Thermodynamics and Regulation of Biological Processes
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-009789-4 (ISBN)
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. General Problems -- Information and Cybernetic Aspects of Biological Thermodynamics -- Some Relations of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Open Systems -- The Statistical Background of the Clansdorff-Prigogine Criterion -- Thermodynamic Analogies in Statistical Theory of Dynamic Systems -- Stochastic Criterion in Dynamical Systems -- Phases with Internal Degrees of Freedom and Their Heterogeneous Transformations -- II. Information Theory -- Towards a Dynamic Information Theory -- On the Problem of the Valuability of Information -- Relativistic Information and Biology -- III. Thermodynamics of Information Processes -- Entropy and Information The Supernatural Actions of Maxwell's Demon -- Thermodynamics and Information -- Entropy of Information Theory and Thermodynamic Entropy -- Optimal Thermodynamic Processes Under Chemical Reactions and Diffusion -- IV. Control and Regulation in Biological Systems -- Order and Disorder in Biological Control Systems -- Simple Feedback System Used to Model Biomolecular Reactions in Drug-Receptor Populations -- Towards a Stochastic Theory of Photoreception -- Temperature Homeostasis and Principles of its Regulation in the Living Organism -- V. Extremal Principles -- An Extremal Principle for Biomass Diversity in Ecology -- Optimal Principle and Temperature Conditions For the Existence of Animals -- Optimal Heat Insulation of Homeotherms -- Thermodynamics of Processes and the Evolution of Simple Biothermodynamic Populations -- VI. Synergetics - The Problems of Seiforganisation -- Self-Organisation Processes and Their Modelling -- Stochastic Dissipative Structures -- Symmetry Breaking Instabilities in Chemical Systems -- Dynamic Model of the Origin of Order in Controlled Macrosystems -- VII. The Problems of Evolution -- Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Hypercycles -- New Information in Evolution -- State Spread and Evolution in Chemical Systems -- Stochastic Models of Evolutionary Processes -- Bioenergetic Trends of Evolutionary Progress of Organisms -- VIII. Ontogenesis -- Continuous Phase Transitions and Morphogenesis -- Stability of Ontogenesis -- Analysis of Homeorhesis in Ontogenetic, Population and Evolutionary Aspects -- Thermodynamic Aspects of Plant Ontogenesis -- Concluding Remarks -- List of Contributors -- References -- Subject Index -- Backmatter
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.1984 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 72 b/w ill. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 1680 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik | |
| Technik ► Maschinenbau | |
| Schlagworte | Aufsatzsammlung • Biological control systems • Biologie • Biophysics • Biophysik • biophysique • Cybernetics • Évolution • Evolution (Biology) • Information, Théorie de l', en biologie • Information Theory • Information theory in biology • Kontrollsystem • Life Sciences • Materials Science • Ontogenèse • ontogeny • Regulation • Régulation (Biologie) • Science • Sonstiges • TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING • thermodynamics • Thermodynamik • Thermodynamik irreversibler Prozesse • thermodynamique |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-009789-3 / 3110097893 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-009789-4 / 9783110097894 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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