Title Page -- Contents -- Part I: Methodology and Modelling -- CHAPTER 1: Spectral Analysis of Fluctuations in Heart Rate and Blood Pressure -- CHAPTER 2: Techniques for Studying Short-Term Changes in Cardio-Respiratory. Data, II -- CHAPTER 3: Assessing Variability in Cardiovascular Series during Autonomic Tests -- CHAPTER 4: The Wide Band Spectral Analysis: A New Insight Into Modulation of Blood Pressure, Heart Rate and Baroreflex Sensitivity -- CHAPTER 5: State-Dependency of Cardiovascular Dynamics during Sleep and Wakefulness -- CHAPTER 6: 1/f Fluctuations of the Biological Rhythm -- CHAPTER 7: Multi-Variate Identification and Spectral Decomposition for the Assessment of Cardiovascular Control -- CHAPTER 8: The Baromodulation Hypothesis, Baroreflex Resetting and One-over-f Blood Pressure Spectra -- CHAPTER 9: Respiratory Modulation of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Studied with a Computer Model of Baroreflex Control -- CHAPTER 10: Computer Modelling the Dynamics of the Circulation under Gravitational Stress -- Part II: Applications in Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathophysiology -- CHAPTER 11: Non-Neural vs Neural Factors in the Genesis of Respiratory -Induced Heart Rate Variability of Heart Transplanted Subjects -- CHAPTER 12: Comparison of Heart Rate Spectral Analysis with Cardiac Noradrenaline Spillover and Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Human Subjects -- CHAPTER 13: Rhythmic Vasomotion in Intact Human Muscular Arteries -- CHAPTER 14: Control of Blood Pressure Variability by the Endothelium -- CHAPTER 15: Contribution of the Renin-Angiotensin System to Blood Pressure Variability Mechanisms: A Spectral Study -- CHAPTER 16: Daily-Life Baroreflex Modulation: New Perspectives from Computer Analysis of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Variability