A Growth-Fragmentation Approach for Modeling Microtubule Dynamic Instability.

abstract：:A mathematical control model for the transmission dynamics of tuberculosis (TB) in South Korea is developed on the basis of the reported active-TB and relapse-TB incidence data. In this work, optimal control theory is used to propose optimal TB prevention and control strategy and rearrange the government TB budget for...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Choi S,Jung E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent synchronisation of spatially discrete populations is a well documented phenomenon. However, it is not clear what the governing mechanisms are for this synchrony, and whether they are robust over a range of environmental conditions and patch specific population dynamic behaviours. In this paper, we explore...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Hillary RM,Bees MA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal heterogeneity is increasingly being observed in ecological populations and has long been suspected as an explanation for observations of non-Gaussian dispersal. Recent empirical and theoretical studies have begun to confirm this. Using an integro-difference model, we allow an individual's diffusivity to be d...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Stover JP,Kendall BE,Nisbet RM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans is controlled, in part, by the insulin-like signaling and heat shock response pathways. Following thermal stress, expression levels of small heat shock protein-16.2 show a spatial patterning across the 20 intestinal cells that reside along the length of the worm. Here, we present a hypo...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Wentz JM,Mendenhall AR,Bortz DM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Shapley value, a solution concept from cooperative game theory, has recently been considered for both unrooted and rooted phylogenetic trees. Here, we focus on the Shapley value of unrooted trees and first revisit the so-called split counts of a phylogenetic tree and the Shapley transformation matrix that allows f...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Wicke K,Fischer M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue is a growing public health problem in tropical and subtropical cities. It is transmitted by mosquitoes, and the main strategy for epidemic prevention and control is insecticide fumigation. Effective management is, however, proving elusive. People's day-to-day movement about the city is believed to be an importa...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Falcón-Lezama JA,Martínez-Vega RA,Kuri-Morales PA,Ramos-Castañeda J,Adams B

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we use the Gray code representation of the genetic code C=00, U=10, G=11 and A=01 (C pairs with G, A pairs with U) to generate a sequence of genetic code-based matrices. In connection with these code-based matrices, we use the Hamming distance to generate a sequence of numerical matrices. We then further...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： He MX,Petoukhov SV,Ricci PE

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study crossflow filtration mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes using computational fluid dynamics to model fluid flow and food particle movement in the vicinity of the gill rakers. During industrial and biological crossflow filtration, particles are retained when they remain suspended in the mainstream flow tra...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cheer A,Cheung S,Hung TC,Piedrahita RH,Sanderson SL

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body size of organisms spans 24 orders of magnitude, and metabolic rate and life span present comparable differences across species. This article shows that this variation can be explained in terms of evolutionary entropy, a statistical parameter which characterizes the robustness of a population, and describes the un...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Demetrius L,Legendre S,Harremöes P

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the global stability of a class of models for in-vivo virus dynamics that take into account the Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte immune response and display antigenic variation. This class includes a number of models that have been extensively used to model HIV dynamics. We show that models in this class are globally a...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Souza MO,Zubelli JP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coordinated beating of motile cilia is responsible for ovum transport in the oviduct, transport of mucus in the respiratory tract, and is the basis of motility in many single-celled organisms. The beating of a single motile cilium is achieved by the ATP-driven activation cycles of thousands of dynein molecular mot...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Yang X,Dillon RH,Fauci LJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis cells may opt to forgo normal cell division and instead form spores if subjected to certain environmental stimuli, for example nutrient deficiency or extreme temperature. The resulting spores are extremely resilient and can survive for extensive periods of time, importantly under particularly harsh c...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Jabbari S,Heap JT,King JR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronization and desynchronization is of great interest in the study of circadian rhythms, metabolic oscillations and time-dependent cell aggregate behaviors. Several recent studies examine synchronization and other dynamics in models of repressilators coupled by a quorum sensing mechanism that uses a diffusive sig...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gedeon T,Pernarowski M,Wilander A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present computational techniques to investigate the effect of surface geometry on biological pattern formation. In particular, we study two-component, nonlinear reaction-diffusion (RD) systems on arbitrary surfaces. We build on standard techniques for linear and nonlinear analysis of RD systems and e...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dhillon DS,Milinkovitch MC,Zwicker M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a numerical method for estimating optimal parameters in a mathematical model of the within-host dynamics of malaria infection. The model consists of a quasilinear system of partial differential equations. Convergence theory for the computed parameters is provided. Following this analysis, we present several...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Thibodeaux JJ,Schlittenhardt TP

