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A note on biological periodicities

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The approximation method for solving diffusion problems is generalized to enable computation not only of the fundamental frequency, but also of higher harmonics in certain types of periodic solutions.

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Rashevsky, N. A note on biological periodicities. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 10, 201–204 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02477501

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