Ingolf Lamprecht & A. I. Zotin 
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Biological Processes [PDF ebook] 

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