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1. Physiogenic Hearing Impairment in Adults

   Expansion and development in the field of audiology during the last decade have been vast. The availability of improved diagnostic and remedial...

   E. Harris Nober, Gerard L. Kupperman in Communication Disorders

   Chapter 1981
   

2. Stochastic Theory of Population Genetics and Evolution

   The stochastic theory in population genetics has a long history. In his 1922 paper Fisher first studied the effect of genetic drift on the genetic...

   Masatoshi Nei in Vito Volterra Symposium on Mathematical Models in Biology

   Conference paper 1980
   

3. Some Models for the Evolution of Adaptive Traits

   The elegance and persuasiveness of Darwinian thought strikes a sympathetic chord with ecologists and natural historians, who see in the beauty of...

   Simon A. Levin in Vito Volterra Symposium on Mathematical Models in Biology

   Conference paper 1980
   

4. Completeness and Craft Standards in Ecological Theory

   Clearly, good science permits us to “understand nature,” i.e. to explain or predict or both. Exactly what is meant by this is unclear and varies...

   L. B. Slobodkin in Vito Volterra Symposium on Mathematical Models in Biology

   Conference paper 1980
   

5. Conclusions and Perspectives

   In the course of this meeting we have been led, successively, to such captivating areas of research as Irreversible thermodynamics, bifurcation...

   G. Nicolis in Synergetics

   Conference paper 1979
   

6. Assessing the Probable Regulatory Structures and Dynamics of the Metazoan Genome

   In the previous chapter I sketched several molar behaviors of cells during metazoan ontogeny. The purpose of the present chapter is to discuss an...

   Stuart A. Kauffman in Kinetic Logic A Boolean Approach to the Analysis of Complex Regulatory Systems

   Conference paper 1979
   

7. Optimal strategies in immunology

   After a first encounter with most antigens, the immune system responds to subsequent encounters with a faster, more efficient and more strenuous...

   Alan S. Perelson, Majdedin Mirmirani, George F. Oster in Journal of Mathematical Biology

   Article 01 September 1978

8. The Generation and Recognition of Patterns in Biological Systems

   Form and pattern are probably the most obvious, immediate and pervasive characteristics of organisms, and indeed, of all aspects of the world around...

   David E. Matthews in Mathematics and the Life Sciences

   Conference paper 1977
   

9. Models and Analyses of Dispersal Patterns

   For a given set of gametes, population structure is the controlling factor determining the array of genotypes exposed to selective forces. This array...

   R. H. Richardson in Mathematical Topics in Population Genetics

   Chapter 1970
   

10. Selforganization of Nucleic Acids and the Evolution of the Genetic Apparatus

    It is unclear how biological systems could evolve during a time of 109 years given by earth history [1–7]. Even the simplest systems that can be...

    Hans Kuhn in Synergetics

    Chapter 1973
    

11. Changes in Mean Fitness under Natural Selection

    The Reformation in Europe changed Man’s view of his relation with God; no longer dependent on a hierarchy of ordained vicars, the individual must...

    J. R. G. Turner in Mathematical Topics in Population Genetics

    Chapter 1970