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A cybernetic view of biological growth : the Maia hypothesis /
"Maia is the story of an idea - and its development into a working hypothesis - that provides a cybernetic interpretation of how growth is controlled. Growth at this level is controlled by regulating the specific rate of growth. Access to control mechanism output is achieved by perturbing the g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Maia is the story of an idea - and its development into a working hypothesis - that provides a cybernetic interpretation of how growth is controlled. Growth at this level is controlled by regulating the specific rate of growth. Access to control mechanism output is achieved by perturbing the growing system (using low levels of toxic agents) and then filtering out the consequences. The output of the growth control mechanism is then accessible for interpretation and modelling. This approach has been used to provide interpretations of hormesis, homeodynamic adaptation to increased loads and acquired tolerance, and catch-up growth due to relaxation stimulation. The book begins with an introduction to cybernetics in relation to the regulation of growth and population increase in animals and man, and goes on to describe this new experimental technique for accessing growth processes. This book is intended for postgraduate students of biological cybernetics and researchers into biological growth, endocrinology, population ecology and toxicology"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 442 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-435) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511933134 0511933134 1107215366 9781107215368 0511852967 9780511852961 1282918761 9781282918764 9786612918766 6612918764 0511931786 9780511931789 0511927932 9780511927935 0511925395 9780511925399 0511933819 9780511933813 0511930445 9780511930447 |
| Acceso: | License restrictions may limit access. |