Descriptive Modeling of the Dynamical Systems and Determination of Feedback Homeostasis at Different Levels of Life

G N Zholtkevych1, K V Nosov2, Yu G Bespalov1

  • 1V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Svobody sqr., 4, Kharkiv, 61077, Ukraine.

Acta Biotheoretica
|May 26, 2018
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