Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
News and Views
Nature 387, 655-657 (12 June 1997) |
Open Innovation Challenges
-
Optimizing Sub-cellular Localization Tags
The Seeker is looking for methods to optimize sub-cellular localization tags for protein expression....
-
Methods of Modeling Adaptation in Populations
The analysis of adaptation with a population is a frequently encountered computational modeling scen...
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Gastrointestinal Pathologist
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Boston, MA
Organic Chemistry
- Praj Matrix - Praj Industries Ltd
- Pune, Maharashtra Pune-411021 India
Mathematics: The restless heart of a spiral
Arun V. Holden1
Rotating spiral waves occur in a variety of two-dimensional systems that all share the property of excitability. A spiral wave has wave-like and particle-like properties — it pervades the medium and has a phase, but it also has a position, given by the coordinates of its tip.
- Arun V. Holden is at the Centre for Nonlinear Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
e-mail: Email: arun@cbiol.leeds.ac.uk
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
