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		INDEX

		A

		action potentials 84-87, 144-147

		air 156

		airways 14, 22, 40, 62

		Albano 197, 199

		Amit 249

		anti-persistence 90

		art 173, 189

		arteries 14, 22, 66-70, 88

		atmosphere 156

		ATP 180-185

		attractors

		definition 132, 133

		dimension 134-137, 142, 143

		logistic 123, 127, 134, 135, 142, 143

		Lorenz 131-135, 158, 159, 166, 167

		strange 132, 158, 166-169

		auditory nerve cells 84-87, 140, 141

		average (see mean, sample)

		average directions in phase space 218, 219

		Avnir 111

		B

		Babloyantz 197, 199

		bacterial colonies 68

		bad news 206

		Bak 249

		balls 50, 52, 56

		Barnsley 111

		Barrett 97

		Bashore 199

		Bassingthwaighte 89, 99, 111, 241

		Belair 145, 147

		Bernoulli

		Daniel 78

		Niklaus 78

		Bhargava 97

		bifurcation diagram 178, 179, 184, 185

		bifurcations (see chaos, bifurcations)

		Billah 203

		biological implications

		chaos

		analyzing data 222

		bifurcations 188

		control of chaos 232, 234

		phase space 152

		sensitivity to initial conditions 172

		fractals

		dimension 70

		scaling 42

		self-similarity 24

		statistical properties 102, 104

		Birdsall 203

		Block 57

		blood flow 88, 89, 100

		blood vessels

		body 22, 68

		heart 88, 89

		lungs 66-68

		retina 14, 15, 68, 70

		Boca Raton, FL 126

		bone 68

		books

		(see fractals, references, suggested)

 

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