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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 305-318 
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    Notes: Abstract Freese’s Hypothesis states that a single specific alteration in the sequence of nucleotides of an information-bearing DNA molecule results in a specific mutational effect. Within the framework of the DNA-protein coding problem developed elsewhere, and assuming the quasi-ergodicity of the general coding process, it is shown that Freese’s Hypothesis allows us to derive expressions for the length of the smallest mutable DNA molecule and to obtain a bound for the maximal number of allelic molecules of fixed length. To illustrate these ideas, calculations are carried out on appropriate data from bacternophage and man, and the results are shown to differ by a factor of 10 (modulo the rather crude approximations used). It is further shown that, if ρ(N) and ϱ(N) are respectively the number of information-bearing words of lengthN in a given code and the number of words of lengthN, then the number lim ρ(N)/ϱ(N) depends sensitively on the parameter ∈ which specifiesN→∞ the given code. The implications of this result for the spontaneous aggregation of a sufficient number of information-bearing words to characterize an organism are discussed.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 319-319 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 321-335 
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    Notes: Abstract As a “base line” of memorization performance, the behavior of a “perfect learner” is considered. He is characterized by a perfect memory and by the ability to choose the best search procedure in problems where the correct response from a given repertoire is to be found to each of several stimuli under the condition of “right” and “wroing” promptings by the experimenter. Expected learning curves are derived for the case of disjoint response repertoires associated with the stimuli under cyclic and random presentation of the stimuli and for the case of a single response repertoire (a one-to-one matching problem) under cyclic presentation.
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    Notes: Abstract Detailed equations are given for the computation of aortic distensibility in the intact living human patient from measurements of systolic and diastolic arterial pressures, heart rate and cardiac output. From these equations, the aortic characteristics of a large series of normal men of different ages were computed. Comparing these results with measurements on excised aortas, a more pronounced trend toward increasing aortic stiffness with increasing age is evident in living than in dead aortas. Nor-epinephrine and exercise apparently cause the living aortas to constrict but to become more distensible. The same change occurs after 30 minutes of high spinal anesthesia. The ganglionic blocking agents hexamethonium, pentamethonium, and tetraethylammonium usually cause the living aorta to become stiffer, presumably due to dilatation. The aortas of patients with pulmonary disease usually react in different fashion to exercise or tetraethylammonium. The increased aortic distensibility that occurs with the hypertension induced by nor-epinephrine or exercise acts as a compensatory mechanism by decreasing systolic pressure.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 355-376 
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    Notes: Abstract Dimensional analysis is discussed from the viewpoint of its basic group properties and shown to be an algebraic Abelian group that is useful for analysis of physical measurements. The application of the method to various types of equations and the formulation of previously unclassified dimensions are discussed. Functional dimensional analysis is applied to the problems of cell size and biomass proliferation; future applications are also noted. A number of dimensionless terms have been formulated for cellular physiochemical phenomena. They apparently represent the first systematic study of biological dimensionless numbers recorded in the literature. A dimensionless proliferation law is suggested. A brief analysis of the physical dimensionality associated with information measures is carried out. Entropy and “information” are shown to be completely different in their dimensional meaning; other informational measures of possible interest in biology are proposed. The dimensional coding and computor analysis of biomathematical equations is suggested.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 377-391 
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    Notes: Abstract Expenditure of energy under several simultaneous forms (mechanical, chemical, etc.) is associated with all muscular activity. The energy is directly related to what is commonly called exertion or effort. This paper defines “muscular effort” quantitatively in terms of some of the elements of the dynamics of the human (and animal) body. It postulates that in all likelihood the individual will, consciously or otherwise, determine his motion (or his posture, if at rest) in such a manner as to reduce his total muscular effort to a minimum consistent with imposed conditions, or “constraints”. The principle, formulated in mathematical terms, is sufficient to ascribe to the moments at all body joints—a matter generally of free choice on the part of the individual—their most likely magnitudes. It therefore renders the equations of human (and animal) motion determinate within this context. The paper also describes briefly an iteration method for the solution of these equations, once they have been made determinate. A simple illustrative application of the principle is included.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 393-403 
