Abstract:
:A simple model of Freeman and Johnson on cutaneous mechanoreceptors is modified by introducing mechanisms for hyperexcitation and refractoriness. These lead to significant improvements in the match between the neural and model data.
journal_name
Math Bioscijournal_title
Mathematical biosciencesauthors
Slavík P,Bell Jdoi
10.1016/0025-5564(94)00083-csubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1995-11-01 00:00:00pages
1-23issue
1eissn
0025-5564issn
1879-3134pii
002555649400083Cjournal_volume
130pub_type
杂志文章abstract::A mathematical analysis of the stability in human respiration, based on the tau-decomposition method, is conducted on a simple, but realistic CO2 model of the respiratory system. This model incorporates a two-compartment representation (lungs and tissues) for the plant and a very general class of controller. By derivi...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0025-5564(98)10028-7
更新日期:1998-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::This article examines the functional and clinical impact of time delays that arise in human physiological systems, especially control systems. An overview of the mathematical and physiological contexts for considering time delays will be illustrated, from the system level to cell level, by examining models that incorp...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2011.08.006
更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The effects of pulsatile GnRH stimulation on anterior pituitary cells are studied using perifusion cell cultures, where constantly moving culture medium over the immobilized cells allows intermittent GnRH delivery. The LH content of the outgoing medium serves as a readout of the GnRH signaling pathway activation in th...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2016.03.016
更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00
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
更新日期:1996-07-15 00:00:00
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
更新日期:2020-01-01 00:00:00
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
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Bone modeling and remodeling has been the subject of extensive experimental studies. There have been several mathematical models proposed to explain the observed behavior, as well. A different approach is taken here in which the bone is treated from a macroscopic view point. In this investigation, a one-dimensional an...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2010.12.008
更新日期:2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Beyond control measures imposed by public authorities, human behavioral changes can be triggered by uncoordinated responses driven by the risk perception of an emerging epidemic. In order to account for spontaneous social distancing, a model based on an evolutionary game theory framework is here proposed. Behavioral c...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2012.04.003
更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A simulation method is presented for the demographic and genetic variation of age structured haploid populations. First, we use matrix analytic methods to derive an equilibrium distribution for the age class sizes conditioned on the total population size. Knowledge of this distribution eliminates the need of a burn-in...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2015.08.003
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Multi-patch models - also known as metapopulation models - provide a simple framework within which the role of spatial processes in disease transmission can be examined. An n-patch model which distinguishes between k different classes of individuals is considered. The linear stability of spatially homogeneous solution...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2003.09.003
更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::A new epidemic model is developed that describes the spread of an infectious disease with fatal risk. The model includes as extreme cases the standard general epidemic process (for diseases that confer immunity after infection) and the fatal epidemic process (for diseases that lead inevitably to death). Both determini...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0025-5564(93)90019-7
更新日期:1993-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Stocks of commercial fish are often modelled using sampling data of various types, of unknown precision, and from various sources assumed independent. We want each set to contribute to estimates of the parameters in relation to its precision and goodness of fit with the model. Iterative re-weighting of the sets is pro...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2004.03.001
更新日期:2004-07-01 00:00:00
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
更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The goal of this article is to formulate and analyze the simplest logistic pair-formation model and to contrast its dynamics to that of the corresponding Malthusian pair-formation model, that is, a generalization of the Kendall-Keyfitz model. The Malthusian pair-formation model supports a unique nontrivial stable expo...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0025-5564(94)00077-d
更新日期:1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Isotope labeling systems (ILSs) are sets of balance equations that quantitatively describe the distribution of isotopic tracers in metabolic networks. The solution of ILSs, i.e., the calculation of isotopic labeling distributions (mostly in steady state) is the fundamental computational step of (13)C metabolic flux an...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2013.02.012
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Most models of the spread of HIV/AIDS assume that the probability of transmission from an infected individual to a susceptible partner has some constant value per sexual act, compounding independently randomly (so that ten acts with one person chosen from a particular group has, on average, the same risk as one act wi...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0025-5564(92)90006-i
更新日期:1992-02-01 00:00:00
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
更新日期:2005-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) depends prominently on the migration of people between different regions. An important consequence of this population mobility is that HIV control strategies that are optimal in a regional sense may not be optimal in a national sense. We formulate various mathematic...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2008.03.003
更新日期:2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Many situations in population biology involve a rate--typically a contact or recruitment rate--which increases linearly for small populations but reaches a maximum value (saturates) for large populations. Models for populations of variable size need to incorporate both characteristics to predict behavior accurately. T...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2004.11.001
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this paper, we consider a deterministic malaria transmission model with standard incidence rate and treatment. Human population is divided into susceptible, infectious and recovered subclasses, and mosquito population is split into susceptible and infectious classes. It is assumed that, among individuals with malar...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2015.05.005
更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00
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
更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::A structure for representing problems in decision analysis and in expert systems, which reason under uncertainty, is the influence diagram or causal network. A causal network consists of an underlying joint probability distribution and a directed acyclic graph in which a propositional variable that represents a margin...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0025-5564(91)90089-2
更新日期:1991-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Determining the future state of individual patients, with regard to the susceptibility to life-threatening condition is a crucial problem in the public health. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a perilous disease, which is characterized by gradual loss of kidney function. This paper presents a set of mathematical models...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2018.08.013
更新日期:2018-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Genetic studies report the existence of a mutant allele Delta32 of CCR5 chemokine receptor gene at high allele frequencies (approximately 10%) in Caucasian populations. The presence of this allele is believed to provide partial or full resistance to HIV. In this study, we look at the impact of education, temporarily e...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2003.11.004
更新日期:2004-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Subterranean termites live in large colonies under the ground where they build an elaborate network of tunnels for foraging. In this study, we explored how the termite population size can be estimated using partial information on tunnel patterns. To achieve this, we used an agent-based model to create tunnel patterns ...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2019.108218
更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recent work has shown that higher-order terms in population dynamics models can increase the stability, promote the diversity, and better explain the dynamics of ecological systems. While it is known that these perceived benefits come from an increasing number of alternative solutions given by the nature of multivaria...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2019.108222
更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::A nonlinear mathematical model developed by Chandrasekaran et al. is examined to monitor pharmacokinetic profiles in percutaneous drug absorption and is addressed to several associated problems that could occur in the data analysis of in vitro experiments. The formulation of the model gives rise to a nonlinear partial...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0025-5564(92)90054-z
更新日期:1992-03-01 00:00:00
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
更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The epidemiology of infectious diseases makes use of a number of terms, such as exposure, infected, carrier, attack rate, and immunity. Researchers who intend to model the spread of epidemics should be aware of the problems with some of these terms. The role played by inapparent, or subclinical, infections is receivin...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0025-5564(91)90001-y
更新日期:1991-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Let S be a set of n objects. A binary tree of S is a binary tree whose leaves are labeled without repetition from S. The operation of pruning a tree T is that of removing some leaves from T and suppressing all inner vertices of degree 2 which are formed by this deletion. Given two trees T and U, an agreement tree is a...
journal_title:Mathematical biosciences
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0025-5564(94)90012-4
更新日期:1994-10-01 00:00:00