abstract：:The coffee berry borer (CBB, Hypothenemus hampei) is the most serious insect pest of coffee worldwide; understanding the dynamics of its reproduction is essential for pest management. The female CBB penetrates the coffee berry, eats the seed, and reproduces inside it. A mathematical model of the infestation progress o...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Marcano M,Bose A,Bayman P

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutual interference and prey refuge are important drivers of predator-prey dynamics. The "exponent" or degree of mutual interference has been under much debate in theoretical ecology. In the present work, we investigate the interplay of the mutual interference exponent, and prey refuge, on the behavior of a predator-p...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Antwi-Fordjour K,Parshad RD,Beauregard MA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pandemic of a novel Coronavirus emerged in December of 2019 (COVID-19), causing devastating public health impact across the world. In the absence of a safe and effective vaccine or antivirals, strategies for controlling and mitigating the burden of the pandemic are focused on non-pharmaceutical interventions, such a...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Ngonghala CN,Iboi E,Eikenberry S,Scotch M,MacIntyre CR,Bonds MH,Gumel AB

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction-diffusion equation is one of the possible ways for modeling animal movement, where the reactive part stands for the population growth and the diffusive part for random dispersal of the population. However, a reaction-diffusion model may not represent all aspects of the spatial dynamics, because of the exi...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Oliveira KA,Berbert JM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extended version of Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with five parameters is introduced. Theoretical aspects of five-parameter Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and the maximum likelihood estimation of parameters are presented. The reliability and applicability of the proposed distribution is evaluated using both simula...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Hassani H,Kalantari M,Entezarian MR

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperating behaviors abound across all domains of life, but are vulnerable to invasion by cheaters. An important evolutionary question is to determine mechanisms that stabilize and maintain cooperation levels and prevent population collapse. Policing is one strategy populations may employ to achieve this goal, and it...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Lynn BK,De Leenheer P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modeling a cell's response to encroaching ice has informed the development of cryopreservation protocols for four decades. It has been well documented that knowledge of the cellular state as a function of media and cooling rate faciliate informed cryopreservation protocol design and explain mechanisms of damage. Howev...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Anderson DM,Benson JD,Kearsley AJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has shown that higher-order terms in population dynamics models can increase the stability, promote the diversity, and better explain the dynamics of ecological systems. While it is known that these perceived benefits come from an increasing number of alternative solutions given by the nature of multivaria...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： AlAdwani M,Saavedra S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subterranean termites live in large colonies under the ground where they build an elaborate network of tunnels for foraging. In this study, we explored how the termite population size can be estimated using partial information on tunnel patterns. To achieve this, we used an agent-based model to create tunnel patterns ...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Seo JK,Baik S,Lee SH

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rooted phylogenetic networks provide an explicit representation of the evolutionary history of a set X of sampled species. In contrast to phylogenetic trees which show only speciation events, networks can also accommodate reticulate processes (for example, hybrid evolution, endosymbiosis, and lateral gene transfer). A...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Erdős PL,Semple C,Steel M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHO tuberculosis researchers recently published a mathematical model to predict TB incidence decline with fulfillment of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) subtargets [1]. This model omitted the subtargets of land rights and basic services and of reduction in deaths from climatic disaster, likely highly influential fa...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Wallace D,Wallace R

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we investigate the effects of recurring mass gathering event on the spread of an epidemic. Mass gatherings take place when a large number of people from different locations visit a particular region during a short time period. Such activity plays a crucial role in the epidemic spread as traveling facili...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Xu F,Connell McCluskey C

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aptamer-protein interacting pairs play important roles in physiological functions and structural characterization. Identifying aptamer-protein interacting pairs is challenging and limited, despite of the tremendous applications of aptamers. Therefore, it is vital to construct a high prediction performance model for id...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Yang Q,Jia C,Li T

