Weber's law modeled by the mathematical description of a beam balance.

Abstract:

:A beam balance is analyzed as a model that describes Weber's law. The mathematical derivations of the torques on a beam balance produce a description that is strictly compatible with that law. The natural relationship of the beam balance model to Weber's law provides for an intuitive understanding of the relationship of Weber's law to sensory and receptor systems. Additionally, this model may offer a simple way to compute perturbations that result from unequal effects on coupled steady-state systems. A practical outgrowth from this work is that a relatively simple mathematical description models sensory phenomena and may aid in the understanding of sensory and receptor systems.

journal_name

Math Biosci

journal_title

Mathematical biosciences

authors

Lanzara RG

doi

10.1016/0025-5564(94)90083-3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-07-01 00:00:00

pages

89-94

issue

1

eissn

0025-5564

issn

1879-3134

pii

0025-5564(94)90083-3

journal_volume

122

pub_type

杂志文章
  • New perspectives on multilocus ancestry informativeness.

    abstract::We present an axiomatic approach for multilocus informativeness measures for determining the amount of information that a set of polymorphic genetic markers provides about individual ancestry. We then reveal several surprising properties of a decision-theoretic based measure that is consistent with the set of proposed...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2018.10.011

    authors: Tal O,Tran TD

    更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00

  • Random and non-random mating populations: Evolutionary dynamics in meiotic drive.

    abstract::Game theoretic tools are utilized to analyze a one-locus continuous selection model of sex-specific meiotic drive by considering nonequivalence of the viabilities of reciprocal heterozygotes that might be noticed at an imprinted locus. The model draws attention to the role of viability selections of different types to...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2015.10.013

    authors: Sarkar B

    更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00

  • Growth of necrotic tumors in the presence and absence of inhibitors.

    abstract::A mathematical model is presented for the growth of a multicellular spheroid that comprises a central core of necrotic cells surrounded by an outer annulus of proliferating cells. The model distinguishes two mechanisms for cell loss: apoptosis and necrosis. Cell loss due to apoptosis is defined to be programmed cell d...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0025-5564(96)00023-5

    authors: Byrne HM,Chaplin MA

    更新日期:1996-07-15 00:00:00

  • Analysis of a compartmental model of amyloid beta production, irreversible loss and exchange in humans.

    abstract::Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides, and in particular Aβ42, are found in senile plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. A compartmental model of Aβ production, exchange and irreversible loss was recently developed to explain the kinetics of isotope-labeling of Aβ peptides collected in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) following ...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2014.11.004

    authors: Elbert DL,Patterson BW,Bateman RJ

    更新日期:2015-03-01 00:00:00

  • Estimation of vaccine efficacy from epidemics of acute infectious agents under vaccine-related heterogeneity.

    abstract::A stochastic epidemic model is formulated for the study of the protective effects of vaccination in a population that is stratified by vaccine-related factors. The epidemic model is transformed into a counting process, and then martingale-based methods are used to provide estimators of vaccine efficacy and their varia...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0025-5564(93)90028-9

    authors: Longini IM Jr,Halloran ME,Haber M

    更新日期:1993-09-01 00:00:00

  • Optimization methods for decision making in disease prevention and epidemic control.

    abstract::This paper investigates problems of disease prevention and epidemic control (DPEC), in which we optimize two sets of decisions: (i) vaccinating individuals and (ii) closing locations, given respective budgets with the goal of minimizing the expected number of infected individuals after intervention. The spread of dise...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2013.09.007

    authors: Deng Y,Shen S,Vorobeychik Y

    更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00

  • A one-dimensional map to study multi-seasonal coffee infestation by the coffee berry borer.

    abstract::The coffee berry borer (CBB, Hypothenemus hampei) is the most serious insect pest of coffee worldwide; understanding the dynamics of its reproduction is essential for pest management. The female CBB penetrates the coffee berry, eats the seed, and reproduces inside it. A mathematical model of the infestation progress o...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2020.108530

    authors: Marcano M,Bose A,Bayman P

    更新日期:2021-01-21 00:00:00

  • Spatial Mendelian games.

    abstract::This paper considers complex models arising in sociobiology. These combine genetic and strategic aspects to model the effect of gene-linked strategies on the ability of individuals to survive to maturity, mate and produce offspring. Several important models considered in the literature are generalised and extended to ...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0025-5564(98)10011-1

    authors: Radcliffe J,Rass L

    更新日期:1998-08-01 00:00:00

  • Exploration of sexual dimorphism and inter-individual variability in multivariate parameter spaces for a pharmacokinetic compartment model.

    abstract::Pharmacokinetic models are particularly useful to study the underlying and complex physiological mechanisms contributing to clinical differences across patient subgroups or special populations. Unfortunately, the inherent variability of biological systems and knowledge gaps in physiological data limit confidence in mo...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2018.12.011

    authors: Scherholz ML,Androulakis IP

    更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00

  • Four-state models and regulation of contraction of smooth muscle. I. Physical considerations, stability, and solutions.

