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Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Volume II Epidemiology, Evolution and Ecology, Immunology, Neural Systems and the Brain, and Innovative Mathematical Methods /

This two-volume, interdisciplinary work is a unified presentation of a broad range of state-of-the-art topics in the rapidly growing field of mathematical modeling in the biological sciences. Highlighted throughout both works are mathematical and computational approaches to examine central problems...

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Other Authors: Deutsch, Andreas. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bravo de la Parra, Rafael. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), de Boer, Rob J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Diekmann, Odo. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jagers, Peter. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kisdi, Eva. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kretzschmar, Mirjam. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lansky, Petr. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Metz, Hans. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology,
Subjects:
Biomathematics.
Mathematical models.
Bioinformatics.
Immunology.
Epidemiology.
Applied mathematics.
Engineering mathematics.
Mathematical and Computational Biology.
Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.
Applications of Mathematics.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4556-4
Table of Contents:
  • Epidemiology
  • Could Low-Efficacy Malaria Vaccines Increase Secondary Infections in Endemic Areas?
  • Modeling of the Invasion of a Fungal Disease over a Vineyard
  • An Algorithm for Parameter Estimation in Nosocomial Infections
  • Evolution and Ecology
  • Evolutionarily Stable Investment in Anti-Predatory Defences and Aposematic Signalling
  • The Tangled Nature Model of Evolutionary Ecology: An Overview
  • Relative Advantage and Fundamental Theorems of Natural Selection
  • Competitive Exclusion Between Year-Classes in a Semelparous Biennial Population
  • On the Impact ofWinter Conditions on the Dynamics of an Isolated Population
  • Planning for Biodiversity Conservation Using Stochastic Programming
  • A Diffusion-Reaction Model of a Mixed-Culture Biofilm Arising in Food Safety Studies
  • The Periodical Population Dynamics of Lottery Models Including the Effect of Undeveloped Seeds
  • Immunology
  • An Automata-Based Microscopic Model Inspired by Clonal Expansion
  • Th1–Th2 Regulation and Allergy: Bifurcation Analysis of the Non-Autonomous System
  • Architecture of Randomly Evolving Idiotypic Networks
  • Analysis of Infectious Mortality by Means of the Individualized Risk Model
  • Neural Systems and the Brain
  • Neuromorphological Phenotyping in Transgenic Mice: A Multiscale Fractal Analysis
  • A Quantitative Model of ATP-Mediated Calcium Wave Propagation in Astrocyte Networks
  • Dynamics of Neural Fields with Distributed Transmission Speeds
  • Estimation of Differential Entropy for Positive Random Variables and Its Application in Computational Neuroscience
  • Dynamics of Integrate-and-Fire Models
  • A Monte Carlo Method Used for the Identification of the Muscle Spindle
  • Mechanisms of Coincidence Detection in the Auditory Brainstem: Examples
  • Multi-Scale Analysis of Brain Surface Data
  • The Spike Generation Processes: A Case for Low Level Computation
  • Innovative Mathematical Methods and Education
  • Offdiagonal Complexity: A Computationally Quick Network Complexity Measure—Application to Protein Networks and Cell Division
  • An Analytically Solvable Asymptotic Model of Atrial Excitability
  • A Bayesian Approach to the Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • A Model of Poplar (Populus sp.) Physiology and Morphology Based on Relational Growth Grammars
  • Asymptotic Behavior of a Two-Dimensional Keller–Segel Model with and without Density Control
  • Saturation Effects in Population Dynamics: Use Branching Processes or Dynamical Systems?
  • Modelling and Simulation by Stochastic Interacting Particle Systems
  • Teaching Mathematical Biology in a Summer School for Undergraduates.

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