Rhythms in Biology and Other Fields of Application: Deterministic and Stochastic Approaches Proceedings of the Journées de la Société Mathématique de France, held at Luminy, France, September 14–18,1981

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Simulation of the Entrainment of the Respiratory Rhythm by two Conceptually Different Models....Pages 2-16
Glycolytic Oscillations: An Attempt to an “In Vitro” Reconstitution of the Higher Part of Glycolysis Modelling and Experimental Approach....Pages 17-31
Medical Exploration of Some Rythmic Phenomena: A Topological Semeiology....Pages 32-49
Spatio-Temporal Organization in Immobilized Enzyme Systems....Pages 50-75
Stereological Analysis of Circadian Rhythms in Nucleoli of Rat Sympathetic Neurons....Pages 76-84
Formalization of Adrenal-Postpituitary Circadian Rhythms by the Model for the Regulation of Agonistic-Antagonistic Couples. Parameter Identification....Pages 85-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The Spruce Budworm-Forest and Other Ecosystems....Pages 94-100
On the Conservation of Physiological Function in a Population of Interactive and Self Replicative Units....Pages 101-122
Dynamics and Stability of Induction of the Lactose Operon of Escherischia Coli....Pages 123-143
Automata Networks as Models for Biological Systems: (A Survey)....Pages 144-172
A Critical Discussion of Plausible Models for Relay and Oscillation of Cyclic AMP in Dictyostelium Cells....Pages 173-188
Fully Asynchronous Logical Description of Networks Comprising Feedback Loops....Pages 189-200
The Rotor in Reaction-Diffusion Problems and in Sudden Cardiac Death....Pages 201-207
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Spatio Temporal Oscillations of a Cellular Automaton in Excitable Media....Pages 210-216
On the Use of Renormalization Technics in the Study of Discrete Population Models in One Dimension....Pages 217-226
Hydrodynamics and Cell Division....Pages 227-235
On the Solutions of Some Differential Equation in ℝ 3 with Small Parameter....Pages 236-255
Self-Pulsing in Ring-Lasers....Pages 256-264
Numerical Analysis of the Behaviour of an Almost Periodic Solution to a Periodic Differential Equation, An Example of Successive Bifurcations of Invariant Tori....Pages 265-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Evolutive Spectral Analysis by Autoregressive Process of Isotopic Climatic Data from Antarctica....Pages 274-294
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Optimal Randomness in Foraging Movement: A Central Place Model....Pages 295-302
A Model for Weather Cycles Based on Daily Rainfall Occurrence....Pages 303-318
A Statistical Approach to Difference-Delay Equation Modelling in Ecology — Two Case Studies....Pages 319-344
Identification and Modelling Techniques for Biological Rhythms....Pages 345-353
Chaotic curves....Pages 354-367
Time Series Analysis and Biology....Pages 368-387
Large Deviations and More or Less Rare Events in Population Dynamics....Pages 388-400
Back Matter....Pages 401-403