    abstract::Cyclic four-state models are frequently used in biology to represent a variety of molecular behaviors. A common experimental strategy to test such models is to follow the behavior of the real system after some of the rate constants are changed in a stepwise manner. We analyze the mathematical behavior of a simple exam...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0025-5564(92)90086-c

    authors: Lazalde CA,Barr L

    更新日期:1992-11-01 00:00:00

  • Yule-generated trees constrained by node imbalance.

    abstract::The Yule process generates a class of binary trees which is fundamental to population genetic models and other applications in evolutionary biology. In this paper, we introduce a family of sub-classes of ranked trees, called Ω-trees, which are characterized by imbalance of internal nodes. The degree of imbalance is de...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2013.08.008

    authors: Disanto F,Schlizio A,Wiehe T

    更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00

  • An analytical solution for percutaneous drug absorption: application and removal of the vehicle.

    abstract::The methods of Laplace transform were used to solve a mathematical model developed for percutaneous drug absorption. This model includes application and removal of the vehicle from the skin. A system of two linear partial differential equations was solved for the application period. The concentration of the medicinal ...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2005.07.002

    authors: Simon L,Loney NW

    更新日期:2005-10-01 00:00:00

  • Simulating patterns of excitation, repolarization and action potential duration with cardiac Bidomain and Monodomain models.

    abstract::Parallel numerical simulations of excitation and recovery in three-dimensional myocardial domains are presented. The simulations are based on the anisotropic Bidomain and Monodomain models, including intramural fiber rotation and orthotropic or axisymmetric anisotropy of the intra- and extra-cellular conductivity tens...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2005.04.003

    authors: Colli Franzone P,Pavarino LF,Taccardi B

    更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00

  • A competition model for viral inhibition of host cell proliferation.

    abstract::Some viruses encode proteins that promote cell proliferation while others, such as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), encode proteins that prevent cell division. It has been hypothesized that the selective advantage determining which strategy evolves depends on the ability of the virus to induce a cellular enviro...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0025-5564(00)00020-1

    authors: Holtea S,Emerman M

    更新日期:2000-07-01 00:00:00

  • Strategies for representing metabolic pathways within biochemical systems theory: reversible pathways.

    abstract::The search for systematic methods to deal with the integrated behavior of complex biochemical systems has over the past two decades led to the proposal of several theories of biochemical systems. Among the most promising is biochemical systems theory (BST). Recent comparisons of this theory with several others that ha...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/0025-5564(89)90066-7

    authors: Sorribas A,Savageau MA

    更新日期:1989-06-01 00:00:00

  • Infection dynamics in HIV-specific CD4 T cells: does a CD4 T cell boost benefit the host or the virus?

    abstract::Recent experimental data have shown that HIV-specific CD4 T cells provide a very important target for HIV replication. We use mathematical models to explore the effect of specific CD4 T cell infection on the dynamics of virus spread and immune responses. Infected CD4 T cells can provide antigen for their own stimulati...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2007.01.007

    authors: Wodarz D,Hamer DH

    更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00

  • An investigation of the combined effect of an annual mass gathering event and seasonal infectiousness on disease outbreak.

    abstract::In this paper, we investigate the effects of recurring mass gathering event on the spread of an epidemic. Mass gatherings take place when a large number of people from different locations visit a particular region during a short time period. Such activity plays a crucial role in the epidemic spread as traveling facili...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2019.03.006

    authors: Xu F,Connell McCluskey C

    更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00

  • Some exact solutions of a generalized Fisher equation related to the problem of biological invasion.

    abstract::The problem of biological invasion in a model single-species community is considered, the spatiotemporal dynamics of the system being described by a modified Fisher equation. For a special case, we obtain an exact solution describing self-similar growth of the initially inhabited domain. By comparison with numerical s...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0025-5564(01)00068-2

    authors: Petrovskii S,Shigesada N

    更新日期:2001-08-01 00:00:00

  • Material modeling of biofilm mechanical properties.

    abstract::A biofilm material model and a procedure for numerical integration are developed in this article. They enable calculation of a composite Young's modulus that varies in the biofilm and evolves with deformation. The biofilm-material model makes it possible to introduce a modeling example, produced by the Unified Multi-C...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2014.02.007

    authors: Laspidou CS,Spyrou LA,Aravas N,Rittmann BE

    更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00

  • Theory of the locomotion of nematodes: control of the somatic motor neurons by interneurons.

    abstract::The only animal of which the complete neural circuitry is known at the submicroscopical level is the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. This anatomical knowledge is complemented by functional insight from electrophysiological experiments in the related nematode Ascaris lumbricoides, which show that Ascaris motor neurons...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0025-5564(93)90033-7

    authors: Niebur E,Erdös P

    更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00

  • Evolution of natal dispersal in spatially heterogenous environments.

