Mathematical Studies on Human Disease Dynamics

Mathematical Studies on Human Disease Dynamics
Author: Abba B. Gumel
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2006
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0821837753

This volume contains the proceedings of the AMS-SIAM-IMS Joint Summer Research Conference on Modeling the Dynamics of Human Diseases: Emerging Paradigms and Challenges, held in Snowbird, Utah, July 17-21, 2005. The goal of the conference was to bring together leading and upcoming researchers to discuss the latest advances and challenges associated with the modeling of the dynamics of emerging and re-emerging diseases, and to explore various control strategies. The articles included in this book are devoted to some of the significant recent advances, trends, and challenges associated with the mathematical modeling and analysis of the dynamics and control of some diseases of public health importance. In addition to illustrating many of the diverse prevailing epidemiological challenges, together with the diversity of mathematical approaches needed to address them, this book provides insights on a number of topical modeling issues such as the modeling and control of mosquito-borne diseases, respiratory diseases, animal diseases (such as foot-and-mouth disease), cancer and tumor growth modeling, influenza, HIV, HPV, rotavirus, etc. This book also touches upon other important topics such as the use of modeling i

Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics

Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics
Author: Odo Diekmann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2013
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0691155399

This book explains how to translate biological assumptions into mathematics to construct useful and consistent models, and how to use the biological interpretation and mathematical reasoning to analyze these models. It shows how to relate models to data through statistical inference, and how to gain important insights into infectious disease dynamics by translating mathematical results back to biology.

Mathematical Understanding of Infectious Disease Dynamics

Mathematical Understanding of Infectious Disease Dynamics
Author: Stefan Ma
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9812834826

An Original book with a comprehensive collection of many significant topics of the frontiers in applied presentation of many epidemic models with many real-life examples. presents an integration of interesting ideas from the well-mixed fields of statistics and mathematics. A valuable resource for researchers in wide range of disciplines to solve problems of practical interest.

Infectious Diseases of Humans

Infectious Diseases of Humans
Author: Roy M. Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1991
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780198540403

This book deals with infectious diseases -- viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth -- in terms of the dynamics of their interaction with host populations. The book combines mathematical models with extensive use of epidemiological and other data. This analytic framework is highly useful for the evaluation of public health strategies aimed at controlling or eradicating particular infections. Such a framework is increasingly important in light of the widespread concern for primary health care programs aimed at such diseases as measles, malaria, river blindness, sleeping sickness, and schistosomiasis, and the advent of AIDS/HIV and other emerging viruses. Throughout the book, the mathematics is used as a tool for thinking clearly about fundamental and applied problems having to do with infectious diseases. The book is divided into two parts, one dealing with microparasites (viruses, bacteria and protozoans) and the other with macroparasites (helminths and parasitic arthropods). Each part begins with simple models, developed in a biologically intuitive way, and then goes on to develop more complicated and realistic models as tools for public health planning. The book synthesizes previous work in this rapidly growing field (much of which is scattered between the ecological and the medical literature) with a good deal of new material.

Dynamic Models of Infectious Diseases

Dynamic Models of Infectious Diseases
Author: V. Sree Hari Rao
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2013-11-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461492246

Though great advances in public health are witnessed world over in recent years, infectious diseases, besides insect vector-borne infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Control of the epidemics caused by the non-vector borne diseases such as tuberculosis, avian influenza (H5N1) and cryptococcus gattii, have left a very little hope in the past. The advancement of research in science and technology has paved way for the development of new tools and methodologies to fight against these diseases. In particular, intelligent technology and machine-learning based methodologies have rendered useful in developing more accurate predictive tools for the early diagnosis of these diseases. In all these endeavors the main focus is the understanding that the process of transmission of an infectious disease is nonlinear (not necessarily linear) and dynamical in character. This concept compels the appropriate quantification of the vital parameters that govern these dynamics. This book is ideal for a general science and engineering audience requiring an in-depth exposure to current issues, ideas, methods, and models. The topics discussed serve as a useful reference to clinical experts, health scientists, public health administrators, medical practioners, and senior undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics, biology, bioinformatics, and epidemiology, medicine and health sciences.

