Table of Contents

Cell Colonies.- Fractal Growth and Morphological Change in Bacterial Colony Formation.- Interfacial Pattern Formation in Biological Systems: Preliminary Observations During Growth of Bacterial Colonies.- Amoebae Aggregation in Dictyoselium Discoideum.- The Fractal Nature of Common Patterns.- Surface and Interfaces.- Study of Self-Affine Fractal Surfaces with STM.- Dynamic Scaling in Surface Growth Phenomena.- MBE Growth and Surface Diffusion.- Growth in Systems with Quenched Disorder.- Kinetic Roughening with Algebraically Distributed Noise Amplitudes or Waiting Times.- Anomalous Surface Roughening: Experiment and Models.- Waiting-Time Formulation of Surface Growth and Mapping to Directed Polymers in a Random Medium.- Scaling Far From Thermal Equilibrium.- Discrete Potential Flow Simulation of a Premixed Flame Front.- Fractal Landscapes in Physics and Biology.- Interface Kinetics and Oscillatory Growth in Directional Solidification of Binary Mixtures.- Locally Interacting Cell Systems as Models for Carcinogenesis.- Properties of the Morphologies Envelope in a Diffusion Limited Growth.- Growth Patterns in Zinc Electrodeposition.- Natural Viscous Fingering.- Fibonacci Sequences in Diffusion-Limited Aggregation.- Pattern Formation in Screened Electrostatic Fields: Growth in a Channel and in Two Dimensions.- Self Organized Criticality in Simple Growth Models.- Scaling Properties of Average Diffusion Limited Aggregation Clusters.- Topological Considerations on Finger Dynamics in the Saffman-Taylor Problem..- Adaptive Cluster Growth Models.- The Double Layer Impedance at Self-Similar Surfaces.- Multifractals.- Angiogenesis and Vascular Networks: Complex Anatomies from Deterministic Non-Linear Physiologies.- Mechanisms of Biological Pattern Formation and Constraints Imposed byGrowth..- Growth Patterns in Fracture.- On the Stability of Growth with a Threshold.- Evidence for Universality in Transients.- Cellular Patterns.- Micelles and Foams: 2-D Manifolds Arising from Local Interactions.- Simulating Radiate Accretive Growth Using Iterative Geometric Constructions..- Phyllotaxis as a Self-Organized Growth Process.- Multiplicative Noise in Domain Growth: Stochastic Ginzburg-Landau Equations..- Dynamical Systems.- Bursting Intermittency and Microwave Popcorn: Comments on the “Reporting Out” of Neuron-Like Firing behavior.- Order, Pattern Selection and Noise in Low Dimensional Systems.- Pattern Formation in Extended Continuous Systems.- Self Replication.- Role of Catalysis on the Evolution of Error-Prone Self-Replicative Molecules.- Molecular Quasi-Species in Hopfield Replication Landscapes.- Self Organization.- Effects of Noise on Self-Organized Critical Phenomena.- Measurement and Characterization.- The Practical Measurement of Fractal Parameters.

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