Discrete epidemic models with arbitrary stage distributions and applications to disease control.

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：: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 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：:Microtubules (MTs) are protein filaments found in all eukaryotic cells which are crucial for many cellular processes including cell movement, cell differentiation, and cell division. Due to their role in cell division, they are often used as targets for chemotherapy drugs used in cancer treatment. Experimental studies...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Honoré S,Hubert F,Tournus M,White D

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:We develop an age-structured ODE model to investigate the role of intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) in averting malaria-induced mortality in children, and its related cost in promoting the spread of antimalarial drug resistance. IPT, a malaria control strategy in which a full curative dose of an antimalarial med...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Manore CA,Teboh-Ewungkem MI,Prosper O,Peace A,Gurski K,Feng Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies suggest that one possible cause of impaired wound healing is failed or insufficient lymphangiogenesis, that is the formation of new lymphatic capillaries. Although many mathematical models have been developed to describe the formation of blood capillaries (angiogenesis), very few have been proposed for...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bianchi A,Painter KJ,Sherratt JA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct reciprocity is a chief mechanism of mutual cooperation in social dilemma. Agents cooperate if future interactions with the same opponents are highly likely. Direct reciprocity has been explored mostly by evolutionary game theory based on natural selection. Our daily experience tells, however, that real social a...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Masuda N,Ohtsuki H

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model for the plant-pollinator-robber interaction is studied to understand the factors leading to the widespread occurrence and stability of such interactions. In the interaction, a flowering plant provides resource for its pollinator and the pollinator has both positive and negative effects on the plan...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Wang Y,DeAngelis DL,Holland JN

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transcription is a central cellular process and is stochastic in nature. The stochasticity has been studied in real cells and in theory, but often for the transcription activated by a single signaling pathway at steady-state. As transcription of many genes is involved with multiple pathways, we investigate how th...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Sun Q,Tang M,Yu J

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Coalescent models of evolution account for incomplete lineage sorting by specifying a species tree parameter which determines a distribution on gene trees, and consequently, a site pattern probability distribution. It has been shown that the unrooted topology of the species tree parameter of the multispecies coalescen...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Long C,Kubatko L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although imatinib is an effective treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), and nearly all patients treated with imatinib attain some form of remission, imatinib does not completely eliminate leukemia. Moreover, if the imatinib treatment is stopped, most patients eventually relapse (Cortes et al. in Clin. Canc...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Paquin D,Kim PS,Lee PP,Levy D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cycles in biological populations have been shown to arise from enemy-victim systems, delayed density dependence, and maternal effects. In an initial effort to model the year-to-year dynamics of natural populations of entomopathogenic nematodes and their insect hosts, we find that a simple, nonlinear, mechanistic model...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dugaw CJ,Hastings A,Preisser EL,Strong DR

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:Turing patterns can be observed in reaction-diffusion systems where chemical species have different diffusion constants. In recent years, several studies investigated the effects of noise on Turing patterns and showed that the parameter regimes, for which stochastic Turing patterns are observed, can be larger than the...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cao Y,Erban R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) is used to obtain quantitative information about molecular diffusion and binding kinetics at both cell and tissue levels of organization. FRAP models have been proposed to estimate the diffusion coefficients and binding kinetic parameters of species for a variety of bi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lin L,Othmer HG

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：: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：: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

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：: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：:We explore the dynamics of invasive weeds by partial differential equation (PDE) modelling and applying dynamical system and phase portrait techniques. We begin by applying the method of characteristics to a preexisting PDE model of the spreading of T. fluminensis, an invasive weed which has been responsible for nativ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ramaj T

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates fluid flow and elastic deformation in tissues that are drained by the primary lymphatic system. A model is formulated based on the Rossi hypothesis that states that the primary lymphatic valves, which are formed by overlapping endothelial cells around the circumferential lining of lymphatic cap...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Heppell C,Roose T,Richardson G

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is concerned with reconciling theoretical modelling of the fluid flow in the airway surface liquid with experimental visualisation of tracer transport in human airway epithelial cultures. The airways are covered by a dense mat of cilia of length approximately 6 microm beating in a watery periciliary liquid ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Smith DJ,Gaffney EA,Blake JR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell polarization is an important part of the response of eukaryotic cells to stimuli, and forms a primary step in cell motility, differentiation, and many cellular functions. Among the important biochemical players implicated in the onset of intracellular asymmetries that constitute the early phases of polarization a...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Walther GR,Marée AF,Edelstein-Keshet L,Grieneisen VA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera is an acute gastro-intestinal infection that affects millions of people throughout the world each year, primarily but not exclusively in developing countries. Because of its public health ramifications, considerable mathematical attention has been paid to the disease. Here we consider one neglected aspect of c...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Kobe J,Pritchard N,Short Z,Erovenko IV,Rychtář J,Rowell JT

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stochastic SIRS epidemic model with nonlinear incidence rate and varying population size is formulated to investigate the effect of stochastic environmental variability on inter-pandemic transmission dynamics of influenza A. Sufficient conditions for extinction and persistence of the disease are established. In the ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Li D,Cui J,Liu M,Liu S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical and empirical arguments are used to support the growth kinetics of disseminated tumors. Employing viable hypotheses, it is established that Gompertzian growth of disseminated cancer cells can be derived from a number of theoretical considerations. Empirical methods are used to validate and confirm the theo...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Afenya EK,Calderón CP

更新日期：2000-05-01 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