Evolution of dispersal toward fitness.

abstract：:While cholera has been a recognized disease for two centuries, there is no strategy for its effective control. We formulate a mathematical model to include essential components such as a hyperinfectious, short-lived bacterial state, a separate class for mild human infections, and waning disease immunity. A new result ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Miller Neilan RL,Schaefer E,Gaff H,Fister KR,Lenhart S

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:Continuing the discussion of how children can modify and regularize linguistic inputs from adults, we present a new interpretation of existing algorithms to model and investigate the process of a learner learning from an inconsistent source. On the basis of this approach is a (possibly nonlinear) function (the update ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ma T,Komarova NL

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:We study a recently discovered class of models for plateau bursting, inspired by models for endocrine pituitary cells. In contrast to classical models for fold-homoclinic (square-wave) bursting, the spikes of the active phase are not supported by limit cycles of the frozen fast subsystem, but are transient oscillation...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Stern JV,Osinga HM,LeBeau A,Sherman A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant conceptual difficulty in the use of switching systems to model regulatory networks is the presence of so-called "black walls," co-dimension 1 regions of phase space with a vector field pointing inward on both sides of the hyperplane. Black walls result from the existence of direct negative self-regulatio...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fan G,Cummins B,Gedeon T

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Two types of behavior have been previously reported in models of immune networks. The typical behavior of simple models, which involve B cells only, is stationary behavior involving several steady states. Finite amplitude perturbations may cause the model to switch between different equilibria. The typical behavior of...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： De Boer RJ,Perelson AS,Kevrekidis IG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rigorous Bayesian analysis is presented that unifies protein sequence-structure alignment and recognition. Given a sequence, explicit formulae are derived to select (1) its globally most probable core structure from a structure library; (2) its globally most probable alignment to a given core structure; (3) its most...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lathrop RH,Rogers RG Jr,Smith TF,White JV

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advances in genetics and biochemistry that have taken place over the last 10 years led to significant advances in experimental and clinical immunology. In turn, this has led to the development of new mathematical models to investigate qualitatively and quantitatively various open questions in immunology. In this s...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Eftimie R,Gillard JJ,Cantrell DA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whilst the human body expends energy constantly, the human diet consists of a mix of carbohydrates and fats delivered in a discontinuous manner. To deal with this sporadic supply of energy, there are transport, storage and utilisation mechanisms, for both carbohydrates and fats, around all tissues of the body. Insulin...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Pearson T,Wattis JA,King JR,MacDonald IA,Mazzatti DJ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two algorithms for the efficient identification of segment neighborhoods are presented. A segment neighborhood is a set of contiguous residues that share common features. Two procedures are developed to efficiently find estimates for the parameters of the model that describe these features and for the residues that de...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Auger IE,Lawrence CE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-dependent surface coverage of antigen-antibody complexes for a sensor in which antigens are bound to surface immobilized antibodies is determined analytically. Assuming a reversible first order reaction between the antigens and antibodies, a model is derived describing the dynamical response of the sensor. Th...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Geurts BJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discoveries in ecological stoichiometry have indicated that food quality in terms of the phosphorus/carbon (P/C) ratio affects consumers whether the imbalance involves insufficient or excess nutrients. This phenomenon is called the "stoichiometric P/C knife-edge." In this study, we develop and analyze a produce...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Asik L,Kulik J,Long KR,Peace A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of embryo energetics was fitted to data from the literature for species as different as snails and mammals. The model is based on assumptions about energy uptake, storage and utilization. It describes the animal by two state variables: volume and energy storage. Embryo weight is taken to be proportional to vol...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Zonneveld C,Kooijman SA

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:Farmers frequently decide where to locate the colonies of their domesticated eusocial bees, especially given the following mutually exclusive scenarios: (i) there are limited nectar and pollen sources within the vicinity of the apiary that cause competition among foragers; and (ii) there are fewer pollinators compared...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gavina MK,Rabajante JF,Cervancia CR

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 25 years, reforms in undergraduate biology education have transformed the way biology is taught at many institutions of higher education. This has been fueled in part by a burgeoning discipline-based education research community, which has advocated for evidence-based instructional practices based on fin...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Aikens ML

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier work a model of the autocrine and paracrine pathways of tumor growth control was developed (Michelson and Leith. 1991. Autocrine and paracrine growth factors in tumor growth. Bull. math. Biol. 53, 639-656). The target population, a generic tumor, was modeled as a single, homogeneous population using the ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Michelson S,Leith JT

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：: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：:The propagation of fire-diffuse-fire Ca(2+) waves through a three-dimensional rectangular domain is considered. The domain is infinite in extent in the direction of propagation but with lateral barriers to diffusion which contain Ca(2+) pumps. The Ca(2+) concentration profile due to the firing of a release site (spark...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lemon G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of the Fitch method for reconstructing ancestral states on ultrametric phylogenetic trees is studied. Two recurrence relations for computing the accuracy are given here. Using these relations, we analyze the convergence of the accuracy of the Fitch method for reconstructing the root state on a complete bi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Zhang L,Shen J,Yang J,Li G

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We focus on discrete-time infectious disease models in populations that are governed by constant, geometric, Beverton-Holt or Ricker demographic equations, and give a method for computing the basic reproduction number, [Formula: see text]. When [Formula: see text] and the demographic population dynamics are asymptotic...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： van den Driessche P,Yakubu AA

更新日期：2019-11-01 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 consider organisms which use a renewal strategy such as run-tumble when moving in space, for example to perform chemotaxis in chemical gradients. We derive a diffusion approximation for the motion, applying a central limit theorem due to Anscombe for renewal-reward processes; this theorem has not previously been ap...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Thygesen UH

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xenopus and Drosophila, the nucleocytoplasmic ratio controls many aspects of cell-cycle remodeling during the transitory period that leads from fast and synchronous cell divisions of early development to the slow, carefully regulated growth and divisions of somatic cells. After the fifth cleavage in sea urchin embr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ciliberto A,Tyson JJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human rabies is one of the major public health problems in China with an average of 1977 cases per year. It is estimated that 95% of these human rabies cases are due to dog bites. In recent years, the number of wildlife-associated human rabies cases has increased, particularly in the southeast and northeast regions of...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Huang J,Ruan S,Shu Y,Wu X

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Hair loss in the autoimmune disease, alopecia areata (AA), is characterized by the appearance of circularly spreading alopecic lesions in seemingly healthy skin. The distinct spatial patterns of AA lesions form because the immune system attacks hair follicle cells that are in the process of producing hair shaft, catap...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dobreva A,Paus R,Cogan NG

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00