Publication:4002754

zbMath0748.92005MaRDI QIDQ4002754

Bruce J. West

Publication date: 18 September 1992

zbMATH Keywords

strange attractors; time series; nonlinearity; similarity; phase space; self-similar fractals; epidemics; period-doubling; linearity; electrocardiogram; discrete mappings; similitude; electroencephalogram; continuous systems; lung; chaotic chemical reactions; nonlinear bio-oscillators; cardiac chaos; chaotic neuronal discharges; continuous differential equations; dynamic time-dependent physiological systems; homeodynamic health processes with multiple steady states; measures of the degree of chaos; renormalization of scaling; spontaneous excitation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92C50: Medical applications (general)

92C30: Physiology (general)

37N99: Applications of dynamical systems

37D45: Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior

92-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to biology

92-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to biology

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