Fractal Structures in Biological Systems -- Mandelbrot’s Fractals and the Geometry of Life: A Tribute to Benoît Mandelbrot on his 80th Birthday -- Gas Diffusion through the Fractal Landscape of the Lung: How Deep Does Oxygen Enter the Alveolar System? -- Is the Lung an Optimal Gas Exchanger? -- 3D Hydrodynamics in the Upper Human Bronchial Tree: Interplay between Geometry and Flow Distributi…
This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research. More broadly, the content is linked to the realities of living speech through a connection (via the concept of diacriticity) with the Merleau-Pontian phenomenology, and beyond the formal determinations of a semiolinguistic…