Disease Extinction Versus Persistence in Discrete-Time Epidemic Models.

abstract：:Some organisms maintain a battery of defensive strategies against their exploiters (predators, parasites or parasitoids), while others fail to employ a defence that seems obvious. In this paper, we shall investigate the circumstances under which defence strategies might be expected to evolve. Brood parasites and their...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Britton NF,Planqué R,Franks NR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model employing separate dose-dependent response functions for proliferation and differentiation of idiotypically interacting B cell clones is presented. For each clone the population dynamics of proliferating B cells, non-proliferating B cells and free antibodies are considered. An effective response function, whic...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Sulzer B,van Hemmen JL,Neumann AU,Behn U

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical reactions are discrete, stochastic events. As such, the species' molecular numbers can be described by an associated master equation. However, handling such an equation may become difficult due to the large size of reaction networks. A commonly used approach to forecast the behaviour of reaction networks is t...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： López-Caamal F,Marquez-Lago TT

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical modeling is an important tool to assessing quantitative conjectures and to answer specific questions. In the modeling, we assume that a competitor represented by a lactic acid bacterium produces antimicrobial compounds (substances that kill microorganisms or inhibit their growth), such as lactic acid and ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Delboni RR,Yang HM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical cell competition is important during tissue development, cancer invasion, and tissue ageing. Heterogeneity plays a key role in practical applications since cancer cells can have different cell stiffness and different proliferation rates than normal cells. To study this phenomenon, we propose a one-dimension...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Murphy RJ,Buenzli PR,Baker RE,Simpson MJ

更新日期：2020-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that in problems featuring slow passage through a Hopf bifurcation (dynamic Hopf bifurcation) the transition to large-amplitude oscillations may not occur until the slowly changing parameter considerably exceeds the value predicted from the static Hopf bifurcation analysis (temporal delay effect...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bilinsky LM,Baer SM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers plant-pollinator systems in which plants are divided into two categories: The plants that secret a substantial volume of nectar in their flowers are called secretors, while those without secreting nectar are called nonsecretors (cheaters). The interaction between pollinators and secretors is mutua...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Wang Y,Wu H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have been done using networks to represent the spread of infectious diseases in populations. For diseases with exposed individuals corresponding to a latent period, an SEIR model is formulated using an edge-based approach described by a probability generating function. The basic reproduction number is computed...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Alota CP,Pilar-Arceo CPC,de Los Reyes V AA

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Population management using artificial gene drives (alleles biasing inheritance, increasing their own transmission to offspring) is becoming a realistic possibility with the development of CRISPR-Cas genetic engineering. A gene drive may, however, have to be stopped. "Antidotes" (brakes) have been suggested, but have ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Girardin L,Calvez V,Débarre F

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumour suppressor gene, p53, plays an important role in tumour development. Under low levels of oxygen (hypoxia), cells expressing wild-type p53 undergo programmed cell death (apoptosis), whereas cells expressing mutations in the p53 gene may survive and express angiogenic growth factors that stimulate tumour vasc...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gammack D,Byrne HM,Lewis CE

更新日期：2001-01-01 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

abstract：:Based on the logistic growth law for a tumour derived from enzymatic dynamics, we address from a physical point of view the phenomena of synergism, additivity and antagonism in an avascular anti-tumour system regulated externally by dual coupling periodic interventions, and propose a theoretical model to simulate the ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Hu WY,Zhong WR,Wang FH,Li L,Shao YZ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When two strings of symbols are aligned it is important to know whether the observed number of matches is better than that expected between two independent sequences with the same frequency of symbols. When strings are of different lengths, nulls need to be inserted in order to align the sequences. One approach is to ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Rinsma I,Hendy M,Penny D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study Eigen's quasispecies model in the asymptotic regime where the length of the genotypes goes to [Formula: see text] and the mutation probability goes to 0. A limiting infinite system of differential equations is obtained. We prove convergence of trajectories, as well as convergence of the equilibrium solutions....

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dalmau J

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：:A system of differential equations for the control of tumor cells growth in a cycle nonspecific chemotherapy is presented. Spontaneously acquired drug resistance is accounted for, as well as the evolution in time of normal cells. In addition, optimization of conflicting objectives forms the aim of the chemotherapeutic...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Costa MI,Boldrini JL

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrins mediate cell adhesion and are essential receptors for the development and functioning of multicellular organisms. Integrin activation is known to require both ligand and talin binding and to correlate with cluster formation but the activation mechanism and precise roles of these processes are not yet resolve...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Iber D,Campbell ID

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Cardiac and neural systems share common features of intrinsic oscillation in some cells as well as the ability to propagate excitation. One theoretical approach to study such systems is to develop realistic models for the tissue. This involves first developing detailed ionic "Hodgkin-Huxley"-type models of individual ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Glass L,Shrier A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with early development of transformed epithelial cells (TECs) in the presence of fibroblasts in the tumor micro-environment. These two types of cells interact by means of cytokines such as transforming growth factor (TGF-beta) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) secreted, respectively, by the TEC...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Kim Y,Friedman A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary game dynamics of two strategies in finite population is studied by continuous probabilistic approach. Besides frequency dependent selection, mutation was also included in this study. The equilibrium probability density functions of abundance, expected time to extinction or fixation were derived and their ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gao M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For epidemic models, it is shown that fatal infectious diseases cannot drive the host population into extinction if the incidence function is upper density-dependent. This finding holds even if a latency period is included and the time from infection to disease-induced death has an arbitrary length distribution. Howev...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Farrell AP,Collins JP,Greer AL,Thieme HR

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experimental evidence suggests that vasculogenesis may play an important role in tumour vascularisation. While angiogenesis involves the proliferation and migration of endothelial cells (ECs) in pre-existing vessels, vasculogenesis involves the mobilisation of bone-marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells (E...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Stamper IJ,Byrne HM,Owen MR,Maini PK

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Classical evolutionary game theory (EGT) focuses on competition among phenotypes while assuming asexual transmission of these phenotypes to the next generation. However, phenotypic selection and sexual recombination are not necessarily mutually reinforcing in populations with sexual reproduction. In particular, it has...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fishman MA

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct electrophysiological phenotypes are exhibited by biological cells that have differentiated into particular cell types. The usual approach when simulating the cardiac electrophysiology of tissue that includes different cell types is to model the different cell types as occupying spatially distinct yet coupled ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bowler LA,Gavaghan DJ,Mirams GR,Whiteley JP

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We incorporate a vector-bias term into a malaria-transmission model to account for the greater attractiveness of infectious humans to mosquitoes in terms of differing probabilities that a mosquito arriving at a human at random picks that human depending on whether he is infectious or susceptible. We prove that transcr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Chamchod F,Britton NF

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we attack the problem of understanding the localization of the main structures involved in the motor circadian rhythm of crayfish by analysing its ontogeny. We present experimental results giving the properties of this rhythm in young and adult crayfish. Then we construct a mathematical model (based on a...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fuentes-Pardo B,Lara-Aparicio M,López de Medrano S

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:Although cell migration is an essential process in development, how cells reach their final destination is not well understood. Secreted molecules are known to have a migratory effect, but it remains unclear whether such molecules act as directional guidance cues or as motility regulators. There is potential to use si...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cai AQ,Landman KA,Hughes BD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00