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Book BIOMAT 2006

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rubem Mondaini
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9812708774
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book BIOMAT 2006 written by Rubem Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This useful volume contains the contributions from the keynote speakers of the BIOMAT 2006 symposium as well as selected contributions in the areas of mathematical biology, biological physics, biophysics and bioinformatics. It contains new results, contributions and comprehensive reviews to the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis B. Mathematical models for physiological disorders including tumors, aneurysms and metabolic diseases are discussed and analyzed. This book also contains original contributions to de novo protein structure prediction and multi-objective optimization techniques applied to protein tertiary structure prediction. DNA evolutionary issues, stem cell biology, dynamics of biologic membranes, reactionOCodiffusion mechanisms, population dynamics, and bioeconomics are covered and discussed throughout this book."

Book BIOMAT 2010

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  • Author : Rubem P Mondaini
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 2011-03-11
  • ISBN : 9814460672
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book BIOMAT 2010 written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the selected contributed papers of the BIOMAT 2010 International Symposium which has been organized as a joint conference with the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (http://www.smb.org) by invitation of the Director Board of this Society. The works presented at Tutorial and Plenary Sessions by expert keynote speakers have been also included. This book contains state-of-the-art articles on special research topics on mathematical biology, biological physics and mathematical modelling of biosystems; comprehensive reviews on interdisciplinary areas written by prominent leaders of scientific research groups. The treatment is both pedagogical and sufficiently advanced to enhance future scientific research. Contents:MorphologyMolecular BiophysicsMathematical EpidemiologyPopulation DynamicsPopulation BiologyTheoretical ImmunologyComputational BiologyMathematical Aspects of BioprocessesPopulation GeneticsSystems Biology Readership: Mathematicians, biologists, physicists; graduate and undergraduate students interested in biomathematics. Keywords:Mathematical Biology;Biological Physics;Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems

Book BIOMAT 2006

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  • ISBN : 9814475211
  • Pages : pages

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Book BIOMAT 2010

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  • Author : Rubem P. Mondaini
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9814343439
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book BIOMAT 2010 written by Rubem P. Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the selected contributed papers of the BIOMAT 2010 International Symposium which has been organized as a joint conference with the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (http: //www.smb.org) by invitation of the Director Board of this Society. The works presented at Tutorial and Plenary Sessions by expert keynote speakers have been also included. This book contains state-of-the-art articles on special research topics on mathematical biology, biological physics and mathematical modelling of biosystems; comprehensive reviews on interdisciplinary areas written by prominent leaders of scientific research groups. The treatment is both pedagogical and sufficiently advanced to enhance future scientific research

Book BIOMAT 2006

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rubem Mondaini
  • Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9812707689
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book BIOMAT 2006 written by Rubem Mondaini and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This useful volumes contains the contributions from the keynote speakers of the BIOMAT 2006 symposium as well as selected contributions in the areas of mathematical biology, biological physics, biophysics and bioinformatics. It contains new results, contributions and comprehensive reviews to themathematical modeling of infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis B. Mathematical models for physiological disorders including tumors, aneurysms and metabolic diseases are discussed and analyzed.

