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Download or read book Unsolved Problems of Noise and Fluctuations written by Sergey M. Bezrukov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All papers in this proceedings volume were peer reviewed. The purview of this third conference was shifted toward biology and medicine. Among the topics covered were: the constructive role of noise in the central nervous system, neuronal networks, and sensory transduction (hearing in humans, photo- and electroreception in marine animals), encoding of information into nerve pulse trains, single molecules and noise (including single molecule detection and characterization by nanopores - molecular "Coulter counting"), concepts of noise in neurophysiology (randomness and order in brain and heart electrical activities under normal conditions and in pathology), the role of noise in genetic regulation and gene expression, biosensors, etc.