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Depth Perception in Frogs and Toads
A Study in Neural Computing
Av Donald House
Häftad, 1989
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Depth Perception in Frogs and Toads provides a comprehensive exploration of the phenomenon of depth perception in frogs and toads, as seen from a neuro-computational point of view. Perhaps the most important feature of the book is the development and presentation of two neurally realizable depth …
Deterministic Threshold Models in the Theory of Epidemics
Av P. Waltman
Häftad, 1974
551 kr
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These notes correspond to a set of lectures given at the Univer sity of Alberta during the spring semester, 1973. The first four sec tions present a systematic development of a deterministic, threshold model for the spraad of an infection. Section 5 presents some compu tational results and …
Mathematical Problems in Biology
Victoria Conference
Häftad, 1974
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A conference on "Some Mathematical Problems in Biology" was held at the University of Victoria, Victoria, B. C. , Canada, from May 7 - 10, 1973. The participants and invited speakers were mathematicians interested in problems of a biological nature, and scientists actively engaged in developing …
Stochastic Population Theories
Av D. Ludwig
Häftad, 1974
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These notes serve as an introduction to stochastic theories which are useful in population biology; they are based on a course given at the Courant Institute, New York, in the Spring of 1974. In order to make the material. accessible to a wide audience, it is assumed that the reader has only a …
Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System
Proceedings of a Summer School organized by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, and the Institute for Information Sciences, University of Tübingen, held at Trieste, August 21–31, 1973
Av M. Conrad, W. Güttinger m. fl.
Häftad, 1974
569 kr
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This volume is the record and product of the Summer School on the Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System, held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste from August 21-31, 1973, and jointly organized by the Institute for Information Sciences, University of Tlibingen and …
Mathematical Analysis of Decision Problems in Ecology
Proceedings of the NATO Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey, July 9–13, 1973
Av A. Charnes, W.R. Lynn
Häftad, 1975
551 kr
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The contents of this volume involve selection, emendation and up-dating of papers presented at the NATO Conference "Mathe matical Analysis of Decision problems in Ecology" in Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-13, 1973. It was sponsored by the System Sciences Division of NATO directed by Dr. B. Bayraktar …
Modeling and Control in the Biomedical Sciences
Av H.T. Banks
Häftad, 1975
551 kr
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These notes are based on (i) a series of lectures that I gave at the 14th Biennial Seminar of the Canadian Mathematical Congress held at the University of Western Ontario August 12-24, 1973 and (li) some of my lectures in a modeling course that I have cotaught in the Division of Bio-Medical …
Ion Transport through Biological Membranes
An Integrated Theoretical Approach
Av M.C. Mackey
Häftad, 1975
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This book illustrates some of the ways physics and mathematics have been, and are being, used to elucidate the underlying mechan isms of passive ion movement through biological membranes in general, and the membranes of excltable cells in particular. I have made no effort to be comprehensive in my …
Antigen Antibody Interactions
Av C. Delisi
Häftad, 1976
551 kr
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1. 1 Organization of the Immune System One of the most important survival mechanisms of vertebrates is their ability to recognize and respond to the onslaught of pathogenic microbes to which they are conti- ously exposed. The collection of host cells and molecules involved in this recognition 12 …
Stochastic Model for Immunological Feedback in Carcinogenesis: Analysis and Approximations
Av N. Dubin
Häftad, 1976
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Stochastic processes often pose the difficulty that, as soon as a model devi ates from the simplest kinds of assumptions, the differential equations obtained for the density and the generating functions become mathematically formidable. Worse still, one is very often led to equations which have no …
Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction
Av J.J. Tyson
Häftad, 1976
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In 1958 B. P. Belousov discovered that the oxidation of citric acid by bromate in the presence of cerium ions does not proceed to equilibrium methodically and uniformly, like most chemical reactions, but rather oscillates with clocklike precision between a yellow and colorless state. See Fig. 11. …
Mathematical Models in Medicine
Workshop, Mainz, March 1976
Av J. Berger, J. Bühler m. fl.
