报告学者：Bruce J. West

报告者单位：North Carolina State University

报告时间：2024年7月6日（周六）8:40-9:15

报告地点：红果园三层多功能厅 

报告摘要：Hypothesis: An injured or diseased organ-network (ON), such as the brain, heart or lungs, can be rehabilitated to a healthy level of functionality using a complexity synchronization (CS) protocol. The CS-protocol is to systematically drive a compromised ON by a second, eal or simulated, sender-ON signal having the healthy multifractal dimension (MFD) properties of the receiver-ON being rehabilitated.

This will be an overview of the important concepts supporting a remarkable method of non-invasive rehabilitation therapy called Crucial Event Rehabilitation Therapy (CERT). We review Renewal Theory statistics and refine it to the statistics of Crucial Events (CEs) which is he basis of all inverse power law (IPL) fluctuations of healthy physiologic signals. These signals are CE time series (CETS) generated by the organ-networks (ONs) that constitute the network-of-ONs (NoONs) that is the human body. It is shown that the scaling indices of the CETS of the heart, lungs and brain synchronize with one another, a process dubbed complexity synchronization (CS). The fractional calculus is used to establish the nature of scaling statistics necessary to establish the lock-on process between CETS that is depicted for interacting CETS. Each of the CETS generated by the physiologic triad named above has their individual complexity quantified by a time-dependent IPL scaling index δ_j(t), j=1,2,..,66. The scaling probability density function (PDF) P(x,t)=F(x/t^δ_j^(t))/t^δ_j^(t) quantifies the multifractal dimension (MFD) of the CETS. All 66 members of the triad generate MFDTS so that maximum information is exchanged between interacting ONs due to the multifractal nature of the scaling indices. 

简介：Dr. Bruce J. West retired as Chief Scientist in Mathematical from the US Army Research Office 07/01/21 after 22 years. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester 1970. Over nearly a 50 year career he has published 23 books, in excess of 300 scientific articles in referred scientific journals and magazines, garnering over 25K citations with an h-factor of 75. Before coming to ARO Dr. West was Professor of Physics, University of North Texas, 1989-1999; Chair of the Department of Physics 1989-1993. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society 1992; he received the Decker Scholar Award 1993; the UNT President’s Award for research 1994; Army R & D Achievement Award 2010; ARL Publication Award in 2003 and 2010; Army Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award, 2011; the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award 2012; elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012; the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award 2017.