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The articles of mathematical interest will be reviewed individually. The XIII conference 1994 has been reviewed (see Zbl 0834.00008). Indexed articles: \textit{Lipowsky, Reinhard}, From membranes to membrane machines, 1-23 [Zbl 0957.92016] \textit{Alstrøm, Preben; Eguíluz, Victor M.; Gustafsson, Finn; Holstein-Rathlou, Niels-Henrik}, ``Sausage string'' patterns in blood vessels at high blood pressures, 24-37 [Zbl 0962.92013] \textit{Voinova, M. V.}, Phase transitions in mesoscopic spherical membranes, 38-45 [Zbl 0957.92015] \textit{Mikhailov, A. S.; Stange, P.; Zanette, D. H.; Hess, B.}, Self-organizing networks of molecular machines in allosterically regulated enzymic reactions, 72-92 [Zbl 0957.92017] \textit{Van den Broeck, C.; Reimann, P.; Kawai, R.; Hänggi, P.}, Coupled Brownian motors, 93-111 [Zbl 0957.92002] \textit{Dahmen, Karin A.; Nelson, David R.; Shnerb, Nadav M.}, Population dynamics and non-Hermitian localization, 124-151 [Zbl 0958.92025] \textit{Czirók, András; Vicsek, Tamás}, Collective motion, 152-164 [Zbl 0957.92001] \textit{de Almeida, R. M. C.}, A population dynamics approach to biological aging, 165-171 [Zbl 0955.92026] \textit{Wolf, F.; Geisel, T.}, Pattern formation in the developing visual cortex: Topological defects, their generation, motion, and annihilation, 174-193 [Zbl 0957.92004] \textit{Solé, Ricard V.}, Statistical mechanics of network models of macroevolution and extinction, 217-250 [Zbl 0962.92027] \textit{Pis'mak, Yu. M.}, Exact analytical results in a simple model of self-organized biological evolution, 251-260 [Zbl 0957.92028]