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Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity

Proceedings of the XV Sitges Conference, Held at Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 June 1998, Lecture Notes in Physics 527

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ISBN/EAN: 9783642085536
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: xii, 320 S.
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InhaltsangabeFrom Membranes to Membrane Machines.- 'Sausage-String' Patterns in Blood Vessels at High Blood Pressures.- Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Spherical Membranes.- Modeling Microtubule Oscillations.- Designing RNA Folding Cooperativity.- Scaling Laws for Protein Folding.- Self-Organizing Networks of Molecular Machines in Allosterically Regulated Enzymic Reactions.- Coupled Brownian Motors.- On the Role of Molecular Machines in the Origin of the Genetic Code.- Population Dynamics and Non-Hermitian Localization.- A Population Dynamics Approach to Biological Aging.- Small-World Networks.- Extended Mean-Field Theory for Networks of Spiking Neurons.- Pattern Formation in the Developing Visual Cortex: Topological Defects, Their Generation, Motion, and Annihilation.- Complex Spiking Behavior From Noise-Driven Neuron Interaction.- A New Nonlinear Model for Pitch Perception.- Statistical Mechanics of Network Models of Macroevolution and Extinction.- Exact Analytical Result in a Simple Model of Self-Organized Biological Evolution.- Transition to Chaos in Models of Genetic Networks.- Appendix I Contributions Presented as Poster.- Fluid Membranes: Two-dimensional Systems with 'Live' Geometry.- A Model for Mixed Surfactant Vesicles.- A Novel Monte-Carlo Procedure for Protein Design.- Folding and Aggregation of Designed Proteins.- Swollen-Collapsed Transition in Random Hetero-polymers.- Statistical Mechanics of Double-Stranded Semi-flexible Polymers.- Casimir Forces.- Interaction of Me(2+) Ions with Poly I in Conformation of Four-Stranded Helix.- Decomposition of DNA Complexity.- Transport of Markers and the Dynamic Phase.- Algorithmic Complexity of Thermal Ratchet Motion.- Mesoscopic Transport of Structured Systems.- Efficiency of Brownian Motors.- Collective Self-Propelled Motion in 3D.- Concentric Rings in Bacterial Colonies: Patterning and Differentiation.- Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Bacterial colonies.- Stochastic Pattern Formation.- Scaling and Complexitiy in Insect Populations.- Formation of the Interspecies Interaction in the Process of Ecosystem Evolution.- A Cellular Automaton Model for Species Formation in Simple Ecosystems.- The CA3 Hippocampal Region as an Autoassociative Memory: Quantitative Measures of Performance.- Storage Capacity and Information Processing.- Fast Collective Oscillations in Neural Networks.- Mutual Synchronisation in Molecular Enzymic Networks.- Mutual Information.- Kinetics.- Deterministic Resonance.- Autonomous Stochastic Resonance.- Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation.- A Statistical Mechanics Approach to Modelling the Dynamics of Genetic Algorithms.- Soft Glassy Materials: Rheology and Aging.- Solvable Dynamics in a System of Interacting Random Tops.- Thermodynamics of Glasses and Black Holes.- Statistical Mechanics of Polarons and Double Well Potentials.- Appendix II List of Participants.-

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