Preface
Part I. Epidemiology
Could Low-Efficacy Malaria Vaccines Increase Secondary Infections in Endemic Areas? / Robert J. Smith?
Modeling of the Invasion of a Fungal Disease over a Vineyard / J.-B. Burie, A. Calonnec, M. Langlais
An Algorithm for Parameter Estimation in Nosocomial Infections / Nico Stollenwerk and Rafael Mikolajczyk
Part II. Evolution and Ecology
Evolutionarily Stable Investment in Anti-Predatory Defences and Aposematic Signalling / Mark Broom, Graeme D. Ruxton, Michael P. Speed
The Tangled Nature Model of Evolutionary Ecology: An Overview / Simon Laird, Daniel Lawson, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Relative Advantage and Fundamental Theorems of Natural Selection / József Garay
Competitive Exclusion Between Year-Classes in a Semelparous Biennial Population / Ryusuke Kon
On the Impact of Winter Conditions on the Dynamics of an Isolated Population / Lev V. Nedorezov, E.V. Volkova, Alexandr M. Sadykov
Planning for Biodiversity Conservation Using Stochastic Programming / Trevon Fuller, David P. Morton, Sahotra Sarkar
A Diffusion-Reaction Model of a Mixed-Culture Biofilm Arising in Food Safety Studies / Hermann J. Eberl, Heidi Schraft
The Periodical Population Dynamics of Lottery Models Including the Effect of Undeveloped Seeds / Shigehide Iwata, Ryusuke Kon, Yasuhiro Takeuchi
Part III. Immunology
An Automata-Based Microscopic Model Inspired by Clonal Expansion / Francesco Zanlungo, Sandro Rambaldi, Giorgio Turchetti
Th1–Th2 Regulation and Allergy: Bifurcation Analysis of the Non-Autonomous System / Reinhard Vogel, Ulrich Behn
Architecture of Randomly Evolving Idiotypic Networks / Holger Schmidtchen, Ulrich Behn
Analysis of Infectious Mortality by Means of the Individualized Risk Model / Tatiana E. Sannikova
Part IV. Neural Systems and the Brain
Neuromorphological Phenotyping in Transgenic Mice: A Multiscale Fractal Analysis / Andreas Schierwagen, Luciano da Fontoura Costa, Alan Alpar, Ulrich Gärtner, Thomas Arendt
A Quantitative Model of ATP-Mediated Calcium Wave Propagation in Astrocyte Networks / William G. Gibson, Les Farnell, Max R. Bennett
Dynamics of Neural Fields with Distributed Transmission Speeds / Fatihcan M. Atay, Axel Hutt
Estimation of Differential Entropy for Positive Random Variables and Its Application in Computational Neuroscience / David Hampel
Dynamics of Integrate-and-Fire Models / Joanna Tyrcha
A Monte Carlo Method Used for the Identification of the Muscle Spindle / Vassiliki K. Kotti, Alexandros G. Rigas
Mechanisms of Coincidence Detection in the Auditory Brainstem: Examples / Petr Marsalek, Marek Drapal
Multi-Scale Analysis of Brain Surface Data / Thomas Hübsch, Marc Tittgemeyer
The Spike Generation Processes: A Case for Low Level Computation / Tjeerd olde Scheper
Part V. Innovative Mathematical Methods and Education
Offdiagonal Complexity: A Computationally Quick Network Complexity Measure—Application to Protein Networks and Cell Division / Jens Christian Claussen
An Analytically Solvable Asymptotic Model of Atrial Excitability / Radostin D. Simitev, Vadim N. Biktashev
A Bayesian Approach to the Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction / Nadia Lalam, Christine Jacob
A Model of Poplar (Populus sp.) Physiology and Morphology Based on Relational Growth Grammars / Gerhard Buck-Sorlin, Ole Kniemeyer, Winfried Kurth
Asymptotic Behavior of a Two-Dimensional Keller–Segel Model with and without Density Control / Vincent Calvez, Yasmin Dolak-Struß
Saturation Effects in Population Dynamics: Use Branching Processes or Dynamical Systems? / Christine Jacob
Modelling and Simulation by Stochastic Interacting Particle Systems / Tobias Klauß, Anja Voß-Böhme
Teaching Mathematical Biology in a Summer School for Undergraduates / Gerda de Vries, Thomas Hillen
Index