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Biomat 2015 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology

Author : Rubem P Mondaini
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813141921
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Biomat 2015 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of an international series on interdisciplinary topics of the Mathematical and Biological Sciences. The chapters are related to selected papers on the research themes presented at BIOMAT 2015 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology which was held in the Roorkee Institute of Technology, in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, on November 02-06, 2015. The treatment is both pedagogical and advanced in order to motivate research students to fulfill the requirements of professional practitioners. As in other volumes of this series, there are new important results on the interdisciplinary fields of mathematical and biological sciences and comprehensive reviews written by prominent scientific leaders of famous research groups.There are new results based on the state of art research in Population Dynamics, on Pattern Recognition of Biological Phenomena, the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, Computational Biology, the Dynamic and Geometric Modelling of Biological Phenomena, the Modelling of Physiological Disorders, the Optimal Control Techniques in Mathematical Modelling of Biological Phenomena, the Hydrodynamics and Elasticity of Cell Tissues and Bacterial Growth and the Mathematical Morphology of Biological Structures. All these contributions are also strongly recommended to professionals from other scientific areas aiming to work on these interdisciplinary fields.

Biomat 2014 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology

Author : Rubem P Mondaini
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814667951
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Biomat 2014 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of a series on interdisciplinary topics on the Mathematical and Biological Sciences. The chapters correspond to selected papers on special research themes, which have been presented at BIOMAT 2014 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology which was held in the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Centre at Bedlewo near Poznan, Poland on November 03 - 07, 2014. The treatment is both pedagogical yet advanced in order to motivate research students as well as to fulfill the requirements of professional practitioners. As in the other volumes of this series, there are new important results on the interdisciplinary fields of mathematical and biological sciences and comprehensive reviews written by prominent scientific leaders of famous research groups.

Biomat 2007 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology

Author : Rubem P Mondaini
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814471291
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Biomat 2007 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Lotka-Volterra 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.

Biomat 2008 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology

Author : Rubem P Mondaini
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814468096
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Biomat 2008 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains selected contributed papers from the BIOMAT 2008 Symposium and lectures delivered by keynote speakers during the plenary sessions. All chapters are centered on fundamental interdisciplinary areas of mathematical modeling of biosystems, like mathematical biology, biological physics, evolution biology and bioinformatics. It contains new results on the mathematical analysis of reaction-diffusion equations, demographic Allee effects and the dynamics of infection. Recent approaches to the modeling of biosystem structure, comprehensive reviews on icosahedral viral capsids and the classification of biological data via neural networks with prior knowledge, and a new perspective on a theoretical basis for bioinformatics are also discussed.This book contains original results on reaction-diffusion waves: the population dynamics of fishing resources and the effectiveness of marine protected areas; an approach to language evolution within a population dynamics framework; the analysis of bacterial genome evolution with Markov chains; the choice of defense strategies and the study of the arms-race phenomenon in a host-parasite system.

Biomat 2012 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology

Author : Rubem P Mondaini
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814520837
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Biomat 2012 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Trends in Biomathematics: Modeling Cells, Flows, Epidemics, and the Environment

Author : Rubem P. Mondaini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030463060
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Trends in Biomathematics: Modeling Cells, Flows, Epidemics, and the Environment written by Rubem P. Mondaini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a collection of carefully selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the BIOMAT 2019 International Symposium, which was held at the University of Szeged, Bolyai Institute and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, October 21st-25th, 2019. The topics covered in this volume include tumor and infection modeling; dynamics of co-infections; epidemic models on networks; aspects of blood circulation modeling; multidimensional modeling approach via time-frequency analysis and Edge Based Compartmental Model; and more. This book builds upon the tradition of the previous BIOMAT volumes to foster interdisciplinary research in mathematical biology for students, researchers, and professionals. Held every year since 2001, the BIOMAT International Symposium gathers together, in a single conference, researchers from Mathematics, Physics, Biology, and affine fields to promote the interdisciplinary exchange of results, ideas and techniques, promoting truly international cooperation for problem discussion. The 2019 edition of BIOMAT International Symposium received contributions by authors from 14 countries: Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, India, Italy, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, United Kingdom and the USA. Selected papers presented at the 2017 and 2018 editions of this Symposium were also published by Springer, in the volumes "Trends in Biomathematics: Modeling, Optimization and Computational Problems" (978-3-319-91091-8) and "Trends in Biomathematics: Mathematical Modeling for Health, Harvesting, and Population Dynamics" (978-3-030-23432-4).

