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Record W2398487101 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511609725.025

Excitable media

2009· book-chapter· en· W2398487101 on OpenAlexaff
Rashmi C. Desai, Raymond Kapral

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2009
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSlime Mold and Myxomycetes Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExcitable mediumDictyostelium discoideumBreakupPhysicsTraveling waveChemistryContext (archaeology)Hopf bifurcationChemical physicsBiophysicsMechanicsBifurcationMathematicsBiologyQuantum mechanicsMathematical analysisBiochemistry

Abstract

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Excitable media are spatially distributed systems with a stable state that responds to perturbations in a distinctive way. If the normal resting state of the medium is perturbed sufficiently strongly, the perturbation is amplified before the system returns to the resting state. Such excitable media are commonly found in nature, and self-organized wave patterns in these systems control the behavior of many physical and biological systems (Zykov, 1987; Mikhailov, 1994; Kapral and Showalter, 1995). Surface catalytic oxidation reactions often proceed through the propagation of excitable waves of oxidation that sweep across the surface of the catalyst. The oxidation of CO on Pt surfaces has been especially well studied in this context (Ertl, 2000). In biological systems waves of this type occur in the aggregation stage of the slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum, where the chemical signaling is through periodic waves of cAMP; also, the Ca+2 waves in systems such as Xenopus laevis oocytes and pancreatic β cells fall into this category (Goldbeter, 1996). Electrochemical waves in cardiac and nerve tissue also depend on the excitability of the medium, and the appearance and/or breakup of spiral wave patterns (Fig. 24.1) are believed to be responsible for various types of arrhythmia in the heart (Winfree, 1987; Fenton et al., 2002; Clayton and Holden, 2004). Excitable waves have been extensively studied (Belmonte et al., 1997) for the BZ reaction, one of the first systems in which such waves were observed (Zaikin and Zhabotinsky, 1970; Winfree, 1972). Chemical waves in excitable media often take the form of spirals, and Fig. 24.2 shows spiral waves in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction under conditions where this chemical medium is excitable.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.735
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.186
Teacher spread0.165 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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