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Nonlinear effects in life sciences

Tomasz Kapitaniak and Sajad Jafari

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800104-6

Does the onset of epileptic seizure start from a bifurcation point?

Fahimeh Nazarimehr, Seyed Mohammad Reza Hashemi Golpayegani and Boshra Hatef

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800013-1

Smooth control of HIV/AIDS infection using a robust adaptive scheme with decoupled sliding mode supervision

Hadi Jahanshahi

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800016-7

Monostability, bistability, periodicity and chaos in gene regulatory network

Qiang Lai, Xiao-Wen Zhao, Jian-Ning Huang, Viet-Thanh Pham and Karthikeyan Rajagopal

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-700132-8

Chaos control in biological system using recursive backstepping sliding mode control

Piyush Pratap Singh, Kshetrimayum Milan Singh and Binoy Krishna Roy

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800023-6

Stochastic switching in systems with rare and hidden attractors

Nataliya Stankevich, Erik Mosekilde and Aneta Koseska

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800012-7

Signal transmission by autapse with constant or time-periodic coupling intensity in the FitzHugh–Nagumo neuron

Yuangen Yao and Jun Ma

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800008-2

Effects of temperature and electromagnetic induction on action potential of Hodgkin–Huxley model

Lulu Lu, John Billy Kirunda, Ying Xu, Wenjing Kang, Run Ye, Xuan Zhan and Ya Jia

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-700140-1

Numerical analyses and breadboard experiments of twin attractors in two-neuron-based non-autonomous Hopfield neural network

Quan Xu, Zhe Song, Hui Qian, Mo Chen, Pingye Wu and Bocheng Bao

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-700122-3

Brain-like large scale cognitive networks and dynamics

Francesca Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta, Maria Carmela Lombardo, Marco Sammartino and Pietro Pantano

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800021-6

Autaptic modulation-induced neuronal electrical activities and wave propagation on network under electromagnetic induction

Mengyan Ge, Ying Xu, Zhaokang Zhang, Yuxu Peng, Wenjing Kang, Lijian Yang and Ya Jia

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-700141-7

A Hopfield neural network with multiple attractors and its FPGA design

Karthikeyan Rajagopal, Jesus M. Munoz-Pacheco, Viet-Thanh Pham, Duy Vo Hoang, Fawaz E. Alsaadi and Fuad E. Alsaadi

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800018-7

Spatial patterns in a network composed of neurons with different excitabilities induced by autapse

Yuye Li, Bing Jia, Xiaoli Zhang and Yongxia Yang

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800006-2

Multistability and coexisting attractors in a fractional order Coronary artery system

Karthikeyan Rajagopal, Viet-Thanh Pham, Fawaz E. Alsaadi, Fuad E. Alsaadi, Anitha Karthikeyan and Prakash Duraisamy

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-700137-2

The collective dynamics of NF − κB in cellular ensembles - Cluster synchrony, splay states, and chimeras

Raviteja Donepudi and Ram Ramaswamy

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800014-7

The perception of entropy in rapidly moving sparse dot arrays: a nonlinear dynamic perspective - Nonlinear dynamical model of perception

Patrick Celka and Trevor Hine

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800020-0

Synchronization structure of evolving epileptic networks using cross-entropy

Abner Cardoso Rodrigues, Luis Otavio Sales Ferreira Caboclo, Hilda Alicia Cerdeira, Edson Amaro Jr. and Birajara Soares Machado

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800015-1

Influence of non-Gaussian noise on a tumor growth system under immune surveillance

Lin Du, Qin Guo and Zhongkui Sun

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-700136-8

Synchronization in a fractional-order model of pancreatic β-cells

E. Zambrano-Serrano, J.M. Muñoz-Pacheco, L.C. Gómez-Pavón, A. Luis-Ramos and G. Chen

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800017-1

Extreme events in epileptic EEG of rodents after ischemic stroke

A.N. Pisarchik, V.V. Grubov, V.A. Maksimenko, A. Lüttjohann, N.S. Frolov, C. Marqués-Pascual, D. Gonzalez-Nieto, M.V. Khramova and A.E. Hramov

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800019-1

Design of high-accuracy eight-channel surface electromyography acquisition system and its application

Chao Mi, Tiantong Zhou, Bin Wei, Yi Wang and Ling Zou

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800001-8

Fractional fuzzy entropy algorithm and the complexity analysis for nonlinear time series

Shaobo He, Kehui Sun and Rixing Wang

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-700098-x

Spiral attractors as the root of a new type of “bursting activity” in the Rosenzweig–MacArthur model

Yulia V. Bakhanova, Alexey O. Kazakov, Alexander G. Korotkov, Tatiana A. Levanova and Grigory V. Osipov

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800025-6

Bifurcations, chaos and synchronization of a predator–prey system with Allee effect and seasonally forcing in prey’s growth rate

Afef Ben Saad and Olfa Boubaker

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800022-0

Diffusion induced spiral wave chimeras in ecological system

Srilena Kundu, Soumen Majhi, Paulsamy Muruganandam and Dibakar Ghosh

Published online: 19 October 2018

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-800011-1

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Nonlinear Effects in Life Sciences

Nonlinear effects in life sciences

Does the onset of epileptic seizure start from a bifurcation point?

Smooth control of HIV/AIDS infection using a robust adaptive scheme with decoupled sliding mode supervision

Monostability, bistability, periodicity and chaos in gene regulatory network

Chaos control in biological system using recursive backstepping sliding mode control

Stochastic switching in systems with rare and hidden attractors

Signal transmission by autapse with constant or time-periodic coupling intensity in the FitzHugh–Nagumo neuron

Effects of temperature and electromagnetic induction on action potential of Hodgkin–Huxley model

Numerical analyses and breadboard experiments of twin attractors in two-neuron-based non-autonomous Hopfield neural network

Brain-like large scale cognitive networks and dynamics

Autaptic modulation-induced neuronal electrical activities and wave propagation on network under electromagnetic induction

A Hopfield neural network with multiple attractors and its FPGA design

Spatial patterns in a network composed of neurons with different excitabilities induced by autapse

Multistability and coexisting attractors in a fractional order Coronary artery system

The collective dynamics of NF − κB in cellular ensembles - Cluster synchrony, splay states, and chimeras

The perception of entropy in rapidly moving sparse dot arrays: a nonlinear dynamic perspective - Nonlinear dynamical model of perception

Synchronization structure of evolving epileptic networks using cross-entropy

Influence of non-Gaussian noise on a tumor growth system under immune surveillance

Synchronization in a fractional-order model of pancreatic β-cells

Extreme events in epileptic EEG of rodents after ischemic stroke

Design of high-accuracy eight-channel surface electromyography acquisition system and its application

Fractional fuzzy entropy algorithm and the complexity analysis for nonlinear time series

Spiral attractors as the root of a new type of “bursting activity” in the Rosenzweig–MacArthur model

Bifurcations, chaos and synchronization of a predator–prey system with Allee effect and seasonally forcing in prey’s growth rate

Diffusion induced spiral wave chimeras in ecological system

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