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This is a book of a series on interdisciplinary topics of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences. The chapters correspond to selected papers on special research themes, which were presented at BIOMAT 2012 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, in Tempe, Arizona, USA, November 6 10. This book contains state-of-the art articles on special research topics on mathematical biology, biological physics and mathematical modeling of biosystems; comprehensive reviews on interdisciplinary areas written by prominent leaders of scientific research groups. The treatment is both pedagogical and advanced in order to motivate research students as well as to fulfill the requirements of professional practitioners.
List of contents
Compartmental Age of Infection Epidemic Models (Fred Brauer); Lyme Pathogen Transmission in Tick Populations with Multiple Host Species (Yijun Lou, Jianhong Wu and Xiaotian Wu); Quantifying the Risk of Mosquito-Borne Infection Based on the Equilibrium Prevalence in Humans (Marcos Amaku, Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho and Eduardo Massad); Seasonal Fluctuation in TseTse Fly Populations and Human African Trypanosomiasis: A Mathematical Model (T Madsen, D I Wallace and N Zupan); A Mathematical Model for the Immunotherapy of Advanced Prostate Cancer (Travis Portz and Yang Kuang); Seizure Manifold of the Epileptic Brain: A State Space Reconstruction Approach (Mujahid N Syed, Pando G Georgiev and Panos M Pardalos); Synchronous Calcium Induced Calcium Release (CICR) in a Multiple Site Model of the Cardiac Myocite (D I Wallace and J E Tanenbaum); Modelling Natural Killer Cell Repertoire Development and Activation Dynamics (Michal Sternberg-Simon and Ramit Mehr); Saturation Effects on T-Cell Activation in a Model of a Multi-Stage Pathogen (Michael Shapiro and Edgar Delgado-Eckert); Advances in DE NOVO Protein Design for Monomeric, Multimeric, and Conformational Switch Proteins (James Smadbeck, George A Khoury, Meghan B Peterson, Christodoulos A Floudas); Mathematical Models and Techniques for Biomolecular Geometric Analysis (K L Xia, F Xin, Y Tong and G W Wei); Towards a New Bio-Quantum Model for Signaling and Repair of DNA Damage (Aymara Martinez Aragon, Joao Dias de Toledo Arruda Neto and Yadira Medina Guevara); Viral Evolution and Adaptation as a Multivariate Branching Process (Fernando Antoneli, Francisco Bosco, Diogo Castro and Luiz Mario Janini); Associative Learning of a Lexicon in a Noisy Cross-Situational Scenario (P F C Tilles and J F Fontanari); Relationship between Rainfall and Control Effectiveness of the Aedes aegypti Population through a Non-linear Dynamical Model - Case of Lavras City, Brazil (L B Barsante, J L Acebal, B S Carvalho, R T N Cardoso, M M Morais and A E Eiras); Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Telegraph Reaction - Diffusion Predator - Prey Models (Eliseo Hernandez Martinez, Hector Puebla, Teresa Perez Munoz, Margarita Gonzalez Brambila and Jorge X Velasco Hernandez); Population Dynamics of the Spider Monkey (Ateles hybridus) in a Fragmented Landscape of Colombia (J M Cordovez, J R Arteaga B, M Marino, A G de Luna and A Link); The Contribution of Stop Codon Frequency and Purine Bias to the Classification of Coding Sequences (N Carels and D Frias); Multiclass Classification of Tree Structured Objects: The K-NN Case (Ana Georgina Flesia); Regularity of Optimal Cost Functional Applied to the Study of Environmental Pollution (Santina Arantes and Jaime Rivera); A Sensitivity Analysis of Gene Expression Model (N A Barbosa); A Wavelet-Based Time-Varying Irregular Vector Autoregressive Model (G E Salcedo, O E Molina and R F Porto).
