Structured Population Models In Biology And Epidemiology

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ISBN 10: 3540782729 / ISBN 13: 9783540782728

Verlag: Springer, 2008

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Structured Population Models In Biology And Epidemiology
• Verlag: Springer
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3540782729
• ISBN-13: 9783540782728
• Bindung: Softcover
• Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe

In this new century mankind faces ever more challenging environmental and publichealthproblems,suchaspollution,invasionbyexoticspecies,theem- gence of new diseases or the emergence of diseases into new regions (West Nile virus,SARS,Anthrax,etc.),andtheresurgenceofexistingdiseases(in?uenza, malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, etc.). Mathematical models have been successfully used to study many biological, epidemiological and medical problems, and nonlinear and complex dynamics have been observed in all of those contexts. Mathematical studies have helped us not only to better understand these problems but also to ?nd solutions in some cases, such as the prediction and control of SARS outbreaks, understanding HIV infection, and the investi- tion of antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals. Structuredpopulationmodelsdistinguishindividualsfromoneanother- cording to characteristics such as age, size, location, status, and movement, to determine the birth, growth and death rates, interaction with each other and with environment, infectivity, etc. The goal of structured population models is to understand how these characteristics a?ect the dynamics of these models and thus the outcomes and consequences of the biological and epidemiolo- cal processes. There is a very large and growing body of literature on these topics. This book deals with the recent and important advances in the study of structured population models in biology and epidemiology. There are six chapters in this book, written by leading researchers in these areas.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pierre Magal is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Le Havre, France. He received the Ph.D. degree (1996) in applied mathematics from the University of Pau, France and the HDR (2003) in applied mathematics from the University of Le Havre, France. His research interests include semigroup theory, population dynamics, and mathematical biology.

Shigui Ruan is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA. He received the Ph.D. degree (1992) in applied mathematics from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He was a Junior Fellow at the Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada in1992-1993 and a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada in 1993-1994. From 1994 to 2002, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. His research interests are Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Mathematical Biology.