A physical-biological coupled model for algal dynamics in lakes.

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：:Bistability and multistationarity are properties of reaction networks linked to switch-like responses and connected to cell memory and cell decision making. Determining whether and when a network exhibits bistability is a hard and open mathematical problem. One successful strategy consists of analyzing small networks ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Feliu E,Helmer M

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:The surface protein B7-H1, also called PD-L1 and CD274, is found on carcinomas of the lung, ovary, colon, and melanomas but not on most normal tissues. B7-H1 has been experimentally determined to be an antiapoptotic receptor on cancer cells, where B7-H1-positive cancer cells have been shown to be immune resistant, and...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Galante A,Tamada K,Levy D

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：:Analysis schemes for the classification of synergism and antagonism for mixed agents operate on the discrepancies between observed and calculated results. As such they cannot be confirmed by experiments and therefore have to be tested in terms of mathematical and logical self-consistency. The concept of independent ac...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lam GK

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we consider a game-theoretic model of multilevel selection in which individuals compete based on their payoff and groups also compete based on the average payoff of group members. Our focus is on multilevel social dilemmas: games in which individuals are best off cheating, while groups of individuals do best whe...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cooney DB

更新日期：2020-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we formulate a multi-patch multi-species model in which the per-capita emigration rate of one species depends on the density of some other species. We then focus on Turing instability to examine if and when this cross-emigration response has crucial effects. We find that the type of interaction matters g...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Huang Y,Diekmann O

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular motors such as kinesin and dynein are responsible for transporting material along microtubule networks in cells. In many contexts, motor dynamics can be modelled by a system of reaction-advection-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs). Recently, quasi-steady-state (QSS) methods have been applied to ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Zmurchok C,Small T,Ward MJ,Edelstein-Keshet L

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：: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：:Two possible dangers of an extensive varicella vaccination program are more varicella (chickenpox) cases in adults, when the complication rates are higher, and an increase in cases of zoster (shingles). Here an age-structured epidemiologic-demographic model with vaccination is developed for varicella and zoster. Param...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Schuette MC,Hethcote HW

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses that infect bacteria, i.e., bacteriophage or 'phage,' are increasingly considered as treatment options for the control and clearance of bacterial infections, particularly as compassionate use therapy for multi-drug-resistant infections. In practice, clinical use of phage often involves the application of multi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Li G,Leung CY,Wardi Y,Debarbieux L,Weitz JS

更新日期：2020-06-12 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：:We develop the mathematical machinery for the construction of an algebraic-combinatorial model using Petri nets to construct an oriented matroid representation of biochemical pathways. For demonstration purposes, we use a model metabolic pathway example from the literature to derive a general biochemical reaction netw...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Oliveira JS,Bailey CG,Jones-Oliveira JB,Dixon DA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze signals measured from human blood flow in the time-frequency domain, we used the wavelet transform which gives good time resolution for high-frequency components and good frequency resolution for low-frequency components. Five characteristic frequency peaks, corresponding to five almost periodic rhythmic ac...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bracic M,Stefanovska A

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Advances in fluorescent labeling of cells as measured by flow cytometry have allowed for quantitative studies of proliferating populations of cells. The investigations (Luzyanina et al. in J. Math. Biol. 54:57-89, 2007; J. Math. Biol., 2009; Theor. Biol. Med. Model. 4:1-26, 2007) contain a mathematical model with fluo...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Banks HT,Sutton KL,Thompson WC,Bocharov G,Roose D,Schenkel T,Meyerhans A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A semi-empirical model applicable to the flow of blood and other particulate suspensions through narrow tubes has been developed. It envisages a central core of blood surrounded by a wall layer of reduced hematocrit. With the help of this model the wall layer thickness and extent of plug flow may be calculated using p...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Das RN,Seshadri V

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first major outbreak reported on the island Yap in 2007, the Zika virus spread has alerted the scientific community worldwide. Zika is an arbovirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes; particularly in Central and South America, the main vector is the same mosquito that transmits dengue and chikungunya, Aedes aeg...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Baca-Carrasco D,Velasco-Hernández JX

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely believed that the slowest dispersal strategy is selected in the evolutional if the environment is temporally invariant but spatially heterogeneous. Authors claim in this paper that this belief is true only if random dispersals with constant motility are considered. However, if a dispersal strategy with fi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Kim YJ,Kwon O,Li F

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bursting electrical activity is ubiquitous in excitable cells such as neurons and many endocrine cells. The technique of fast/slow analysis, which takes advantage of time scale differences, is typically used to analyze the dynamics of bursting in mathematical models. Two classes of bursting oscillations that have been...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Teka W,Tsaneva-Atanasova K,Bertram R,Tabak J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic model for cell differentiation, where cells with internal chemical reaction dynamics interact with each other and replicate was studied. It led to spontaneous differentiation of cells and determination, as discussed in the isologous diversification. The following features of the differentiation were obtained...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Furusawa C,Kaneko K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic chemotherapy is one of the main anticancer treatments used for most kinds of clinically diagnosed tumors. However, the efficacy of these drugs can be hampered by the physical attributes of the tumor tissue, such as tortuous vasculature, dense and fibrous extracellular matrix, irregular cellular architecture, ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Karolak A,Rejniak KA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stochastic evolutionary dynamics of two strategies given by 2x 2 matrix games is studied in finite populations. We focus on stochastic properties of fixation: how a strategy represented by a single individual wins over the entire population. The process is discussed in the framework of a random walk with site depend...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Antal T,Scheuring I

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifiability concerns finding which unknown parameters of a model can be estimated, uniquely or otherwise, from given input-output data. If some subset of the parameters of a model cannot be determined given input-output data, then we say the model is unidentifiable. In this work, we study linear compartment models...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Meshkat N,Sullivant S,Eisenberg M

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:The present paper studies a predator-prey fishery model which incorporates the independent harvesting strategies and nonlinear impact of an anthropogenic toxicant. Both fish populations are harvested with different harvesting efforts, and the cases for the presence and non-presence of harvesting effort are discussed. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ang TK,Safuan HM,Sidhu HS,Jovanoski Z,Towers IN

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates cell proliferation dynamics in small tumor cell aggregates using an individual-based model (IBM). The simulation model is designed to study the morphology of the cell population and of the cell lineages as well as the impact of the orientation of the division plane on this morphology. Our IBM m...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Leroy-Lerêtre M,Dimarco G,Cazales M,Boizeau ML,Ducommun B,Lobjois V,Degond P

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00