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe and analyze a periodically-forced difference equation model for malaria in mosquitoes that captures the effects of seasonality and allows the mosquitoes to feed on a heterogeneous population of hosts. We numerically show the existence of a unique globally asymptotically stable periodic orbit and calculate ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Chitnis N,Hardy D,Smith T

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hodgkin and Huxley equations have served as the benchmark model in electrophysiology since 1950s. But it suffers from four major drawbacks. Firstly, it is only phenomenological not mechanistic. Secondly, it fails to exhibit the all-or-nothing firing mechanism for action potential generation. Thirdly, it lacks a th...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Deng B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new model for laser-induced retinal damage. Our treatment is prompted by the failure of the traditional approach to accurately describe the image size dependence of laser-induced retinal injuries and by a recently reported study which demonstrated that laser injuries to the retina might not appear for up...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Till SJ,Till J,Milsom PK,Rowlands G

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First generation HIV vaccines may have limited ability to prevent infection. Instead, they may delay the onset of AIDS or reduce the infectiousness of vaccinated individuals who become infected. To assess the population level effects of such a vaccine, we formulate a deterministic model for the spread of HIV in a homo...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Rida W,Sandberg S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A braced framework of tubular struts, in the walls and air spaces of frog lungs, suspends the respiratory surface and holds the lung open at zero transmural pressure withstanding imploding forces created by abdominal viscera, much as would the supports of a bell tent. The struts are tubes, having a larger second momen...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lawry J

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exhibit a stochastic discrete time model that produces the Eigen model (Naturwissenschaften 58:465-523, 1971) in the deterministic and continuous time limits. The model is based on the competition among individuals differing in terms of fecundity but with the same viability. We explicitly write down the Markov matr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Musso F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we introduce and study a model for electrical activity of cardiac membrane which incorporates only an inward and an outward current. This model is useful for three reasons: (1) Its simplicity, comparable to the FitzHugh-Nagumo model, makes it useful in numerical simulations, especially in two or three sp...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Mitchell CC,Schaeffer DG

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model (Kliemann, W. 1987. Bull. math. Biol. 49, 135-152.) that predicts the quantitative branching pattern of dendritic tree was evaluated using the apical and basal dendrites of rat hippocampal neurons. The Wald statistic for chi 2-test was developed for the branching pattern of dendritic trees and for...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Carriquiry AL,Ireland WP,Kliemann W,Uemura E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of circular DNA, over 30 years ago, introduced an element of uneasiness in what had been, up to that point, the almost picture-perfect story of the elucidation of the molecular biology of heredity. If DNA indeed has the Watson-Crick right-handed helical secondary structure, then in circular DNA, thousand...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Biegeleisen K

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the dynamics of biomass in a marine ecosystem. A stochastic process is defined in which organisms undergo jumps in body size as they catch and eat smaller organisms. Using a systematic expansion of the master equation, we derive a deterministic equation for the macroscopic dynamics, which we ca...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Datta S,Delius GW,Law R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simulation of biological systems is often plagued by a high level of noise in the data, as well as by models containing a large number of correlated parameters. As a result, the parameters are poorly identified by the data, and the reliability of the model predictions may be questionable. Bayesian sampling methods...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Haario H,Kalachev L,Laine M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial outbreaks of bacteria are well documented. Based on these incidents, and the heavy usage of antibiotics in hospitals, it has been assumed that antibiotic resistance evolves in hospital environments. To test this assumption, we studied resistance phenotypes of bacteria collected from patient isolates at a co...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Seigal A,Mira P,Sturmfels B,Barlow M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a multi-scale computer simulator of cancer progression at the tumoral level, from avascular stage growth, through the transition from avascular to vascular growth (neo-vascularization), and into the later stages of growth and invasion of normal tissue. We use continuum scale reaction-diffusion equations for...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Zheng X,Wise SM,Cristini V

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the emergence of collective spatio-temporal objects in biological systems by representing individually the elementary interactions between their microscopic components. We use the immune system as a prototype for such interactions. The results of this detailed explicit analysis are compared with the tradition...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Louzoun Y,Solomon S,Atlan H,Cohen IR

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premised on relatively simple assumptions, mathematical models like those of Monod, Pirt or Droop inadequately explain the complex transient behavior of microbial populations. In particular, these models fail to explain many aspects of the dynamics of a Tetrahymena pyriformis-Escherichia coli community. In this study ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Jaworska JS,Hallam TG,Schultz TW

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00