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the feasibility of deriving generalised expressions for the probability mass function (PMF) of the final epidemic size of a Susceptible - Infected - Recovered (SIR) model on a finite network of an arbitrary number of nodes. Expressions for the probability that the infection progresses along a given pathway ...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： McCulloch K,Roberts MG,Laing CR

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a novel epidemiological transmission model of a population affected by two different susceptible-infected-susceptible infectious diseases. For each disease, individuals fall into one of the two susceptibility conditions in which one of the diseases has the highest occurrence level. This model is un...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Gutiérrez-Jara JP,Córdova-Lepe FD,Muñoz-Quezada MT

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study is to uncover some unobservable aspects of the individual-patient natural history of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) through mathematical modeling. We analyzed four clear cell RCC patients who at the time of primary tumor resection already had pulmonary metastases. Our description of the n...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Hanin L,Jandrig B,Pavlova L,Seidel K

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate an SIR epidemic model with discrete age groups to understand the transmission dynamics of an infectious disease in a host population with an age structure. We derive the basic reproduction number R0 and show that it is a sharp threshold parameter. If R0≤1, the disease-free equilibrium E0 is globally sta...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Zhou L,Wang Y,Xiao Y,Li MY

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacokinetic models are particularly useful to study the underlying and complex physiological mechanisms contributing to clinical differences across patient subgroups or special populations. Unfortunately, the inherent variability of biological systems and knowledge gaps in physiological data limit confidence in mo...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Scherholz ML,Androulakis IP

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an axiomatic approach for multilocus informativeness measures for determining the amount of information that a set of polymorphic genetic markers provides about individual ancestry. We then reveal several surprising properties of a decision-theoretic based measure that is consistent with the set of proposed...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Tal O,Tran TD

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cicadas, a phenomenon is observed in which the peak of emergence of males precedes that of females (protandry). Generally, it is known that the ecology of emergence of insects is closely related to mating, and protandry is said to be the strategy of males to eclose early and to attempt mating with virgin femal...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Saisho Y

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the future state of individual patients, with regard to the susceptibility to life-threatening condition is a crucial problem in the public health. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a perilous disease, which is characterized by gradual loss of kidney function. This paper presents a set of mathematical models...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Waezizadeh T,Mehrpooya A,Rezaeizadeh M,Yarahmadian S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical models are essential tools to study how the cardiovascular system maintains homeostasis. The utility of such models is limited by the accuracy of their predictions, which can be determined by uncertainty quantification (UQ). A challenge associated with the use of UQ is that many published methods assume t...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Marquis AD,Arnold A,Dean-Bernhoft C,Carlson BE,Olufsen MS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers the geometry of plants with golden spiral phyllotaxis, i.e. growing leaf by leaf on a spiral with golden divergence angle, via the simplest mathematical model, a cylinder with regular arrangement of points on its surface. As is well-known, Fibonacci numbers appear by means of the order of parastic...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Herrmann B

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-dimensional diffusion model with either hexagonal or cylindrical symmetry has been constructed to simulate desorption profiles of hydrophilic chemicals from the topmost layer of human skin (the stratum corneum) as measured in ex vivo studies. The tissue is pierced by skin appendages - sweat glands and hair fol...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Yu F,Kasting GB

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we derive and analyze a 2n+1-dimensional deterministic differential equation modeling the transmission and treatment of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) disease. The model is extended to a stochastic differential equation by introducing noise in the transmission rate of the disease. A theoretical treat...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Otunuga OM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We apply to Michaelis-Menten kinetics an alternative approach to the study of Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations, that is based on the Renormalization Group (SPDERG). To this aim, we first rebuild the perturbation expansion for Michaelis-Menten kinetics, beyond the standard Quasi-Steady-State Approximation (s...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Coluzzi B,Bersani AM,Bersani E

