Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Volume II: Epidemiology, Evolution and Ecology, Immunology, Neural Systems and the Brain, and Innovative (Hardcover, 2008)

Preface Part I. Epidemiology Could Low-Efficacy Malaria Vaccines Increase Secondary Infections in Endemic Areas? / Robert J. Smith? Modeling of the Invasion of a Fungal Disease over a Vineyard / J.-B. Burie, A. Calonnec, M. Langlais An Algorithm for Parameter Estimation in Nosocomial Infections / Nico Stollenwerk and Rafael Mikolajczyk Part II. Evolution and Ecology Evolutionarily Stable Investment in Anti-Predatory Defences and Aposematic Signalling / Mark Broom, Graeme D. Ruxton, Michael P. Speed The Tangled Nature Model of Evolutionary Ecology: An Overview / Simon Laird, Daniel Lawson, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen Relative Advantage and Fundamental Theorems of Natural Selection / Jozsef Garay Competitive Exclusion Between Year-Classes in a Semelparous Biennial Population / Ryusuke Kon On the Impact of Winter Conditions on the Dynamics of an Isolated Population / Lev V. Nedorezov, E.V. Volkova, Alexandr M. Sadykov Planning for Biodiversity Conservation Using Stochastic Programming / Trevon Fuller, David P. Morton, Sahotra Sarkar A Diffusion-Reaction Model of a Mixed-Culture Biofilm Arising in Food Safety Studies / Hermann J. Eberl, Heidi Schraft The Periodical Population Dynamics of Lottery Models Including the Effect of Undeveloped Seeds / Shigehide Iwata, Ryusuke Kon, Yasuhiro Takeuchi Part III. Immunology An Automata-Based Microscopic Model Inspired by Clonal Expansion / Francesco Zanlungo, Sandro Rambaldi, Giorgio Turchetti Th1-Th2 Regulation and Allergy: Bifurcation Analysis of the Non-Autonomous System / Reinhard Vogel, Ulrich Behn Architecture of Randomly Evolving Idiotypic Networks / Holger Schmidtchen, Ulrich Behn Analysis of Infectious Mortality by Means of the Individualized Risk Model / Tatiana E.Sannikova Part IV. Neural Systems and the Brain Neuromorphological Phenotyping in Transgenic Mice: A Multiscale Fractal Analysis / Andreas Schierwagen, Luciano da Fontoura Costa, Alan Alpar, Ulrich Gartner, Thomas Arendt A Quantitative Model of ATP-Mediated Calcium Wave Propagation in Astrocyte Networks / William G. Gibson, Les Farnell, Max R. Bennett Dynamics of Neural Fields with Distributed Transmission Speeds / Fatihcan M. Atay, Axel Hutt Estimation of Differential Entropy for Positive Random Variables and Its Application in Computational Neuroscience / David Hampel Dynamics of Integrate-and-Fire Models / Joanna Tyrcha A Monte Carlo Method Used for the Identification of the Muscle Spindle / Vassiliki K. Kotti, Alexandros G. Rigas Mechanisms of Coincidence Detection in the Auditory Brainstem: Examples / Petr Marsalek, Marek Drapal Multi-Scale Analysis of Brain Surface Data / Thomas Hubsch, Marc Tittgemeyer The Spike Generation Processes: A Case for Low Level Computation / Tjeerd olde Scheper Part V. Innovative Mathematical Methods and Education Offdiagonal Complexity: A Computationally Quick Network Complexity Measure-Application to Protein Networks and Cell Division / Jens Christian Claussen An Analytically Solvable Asymptotic Model of Atrial Excitability / Radostin D. Simitev, Vadim N. Biktashev A Bayesian Approach to the Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction / Nadia Lalam, Christine Jacob A Model of Poplar (Populus sp.) Physiology and Morphology Based on Relational Growth Grammars / Gerhard Buck-Sorlin, Ole Kniemeyer, Winfried Kurth Asymptotic Behavior of a Two-Dimensional Keller-Segel Model with and without Density Control / Vincent Calvez, Yasmin Dolak-Struß Saturation Effects in Population Dynamics: Use Branching Processes or Dynamical