Biological Motion Proceedings of a Workshop held in Königswinter, Germany, March 16-19, 1989 - Alt, Wolfgang; Hoffmann, Gerhard; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1990)
Motion of Cell or Body Parts -- Quantifying Cellular Shape Using Moment Invariants -- Analysis of Leucocyte Shape Changes -- Images of Cells Changing Shape: Pseudopods, Skeletons and Motile Behaviour -- Continuity of Movement and Preservation of Architecture during Cell Locomotion -- Periodic Contraction Waves in Cytoplasmic Extracts -- Motion Analysis of Intracellular Objects: Trajectories with and without Visible Tracks -- Centrin-Mediated Cell Motility in Eukariotic Cells -- Descriptive and Mechanistic Models of Flagellar Motility -- Discrete Nature of Flagellar Bending Detected by Digital Image Analysis -- An Approach to Quantitative Analysis and Modelling of Three-Dimensional Ciliary Motion -- Bioelectric Control of the Ciliary Cycle -- Ca-Mg Control of Ciliary Motion: A Quantitative Model Study -- Modelling the Control of Walking in Insects -- Coordination of Contralateral Legs in Walking Crayfish -- Flight Manoeuvres of Locusts -- How a Fish's Brain May Move a Fish's Body -- Locomotion of Single Organisms -- Correlation Analysis of Two-Dimensional Locomotion Paths -- Paths of Carabid Beetles Walking in the Absence of Orienting Stimuli and the Time Structure of their Motor Output -- Microzooplankton Feeding Behavior and the Levy Walk -- Adaptation and Orientation in Animals' Movements: Random Walk, Kinesis, Taxis and Path-Integration -- The Site Independent Information that an Isopod Uses for Homing -- A Simulation Model of Foraging Excursions in Intertidal Chitons -- How to Describe the Search of a Predator for Patchily Distributed Prey? -- Tracking of Flagellates by Image Analysis -- Helical Orientation - A Novel Mechanism for the Orientation of Microorganisms -- Motile Behaviour and Determination of the Magnetic Moment of Magnetic Bacteria in Rotating Magnetic Fields -- Chemokinesis, Chemotaxis and Galvanotaxis Dose-Response Curves and Signal Chains -- Models of Chemical Gradient Sensing by Cells -- Endothelial Cell Chemotaxis in Angiogenesis -- A Model for Trail Following in Ants: Individual and Collective Behaviour -- Definition and Measurement of Cell Migration Coefficients -- Signals for Chemotaxis and Chemokinesis in Cells of Dictyostelium Discoideum -- Distinction Between Kinesis and Taxis in Terms of System Theory -- Collective Motion -- Functional Self-Organisation Illustrated by Inter-Nest Traffic in Ants: The Case of the Argentine Ant -- Simulations of the Gliding Behavior and Aggregation of Myxobacteria -- A One Dimensional Model for the Swarming Behavior of Myxobacteria -- From Cell to Tissue; Contact Mediated Orientation Selection in a Population -- The Movement of Fish Schools: A Simulation Model.
Keywords: Mathematics; Mathematics, general