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    Notes: Abstract It is pointed out that two fundamentally different views of primary genetic processes occur in the literature which are frequently confused. The first is a true communication-theoretic view, which regards the genetic apparatus as containing a real information-source and a transducer which converts that information to useful form. The second view is generally expressed as a template scheme based on the Watson-Crick model; it is shown that in this model there is actually no such thing as genetic information in a communication-theoretic sense. Both views are then discussed on the basis of microphysical principles developed in previous work of the author (Bull. Math. Biophysics,22, 227–255, 1960) in an attempt to find which approach is in closer accord with the biological facts. It is shown that, if the communication-theoretic view is correct, then the information-bearing object must act as a “catalyst,” but it is pointed out that the type of catalysis involved must be of a fundamentally different nature than that occurring in familiar enzyme-catalyzed reactions. On the basis of general considerations of irreversible changes in microphysical measuring systems, it is shown that any type of template must suffer a gradual and irreversible denaturation, which seems to make it unlikely that a template could play a primary role in fundamental genetic processes.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 405-411 
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    Notes: Abstract The theory developed in previous papers and based on distribution curves of definite form is generalized to any form of unimodel distributions. The time course of the change from one behavior to another is discussed and a general theorem about the time course is established.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 417-417 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 287-293 
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    Notes: Abstract We postulate that the biomass distribution function for an ecological population may be derived from the condition that the biomas diversity functional is maximal subject to an energetic constraint on the total biomass. This leads to a biomass distribution of the form $$p(m) = \bar m^{ - 1} \exp ( - m/\bar m)$$ , where $$\bar m$$ is the mean biomass per individual. The same condition yields a unique value for the biomass diversity functional. These predictions are tested against fishery data and found to be in good agreement. It is argued that the existence of a unique value for biomass diversity may provide a preliminary theoretical foundation for the observed upper limit to species diversity.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 311-321 
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    Notes: Abstract Pigment distribution presages hydranth regeneration in the marine hydroidTubularia. We suggest that such a distribution could result from a reaction-diffusion system. A model system based on a practical reaction scheme is studied and spatial structures found which closely resemble this pigment distribution. Finite-amplitude spatial structures in reaction-diffusion systems are considered. Whereas in one spatial dimension the final structures are normally very similar to the transient patterns which emerge from a linear analysis, it is shown that in more than one dimension this is not necessarily the case. The reasons for this are discussed.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 409-424 
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    Notes: Abstract An analytical model is used to described the behavior of inhaled particulate matter in the human respiratory tract. Three different geometries, symmetric and asymmetric, are utilized to simultate the tracheobronchial (TB) tree. The suitability of each geometry for representing the human is evaluated by comparing calculated aerosol deposition probabilities with experimental data from inhalation exposure tests. A symmetric, dichotomously branching pattern is found to be a reliable description of the TB tree for studies of factors affecting aerosol deposition in the human lung. Calculations with the theoretical model are in excellent agreement with measured aerosol deposition efficiencies. Furthermore, the model accurately predicts experimentally observed features of inhalation exposure data, such as effects of inter-subject lung morphology differences and relative efficiencies of specific deposition mechanisms, on aerosol deposition patterns in the TB tree.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 436-436 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 437-437 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 579-590 
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    Notes: Abstract In this paper we are concerned with problems of the long-term behavior for nonlinear systems in random environment. The general model is assumed to be given by an ordinary differential equation with random parameters or random input. The disturbance process can be taken from a fairly general class of Markov processes having a bounded state space. In terms of the system’s dynamics we give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of invariant probabilities. Finally, we apply these results to the two-dimensional biochemical model which is known as the Brusselator.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 571-577 
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    Notes: Abstract In various applications one faces the problem of estimating a signal from discontinuous observations. For example, in biomedical applications the signal may be the ‘state’ of a given organ and one observes through an external counter the amount of radioactivity sequestered by the organ after injection of a radioactive tracer. Here the problem is studied in the context of nonlinear filtering when the signal can be modelled as either a random variable or a diffusion process, and the observations have a continuous and a purely discontinuous component; both components may be affected by the signal. When the signal is a random variable an explicitly computable solution is obtained; for the diffusion case the solution is given as a sequence of approximating filters that can be computed recursively.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 627-634 
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    Notes: Abstract Eigenvalue problems arise in various biological models. We outline a useful comparison method and a technique using Lyapunov functions that can be applied in many cases. An application to lateral diffusion is discussed.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 605-616 