Book BIOMAT 2015

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  • Author : Rubem P Mondaini
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 2016-04-28
  • ISBN : 9813141921
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book BIOMAT 2015 written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. 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. Contents:Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases:Network Structure and Enzymatic Evolution in Leishmania Metabolism: A Computational Study (A Subramanian & R R Sarkar)Long-Term Potential of Imperfect Seasonal Flu Vaccine in Presence of Natural Immunity (S Ghosh & J M Heffernan)Impact of Non-Markovian Recovery on Network Epidemics (G Röst, Z Vizi & I Z Kiss)A Modelling Framework for Serotype Replacement in Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (M Kang, A L Espindola, M Laskowski & S M Moghadas)Pattern Recognition of Biological Phenomena:An Integrative Approach for Model Driven Computation of Treatments in Reproductive Medicine (R Ehrig, T Dierkes, S Schäfer, S Röblitz, E Tronci, T Mancini, I Salvo, V Alimguzhin, F Mari, I Melatti, A Massini, B Leeners, T H C Krüger, M Egli, F Ille & B Leeners)The Network Route to Biological Complexity (S J Banerjee, R K Grewal, S Sinha & S Roy)A Systems Biology Approach to Bovine Fertility and Metabolism: Introduction of a Glucose Insulin Model (Julia Plöntzke, M Berg, C Stötzel & S Röblitz)Biographer: Visualization of Graph Theoretical Patterns, Measurements, and Analysis in Mathematical Biology (R Viswanathan, S Liang, Y Yang & J R Jungck)Hydrodynamics and Elasticity of Cell Tissues and Bacterial Growth:Modelling the Early Growth of Stem Cell Tissues (R A Barrio, S Orozco-Fuentes & R Romero-Arias)Non-local Hydrodynamics of Swimming Bacteria and Self-Activated Process (S Roy & R Llinás)Dynamic and Geometric Modelling of Biomolecular Structures:Geometric Analysis of the Conformational features of Protein Structures (M Datt)Computational Biology:Prediction of System States, Robustness and Stability of the Human Wnt Signal Transduction Pathway using Boolean Logic (L Nayak, R K De & A Datta)Entropy Measures and the Statistical Analysis of Protein Family Classification (R P Mondaini & S C de Albuquerque Neto)Clustering Neuraminidase Influenza Protein Sequences (X Li, H Jankowski, S Boonpatcharanon, V Tran, X Wang & J M Heffernan)Optimal Control Techniques in Mathematical Modelling of Biological Phenomena:Optimal Control for Therapeutic Drug Treatment on a Delayed Model Incorporating Immune Response (P Dubey, B Dubey & U S Dubey)Population Dynamics:Bifurcations and Oscilllatory Dynamics in a Tumor Immune Interaction Model (S Khajanchi)On a Nonlinear System Modelling Darwinian Dynamics and the Immune Response to Cancer Evolution (A Bellouquid, M Ch-Chaoui & E de Angelis)Sexual Selection is Not Required: A Mathematical Model of Species with Sexually Differentiated Death Rates (D Wallace, E Dauson, C Pinion & K Hayashi)Models for Two Strains of the Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis Virus Disease (S Collino, E Venturino, L Ferreri, L Bertolotti, S Rosati & M Giacobini)Conservation of Forestry Biomass Introducing Variable Taxation for Harvesting: A Mathematical Model (M Chaudhary, J Dhar & O P Misra)Stability Analysis of a Two Species Competition Model with Fuzzy Initial Conditions: Fuzzy Differential Equation Approach Environment (S Paul, P Bhattacharya & K S Chaudhuri)Modelling Physiological Disorders:Magnetic Resonance Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound — Mathematical Modeling of an Innovative, State of the Art Technology for Cancer Therapy (J Murley, J Thangaraj, J Drake, A Waspe & S Sivaloganathan)The Effects of Fibroblasts on Wave Dynamics in a Mathematical Model for Human Ventricular Tissue (A R Nayak & R Pandit)A Simple Logistic Sigmoidal Model Predicts Oxidative Stress Thresholds in Newly Diagnosed Diabetics on Glucose Control Therapy (R Kulkarni) Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, researchers and all practitioners in the interdisciplinary fields of Mathematical Biology, Biological Physics and Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems.

Book BIOMAT 2008

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  • ISBN : 9814468096
  • Pages : pages

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Book Modeling  Simulation and Optimization

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.

Book Biomat 2011   International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology

Download or read book Biomat 2011 International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a selection of articles on special research topics on Mathematical Biology and the interdisciplinary fields of mathematical modelling of biosystems. The treatment is both pedagogical and advanced to enhance future scientific research. We include comprehensive reviews written by prominent leaders of scientific research groups, new results on Population Dynamics such as Hybrid Discrete-Continuous Models of Cell Populations and the Hopf bifurcation on Predator-Prey Models, and some state of the art research on Medical Physics such as Optimization Methods applied to Raman Spectroscopy. Other topics covered focus on evolution biology, infectious diseases, DNA structure and many more.

Book BIOMAT 2012

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  • Author : Rubem P Mondaini
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 2013-06-25
  • ISBN : 9814520837
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book BIOMAT 2012 written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 408 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. Contents:Mathematical Epidemiology:Compartmental Age of Infection Epidemic Models (Fred Brauer)Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases:Lyme Pathogen Transmission in Tick Populations with Multiple Host Species (Yijun Lou, Jianhong Wu and Xiaotian Wu)Quantifying the Risk of Mosquito-Borne Infections Basing on the Equilibrium Prevalence in Humans (Marcos Amaku, Francisco A B 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)Modelling Physiological Disorders: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 Myocyte (D I Wallace and J E Tanenbaum)Theoretical Immunology: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)Dynamic and Geometric Modelling of Biomolecular Structure: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 of 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 (A Martinez Aragon, J D de Toledo Arruda-Neto and Y Medina Guevara)Population Dynamics:Viral Evolution and Adaptation as a Multivariate Branching Process (F Antoneli, F Bosco, D Castro and L M 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, R T N Cardoso, J L Acebal, 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 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)Computational Biology: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)Optimal Control Techniques in Mathematical Modelling of Biological Phenomena:Regularity of Optimal Cost Functional Applied to Study of Environmental Pollution (Santina Arantes and Jaime Rivera)Pattern Recognition on Biological Phenomena: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) Readership: Graduate students, researchers and all practitioners in the interdisciplinary fields of Mathematical Biology, Biological Physics and Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems. Keywords:Mathematical Biology;Biomathematics;Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems;Biological Physics;Biophysics;Computational Biology;BioinformaticsReviews: “The book is interesting reading for graduate students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary fields of Mathematical Biology, Biological Physics and Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems.” Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum

Book BIOMAT 2007

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  • ISBN : 9814471291
  • Pages : pages

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Book Special Functions  Partial Differential Equations  and Harmonic Analysis

Download or read book Special Functions Partial Differential Equations and Harmonic Analysis written by Constantine Georgakis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of papers presented at the conference in honor of Calixto P. Calderón by his friends, colleagues, and students is intended to make the mathematical community aware of his important scholarly and research contributions in contemporary Harmonic Analysis and Mathematical Models applied to Biology and Medicine, and to stimulate further research in the future in this area of pure and applied mathematics.

