A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media: From Physics to Biology and Social Sciences Book

	Quantum Chaos in Rydberg Atoms	1
	Crystallization of Electrons and Holes	19
	Natural Patterns in Nonequilibrium Systems	31
	Linear Aspects of the Faraday Instability	45
	On Curved Cellular Flames	61
	Nonlinear Flow Behavior and Shear-Induced Structure of Fluids	75
	Experimental Study of Horizontally Shaken Granular Matter - The Swelling Effect	96
	On Relaxational Granular Compaction	110
	From Microscopic to Macroscopic Traffic Models	122
	The Modelling Concept of Sociodynamics	140
	The Morphogenesis of Dictyostelium Discoideum - Pattern Formation in a Biological Excitable System	163
	Path Optimization in Chemical and Biological Systems on the Basis of Excitation Waves	179
	BSE Viewed Dynamically: A Possible Early Cure Based on Passive Immunization Against PrP[superscript Sc]	192
	Molecular Semiotic Structures in the Cellular Immune System: Key to Dynamics and Spatial Patterning?	197
	Molecular Evolutionary Dynamics	207
	The Retinal Spreading Depression: A Model for Nonlinear Behavior of the Brain	227
	An Analytically Solvable Model of Collective Excitation Patterns in Cortical Tissue	244
	Interaction of Meandering Spiral Waves in Active Media	271
	Spatiotemporal Patterns in a Passivating Electrochemical System	283
	Instabilities of Pollutant Concentrations in the Troposphere Due to Chemical Reactions	292
	Hydrodynamic Singularities	305
	Disordered Structures Analyzed by the Theory of Markov Processes	313
	Transition to Turbulence in Shear Flows	327
	Deformation of Charge Density Waves in Quasi-One-Dimensional Semiconductors Visualized by Scanning Electron Microscopy	339
	Probing Nonlinear Carrier Transport in Semi- and Superconductors via Low-Temperature Scanning Laser Microscopy	348
	Nonlinear Spatiotemporal Emission Dynamics of Broad Area Laser Diodes	362
	Gravitational Slowing Down of Clocks Implies Proportional Size Increase	370