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Published:
January 29, 1998
Author(s):
CF Chan Man Fong; D De Kee
Covers applicable mathematics that should provide a text, at the third year level and beyond, appropriate for both students of engineering and the pure sciences. The book is a product of close collaboration between two mathematicians and an engineer and it is of note that the engineer has been ...
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Published:
January 13, 1998
Author(s):
CF Chan Man Fong; D De Kee
Covers applicable mathematics that should provide a text, at the third year level and beyond, appropriate for both students of engineering and the pure sciences. The book is a product of close collaboration between two mathematicians and an engineer and it is of note that the engineer has been ...
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Published:
November 24, 2009
Author(s):
Wing-Kin Sung
Thoroughly Describes Biological Applications, Computational Problems, and Various Algorithmic Solutions Developed from the author’s own teaching material, Algorithms in Bioinformatics: A Practical Introduction provides an in-depth introduction to the algorithmic techniques applied in ...
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November 26, 2012
Author(s):
Fred Brauer; Christopher Kribs-Zaleta
Taking more of a qualitative rather than computational approach, this text presents the techniques required to undertake basic modeling of biological systems through the development and analysis of dynamical systems. It includes many different types of applications from population biology and ...
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Published:
December 02, 2010
Author(s):
Linda J. S. Allen
An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology, Second Edition presents the basic theory of stochastic processes necessary in understanding and applying stochastic methods to biological problems in areas such as population growth and extinction, drug kinetics, two-species ...
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Published:
July 07, 2006
Author(s):
Uri Alon
Thorough and accessible, this book presents the design principles of biological systems, and highlights the recurring circuit elements that make up biological networks. It provides a simple mathematical framework which can be used to understand and even design biological circuits. The textavoids ...
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Published:
December 01, 2010
Author(s):
Vladimir Dorodnitsyn
Intended for researchers, numerical analysts, and graduate students in various fields of applied mathematics, physics, mechanics, and engineering sciences, Applications of Lie Groups to Difference Equations is the first book to provide a systematic construction of invariant difference schemes for ...
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Published:
May 26, 2005
Author(s):
Jean-Maurice Vergnaud; Iosif-Daniel Rosca
Exploring how to apply in vitro/in vivo correlations for controlled release dosage forms, Bioavailability of Drug Delivery Systems: Mathematical Modeling clearly elucidates this complex phenomena and provides a guide for the respective mathematical modeling. The book introduces mathematical ...
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Published:
June 23, 2005
Editor(s):
Lukas K. Buehler; Hooman H. Rashidi
Every researcher in genomics and proteomics now has access to public domain databases containing literally billions of data entries. However, without the right analytical tools, and an understanding of the biological significance of the data, cataloging and interpreting the molecular evolutionary ...
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Published:
May 25, 2011
Author(s):
Ehud Lamm; Ron Unger
The area of biologically inspired computing, or biological computation, involves the development of new, biologically based techniques for solving difficult computational problems. A unified overview of computer science ideas inspired by biology, Biological Computation presents the most fundamental ...
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Published:
June 18, 2003
Editor(s):
Luigi Preziosi
Understanding how cancer tumours develop and spread is vital for finding treatments and cures. Cancer Modelling and Simulation demonstrates how mathematical modelling and computer simulation techniques are used to discover and gain insight into the dynamics of tumour development and growth. It ...
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Published:
January 27, 2010
Editor(s):
Arnaud Chauvière; Luigi Preziosi; Claude Verdier
Ubiquitous and fundamental in cell mechanics, multiscale problems can arise in the growth of tumors, embryogenesis, tissue engineering, and more. Cell Mechanics: From Single Scale-Based Models to Multiscale Modeling brings together new insight and research on mechanical, mathematical, physical, and ...
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Published:
August 30, 2004
Editor(s):
A.K. Konopka; M. James C. Crabbe
The assimilation of computational methods into the life sciences has played an important role in advancing biological research. From sequencing genomes to discovering motifs in large collections of functionally equivalent sequences of nucleic acids and proteins, the value of powerful computational ...
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Published:
May 25, 2006
Author(s):
Ralf Blossey
Quantitative methods have a particular knack for improving any field they touch. For biology, computational techniques have led to enormous strides in our understanding of biological systems, but there is still vast territory to cover. Statistical physics especially holds great potential for ...
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Published:
June 02, 2010
Editor(s):
Constantine Pozrikidis
Spanning biological, mathematical, computational, and engineering sciences, computational biofluiddynamics addresses a diverse family of problems involving fluid flow inside and around living organisms, organs, tissue, biological cells, and other biological materials. Computational Hydrodynamics of ...
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Published:
October 20, 2003
Editor(s):
Jianfeng Feng
How does the brain work? After a century of research, we still lack a coherent view of how neurons process signals and control our activities. But as the field of computational neuroscience continues to evolve, we find that it provides a theoretical foundation and a set of technological approaches ...
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Published:
November 22, 2000
Editor(s):
Erik De Schutter
Designed primarily as an introduction to realistic modeling methods, Computational Neuroscience: Realistic Modeling for Experimentalists focuses on methodological approaches, selecting appropriate methods, and identifying potential pitfalls. The author addresses varying levels of complexity, from ...
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Published:
November 20, 1997
Editor(s):
S. Sitharama Iyengar
This unique text explores the use of innovative modeling techniques in effecting a better understanding of complex diseases such as AIDS and cancer. From a way of representing the computational properties of protein-folding problems to computer simulation of bimodal neurons and networks, Computer ...
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Published:
March 22, 1994
Author(s):
Barney K. Huang
Computer Simulation Analysis of Biological and Agricultural Systems focuses on the integration of mathematical models and the dynamic simulation essential to system analysis, design, and synthesis. The book emphasizes the quantitative dynamic relationships between elements and system responses. ...
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Published:
November 09, 2009
Author(s):
D.S. Jones; Michael Plank; B.D. Sleeman
Deepen students’ understanding of biological phenomena Suitable for courses on differential equations with applications to mathematical biology or as an introduction to mathematical biology, Differential Equations and Mathematical Biology, Second Edition introduces students in the physical, ...
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Published:
November 14, 2005
Editor(s):
David B. Allison; Grier P. Page; T. Mark Beasley; Jode W. Edwards
Considered highly exotic tools as recently as the late 1990s, microarrays are now ubiquitous in biological research. Traditional statistical approaches to design and analysis were not developed to handle the high-dimensional, small sample problems posed by microarrays. In just a few short years the ...
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Published:
November 25, 1991
Author(s):
Simon Easteal; Neil McLeod; Ken Reed
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Published:
September 26, 2012
Author(s):
Yang Kuang; John Nagy
This self-contained book focuses on three categories of disease: cancer, viral diseases, and dynamical diseases. It presents the medical and biological background of the diseases, specific issues to be modeled, and existing methods and their limitations. The book introduces mathematical and ...
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Published:
August 25, 2011
Author(s):
Michael Small
From the spontaneous rapid firing of cortical neurons to the spatial diffusion of disease epidemics, biological systems exhibit rich dynamic behaviour over a vast range of time and space scales. Unifying many of these diverse phenomena, Dynamics of Biological Systems provides the computational and ...
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Published:
August 09, 2011
Author(s):
Abdelhamid Ajbar; Khalid Alhumaizi
A ubiquitous tool in mathematical biology and chemical engineering, the chemostat often produces instabilities that pose safety hazards and adversely affect the optimization of bioreactive systems. Singularity theory and bifurcation diagrams together offer a useful framework for addressing these ...
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