Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Biological Processes

Frontmatter -- Monograph -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- I . General Problems of Statistical Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics -- Statistical Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Irreversible Processes -- Thermodynamical Approach to the Analysis of Statistical Properties of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems -- The Problem of Entropy Increase and Stability of Motion in Quantum Mechanics -- On the Relation Between the H-Theorem and the Principle of Minimum Entropy Production -- II. The Phase Transition and Nonequilibrium Fluctuations -- Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Chemical Systems -- Synergetics. Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Selforganization in Biological Systems -- Brownian Motion in Autooscillation Systems and in Phase Transition Processes -- Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Irreversible Processes Far from Thermal Equilibrium -- III. Kinetic Equations -- Generalized Fokker-Planck Equation in the Theory of Irreversible Processes -- The Diffusion Approximation for Markov Processes -- Extremal Principles and Catastrophe Theory for Stochastic Models of Nonlinear Irreversible Processes -- IV. The Problem of Phenomenological Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics -- Irreversible Thermodynamics far from Equilibrium -- On the Structuring of Thermodynamic Fluxes: A Direct Implementation of the Dissipation Inequality -- Axiomatic Models of Phenomenological Thermodynamics -- Axiomatic Approach to Irreversible Thermodynamics and Variational Principles -- The Second Lyapunov Method and The Variational Principle -- V. Ecology and Populations -- The Rate of Correlation Decay in One-Dimensional Ecological Models -- Kinetics and Nonequilibrium Processes and Ecology -- Mathematical Modelling of Biocenosis on the Basis of Haldane-Semevsky Principle -- Natural Selection and Optimality Principles -- Statistical Thermodynamic Model of Stationary Population -- VI. Reaction of Organisms to External Factors -- Effects of External Influences on the Types of Transition Processes Observed in the Energy Metabolism of Organisms -- Rate of Temperature Adaptation of Respiratory Metabolism in Soil Invertebrates -- Relationship Between Maximal Metabolism, Body Weight and Standard Metabolism of Animals -- Kinetics of Transition Processes in Living Systems - Load, Adaptation, Stability -- Dynamic Characteristics of Heat and Water Exchange in Man -- Relation of Stimuli Controlling Lung Ventilation During Transient and Stable Periods of Exercise -- VII. Ontogenesis -- Kinetics of Constitutive Processes During Development and Growth of Organisms -- Stochastic Description of Growth and Aging in Animals -- Thermodynamic Estimation of Development and Growth of Microorganisms -- Transition Process in Ontogenesis as a Characteristics of Changes in the Stability of Animals to External Influences -- On Specific Peculiarities of Transition Processes in Ontogenesis of Mammals -- Stable Orbitals and Transition Processes in the Models of Biological Systems -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index