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close this bookThe Impact of Chaos on Science and Society (UNU, 1997, 415 pages)
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Open this folder and view contents3. Is the EEG a strange attractor? Brain stem neuronal discharge patterns and electroencephalographic rhythms
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Open this folder and view contents9. Impact of high-dimensional chaos: A further step towards dynamical complexity
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Open this folder and view contents11. Dynamical disease - The impact of nonlinear dynamics and chaos on cardiology and medicine
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Contributors

Kazuyuki Aihara, Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo

Steven R. Bishop, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications, University College London, London

Michele Boldrin, Departamento de economia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid

David K. Campbell, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana

Mingzhou Ding, Centre for Complex Systems and Department of Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Department of Physics, Rockefeller University, New York

Leon Glass, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal

Celso Grebogi, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Hao Bai-lin, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Beijin

Kensuke Ikeda, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu

Kunihiko Kaneko, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo

V. I. Keilis-Borok, Russian Academy of Sciences, International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Moscow

Bruce E. Kendall, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

Arnold J. Mandell, Department of Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

Gottfried Meyer-Kress, Center for Complex Systems, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana

Renate Mayntz, Max-Planck-Institut, Cologne

Lars F. Olsen, Institute of Biochemistry, Odense University, Odense

David Pierre Ruelle, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette

W. M. Schaffer, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson

Karen A. Selz, Laboratory of Experimental and Constructive Mathematics, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

Antonio Speranza, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Dipartimento per i servizi tecnici nazionali, Roma

C. W. Tidd, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson

Yoshisuke Ueda, Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto

James A. Yorke, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland