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Supply-demand balance in outward-directed networks and Kleiber's law

BACKGROUND: Recent theories have attempted to derive the value of the exponent α in the allometric formula for scaling of basal metabolic rate from the properties of distribution network models for arteries and capillaries. It has recently been stated that a basic theorem relating the sum of nutrien...

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Autor principal: Painter, Page R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16283939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4682-2-45