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    Notes: Abstract This paper reviews, up to their recent developments, two types of models of the cell cycle: those considering the size controls over the cycle events and the transition probability models. The distribution of inter-mitotic time and the sister-sister and motherdaughter correlations implied by the two approaches are discussed in view of some relevant experimental data.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 617-626 
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    Notes: Abstract The development of a blood cell line originating from a pluripotent stem cell pool is modelled by a chain of multidimensional branching processes in which the sojourn times of the cells in certain resting states depend on the size of the following subpopulation. The stability of such a model is discussed qualitatively and some considerations concerning a possible malignant degeneration are presented. The behaviour of models for normal and malignant cell production are illustrated by stochastic stimulations. The model presented here describes the development of a certain line of blood cells (e.g. erythrocytes, monocytes or granulocytes) originating from the pluripotent stem cell up to the functional cell in the blood (for related models see, e.g., Rubinow and Lebowitz,J. math. Biol. 1, 87–225;Biophys. J. 16, 897–910).
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 635-641 
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    Notes: Abstract This paper reviews some recent advances in single population stochastic differential equation growth models. They are a natural way to model population growth in a randomly varying environment. The question of which calculus, Itô or Stratonovich, is preferable is addressed. The two calculi coincide when the noise term is linear, if we take into account the differences in the interpretation of the parameters. This clarifies, among other things, the controversy on the theory of niche limiting similarity proposed by May and MacArthur. The effects of correlations in the environmental fluctuations and statistical methods for estimating parameters and for prediction based on a single population trajectory are mentioned. Applications to fisheries, wildlife management and particularly to environmental impact assessment are now becoming possible and are proposed in this paper.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 643-658 
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    Notes: Abstract A survey is given of the application of (functions of) continuous-time Markov chains in the statistical analysis of behavioural time series.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 659-659 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 661-664 
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    Notes: Abstract This paper demonstrates that there is one and only one solution to a non-linear singular two-point boundary-value problem which describes oxygen diffusion in a spherical cell. Previous authors have calculated numerical results that differ substantially. Numerical computations using the multiple shooting method support the results of McElwain.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 665-720 
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    Notes: Abstract The mathematics of distance geometry constitutes the basis of a group of algorithms for revealing the structural consequences of diverse forms of information about a macromolecule's conformation. These algorithms are of proven utility in the analysis of experimental conformational data. This paper presents the basic theorems of distance geometry in Euclidean space and gives formal proofs of the correctness and, where possible, of the complexity of these algorithms. The implications of distance geometry for the energy minimization of macromolecules are also discussed.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 721-737 
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    Notes: Abstract A fully developed pulsatile flow in a circular rigid tube is analysed by a microcontinuum approach. Solutions for radial variation of axial velocity and cell rotational velocity across the tube are obtained using the momentum integral method. Simplified forms of the solutions are presented for the relevant physiological data. Marked deviations in the results are observed when compared to a Newtonian fluid model. It is interesting to see that there is sufficient reduction in the mass flow rate, phase lag and friction due to the micropolar character of the fluid.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 749-758 
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    Notes: Abstract A mathematical model of the transport of fluorescein across the blood-retina barrier in the transient state and the subsequent diffusion of fluorescein in the vitreous body is presented. The function of the barrier is lumped in a single parameter—the permeability. The sensitivity of this parameter due to changes in the other parameters of the model is given. This establishes the foundation for the quantitative assessment of the barrier function through vitreous fluorophotometry.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 739-748 
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    Notes: Abstract The objective of this preliminary study was to develop a new quantitative method of setting the initial insulin infusion patterns in treatment of diabetic patients. The method is based upon the mathematical estimation of the insulin profile required to maintain the glucose level within the normal range after glucose loading in diabetic patients. Using our previously developed equivalent circuit model of glucose kinetics and the reported data of an intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT) in two groups of normal and diabetic patients, two important physiological parameters of the model (the peripheral tissue's insulin resistivity and the hepatic sensitivity to glucose level) were computed for two clinical groups. Then the insulin profile was obtained by computing the plasma insulin concentrations required to keep the total glucose utilization rate of the tissue and the liver in the diabetic group equal to that of the normal group. The simulation result indicated that the computed insulin profile produced a plasma glucose profile which was more closely matched to the normal group's glucose profile than with the case of emulating the normal group's insulin profile in the diabetic group.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 759-780 
