Duong, M.N (2010) Death as a critical transition. Bachelor's Thesis, Biology.
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Abstract
Researchers have shown that in many complex systems there are certain points in which a minor perturbation can trigger a drastic irreversible change. These are so-called critical transitions. Research has yielded important cues that have been suggested as indicators of whether a system is getting close to a critical transition. The most important indicator that occurs before bifurcations that cause a critical transition is known as critical slowing down. A consequence of slowing down is that the variation and the rate in fluctuation is increased. The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether death can be explained as a so-called critical transition. If death can be explained as a critical transition it is expected that the indications that occur before a critical transition will also occur before death. So we expect that indications such as critical slowing down, a slow recovery rate and an increase of variation will occur before death and with accelerated senescence. This study show that there are promising indications that death can be explained as a critical transition. However more data and research is needed for conformation.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis) |
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| Degree programme: | Biology |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2018 07:31 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2018 07:31 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/9266 |
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