General Principles, Theories, and Models of Pattern Formation -- and Outline -- On the Origin of Patterns -- Mathematical Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation -- Cellular Automaton Modeling -- Cellular Automata -- Applications -- Random Movement -- Growth Processes -- Adhesive Cell Interaction -- Alignment and Cellular Swarming -- Pigment Cell Pattern Formation -- Tissue and Tumor Developme…
Introduction: Population Without Age -- The Life Table -- The Matrix Model Framework -- Mortality Comparisons; The Male-Female Ratio -- Fixed Regime of Mortality and Fertility: The Uses of Stable Theory -- Birth and Population Increase from the Life Table -- Birth and Population Increase from Matrix Population Models -- Reproductive Value from the Life Table -- Reproductive Value from Matrix Mo…
The Octave Is Dead … Long Live the Octave -- The Science of Sound -- Sound on Sound -- Musical Scales -- Consonance and Dissonance of Harmonic Sounds -- Related Spectra and Scales -- A Bell, A Rock, A Crystal -- Adaptive Tunings -- A Wing, An Anomaly, A Recollection -- The Gamelan -- Consonance-Based Musical Analysis -- From Tuning to Spectrum -- Spectral Mappings -- A “Music Theory” for …
General Information About Measurements -- Measuring Instruments and Their Properties -- Prerequisites for the Analysis of the Inaccuracy of Measurements and for Synthesis of Their Components -- Statistical Methods for Experimental Data Processing -- Direct Measurements -- Indirect Measurements -- Examples of Measurements and Measurement Data Processing -- Combined Measurements -- Combining the …
Neuropathology of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Prion Diseases) -- Central Pathogenesis of Prion Diseases -- Hereditary Prion Protein Amyloidoses -- Mouse Behavioural Studies and What They Can Teach Us about Prion Diseases -- Electrophysiological Approaches to the Study of Prion Diseases -- Prion Protein, Prion Protein-Like Protein, and Neurodegeneration -- Oxidative Stress and Mit…
Fractal Structures in Biological Systems -- Mandelbrot’s Fractals and the Geometry of Life: A Tribute to Benoît Mandelbrot on his 80th Birthday -- Gas Diffusion through the Fractal Landscape of the Lung: How Deep Does Oxygen Enter the Alveolar System? -- Is the Lung an Optimal Gas Exchanger? -- 3D Hydrodynamics in the Upper Human Bronchial Tree: Interplay between Geometry and Flow Distributi…
The History of Acta Biotheoretica and the Nature of Theoretical Biology -- Images of the Genome: From Public Debates to Biology, and Back, and Forth -- The Functional Perspective of Organismal Biology -- Infectious Biology: Curse or Blessing? Reflections on Biology in Other Disciplines, with a Case Study of Migraine -- The Composite Species Concept: A Rigorous Basis for Cladistic Practice -- Th…
Genetic algorithms: a guide for absolute beginners -- Evolutionary algorithms and their theory -- Epistasis -- Examples -- Walsh transforms -- Multary epistasis -- Generalized Walsh transforms.
Genetic Algorithms for the Variable Ordering Problem of Binary Decision Diagrams -- Gray, Binary and Real Valued Encodings: Quad Search and Locality Proofs -- A Comparison of Simulated Annealing with a Simple Evolutionary Algorithm -- NP-Completeness of Deciding Binary Genetic Encodability -- Compact Genetic Codes as a Search Strategy of Evolutionary Processes -- Asymptotic Convergence of Some …
1 The Stable Population Model -- 2 Extensions of the Linear Theory -- 3 Nonlinear One-Sex Models -- 4 Pair Formation Models -- 5 Basic Ideas in Epidemic Modeling -- 6 Age-Structured SIR Epidemic Model -- 7 Epidemic Models for HIV Infection -- 8 Variable Susceptibility, Reinfection and Immunity -- 9 Basic Reproduction Number R0 -- 10 Mathematical Tools.This book is the first one in which basic d…