Häftad, 1976
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On March 8/9, 1976 a workshop on "Mathematical Models in Medicine" was held at Mainz (German Federal Republic) by the group of "Mathe- matical Models" of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fUr Medizinische Doku- mentation, Informatik und Statistik. Purpose of this conference was to bring together experts …
Models of the Stochastic Activity of Neurones
Av A. V. Holden
Häftad, 1976
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These notes have grown from a series of seminars given at Leeds between 1972 and 1975. They represent an attempt to gather together the different kinds of model which have been proposed to account for the stochastic activity of neurones, and to provide an introduction to this area of mathematical …
Mathematical Models in Biological Discovery
Häftad, 1977
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When I was asked to help organize an American Association for the Advancement of Science symposium about how mathematical models have con tributed to biology, I agreed immediately. The subject is of immense importance and wide-spread interest. However, too often it is discussed in biologically …
Diffusion Processes and Related Topics in Biology
Av Luigi M. Ricciardi, Charles E. Smith
Häftad, 1977
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These notes are based on a one-quarter course given at the Department of Biophysics and Theoretical Biology of the University of Chicago in 1916. The course was directed to graduate students in the Division of Biological Sciences with interests in population biology and neurobiology. Only a slight …
Selection in One- and Two-Locus Systems
Av T. Nagylaki
Häftad, 1977
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Most of these notes were presented as part of a two-quarter course on theoretical population genetics at The University of Chicago. Almost all the students were either undergraduates in mathematics or graduate students in the biological sciences. The only prerequisites were calculus and matrices. …
Stochastic Models for Spike Trains of Single Neurons
Av S.K. Srinivasan, Gopalan Sampath
Häftad, 1977
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1 Some basic neurophysiology 4 The neuron 1. 1 4 1. 1. 1 The axon 7 1. 1. 2 The synapse 9 12 1. 1. 3 The soma 1. 1. 4 The dendrites 13 13 1. 2 Types of neurons 2 Signals in the nervous system 14 2. 1 Action potentials as point events - point processes in the nervous system 15 18 2. 2 Spontaneous …
Stochastic Problems in Population Genetics
Av T. Maruyama
Häftad, 1977
551 kr
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These are" notes based on courses in Theoretical Population Genetics given at the University of Texas at Houston during the winter quarter, 1974, and at the University of Wisconsin during the fall semester, 1976. These notes explore problems of population genetics and evolution involving stochastic …
Mathematics and the Life Sciences
Selected Lectures, Canadian Mathematical Congress, August 1975
Häftad, 1977
551 kr
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For two weeks in August, 1975 more than 140 mathematicians and other scientists gathered at the Universite de Sherbrooke. The occasion was the 15th Biennial Seminar of the Canadian Mathematical Congress, entitled Mathematics and the Life Sciences. Participants in this inter disciplinary gathering …
Measuring Selection in Natural Populations
Av Freddy Christiansen, T.M. Fenchel
Häftad, 1977
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The present volume constitutes the proceedings of the~ymposium: "Measur- ing Selection in Natural Populations", held in memory of late professor Ove Frydenberg. The Symposium took place in Sandbjerg Manor House in Southern Jutland May 10-14, 1976. The purpose of the symposium was to reflect …
Integrodifferential Equations and Delay Models in Population Dynamics
Häftad, 1977
551 kr
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These notes are, for the most part, the result of a course I taught at the University of Arizona during the Spring of 1977. Their main purpose is to inves tigate the effect that delays (of Volterra integral type) have when placed in the differential models of mathematical ecology, as far as …
Theoretical Approaches to Complex Systems
Proceedings, Tübingen, June 11–12, 1977
Häftad, 1978
551 kr
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This volume is the issue of the symposium 'Theoretical Approaches to Complex systems', held in Tlibingen on June 11 and 12, 1977. The meeting was dedicated to the late Ernst Pfaffelhuber of the Institute for Information Sciences, University of Tlibingen, in memory of his con- tributions to …
Golden Age of Theoretical Ecology: 1923–1940
Häftad, 1978
551 kr
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This is the part of any book where the authors usually discuss why they wrote it. We hope, however, that the text will justifY itself. In fact, any well-trained ecologist will immediately grasp the significance of these seminal works. We have therefore tried to keep our interpretive comments to a …
Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary
Proceedings of the Buffon Bicentenary Symposium on Geometrical Probability, Image Analysis, Mathematical Stereology, and Their Relevance to the Determination of Biological Structures, Held in Paris, June 1977
Av R. E. Miles, J. Serra
Häftad, 1978
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L'etude morphologique des tissus pathologiques en microscopie d' elements: optique comporte schematiquement deux types 1) les cellules, 2) les Fibres conjonctives intercellulaires. Ces Fibres, qui constituent Ie "squelette mou", servent de support aux elements cellwlaires, contribuent a maintenir …
Competition for Space and the Structure of Ecological Communities
Av P. Yodzis
Häftad, 1978
551 kr
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This volume is an investigation of interspecific competition for space, particularly among sessile organisms, both plant and animal, and its consequences for community structure. While my own contribu tion ----and the bulk of this volume --- lies in mathematical analysis of the phenomenon, I have …
Questions of Uniqueness and Resolution in Reconstruction from Projections
Av M. B. Katz
Häftad, 1978
551 kr
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Reconstruction from projections has revolutionized radiology and has now become one of the most important tools of medical diagnosis The E. M. I. Scanner is one example. In this text, some fundamental theoretical and practical questions are resolved. Despite recent research activity in the area, …
Time Lags in Biological Models
Av N. MacDonald
Häftad, 1978
551 kr
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In many biological models it is necessary to allow the rates of change of the variables to depend on the past history, rather than only the current values, of the variables. The models may require discrete lags, with the use of delay-differential equations, or distributed lags, with the use of …
Mathematical Aspects of Reacting and Diffusing Systems
Av P. C. Fife
Häftad, 1979
551 kr
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Modeling and analyzing the dynamics of chemical mixtures by means of differ- tial equations is one of the prime concerns of chemical engineering theorists. These equations often take the form of systems of nonlinear parabolic partial d- ferential equations, or reaction-diffusion equations, when …
Kinetic Logic: A Boolean Approach to the Analysis of Complex Regulatory Systems
Proceedings of the EMBO Course “Formal Analysis of Genetic Regulation”, Held in Brussels, September 6–16, 1977
Av R. Thomas
Häftad, 1979
551 kr
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The E M B 0 course on "Formal Analysis of Genetic Regulation" A course entitled "Formal analysis of Genetic Regulation" was held at the University of Brussels from 6 to 16 September 1977 under the auspices of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization). As indicated by the title of the book (but …
