Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Biological Processes

Frontmatter -- Monograph -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- I . General Problems of Statistical Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics -- Statistical Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Irreversible Processes / Kuni, F. M. / Adjemian, L. Z. / Grinin, A. P. / Novozhilova, T. Yu. / Storonkin, B. A. -- Thermodynamical Approach to the Analysis of Statistical Properties of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems / Platonov, A. A. -- The Problem of Entropy Increase and Stability of Motion in Quantum Mechanics / Chernavskaya, O. D. / Chernavsky, D. S. -- On the Relation Between the H-Theorem and the Principle of Minimum Entropy Production / Hasegawa, H. -- II. The Phase Transition and Nonequilibrium Fluctuations -- Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Chemical Systems / Malek-Mansour, M. / Nicolis, G. / Prigogine, I. -- Synergetics. Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Selforganization in Biological Systems / Haken, H. -- Brownian Motion in Autooscillation Systems and in Phase Transition Processes / Klimontovich, Yu. L. -- Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Irreversible Processes Far from Thermal Equilibrium / Furukawa, Hiroshi -- III. Kinetic Equations -- Generalized Fokker-Planck Equation in the Theory of Irreversible Processes / Zubarev, D. N. -- The Diffusion Approximation for Markov Processes / Kappen, N. G. van -- Extremal Principles and Catastrophe Theory for Stochastic Models of Nonlinear Irreversible Processes / Ebeling, W. / Engel-Herbert, H. -- IV. The Problem of Phenomenological Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics -- Irreversible Thermodynamics far from Equilibrium / Rozonoer, L. I. -- On the Structuring of Thermodynamic Fluxes: A Direct Implementation of the Dissipation Inequality / Bataille, J. / Edelen, D. G. B. / Kestin, J. -- Axiomatic Models of Phenomenological Thermodynamics / Presnov, E. V. / Malyghin, S. N. -- Axiomatic Approach to Irreversible Thermodynamics and Variational Principles / Virodov, I. P. -- The Second Lyapunov Method and The Variational Principle / Kapranov, V. N. / Lopushanskaya, A. I. -- V. Ecology and Populations -- The Rate of Correlation Decay in One-Dimensional Ecological Models / Bunimovich, L. A. / Sinay, Ja. G. -- Kinetics and Nonequilibrium Processes and Ecology / Alekseev, V. V. -- Mathematical Modelling of Biocenosis on the Basis of Haldane-Semevsky Principle / Insarov, G. E. / Semenov, S. M. -- Natural Selection and Optimality Principles / Khanin, M. A. / Dorfman, N. L. -- Statistical Thermodynamic Model of Stationary Population / Prits, A. K. -- VI. Reaction of Organisms to External Factors -- Effects of External Influences on the Types of Transition Processes Observed in the Energy Metabolism of Organisms / Grudnitzky, V. A. -- Rate of Temperature Adaptation of Respiratory Metabolism in Soil Invertebrates / Byzova, Yu. B. -- Relationship Between Maximal Metabolism, Body Weight and Standard Metabolism of Animals / Dontsova, G. V. / Zotin, A. I. -- Kinetics of Transition Processes in Living Systems - Load, Adaptation, Stability / Rabinovich, E . Z. -- Dynamic Characteristics of Heat and Water Exchange in Man / Glushko, A. A. -- Relation of Stimuli Controlling Lung Ventilation During Transient and Stable Periods of Exercise / Breslav, I. S. / Isaev, G. G. / Shmeleva, A. M. -- VII. Ontogenesis -- Kinetics of Constitutive Processes During Development and Growth of Organisms / Zotina, R. S. / Zotin, A. I. -- Stochastic Description of Growth and Aging in Animals / Timonin, V. I. / Zotina, R. S. -- Thermodynamic Estimation of Development and Growth of Microorganisms / Koryagin, V. V. / Konovalov, S . A. -- Transition Process in Ontogenesis as a Characteristics of Changes in the Stability of Animals to External Influences / Lapkin, V. V. -- On Specific Peculiarities of Transition Processes in Ontogenesis of Mammals / Arshavsky, I. A. -- Stable Orbitals and Transition Processes in the Models of Biological Systems / Vasiliev, V. A. / Romanovsky, Yu. M. -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index