Mesarovic M D Ed (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xii, 403 pp; illus. Original cloth. Ink stamp on top edge and vertical edge of pages, else Very Good+, in very good+ dust jacket (unclipped). Contents: T.H. Waterman : Systems theory and biology, view of a biologist - D.F. Bradley : Multi-level systems and biology, view of a submolecular biologist - M.D. Mesarovic : Systems theory and biology, view of a theoretician - Benno Hess : Biochemical regulations - Barbara E. Wright : Differentiation in the cellular slime mold - R. Langer, K. Krohn and J. Rhodes : Transformations, semigroups, and metabolism - F.E. Yates, R.D. Brennan, J. Urquhart and C.C. Lt W. Halpern : A continuous system model of adrenocortical function - D. Gann, J.D. Schoeffler and Lee Ostrander : A finite state model for the control of adrenal corticosteroid secretion - Formulation of finite state models of biological control systems - R.E. Kalman : New developments in system theory relevant to biology - M. Singer : Some quantitative aspects concerning the trophic role of the nerve cell - R.K. Josephson : Functional components of systems controlling behavior in some primitive animals - M. Scheibel and A. Scheibel : The brain stem core, an integrative matrix - W.L. Kilmer, W.S. McCulloch and J. Blum : Some mechanisms for a theory of the reticular formation (pp. 286-375) - P.K. Anokhin: The functional system as a unit of organism integrative activity. …