Microbial Communication

Author : Sarangam Majumdar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811574170
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Microbial Communication written by Sarangam Majumdar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the concept of bacterial communication systems from a mathematical modeling point of view. It sheds light on the research undertaken in the last three decades, and the mathematical models that have been proposed to understand the underlying mechanism of such systems. These communication systems are related to quorum sensing mechanisms and quorum sensing regulated processes such as biofilm formation, gene expression, bioluminescence, swarming and virulence. The book further describes the phenomenon of noise, and discusses how noise plays a crucial role in gene expression and the quorum sensing circuit operationusing a set of tools like frequency domain analysis, power spectral density, stochastic simulation and the whitening effect. It also explores various aspects of synthetic biology (related to bacterial communication), such as genetic toggle switch, bistable gene regulatory networks, transcriptional repressor systems, pattern formation, synthetic cooperation, predator-prey synthetic systems, dynamical quorum sensing, synchronized quorum of genetic clocks, role of noise in synthetic biology, the Turing test and stochastic Turing test.

Mathematics of Epidemics on Networks

Author : István Z. Kiss
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319508067
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics of Epidemics on Networks written by István Z. Kiss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides an exciting new addition to the area of network science featuring a stronger and more methodical link of models to their mathematical origin and explains how these relate to each other with special focus on epidemic spread on networks. The content of the book is at the interface of graph theory, stochastic processes and dynamical systems. The authors set out to make a significant contribution to closing the gap between model development and the supporting mathematics. This is done by: Summarising and presenting the state-of-the-art in modeling epidemics on networks with results and readily usable models signposted throughout the book; Presenting different mathematical approaches to formulate exact and solvable models; Identifying the concrete links between approximate models and their rigorous mathematical representation; Presenting a model hierarchy and clearly highlighting the links between model assumptions and model complexity; Providing a reference source for advanced undergraduate students, as well as doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and academic experts who are engaged in modeling stochastic processes on networks; Providing software that can solve differential equation models or directly simulate epidemics on networks. Replete with numerous diagrams, examples, instructive exercises, and online access to simulation algorithms and readily usable code, this book will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers from different backgrounds and academic levels. Appropriate for students with or without a strong background in mathematics, this textbook can form the basis of an advanced undergraduate or graduate course in both mathematics and other departments alike.

Noise and Randomness in Living System

Author : Sisir Roy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811695830
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Noise and Randomness in Living System written by Sisir Roy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the role of randomness and noise in living organisms. Traditionally, the randomness and noise have been used in understanding signal processing in communications. This book is divided into two sections, the first of which introduces readers to the various types and sources of noise and the constructive role of noise in non-linear dynamics. It also analyses the importance of randomness and noise in a variety of science and engineering applications. In turn, the second section discusses in detail the functional role of noise in biological processes for example, in case of brain function at the level of ion channel, synaptic level and even at cognitive level. These are described in various chapters. One of the challenging issue finding the neuronal correlates of various meditative states is to understand how brain controls various types of noise so as to reach a state of synchronized oscillatory state of the brain corresponding to the state of Samadhi. This is described in details in one chapter called Noise, Coherence and meditation. The concept of noise and the role of randomness in living organism raise lot of controversy for last few decades. This is discussed in a separate chapter. Finally, the epistemic and ontic nature of randomness as discussed in physical science are investigated in the context of living organism.

Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII

Author : Hocine Cherifi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030366871
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII written by Hocine Cherifi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, offering scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners a unique update on the latest advances in theory and a multitude of applications. It presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019), which took place in Lisbon, Portugal, on December 10–12, 2019. The carefully selected papers cover a wide range of theoretical topics such as network models and measures; community structure, and network dynamics; diffusion, epidemics, and spreading processes; resilience and control as well as all the main network applications, including social and political networks; networks in finance and economics; biological and neuroscience networks; and technological networks.

Mathematical Biology And Biological Physics

Author : Rubem P Mondaini
Publisher : #N/A
ISBN 13 : 9813227893
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Biology And Biological Physics written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by #N/A. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on interdisciplinary topics of the Mathematical and Biological Sciences. The treatment is both pedagogical and advanced in order to motivate research students as well as to fulfill the requirements of professional practitioners. There are comprehensive reviews written by senior experts on the important problems of growth and agglomeration in biology, on the algebraic modelling of the genetic code and on multi-step biochemical pathways.There are new results on the state of the art research in the pattern recognition of probability distribution of amino acids, on somitogenesis through reaction-diffusion models, on the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, on the biophysical modelling of physiological disorders, on the sensitive analysis of parameters of malaria models, on the stability and hopf bifurcation of ecological and epidemiological models, on the viral infection of bee colonies and on the structure and motion of proteins. All these contributions are also strongly recommended to professionals from other scientific areas aiming to work on these interdisciplinary fields.