    abstract::Understanding the evolution of dispersal is an important issue in evolutionary ecology. For continuous time models in which individuals disperse throughout their lifetime, it has been shown that a balanced dispersal strategy, which results in an ideal free distribution, is evolutionary stable in spatially varying but ...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2016.11.003

    authors: Cantrell RS,Cosner C,Lou Y,Schreiber SJ

    更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00

  • Coherent potential approximation approach to electronic structure of DNA.

    abstract::The electronic structure of DNA is theoretically investigated by use of the coherent potential approximation. Even when the sequence of the four kinds of bases is nonperiodic, guanine block forms the persistent highest valence band edge, and adenine block forms the persistent lowest conduction band edge state. Accordi...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0025-5564(94)00118-5

    authors: Takeda K

    更新日期:1995-12-01 00:00:00

  • Spreading speeds as slowest wave speeds for cooperative systems.

    abstract::It is well known that in many scalar models for the spread of a fitter phenotype or species into the territory of a less fit one, the asymptotic spreading speed can be characterized as the lowest speed of a suitable family of traveling waves of the model. Despite a general belief that multi-species (vector) models hav...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2005.03.008

    authors: Li B,Weinberger HF,Lewis MA

    更新日期:2005-07-01 00:00:00

  • A new five-parameter Birnbaum-Saunders distribution for modeling bicoid gene expression data.

    abstract::An extended version of Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with five parameters is introduced. Theoretical aspects of five-parameter Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and the maximum likelihood estimation of parameters are presented. The reliability and applicability of the proposed distribution is evaluated using both simula...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2019.108275

    authors: Hassani H,Kalantari M,Entezarian MR

    更新日期:2020-01-01 00:00:00

  • Studying health histories of cancer: a new model connecting cancer incidence and survival.

    abstract::The results of recent experimental and epidemiological studies provide evidence on the connection between carcinogenesis, cancer progression, and aging. Existing models, however, are traditionally focused only on one of these aspects of health deterioration. In this paper, we derive a new model of cancer, which descri...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2008.12.007

    authors: Yashin AI,Akushevich I,Arbeev K,Akushevich L,Kulminski A,Ukraintseva S

    更新日期:2009-04-01 00:00:00

  • A class of phylogenetic networks reconstructable from ancestral profiles.

    abstract::Rooted phylogenetic networks provide an explicit representation of the evolutionary history of a set X of sampled species. In contrast to phylogenetic trees which show only speciation events, networks can also accommodate reticulate processes (for example, hybrid evolution, endosymbiosis, and lateral gene transfer). A...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2019.04.009

    authors: Erdős PL,Semple C,Steel M

    更新日期:2019-07-01 00:00:00

  • CXCR4 and CCR5 regulation and expression patterns on T- and monocyte-macrophage cell lineages: implications for susceptibility to infection by HIV-1.

    abstract::Chemokine receptor expression may vary dramatically among cell subsets. Therefore, the stage of differentiation and the lineage of CD4 cells may profoundly affect their susceptibility to infection by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). However, the mechanisms of coreceptor competition for association with HIV...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2005.01.002

    authors: Joly M,Pinto JM

    更新日期:2005-05-01 00:00:00

  • Modelling the role of CtfA/B in reverse shift continuous culture experiments of Clostridium acetobutylicum.

    abstract::In continuous phosphate-limited conditions, under pH control from high pH (pH ≳ 5.2) to low pH (pH ≲ 5.2), the metabolism of the Gram-positive bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum,switches from acid to solvent production. Three main enzymes are responsible for the shift, acetoacetate decarboxylase (Adc), alcohol dehyd...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2016.03.003

    authors: Thorn GJ,King JR

    更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00

  • Spatial synchrony in host-parasitoid models using aggregation of variables.

    abstract::We consider a host-parasitoid system with individuals moving on a square grid of patches. We study the effects of increasing movement frequency of hosts and parasitoids on the spatial dynamics of the system. We show that there exists a threshold value of movement frequency above which spatial synchrony occurs and the ...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2006.03.019

    authors: Nguyen-Huu T,Lett C,Auger P,Poggiale JC

    更新日期:2006-10-01 00:00:00

  • Biological growth on a surface.

    abstract::A new biological growth model is introduced. After random selection of possible growth sites, cells are added in an allowable random direction. Unlike the Eden model, the current model is grid independent and can be adapted to any curved surface. Growths of colonies of as many as 10(5) cells are simulated on planar, c...

    journal_title:Mathematical biosciences

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0025-5564(97)00012-6

    authors: Wang CY,Bassingthwaighte JB

    更新日期:1997-06-01 00:00:00