Mathematics in Biology and Medicine: Proceedings of an International Conference held in Bari, Italy, July 18-22, 1983 (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 57, Band 57) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540152008 ISBN 13: 9783540152002

Verlag: Springer-Verlag, 1985

Inhaltsangabe

I. - Population Genetics and Ecology.- Invited Papers.- The role of diffusion in mathematical population biology: Skellam revisited.- The dynamics of structured populations: some examples.- Mathematical problems in the description of age structured populations.- Contributed Papers.- Models for mutual attraction and aggregation of motile individuals.- A problem on invariant manifolds arising in population genetics.- On a mathematical problem arising in cell population biology.- The external memory of intertidal molluscs:a theoretical study of trail-following.- Stationary distributions for populations subject to random catastrophes.- A nonlinear diffusion equation in phytoplankton dynamics with self-shading effects.- A model of aphid population with age structure.- On two-population models with switching depletion.- On some nonlinear diffusion models in population dynamics.- Reduction of the gene Flow of a "neutral" linked gene due to the partial sterility of heterozygotes for a chromosome mutation.- Predator-mediated coexistence of competing species in a Volterra model.- On a nonlinear problem arising from interaction of algae with light.- II. - Epidemics.- Invited Papers.- Congenital rubella syndrome (C.R.S.): models of disease control by vaccination.- A simulation model for the control of helminth diseases by chemotherapy.- Models for endemic diseases.- Stochastic epidemics as point processes.- Contributed Papers.- A computer simulation program for the assessment of multistate epidemiological models of infectious diseases.- Mathematical model of hepatitis B.- Models of the interaction of host genotypes and infectious disease.- On the general epidemic model in discrete time.- Control of virus transmission in age-structured populations.- Parameter estimationand validation for an epidemic model.- Local stability in epidemic models for heterogeneous populations.- III. - Resource Management.- Invited Papers.- Bayesian methods in ecology and resource management.- Contributed Papers.- Stochastic differential equation models of fisheries in an uncertain world: extinction probabilities, optimal fishing effort, and parameter estimation.- IV. - Physiology and Medicine.- Invited Papers.- Experiment designs identification of simple and complex models of endocrine-metabolic systems.- A mathematical model for cardiac electric sources and related potential fields.- Mathematical analysis of immobilized enzyme systems.- Contributed Papers.- Modeling controls and variability of the cell cycle.- The phase resetting characteristics of endogenously active neurones.- Theory of DNA superhelicity.- Determination of DNA synthesis rate in cell populations with locally exponential S-phase influx.- A numerical study for a cell system.- Experimental validation of a mathematical procedure for the analysis of flow cytometric data.- A stochastic model for describing the space-time evolution of the extreme values of cardiac potentials on the chest surface.- Statistical analysis of the coding capacity of complementary DNA strands.- Mass transport across multimembrane systems: a general analysis.- Time hierarchy in oscillating metabolic systems.- Modeling of the interaction between ligands and cell membrane receptors in the presence of exogenous electric fields.- Balance of growth models of cell populations: the significance of simple mathematical considerations.- The age structure of populations of cells reproducing by asymmetric division.- Numerical simulation of reentry of the activation wave in the heart hiss bundle.- Hopf bifurcation and therepetitive activity of excitable cells.- Nonlinear evolution equations with a convolution term involved in some neurophysiological models.- Investigation of rapid metabolic reactions in whole organs by multiple pulse Labelling.- Cross-linking of identical particles by multiple ligand-types.- Enumeration of RNA secondary structures by complexity.- Growth of cell populations.- V. - Compartmental Analysis.-

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3540152008
• ISBN 13: 9783540152002
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 548
• Herausgeber: Capasso V.
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