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of endosymbiont Wolbachia into laboratory-reared mosquito populations, which are then released to mix with natural populations to prevent the mosquito vectors from reproducing and thus break the transmission cycle of dengue disease, is an innovative new technology. Field trials of Wolbachia-carrying m...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Zhang X,Tang S,Liu Q,Cheke RA,Zhu H

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorado River is a unique ecosystem and provides important ecological services such as habitat for fish species as well as water power energy supplies. River management for this ecosystem requires assessment and decision support tools for fish which involves protecting, restoring as well as forecasting of future cond...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Yao W,Chen Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In biodiversity conservation it is often necessary to prioritize the species to conserve. Existing approaches to prioritization, e.g. the Fair Proportion Index and the Shapley Value, are based on phylogenetic trees and rank species according to their contribution to overall phylogenetic diversity. However, in many cas...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Wicke K,Fischer M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in matrix-metalloproteinase (MMP) target validation and MMP-inhibitor-drug development for anti-cancer clinical trials is to better understand their complex roles (often competing with each other) in tumor progression. While there is extensive research on the growth-promoting effects of MMPs, the gro...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Nargis NN,Aldredge RC,Guy RD

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the effects of vaccination on the dynamics of infectious disease, which is spreading in a population concurrently with awareness. The model considers contributions to the overall awareness from a global information campaign, direct contacts between unaware and aware individuals, and reported ca...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Agaba GO,Kyrychko YN,Blyuss KB

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with numerical modeling and simulation of heat transfer in skin tissues using non-linear dual-phase-lag (DPL) bioheat transfer model under periodic heat flux boundary condition. The blood perfusion is assumed temperature-dependent which results in non-linear DPL bioheat transfer model in order to pred...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Kumar D,Kumar P,Rai KN

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of cooperation in this world is a mysterious phenomenon. One of the mechanisms that explain the evolution of cooperation is repeated interaction. If interactions between the same individuals repeat and individuals cooperate conditionally, cooperation can evolve. A previous study pointed out that if indiv...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Kurokawa S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical models of biological systems often have components that vary on different timescales. This multi-timescale character can lead to problems when doing computer simulations, which can require a great deal of computer time so that the components that change on the fastest time scale can be resolved. Mathemati...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Bertram R,Rubin JE

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with a two-microbial species model in competition for a single-resource in the chemostat including general intra- and interspecific density-dependent growth rates with distinct removal rates for each species. In order to understand the effects of intra- and interspecific interference, this general mod...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Fekih-Salem R,Lobry C,Sari T

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new approach for tumor immunotherapy which is based on a switching control strategy defined on domains of attraction of equilibria of interest. For this, we consider a recently derived model which captures the effects of the tumor cells on the immune system and viceversa, through predator-prey competition...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Doban AI,Lazar M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to apply machine learning as a method to refine a manually constructed CPN for the assessment of the severity of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).The goal of tuning the CPN is to create a scoring system that uses only objective data, compares favourably with other severity-sc...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Ward L,Paul M,Andreassen S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the evolution of dispersal is an important issue in evolutionary ecology. For continuous time models in which individuals disperse throughout their lifetime, it has been shown that a balanced dispersal strategy, which results in an ideal free distribution, is evolutionary stable in spatially varying but ...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Cantrell RS,Cosner C,Lou Y,Schreiber SJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most endocrine cells secrete hormones as a result of Ca2+-regulated exocytosis, i.e., fusion of the membranes of hormone-containing secretory granules with the cell membrane, which allows the hormone molecules to escape to the extracellular space. As in neurons, electrical activity and cell depolarization open voltage...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Pedersen MG,Tagliavini A,Cortese G,Riz M,Montefusco F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of metal or oxide nanoparticles (NPs) with biological soft matter is one of the central phenomena in basic and applied biology-oriented nanoscience. Often, this interaction includes adsorption of suspended proteins on the NP surface, resulting in the formation of the protein corona around NPs. Structurally...

journal_title：Mathematical biosciences

authors： Zhdanov VP,Cho NJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00