VipIMAGE 2017

Author : João Manuel R.S. Tavares
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319681958
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book VipIMAGE 2017 written by João Manuel R.S. Tavares and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers papers presented at the VipIMAGE 2017-VI ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing. It highlights invited lecturers and full papers presented at the conference, which was held in Porto, Portugal, on October 18–20, 2017. These international contributions provide comprehensive coverage on the state-of-the-art in the following fields: 3D Vision, Computational Bio-Imaging and Visualization, Computational Vision, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy and Treatment, Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression, Industrial Inspection, Image Enhancement, Image Processing and Analysis, Image Segmentation, Medical Imaging, Medical Rehabilitation, Physics of Medical Imaging, Shape Reconstruction, Signal Processing, Simulation and Modelling, Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis, Telemedicine Systems and their Applications, Tracking and Analysis of Movement, and Deformation and Virtual Reality. In addition, it explores a broad range of related techniques, methods and applications, including: trainable filters, bilateral filtering, statistical, geometrical and physical modelling, fuzzy morphology, region growing, grabcut, variational methods, snakes, the level set method, finite element method, wavelet transform, multi-objective optimization, scale invariant feature transform, Laws’ texture-energy measures, expectation maximization, the Markov random fields bootstrap, feature extraction and classification, support vector machines, random forests, decision trees, deep learning, and stereo vision. Given its breadth of coverage, the book offers a valuable resource for academics, researchers and professionals in Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Vision (image processing and analysis), Computer Sciences, Computational Mechanics, Signal Processing, Medicine and Rehabilitation.

General System Theory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems

Author : Gianfranco Minati
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038424404
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book General System Theory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems written by Gianfranco Minati and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Second Generation General System Theory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems" that was published in Systems

Biomat 2015 - International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology

Author : Rubem P. Mondaini
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789813141902
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Biomat 2015 - International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology written by Rubem P. Mondaini and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of an international series on interdisciplinary topics of the Mathematical and Biological Sciences. The chapters are related to selected papers on the research themes presented at BIOMAT 2015 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology which was held in the Roorkee Institute of Technology, in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, on November 02-06, 2015. The treatment is both pedagogical and advanced in order to motivate research students to fulfill the requirements of professional practitioners. As in other volumes of this series, there are new important results on the interdisciplinary fields of mathematical and biological sciences and comprehensive reviews written by prominent scientific leaders of famous research groups. There are new results based on the state of art research in Population Dynamics, on Pattern Recognition of Biological Phenomena, the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, Computational Biology, the Dynamic and Geometric Modelling of Biological Phenomena, the Modelling of Physiological Disorders, the Optimal Control Techniques in Mathematical Modelling of Biological Phenomena, the Hydrodynamics and Elasticity of Cell Tissues and Bacterial Growth and the Mathematical Morphology of Biological Structures. All these contributions are also strongly recommended to professionals from other scientific areas aiming to work on these interdisciplinary fields.

Modeling, Simulation and Optimization

Author : Biplab Das
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811598290
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Modeling, Simulation and Optimization written by Biplab Das and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization, organized by National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India, during 3–5 August 2020. The book covers topics of modeling, simulation and optimization, including computational modeling and simulation, system modeling and simulation, device/VLSI modeling and simulation, control theory and applications, modeling and simulation of energy system and optimization. The book disseminates various models of diverse systems and includes solutions of emerging challenges of diverse scientific fields.

XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016

Author : Efthyvoulos Kyriacou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319327038
Total Pages : 1384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016 written by Efthyvoulos Kyriacou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of Medicon 2016, held in Paphos, Cyprus. Medicon 2016 is the XIV in the series of regional meetings of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) in the Mediterranean. The goal of Medicon 2016 is to provide updated information on the state of the art on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing under the main theme “Systems Medicine for the Delivery of Better Healthcare Services”. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing cover complementary disciplines that hold great promise for the advancement of research and development in complex medical and biological systems. Research and development in these areas are impacting the science and technology by advancing fundamental concepts in translational medicine, by helping us understand human physiology and function at multiple levels, by improving tools and techniques for the detection, prevention and treatment of disease. Medicon 2016 provides a common platform for the cross fertilization of ideas, and to help shape knowledge and scientific achievements by bridging complementary disciplines into an interactive and attractive forum under the special theme of the conference that is Systems Medicine for the Delivery of Better Healthcare Services. The programme consists of some 290 invited and submitted papers on new developments around the Conference theme, presented in 3 plenary sessions, 29 parallel scientific sessions and 12 special sessions.

Applied Mathematical Analysis: Theory, Methods, and Applications

Author : Hemen Dutta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319999184
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Applied Mathematical Analysis: Theory, Methods, and Applications written by Hemen Dutta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses key aspects of recent developments in applied mathematical analysis and its use. It also highlights a broad range of applications from science, engineering, technology and social perspectives. Each chapter investigates selected research problems and presents a balanced mix of theory, methods and applications for the chosen topics. Special emphasis is placed on presenting basic developments in applied mathematical analysis, and on highlighting the latest advances in this research area. The book is presented in a self-contained manner as far as possible, and includes sufficient references to allow the interested reader to pursue further research in this still-developing field. The primary audience for this book includes graduate students, researchers and educators; however, it will also be useful for general readers with an interest in recent developments in applied mathematical analysis and applications.