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    Notes: Abstract This paper shows that the Na conductance changes can be explained quantitatively, based on the following assumptions: (1) there exist in nerve membranes the electron transfer (ET) complexes and traps, (2) there is energy migration among them. The gating mechanism is explained in physical terms. Its mathematical expression differs from the Hodgkin-Huxley equations, but resembles the Hoyt formulation. In the present model, the physical parameters for the squid axon can be estimated from currently available experimental data. The density of the ET complexes is on the order of 105/μm2, and the density of the traps is 103/μm2. The magnitude of the energy transfer rate between ET complexes is about 106/sec at large depolarization and decreases with decreasing depolarizations, as does the Na inactivation rate. The energy gap between the two stable states of the transfer electron in the ET complex is estimated to be around 0.1 eV, which is approximately the same as that for the photosynthetic systems.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 781-792 
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    Notes: Abstract The role of symmetry in simplifying the theory of complex neural systems is argued. When the structural symmetries of a network are expressed as an ismorphism group, implications emerge for the dynamics. Various qualitative possibilities concerning stability of uniform motion in homogeneous nets are discussed and an approach to neural hierarchies is outlined.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 793-805 
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    Notes: Abstract By constructing appropriate Liapunov functionals, asymptotic behaviour of the solutions of various delay differential systems describing prey-predator, competition and symbiosis models has been studied. It has been shown that equilibrium states of these models are globally stable, provided certain conditions in terms of instantaneous and delay interaction coefficients are satisfied.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 807-826 
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    Notes: Abstract Sensitivity analyses have been used to examine the flow structure of two hypothetical ecosystem models. These analyses have results which relate to important aspects of ecosystem theory. Cycles are shown to increase the sensitivity of the network, while increased throughflow is shown to decrease the sensitivity. Such results indicate that several factors can be modified to decrease the sensitivity of ecosystems to environmental stress.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 827-836 
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    Notes: Abstract A continous, deterministic mathematical model is used to predict population distributions by age at any time, given the initial distribution and the variation of birth and death rates with age and time. Solutions are obtained on a computer using a semi-discretization algorithm in which time derivatives in the partial differential equations are replaced by finite-difference expressions. The resulting sets of ordinary differential equations are solved by a predictor-corrector method. Graphical results are shown for some examples.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 849-855 
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    Notes: Abstract A new formula for the complexity of graphs is proposed and applied to the points lines and ‘connections’ of some chemically relevant graphs.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 837-847 
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    Notes: Abstract This paper reports general and specialized results on analytical solutions to the governing phenomenological equations for chemotactic redistribution and population growth of motile bacteria. It is shown that the number of bacteria cells per unit volume,b, is proportional to a certain prescribed function ofs, the concentration of the critical substrate chemotactic agent, for steady-state solutions through an arbitrary spatial region with a boundary that is impermeable to bacteria cell transport. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the steady-state solution forb ands is unique for a prescribed total number of bacteria cells in the spatial region and a generic Robin boundary condition ons. The latter solution can be approximated to desired accuracy in terms of the Poisson-Green's function associated with the spatial region. Also, as shown by example, closed-form exact steady-state solutions are obtainable for certain consumption rate functions and geometrically symmetric spatial regions. A solutional procedure is formulated for the initialvalue problem in cases for which significant population growth is present and bacteria cell redistribution due to motility and chemotactic flow proceeds slowly relative to the diffusion of the chemoattractant substrate. Finally, a remarkably simple exact analytical solution is reported for a stradily propagating plane-wave which features motility, chemotactic motion and bacteria population growth regulated by substrate diffusion.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 857-867 
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    Notes: Abstract This paper discusses the flow of blood in large artries under the influence of linear periodic acceleration. The governing equations and boundary conditions are established and analytical solutions for the velocity, fluid acceleration, bulk flow and shear stress are obtained. The results for these physical quantitites are computed for the case of an artery the size of a normal human aorta. It is found that the flow field variables are directly proportional to the external accelerating force. The behaviour of the velocity profile along the radial distance at different stages of times at fixed applied acceleration is also shown.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 931-968 
