Unified approach to growth and aging in biological, technical and biotechnical systems
Abstract
Complex systems, in many different scientific sectors, show coarse-grain properties with simple growth laws with respect to fundamental microscopic algorithms. We propose a classification scheme of growth laws which includes human aging, tumor (and/or tissue) growth, logistic and generalized logistic growth and the aging of technical devices. The proposed classification permits to evaluate the aging/failure of combined new bio-technical "manufactured products", where part of the system evolves in time according to biological-mortality laws and part according to technical device behaviors. Moreover it suggests a direct relation between the mortality leveling-off for humans and technical devices and the observed small cure probability for large tumors.
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@article{arxiv.1207.3680,
title = {Unified approach to growth and aging in biological, technical and biotechnical systems},
author = {P. Castorina and P. Blanchard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3680},
year = {2012}
}
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