abstract：:More and more evidence shows that mating preference is a mechanism that may lead to a reproductive isolation event. In this paper, a haploid population living on two patches linked by migration is considered. Individuals are ecologically and demographically neutral on the space and differ only on a trait, a or A, affe...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Leman H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National Bureau of Statistics of China reports that the incidence of schistosomiasis has been increasing in recent years. To study dynamic behaviors of schistosomiasis transmission, based on practical experience of staff in Anhui Institute of Schistosomiasis, a mathematical schistosomiasis model with reinfection of re...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Qi L,Xue M,Cui JA,Wang Q,Wang T

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human body's immune response to bacterial challenge, even when successful in controlling the infection, can result in negative consequences for the host, including reduced functionality of associated tissues. We present and analyze a low-dimensional mathematical model of this immune response to pathogen invasion, ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Caudill L,Lynch F

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burst-like synthesis of protein is a significant source of cell-to-cell variability in protein levels. Negative feedback is a common example of a regulatory mechanism by which such stochasticity can be controlled. Here we consider a specific kind of negative feedback, which makes bursts smaller in the excess of protei...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bokes P,Lin YT,Singh A

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For epidemic models, it is shown that fatal infectious diseases cannot drive the host population into extinction if the incidence function is upper density-dependent. This finding holds even if a latency period is included and the time from infection to disease-induced death has an arbitrary length distribution. Howev...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Farrell AP,Collins JP,Greer AL,Thieme HR

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study Eigen's quasispecies model in the asymptotic regime where the length of the genotypes goes to [Formula: see text] and the mutation probability goes to 0. A limiting infinite system of differential equations is obtained. We prove convergence of trajectories, as well as convergence of the equilibrium solutions....

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dalmau J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation is commonly used in cancer treatment. Over 50% of all cancer patients will undergo radiotherapy (RT) as part of cancer care. Scientific advances in RT have primarily focused on the physical characteristics of treatment including beam quality and delivery. Only recently have inroads been made into utilizing t...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Poleszczuk J,Walker R,Moros EG,Latifi K,Caudell JJ,Enderling H

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:In this paper, we introduce multiscale persistent functions for biomolecular structure characterization. The essential idea is to combine our multiscale rigidity functions (MRFs) with persistent homology analysis, so as to construct a series of multiscale persistent functions, particularly multiscale persistent entrop...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Xia K,Li Z,Mu L

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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

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：: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 lactose operon in Escherichia coli was the first known gene regulatory network, and it is frequently used as a prototype for new modeling paradigms. Historically, many of these modeling frameworks use differential equations. More recently, Stigler and Veliz-Cuba proposed a Boolean model that captures the bistabili...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Jenkins A,Macauley M

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium that is responsible for a wide range of infections in humans. Colonies employ quorum sensing (QS) to coordinate gene expression, including for virulence factors, swarming motility and complex social traits. The QS signalling system of P. aeruginosa is known to involv...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Alfiniyah C,Bees MA,Wood AJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hodgkin and Huxley equations have served as the benchmark model in electrophysiology since 1950s. But it suffers from four major drawbacks. Firstly, it is only phenomenological not mechanistic. Secondly, it fails to exhibit the all-or-nothing firing mechanism for action potential generation. Thirdly, it lacks a th...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Deng B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we present a pedagogical tumour growth example, in which we apply calibration and validation techniques to an uncertain, Gompertzian model of tumour spheroid growth. The key contribution of this article is the discussion and application of these methods (that are not commonly employed in the field of can...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Collis J,Connor AJ,Paczkowski M,Kannan P,Pitt-Francis J,Byrne HM,Hubbard ME

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present computational techniques to investigate the effect of surface geometry on biological pattern formation. In particular, we study two-component, nonlinear reaction-diffusion (RD) systems on arbitrary surfaces. We build on standard techniques for linear and nonlinear analysis of RD systems and e...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dhillon DS,Milinkovitch MC,Zwicker M

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：: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：:We introduce a mesoscopic scale chemotaxis model for traveling wave phenomena which is induced by food metric. The organisms of this simplified kinetic model have two discrete velocity modes, [Formula: see text] and a constant tumbling rate. The main feature of the model is that the speed of organisms is constant [For...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Choi SH,Kim YJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial outbreaks of bacteria are well documented. Based on these incidents, and the heavy usage of antibiotics in hospitals, it has been assumed that antibiotic resistance evolves in hospital environments. To test this assumption, we studied resistance phenotypes of bacteria collected from patient isolates at a co...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Seigal A,Mira P,Sturmfels B,Barlow M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein fold can be viewed as a self-avoiding walk in certain lattice model, and its contact map is a graph that represents the patterns of contacts in the fold. Goldman, Istrail, and Papadimitriou showed that a contact map in the 2D square lattice can be decomposed into at most two stacks and one queue. In the term...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Guo QH,Sun LH,Wang J

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:This paper considers a model of foodwebs taking into account species extinction and invasion. We show that system stability depends not only on usual parameters (mortality rates, self-limitation coefficients, and resource abundances), but also on an additional parameter ("biodiversity potential"). The main result is a...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Kozlov V,Vakulenko S,Wennergren U

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue is a growing public health problem in tropical and subtropical cities. It is transmitted by mosquitoes, and the main strategy for epidemic prevention and control is insecticide fumigation. Effective management is, however, proving elusive. People's day-to-day movement about the city is believed to be an importa...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Falcón-Lezama JA,Martínez-Vega RA,Kuri-Morales PA,Ramos-Castañeda J,Adams B

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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 mammalian kidney consumes a large amount of energy to support the reabsorptive work it needs to excrete metabolic wastes and to maintain homeostasis. Part of that energy is supplied via the metabolism of glucose. To gain insights into the transport and metabolic processes in the kidney, we have developed a detaile...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Chen Y,Fry BC,Layton AT

更新日期：2016-06-01 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 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 a staged-structured population model that describes the competitive dynamics of two functionally similar, congeneric invasive species: zebra mussels and quagga mussels. The model assumes that the population survival rates are functions of temperature and turbidity, and that the two species compete for food....

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Huang Q,Wang H,Ricciardi A,Lewis MA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulent effects of a pathogen on host fecundity and mortality (both intrinsic and extrinsic mortality due to predation) often increase with the age of infection. Age of infection often is also correlated with parasite fitness, in terms of the number of both infective propagules produced and the between-host trans...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Rapti Z,Cáceres CE

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a deterministic continuum model for mixed-culture biofilms. A crucial aspect is that movement of one species is affected by the presence of the other. This leads to a degenerate cross-diffusion system that generalizes an earlier single-species biofilm model. Two derivations of this new model are given. One,...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Rahman KA,Sudarsan R,Eberl HJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:The F-actin network and cytosol in the lamellipodia of crawling cells flow in a centripetal pattern and spout-like form, respectively. We have numerically studied this two-phase flow in the realistic geometry of a moving keratocyte. Cytosol has been treated as a low viscosity Newtonian fluid flowing through the high v...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Nikmaneshi MR,Firoozabadi B,Saidi MS

更新日期：2015-09-01 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