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Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures: Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences |
William C. Schieve; Peter M. Allen
University of Texas Press
Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures: Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences
2. Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Chemistry and in Biology
Authors

Jack S. Turner

ARI Id

1666900355524_8151019

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Pages

40

DOI

10.7560/703544-003

Chapter URL

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7560/703544-003/html

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Frontmatter
i
Contents
vii
Preface
ix
1. The Challenge of Complexity
I. Prigogine; P. M. Allen
1
2. Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Chemistry and in Biology
Jack S. Turner
40
3. On the Dynamics of Technological Evolutions: Phase Transitions
Elliott W. Montroll
63
4. The Many Faces of Scaling: Fractals, Geometry of Nature, and Economics
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
91
5. Successive Reequilibrations as the Mechanism of Cultural Evolution
Robert L. Carneiro
110
6. The Emergence of Hierarchical Social Structure: The Case of Late Victorian England
Richard Newbold Adams
116
7. Self-Organization in the Urban System
P. M. Allen
132
8. Criticality and Urban Retail Structure: Aspects of Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation
A. G. Wilson
159
9. Trip Making and Locational Choice
Martin J. Beckmann
174
10. Creation of Order by Environmental Noise in the Volterra-Lotka Model
J. W. Stucki; W. Horsthemke
187
11. Noise-Induced Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions
Werner Horsthemke
193
12. Nucléation Paradigm: Survival Threshold in Population Dynamics
W. H. Zurek; W. C. Schieve
203
13. The Efficiency of Oxidative Phosphorylation and the Thermodynamic Buffer Enzymes
J. W. Stucki
225
14. Patterns of Nonequilibrium Organization in a Marine Bacterial Population
J. Wagensberg; J. Rodellar
239
15. Boolean Equations with Temporal Delays
André de Palma; Isabelle Stengers; Serge Pahaut
245
16. Remarks on Traffic Flow Theories and the Characterization of Traffic in Cities
Robert Herman
260
17. Fluctuations in Demand and Transportation Mode Choice
J. L. Deneubourg; A. de Palma; D. Kahn
285
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