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It has been shown repeatedly that, beyond a threshold of a certain parameter, cooperativity leads to a coherent behaviour of a macroscopic system. In other words, the coherent behaviour of a few degrees of freedom predominates the overall situation.
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Tomita, K. (1973). A Model for Muscle Contraction. In: Haken, H. (eds) Synergetics. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-01511-6_19
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