Mathematical Models in Population Biology and Epidemiology

Mathematical Models in Population Biology and Epidemiology
Author: Fred Brauer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2011-11-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461416868

The goal of this book is to search for a balance between simple and analyzable models and unsolvable models which are capable of addressing important questions on population biology. Part I focusses on single species simple models including those which have been used to predict the growth of human and animal population in the past. Single population models are, in some sense, the building blocks of more realistic models -- the subject of Part II. Their role is fundamental to the study of ecological and demographic processes including the role of population structure and spatial heterogeneity -- the subject of Part III. This book, which will include both examples and exercises, is of use to practitioners, graduate students, and scientists working in the field.

Mathematical Models for Communicable Diseases

Mathematical Models for Communicable Diseases
Author: Fred Brauer
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1611972418

A self-contained and comprehensive guide to the mathematical modeling of disease transmission, appropriate for graduate students.

Mathematics of Continuous and Discrete Dynamical Systems

Mathematics of Continuous and Discrete Dynamical Systems
Author: Abba B. Gumel
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2014-06-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821898620

This volume contains the proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Nonstandard Finite-Difference Discretizations and Nonlinear Oscillations, in honor of Ronald Mickens's 70th birthday, held January 9-10, 2013, in San Diego, CA. Included are papers on design and analysis of discrete-time and continuous-time dynamical systems arising in the natural and engineering sciences, in particular, the design of robust nonstandard finite-difference methods for solving continuous-time ordinary and partial differential equation models, the analytical and numerical study of models that undergo nonlinear oscillations, as well as the design of deterministic and stochastic models for epidemiological and ecological processes. Some of the specific topics covered in the book include the analysis of deterministic and stochastic SIR-type models, the assessment of cost-effectiveness of vaccination problems, finite-difference methods for oscillatory dynamical systems (including the Schrödinger equation and Brusselator system), the design of exact and elementary stable finite-difference methods, the study of a two-patch model with Allee effects and disease-modified fitness, the study of the delay differential equation model with application to circadian rhythm and the application of some special functions in the solutions of some problems arising in the natural and engineering sciences. A notable feature of the book is the collection of some relevant open problems, intended to help guide the direction of future research in the area.

An Introduction to Undergraduate Research in Computational and Mathematical Biology

An Introduction to Undergraduate Research in Computational and Mathematical Biology
Author: Hannah Callender Highlander
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2020-02-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 303033645X

Speaking directly to the growing importance of research experience in undergraduate mathematics programs, this volume offers suggestions for undergraduate-appropriate research projects in mathematical and computational biology for students and their faculty mentors. The aim of each chapter is twofold: for faculty, to alleviate the challenges of identifying accessible topics and advising students through the research process; for students, to provide sufficient background, additional references, and context to excite students in these areas and to enable them to successfully undertake these problems in their research. Some of the topics discussed include: • Oscillatory behaviors present in real-world applications, from seasonal outbreaks of childhood diseases to action potentials in neurons • Simulating bacterial growth, competition, and resistance with agent-based models and laboratory experiments • Network structure and the dynamics of biological systems • Using neural networks to identify bird species from birdsong samples • Modeling fluid flow induced by the motion of pulmonary cilia Aimed at undergraduate mathematics faculty and advanced undergraduate students, this unique guide will be a valuable resource for generating fruitful research collaborations between students and faculty.

Modeling Paradigms and Analysis of Disease Transmission Models

Modeling Paradigms and Analysis of Disease Transmission Models
Author: Abba B. Gumel
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821843842

This volume stems from two DIMACS activities, the U.S.-Africa Advanced Study Institute and the DIMACS Workshop, both on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases in Africa, held in South Africa in the summer of 2007. It contains both tutorial papers and research papers. Students and researchers should find the papers on modeling and analyzing certain diseases currently affecting Africa very informative. In particular, they can learn basic principles of disease modeling and stability from the tutorial papers where continuous and discrete time models, optimal control, and stochastic features are introduced.