Book BIOMAT 2007

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  • Author : Rubem Mondaini
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9812812334
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book BIOMAT 2007 written by Rubem Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 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 LotkaOCoVolterra 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.

Book Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems

Download or read book Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems written by Rubem P. Mondaini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an interdisciplinary book which introduces, in a very readable way, state-of-the-art research in the fundamental topics of mathematical modelling of Biosystems. In short, the book offers an overview of mathematical and computational modelling of biosystems including biological phenomena in general. There is also a special introduction to Protein Physics which aims to explain the all-or-none first order phase transitions from native to denatured states.

Book BIOMAT 2013

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  • Author : Rubem P Mondaini
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 2014-03-18
  • ISBN : 981460223X
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book BIOMAT 2013 written by Rubem P Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of a series on interdisciplinary topics on the Biological and Mathematical Sciences. The chapters correspond to selected papers on special research themes, which have been presented at BIOMAT 2013 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology which was held in the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on November 04 – 08, 2013. 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 prominent scientific leaders of famous research groups. Contents:Population Dynamics:The Princess and the Pea: The Unexpected Importance of Movement Algorithms (Rebecca Tyson)Plankton Nutrient Interaction Model with Harvesting under Constant Environment (Samares Pal and A Chatterjee)Traveling Wave Solutions for a Chemotaxis System (F Catrina and V M Reyes G)Dynamics of a General Stage Structured N Parallel Food Chains (Isam Al-Darabsah and Yuan Yuan)Pattern Recognition of Biological Phenomena:Complex Data Clustering: From Neural Network Architecture to Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics of Pattern Recognition (Guojun Gan, Jialun Yin, Yulia Wang and Jianhong Wu)Dynamic and Geometric Modelling of Biomolecular Structures:A Two-Step Kinetic Model of Insulin Aggregation with a Competitive Inhibitor (Mark Whidden, Allison Ho and Santiago Schnell)Optimal Control Techniques in Mathematical Modelling of Biological Phenomena:Optimal Control of Resource Coefficient in a Parabolic Population Model (J Bintz, H Finotti and S Lenhart)Optimization of Costs for Combating Aedes Aegypti in Optimal Time-Windows (W O Dias, G A Xavier, D A P Lima, E F Wanner and R T N Cardoso)Dynamics of a Varroa-Infested Honey Bee Colonies Model (K O Okosun)Computational Biology:Probability Distributions of GC Content Reflect the Evolution of Primate Species (Marco V José, Qi Lu and Juan R Bobadilla)Mining the Constraints of Protein Evolution (Fernando Encinas and Antonio Basilio de Miranda)Entropy Measures Based Methods for the Classification of Protein Domains into Families and Clans (Nicolas Carels, Cecilia F Mondaini and Rubem P Mondaini)Modelling Physiological Disorders:Modelling of Porous Elastic and Viscoelastic Media and Its Application to the Brain (R Begg, J Murley, M. Kohandel and S Sivaloganathan)The Mathematics of Liver Transplantation (F A B Coutinho, E Chaib, M Amaku, M M Burattini and E Massad)Complexity of Molecular Signaling Networks for Various Types of Cancer and Neurological Diseases Correlates with Patient Survivability (D Breitkreutz, E A Rietman, P Hinow, M Healey and J A Tuszynski)Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases:Modelling Malaria Dynamics in Temperate Regions with Long Term Incubation Period (Kyeongah Nah, Gergely Röst and Yongkuk Kim)A Simulation of the U S Influenza Outbreak in 2009–2010 Using a Patch SIR Model based on Airport Transportation Data (D L Wallace and M Chen)Modelling Directly Transmitted Infections considering Age-structured Contact Rate and Vaccination (H M Yang and C H Dezotti)A General Framework for Agent-Based Modelling with Applications to Infectious Disease Dynamics (Marek Laskowski and Seyed M Moghadas)Analysis of the Basic Reproduction Number from the Initial Growth Phase of the Outbreak in Diseases Caused by Vectors (R P Sanches and E Massad)Parameter Estimation of a Tuberculosis Model in a Patchy Environment: Case of Cameroon (D P Moualeu, S Bowong and J Kürts)An Agent-Based Modelling Framework for Tuberculosis Infection with Drug-Resistance (Aquino L Espindola, A S Martinez and Seyed M Moghadas)Some Extensions of the Classical Epidemic Models (Fred Brauer) Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, researchers and all practitioners on the interdisciplinary fields of Mathematical Biology, Biological Physics and Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems. Keywords:Mathematical Biology;Biomathematics;Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems;Biological Physics;Biophysics;Computational Biology;Bioinformatics

Book BIOMAT 2012

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  • Author : Rubem P. Mondaini
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9814520829
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book BIOMAT 2012 written by Rubem P. Mondaini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 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.