Overview

This book is the result of a growing realization that fluctuations play an active, even creative, role in nonequilibrium processes such as self-organization, pattern formation, and information processing and energy transduction in biological systems. In contrast to the general notion that fluctuations represent an undesirable ""noise"" in such systems - unimportant at best and undesirable or disruptive at worst - this book points toward a view in which fluctuations are fundamental aspects of the systems under study and frequently serve a constructive or stabilizing role in the dynamics. It includes contributions by prominent researchers in a great variety of disciplines, from theoretical cosmologists to experimental biologists, on such topics as stochastic resonance, noise in sensory nervous systems, mechanisms of intracellular transport, and kinetic theory of nonequilibrium systems.

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Author:   Mark Millonas
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   1996 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.870kg
ISBN:  

9780387946023

ISBN 10:   0387946020
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   08 March 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 State-Dependent Noise and Interface Propagation.- 2 Stochastic Resonance and Its Precursors.- 3 Generation of Higher Harmonics in Noisy Nonlinear Systems.- 4 Noise-Induced Linearization and Delinearization.- 5 The Effect of Chaos on a Mean First-Passage Time.- 6 Noise-Induced Sensitivity to Initial Conditions.- 7 Stabilization Through Fluctuations in Chaotic Systems.- 8 The Weak-Noise Characteristic Boundary Exit Problem: Old and New Results.- 9 Some Novel Features of Nonequilibrium Systems.- 10 Using Path-Integral Methods to Calculate Noise-Induced Escape Rates in Bistable Systems: The Case of Quasi-Monochromatic Noise.- 11 Noise-Facilitated Critical Behavior in Thermal Ignition of Energetic Media.- 12 The Hierarchies of Nonclassical Regimes for Diffusion-Limited Binary Reactions.- 13 Scale Invariance in Epitaxial Growth.- 14 Toward a Theory of Growing Surfaces: Mapping Two-Dimensional Laplacian Growth Onto Hamiltonian Dynamics and Statistics.- 15 Noise, Fractal Growth, and Exact Integrability in Nonequilibrium Pattern Formation.- 16 Order by Disorder and Topology in Frustrated Magnetic Systems.- 17 Noise-Induced Abnormal Growth.- 18 Clustering of Active Walkers: Phase Transition from Local Interactions.- 19 Brownian Combustion Engines.- 20 A Depolymerization Ratchet for Intracellular Transport.- 21 Order From Randomness: Spontaneous Firing From Stochastic Properties of Ion Channels.- 22 Simple Noise-Induced Transitions in Models of Neural Systems.- 23 Noise and Nonlinearity in Neuron Modeling.- 24 Physiological Singularities Modeled by Nondeterministic Equations of Motion and the Effect of Noise.- 25 Temporal Stochasticity Leads to Nondeterministic Chaos in a Model for Blood Cell Production.- 26 Quantum Noise in Gravitation and Cosmology.

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