assumes no knowledge of advanced mathematics. Variation of rhythms outside normal limits, or appearance of new rhythms where none existed previously, are associated with disease. One of the most interesting features of the book is that it makes a start at explaining "dynamical diseases" that are not the result of infection by pathogens but that stem from abnormalities in the timing of essential functions. From Clocks to Chaos provides a firm foundation for understanding dynamic processes in physiology.
