Living SystemsOffering a detailed analysis of each of the major aspects and characteristics encountered at all seven levels, Living Systems identifies multiple variables of each of 9 matter-energy and information-processing subsystems, the normal and pathological states of these variables, and practical indicators for measuring changes in them. It also specifies cross-level formal identities among the levels and describes the artifacts, machines, or technologies at each level. |
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... Receptor End Organs in Neural Cells. information processing . Certain excitable cells , how- ever , such as free - living cells , receptor cells , neurons , muscle fibers , and some glandular cells , are particu- larly specialized for ...
... Receptor End Organs in Neural Cells. information processing . Certain excitable cells , how- ever , such as free - living cells , receptor cells , neurons , muscle fibers , and some glandular cells , are particu- larly specialized for ...
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... Receptor cells . These cells are specialized to have a low threshold for one form of energy and to react not at all or only to very strong signals carried on other sorts of markers . It is not understood for any type of receptor cell ...
... Receptor cells . These cells are specialized to have a low threshold for one form of energy and to react not at all or only to very strong signals carried on other sorts of markers . It is not understood for any type of receptor cell ...
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... receptor cells to light , since for both the exponent is about 0.3 . Channel capacity . The channel capacity of a neuron or receptor cell seems fundamentally to be the channel capacity of the axon , which appears to transmit signif ...
... receptor cells to light , since for both the exponent is about 0.3 . Channel capacity . The channel capacity of a neuron or receptor cell seems fundamentally to be the channel capacity of the axon , which appears to transmit signif ...
Contents
Tables of the Critical Subsystems | xi |
Preface to the First Edition | xxvii |
Outline of Chapters 3 4 and 6 through 12 | xxxviii |
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