 Fractals
"Fractals" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Patterns (real or mathematical) which look similar at different scales, for example the network of airways in the lung which shows similar branching patterns at progressively higher magnifications. Natural fractals are self-similar across a finite range of scales while mathematical fractals are the same across an infinite range. Many natural, including biological, structures are fractal (or fractal-like). Fractals are related to "chaos" (see NONLINEAR DYNAMICS) in that chaotic processes can produce fractal structures in nature, and appropriate representations of chaotic processes usually reveal self-similarity over time.
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D017709
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E05.599.125 G17.290
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fractals" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Fractals" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Fractals" by people in Profiles.
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Bishop SM, Yarham SI, Navapurkar VU, Menon DK, Ercole A. Multifractal analysis of hemodynamic behavior: intraoperative instability and its pharmacological manipulation. Anesthesiology. 2012 Oct; 117(4):810-21.
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Hove MJ, Suzuki K, Uchitomi H, Orimo S, Miyake Y. Interactive rhythmic auditory stimulation reinstates natural 1/f timing in gait of Parkinson's patients. PLoS One. 2012; 7(3):e32600.
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Dixon JA, Holden JG, Mirman D, Stephen DG. Multifractal dynamics in the emergence of cognitive structure. Top Cogn Sci. 2012 Jan; 4(1):51-62.
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Turzhitsky V, Radosevich AJ, Rogers JD, Mutyal NN, Backman V. Measurement of optical scattering properties with low-coherence enhanced backscattering spectroscopy. J Biomed Opt. 2011 Jun; 16(6):067007.
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Cavallari M, Falco T, Frontali M, Romano S, Bagnato F, Orzi F. Fractal analysis reveals reduced complexity of retinal vessels in CADASIL. PLoS One. 2011; 6(4):e19150.
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Mirny LA. The fractal globule as a model of chromatin architecture in the cell. Chromosome Res. 2011 Jan; 19(1):37-51.
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Tejedor V, Bénichou O, Voituriez R, Jungmann R, Simmel F, Selhuber-Unkel C, Oddershede LB, Metzler R. Quantitative analysis of single particle trajectories: mean maximal excursion method. Biophys J. 2010 Apr 7; 98(7):1364-72.
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Kolokotrones T, Deeds EJ, Fontana W. Curvature in metabolic scaling. Nature. 2010 Apr 1; 464(7289):753-6.
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Lin LY, Lo MT, Ko PC, Lin C, Chiang WC, Liu YB, Hu K, Lin JL, Chen WJ, Ma MH. Detrended fluctuation analysis predicts successful defibrillation for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 2010 Mar; 81(3):297-301.
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Waxman D, Stoletzki N. Scaling and fractal behaviour underlying meiotic recombination. Biosystems. 2010 Jan; 99(1):42-9.
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