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    Notes: Abstract The evolutionary selection circuits model of learning has been specified algorithmically. The basic structural components of the selection circuits model are enzymatic neurons, that is, neurons whose firing behavior is controlled by membrane-bound macromolecules called excitases. Learning involves changes in the excitase contents of neurons through a process of variation and selection. In this paper we report on the behavior of a basic version of the learning algorithm which has been developed through extensive interactive experiments with the model. This algorithm is effective in that it enables single neurons or networks of neurons to learn simple pattern classification tasks in a number of time steps which appears experimentally to be a linear function of problem size, as measured by the number of patterns of presynaptic input. The experimental behavior of the algorithm establishes that evolutionary mechanisms of learning are competent to serve as major mechanisms of neuronal adaptation. As an example, we show how the evolutionary learning algorithm can contribute to adaptive motor control processes in which the learning system develops the ability to reach a target in the presence of randomly imposed disturbances.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 981-990 
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    Notes: Abstract In the present paper we discuss the behaviour of solutions of a dynamical system describing the growth of cells in a well-mixed continuous culture where the supply of the growth-limiting nutrient depends on the activity of an enzyme outside the cell membrane. It turns out that for positive dilution rates there exists an exponentially attractive two-dimensional simplex. Furthermore, the reversed system restricted to this simplex is quasimonotone. In every case all trajectories tend to an equilibrium state.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 991-1004 
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    Notes: Abstract We present a Gause predator-prey model incorporating mutual interference among predators, a density-dependent predator death rate and a time lag due to gestation. It is well known that mutual interference is stabilizing, whereas time delays are destabilizing. We show that in combining the two, a long time-lag usually, but not always, destabilizes the system. We also show that increasing delays can cause a bifurcation into periodic solutions.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 969-980 
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    Notes: Abstract The cycle structure of enzymatic neural networks may be characterized in terms of number of cycles exhibited, size of cycle state sets and cycle lengths. Simulation experiments show that the stability properties of these networks have some unusual features which are not exhibited by networks of two-state switching elements or by randomly constructed ecosystem models. The behavioral and structural stability of these systems decreases with their structural complexity, as measured by the number of components. The behavioral and structural stability of enzymatic neural networks also decreases with structural complexity, as measured by the number of excitase types, but only up to the middle level of excitases per neuron. This is the point of highest potential responsiveness of the system to environmental stimuli. Beyond this point the behavioral and structural stability increase. This is due to the fact that the number of possible states increases up to this point and decreases beyond it. The number of possible states, not the number of components, serves as the useful measure of complexity in these types of systems. The selection circuits learning algorithm has been used to evolve networks whose cycle structures have desired features.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 1005-1011 
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    Notes: Abstract Similarity criteria of the functional design of the mammalian cardiovascular system are scant. For the analysis of mammalian cardiac energetics physiological parameters such as mean arterial blood pressure, stroke volume, heart rate, metabolic rate and heart and body weights are considered pertinent. Based on these parameters, a new similarity principle is established via allometric equations, dimensional analysis and Buckingham's pi-theorem. The principle states that the ratio of left ventricular external work to metabolic rate is inversely proportional to resting heart rates of mammals. The proportionality constant is dimensionless and is invariant of mammalian body weights.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 1029-1045 
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    Notes: Abstract The mathematical theory of categories is used as a tool in the description of the structure and function of natural systems. The connections between the category of natural systems, with observables and dynamics, and the phenomenological calculus of response tensors, duality- and adjoint-invariance diagrams are established. The unified theory is applied to the analysis of hierarchies, pattern generation and the structure and dynamics of proteins.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 1047-1072 
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    Notes: Abstract This is an investigation of natural systems from the standpoint of the mathematical theory of categories. It examines the relationships which exist between different descriptions through measurement of observables and dynamical interactions. We begin with a category theory of formal systems with observables, and then proceed to a category theory of dynamical systems. The two categories are then combined to represent natural systems. Topological considerations enter in the study of stability and bifurcation phenomena. Special emphasis is placed on natural systems which model biological processes. The categorical system theory developed is applied to the analysis of several biological problems and biological system theories.
