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West Bruce J |
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Where medicine went wrong [[electronic resource] ] : rediscovering the path to complexity / / Bruce J. West |
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Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006 |
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1-281-92458-X |
9786611924584 |
981-277-309-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ; ; v. 11 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medicine - Philosophy |
Fractals |
Human physiology |
Health status indicators |
Nonlinear theories |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; 1. Chance and Variation; 1.1. The myth of equality; 1.2. Slaughter's CafeĢ; 1.3. What are the odds?; 1.4. Odds against smallpox; 1.5. Information and chance; 2. The Expectation of Health; 2.1. Control and cybernetics; 2.2. Temperature regulation; 2.3. Respiration regulation; 2.4. Cardiac regulation; 2.5. Averages are not sufficient; 3. Even Uncertainty has Laws; 3.1. Randomness and measurement; 3.2. Chaos and determinism; 3.3. Wisdom is not static; 3.4. A new tradition; 4. The Uncertainty of Health; 4.1. The different kinds of scientists |
4.2. The Emperor in exile4.3. What is wrong with the law of errors; 4.4. The inverse power-law distribution; 4.5. How the physical and life sciences are different; 4.6. Only the few matter; 5. Fractal Physiology; 5.1. Scaling in physiological data; 5.2. Allometric relationships; 5.3. Fractal heartbeats; 5.4. Intermittent chaos and colored noise; 5.5. Fractal breathing; 5.6. Fractal gait; 5.7. Fractal temperature; 5.8. Fractal gut; 5.9. Fractal neurons; 5.10. Internetwork interactions; 6. Complexity; 6.1. Random networks; 6.2. Scale-free networks; 6.3. |
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