"Fractals" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Patterns (real or mathematical) which look similar at different scales, for example the network of airways in the lung which shows similar branching patterns at progressively higher magnifications. Natural fractals are self-similar across a finite range of scales while mathematical fractals are the same across an infinite range. Many natural, including biological, structures are fractal (or fractal-like). Fractals are related to "chaos" (see NONLINEAR DYNAMICS) in that chaotic processes can produce fractal structures in nature, and appropriate representations of chaotic processes usually reveal self-similarity over time.
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D017709
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.599.125 G17.290
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| 1995 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fractals" by people in Profiles.
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More random motor activity fluctuations predict incident frailty, disability, and mortality. Sci Transl Med. 2019 10 30; 11(516).
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Interaction between the progression of Alzheimer's disease and fractal degradation. Neurobiol Aging. 2019 11; 83:21-30.
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Fractal regulation and incident Alzheimer's disease in elderly individuals. Alzheimers Dement. 2018 09; 14(9):1114-1125.
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Can Tai Chi training impact fractal stride time dynamics, an index of gait health, in older adults? Cross-sectional and randomized trial studies. PLoS One. 2017; 12(10):e0186212.
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Association of the Fractal Dimension of Retinal Arteries and Veins with Quantitative Brain MRI Measures in HIV-Infected and Uninfected Women. PLoS One. 2016; 11(5):e0154858.
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Gait dynamics in Parkinson's disease: common and distinct behavior among stride length, gait variability, and fractal-like scaling. Chaos. 2009 Jun; 19(2):026113.
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Levels of complexity in scale-invariant neural signals. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2009 Apr; 79(4 Pt 1):041920.
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Gait dynamics, fractals and falls: finding meaning in the stride-to-stride fluctuations of human walking. Hum Mov Sci. 2007 Aug; 26(4):555-89.
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Quantifying fractal dynamics of human respiration: age and gender effects. Ann Biomed Eng. 2002 May; 30(5):683-92.
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Fractal dynamics in physiology: alterations with disease and aging. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Feb 19; 99 Suppl 1:2466-72.