This book examines discrete dynamical systems with memory-nonlinear systems that exist extensively in biological organisms and financial and economic organizations, and time-delay systems that can be discretized into the memorized, discrete dynamical systems.
The aim of these lecture notes is to give an introduction to several mathematical models and methods that can be used to describe the behaviour of living systems.
This two-volume set LNCS 9771 and LNCS 9772 constitutes - in conjunction with the volume LNAI 9773 - the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2016, held in Lanzhou, China, in August 2016.
This two-volume set LNCS 9771 and LNCS 9772 constitutes - in conjunction with the volume LNAI 9773 - the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2016, held in Lanzhou, China, in August 2016.
This volume reviews the current metabolic engineering tools and technologies from a practical point of view, and guides researchers as they overcome challenges at various stages of organism and bioprocess development.
This thesis explores several interdisciplinary topics at the border of theoretical physics and biology, presenting results that demonstrate the power of methods from statistical physics when applied to neighbouring disciplines.
Ring polymers are one of the last big mysteries in polymer physics, and this thesis tackles the problem of describing their behaviour when interacting in dense solutions and with complex environments and reports key findings that help shed light on these complex issues.
Biological and biomedical research are increasingly driven by experimental techniques that challenge our ability to analyse, process and extract meaningful knowledge from the underlying data.
The European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH), held every 2 years, provides a forum for discussing recent advances in and aspects of numerical mathematics and scientific and industrial applications.
This book has developed over the past fifteen years from a modern course on stochastic chemical kinetics for graduate students in physics, chemistry and biology.
In this volume, the specific challenges and problems facing the evaluation of new oncology agents are explored with regards to pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic modeling and clinical pharmacology development strategies.
This book brings together a rich selection of studies in mathematical modeling and computational intelligence, with application in several fields of engineering, like automation, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, electronic, geophysical and mechanical engineering, on a multidisciplinary approach.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third InternationalConference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2016, held inTrujillo, Spain, in June 2016.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2016, held in Minsk, Belarus, in June 2016.
Presenting the latest findings in topics from across the mathematical spectrum, this volume includes results in pure mathematics along with a range of new advances and novel applications to other fields such as probability, statistics, biology, and computer science.
The Kingdom fungi encompass a massive diversity of taxa with wide-ranging ecologies, life cycles, and morphologies ranging from unicellular aquatic chytrids to large mushrooms.
This book consists of a diverse collection of chapters that seeks to broaden our fundamental understanding of the ecological function and biological importance of the Earth's lower atmosphere, which provides a huge living space for billions of animals moving within and across continents.
This book presents recent researchresults relating to applications of nonlinear dynamics, focusing specificallyon four topics of wide interest: heart dynamics, DNA/RNA, cell mobility, andproteins.
This book will take an evidence-based approach to current knowledge about biomolecules and their place in our lives, inviting readers to explore how we know what we know, and how current gaps in knowledge may influence the way we approach the information.
This authored monograph supplies empirical evidence for the Bayesian brain hypothesis by modeling event-related potentials (ERP) of the human electroencephalogram (EEG) during successive trials in cognitive tasks.
Thisbook constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Research inComputational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2016, held in Santa Monica, CA, USA, inApril 2016.
Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conferenceon Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2016, held in Granada,Spain, in April 2016.
To comprehend the organizational principle of cellular functions at diff erent levels, an integrative approach with large-scale experiments, the so-called 'omics' data including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, is needed.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on TrustedSystems, INTRUST 2015, held in Beijing, China, in December 2015.
This book is the fourth in a multidisciplinary series which brings together leading researchers in the STEAM-H disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Mathematics and Health) to present their perspective on advances in their own specific fields, and to generate a genuinely interdisciplinary collaboration that transcends parochial subject-matter boundaries.
This doctoral thesisreports on an innovative data repository offering adaptive metadata managementto maximise information sharing and comprehension in multidisciplinary andgeographically distributed collaborations.
In this book, physics in its many aspects (thermodynamics, mechanics, electricity, fluid dynamics) is the guiding light on a fascinating journey through biological systems, providing ideas, examples and stimulating reflections for undergraduate physics, chemistry and life-science students, as well as for anyone interested in the frontiers between physics and biology.
Focusingon five main groups of interdisciplinary problems, this book covers a widerange of topics in mathematical modeling, computational science and appliedmathematics.
This volume contains the post-conference proceedings of the 10th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science, MEMICS 2015, held in Telc, Czech Republic, in October 2015.
Thebook presents the challenges inherent in the paradigm shift of network systemsfrom static to highly dynamic distributed systems it proposes solutions thatthe symbiotic nature of biological systems can provide into altering networkingsystems to adapt to these changes.
This book discusses the ways in which mathematical, computational, and modelling methods can be used to help understand the dynamics of intracellular calcium.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-workshop proceedings for the 26 International Workshop on combinatorialAlgorithms, IWOCA 2015, held in Verona, Italy, in October 2015.
This handbook provides comprehensive reference information on the efficient production of secondary metabolites from plants by transgenesis and other genetic manipulation strategies.
TheseProceedings of the 2015 MICCAI Workshop Computational Diffusion MRI offer asnapshot of the current state of the art on a broad range of topics within thehighly active and growing field of diffusion MRI.
This volume of Advances Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology focuses on the emerging field of bio-image informatics, presenting novel and exciting ways of handling and interpreting large image data sets.
