Stability of Ecosystems Under Invasions.

abstract：:This paper presents a biomechanical model for the small pits, called crypts, that line the colon. A continuum approach is adopted, with the crypt epithelium modelled as a growing beam attached to the underlying lamina by cell bonds, which generate tension within the layer. These cell attachments are assumed to be visc...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Edwards CM,Chapman SJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:We formulate a mathematical model for food collection and production of workers and nymphs in 2 species of mound building termites. We maximise the number of nymphs (reproductives) produced by each colony over its lifetime with respect to the proportion of eggs that hatch as nymphs as opposed to workers. The results p...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cameron DA,Ivers DJ,Evans TA,Myerscough MR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell motility is an essential phenomenon in almost all living organisms. It is natural to think that behavioral or shape changes of a cell bear information about the underlying mechanisms that generate these changes. Reading cell motion, namely, understanding the underlying biophysical and mechanochemical processes, i...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Coskun H,Coskun H

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we show that a one-dimensional model of the blood flow across the lungs can reproduce the evolution of a bolus versus the time. Solving the differential equation governing the bolus concentration in the framework of this model, we determine the solution which fulfills Gaussian initial boundary conditions...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Le Sech C,Capderou A

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:At least four distinct lineages of CD4+ T cells play diverse roles in the immune system. Both in vivo and in vitro, naïve CD4+ T cells often differentiate into a variety of cellular phenotypes. Previously, we developed a mathematical framework to study heterogeneous differentiation of two lineages governed by a mutual...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Hong T,Oguz C,Tyson JJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the life-history complex of eusociality has remained an enduring problem in evolutionary ecology, partially because natural selection models have considered traits in relative isolation. I aim for a more inclusive model that uses ecological interactions to predict the evolutionary existence of sexual rep...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Witting L

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moment closure methods are widely used to analyze mathematical models. They are specifically geared toward derivation of approximations of moments of stochastic models, and of similar quantities in other models. The methods possess several weaknesses: Conditions for validity of the approximations are not known, magnit...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Nåsell I

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The well-known formula for the final size of an epidemic was published by Kermack and McKendrick in 1927. Their analysis was based on a simple susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model that assumes exponentially distributed infectious periods. More recent analyses have established that the standard final size formula...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ma J,Earn DJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops mathematical theory to determine the representativeness of clone libraries for various models, defined below in the text. In particular, the means and variances of fragment lengths and the mean of the length of a randomly selected fragment are determined, as well as the probability of the event tha...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fang Y,Wilson SR

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The culmination of the morphogenesis of the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum involves complex cell movements which transform a mound of cells into a globule of spores on a slender stalk. We show that cyclic AMP signalling and differential adhesion, combined with cell differentiation and slime production, ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Marée AF,Hogeweg P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing a quantitative science of sustainability requires bridging mathematical concepts from fields contributing to sustainability science. The concept of substitutability is central to sustainability but is defined differently by different fields. Specifically, economics tends to define substitutability as a marg...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fenichel EP,Zhao J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many aquatic organisms detect the presence of moving objects in their environment, such as predators, by sensing the hydrodynamic disturbances the movements produce. The resultant water flow is readily detectable by stationary organisms, but free-swimming organisms are carried with the surrounding water and may not de...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Takagi D,Hartline DK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation process is introduced into the colored coalescent theory. The mutation process can be viewed as an independent Poisson process running on the colored genealogical random tree generated by the colored coalescent process, with the edge lengths of the random tree serving as the time scale for the mutation pr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Tian JP,Lin XS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical behavior of the actin cytoskeleton has previously been investigated using both experimental and computational techniques. However, these investigations have not elucidated the role the cytoskeleton plays in the compression resistance of cells. The present study combines experimental compression techniqu...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Weafer PP,Ronan W,Jarvis SP,McGarry JP

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial quorum sensing (QS) is a form of intercellular communication that relies on the production and detection of diffusive signaling molecules called autoinducers. Such a mechanism allows the bacteria to track their cell density in order to regulate group behavior, such as biofilm formation and bioluminescence. I...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fan G,Bressloff PC

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present a model that explains the prepatterning of lymphatic vessel morphology in collagen gels. This model is derived using the theory of two phase rubber material due to Flory and coworkers and it consists of two coupled fourth order partial differential equations describing the evolution of the co...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Roose T,Fowler AC

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：: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：:The origin of the modern genetic code and the mechanisms that have contributed to its present form raise many questions. The main goal of this work is to test two hypotheses concerning the development of the genetic code for their compatibility and complementarity and see if they could benefit from each other. On the ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fimmel E,Starman M,Strüngmann L

更新日期：2020-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aims to examine the global behavior of a Gause type predator-prey model considering two aspects: (i) the functional response is Holling type III and, (ii) the prey growth is affected by the Allee effect. We prove the origin of the system is an attractor equilibrium point for all parameter values. It has also...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： González-Olivares E,Rojas-Palma A

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

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：:To obtain the correlation dimension and entropy from an experimental time series we derive estimators for these quantities together with expressions for their variances using a maximum likelihood approach. The validity of these expressions is supported by Monte Carlo simulations. We illustrate the use of the estimator...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Olofsen E,Degoede J,Heijungs R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using optimal control theory as the basic theoretical tool, we investigate the efficacy of different antibiotic treatment protocols in the most exacting of circumstances, described as follows. Viewing a continuous culture device as a proxy for a much more complex host organism, we first inoculate the device with a sin...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Peña-Miller R,Lähnemann D,Schulenburg H,Ackermann M,Beardmore R

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:To investigate morphogenesis and in particular circularization mechanisms in young mycelia, we observe cultures of the zygomycete Mucor spinosus and develop discrete models of two-dimensional filamental branching growth. The models are based on the hypothesis that the fungus secretes a regulatory substance that diffus...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Indermitte C,Liebling M,Clémençon H

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recently observed that the dynamical properties of mass action systems arising from many models of biochemical reaction networks can be characterized by considering the corresponding properties of a related generalized mass action system. The correspondence process known as network translation in particula...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Johnston MD

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent dye carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE) classifies proliferating cell populations into groups according to the number of divisions each cell has undergone (i.e., its division class). The pulse labeling of cells with radioactive thymidine provides a means to determine the distribution...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lee HY,Perelson AS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rather complete model of the gluconeogenic pathway was used, with the known separate pools of mitochondrial and cytosolic oxalacetate, malate and aspartate. The fumarase, malate dehydrogenase and glutamate oxalacetate transaminase reactions were assumed to be isotopically actively reversible, but none at isotopic eq...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Rognstad R

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00