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Author International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology (2007 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Title BIOMAT 2007 : International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, Armação dos Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 24-29 November 2007 / edited by Rubem P. Mondaini, Rui Dilão
Published Singapore : World Scientific, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) : illustrations (some color), map
Contents Population dynamics. Models of Allee effects and their implications for population and community dynamics / Ludek Berec. The decoupling & solution of logistic & classical two-species Lotka-Volterra dynamics with variable production rates / Charles E.M. Pearce, Roy B. Leipnik. Allee effect, emigration and immigration in a class of predator-prey models / Eduardo González-Olivares [and others] -- Epidemiological modeling. Epidemic predictions and predictability in complex environments / Vittoria Colizza [and others]. Assessing the spatial propagation ofWest Nile virus / Norberto A. Maidana, Hyun M. Yang. Management of complex systems: modeling the biological pest control / Marat Rafikov, José Manoel Balthazar, Hubertus F. von Bremen -- Biological and chemical pattern recognition. On TuringHopf instabilities in reaction-diffusion systems / Mariano Rodríguez Ricard. Grasshopper density population classification with neural networks / Isaias Chairez Hernández [and others]
Summary The present volume contains the contributions of the keynote speakers of the BIOMAT 2007 Symposium as well as selected contributed papers in the areas of mathematical biology, biological physics, biophysics and bioinformatics. It contains new results on some aspects of LotkaVolterra equations, the proposal of using differential geometry to model neurosurgical tools, recent data on epidemiological modeling, pattern recognition and comprehensive reviews on the structure of proteins, the folding problem and the influence of Allee effects on population dynamics. This book contains some original results on the growth of gliomas: the role played by membrane channels on activity-dependent modulation of spike transmission; a proposal for reconsidering the concept of gene and the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for gene expression; a differential geometric approach to the influence of the drying effect on the dynamics of pods of Leguminosae; the comparison of agent-based models with the approach of differential equations on the study of selection mechanisms in germinal centers; and the synchronization phenomenon for protocell systems driven by linear kinetic equations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Biology -- Mathematical models -- Congresses
Biomathematics -- Congresses
NATURE -- Reference.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
Biology -- Mathematical models
Biomathematics
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Mondaini, Rubem P.
Dilão, Rui
ISBN 9812812334
9789812812339