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First published online August 3, 2006
Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 3045-3054 (2006)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2006
doi: 10.1242/jeb.02362
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A critical understanding of the fractal model of metabolic scaling

José Guilherme Chaui-Berlinck

Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão tr. 14, 321, CEP: 05508-900, São Paulo/SP, Brazil


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  		Fig. 1. Schematic view of the logical structure of the fractal model. Black boxes contain the causal core of the model, namely its three premises (i-iii), mass conservation (C.a) and scaling (C.b). The three primary independent consequences (PIC) WBE obtain by combining elements from the causal core are shown in red, green and blue boxes. Arrows `SIC 1' to `SIC 4' indicate the secondary independent consequences WBE need to prove from the core. Then, another step of combining boxes is done by WBE to obtain a simplified equation of the circulating fluid from WBEeq. 4. A final round of merging PICs and SICs boxes is needed to obtain the putative scaling exponent a, in WBEeq. 5. Notice, also, that PIC 3 `re-enters' the causal core in the energy minimization proposed by WBE, by means of a `volume restriction' term. This is discussed in section 2.

 

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