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    Notes: Abstract Tetanic hyperpolarization for theXenopus node is simulated by means of iterative solutions of the Frankenhaeuser-Huxley excitation equations together with an active transport current density term which is dependent on sodium and potassium levels as well as the ADP/ATP ratio. All time-dependent variables at the end of one interspike interval are introduced as initial conditions for the next response, whereupon all time-dependent changes in voltage and permeability factors appear identical for the third and fourth responses of a sequence. Net change in internal sodium concentration is zero throughout the third and fourth intervals if sodium loading of the system is initially adjusted to a critical level. Extent of tetanic hyperpolarization is a function of the pump conductance.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 1097-1097 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 1073-1096 
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    Notes: Abstract The properties of nonlinear equations describing the solute and solvent transport across a simplified Patlak-Goldstein-Hoffman model (two membranes in series without unstirred layers) are investigated both analytically and numerically. The analysis shows that the principal coefficients measured in transport experiments in the presence of active transport are dependent on the experimental conditions. These ‘apparent’ system parameters are extensions of the corresponding parameters determined both in passive systems and in the linear Kedem-Katchalsky theory. Moreover, they are related to the local phenomenological coefficients of the single membranes of the array. Several relationships between measurable quantities and the local system parameters are indicated, allowing the planning of experiments aimed at the measurement of the latter. Data in the literature have been used to check the proposed volume flow equation.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 1-14 
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    Notes: Abstract Some progress has been made on the problem of the interaction of respiratory gases with whole blood. A working mathematical model for the O2−CO2 interaction phenomena has been developed from mathematical studies of the data. The Edsall-Wyman (1958) model for CO2 absorption is improved upon in this paper by consolidating it with the O2 absorption model developed in paper I of this set (Bernard, S. R.,Bull. Math. Biophysics,22, 391–415, 1960). This improved model assumed the effect of O2 on CO2 absorption is mediated through the electrical charge possessed by the hemoglobin molecule,i.e., O2 molecules bound to hemoglobin displace protons from the hemoglobin thereby increasing the negative charge on the hemoglobin and at the same time increasing the acidity of the solution. The model is tested against the data.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 15-18 
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    Notes: Abstract On the basis of previously proposed mathematical models of social behavior, the present note investigates the possibility of the control of behavior remaining permanently in the hands of one class, if this class possesses sufficient means for influencing mass behavior. The conclusion is reached that, with the assumptions made, if the behavior imposed by the controlling class leads to sufficiently strong dissatisfaction, the control will pass to another class, no matter how strong the controlling power of the first.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 19-29 
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    Notes: Abstract Traffic in one direction on a multilane highway is considered, and a general expression for the number of cars which pass a car travelling at a given velocity, as well as the number of cars which the given car passes, is derived for the case when the speeds of different cars are distributed in some arbitrary manner. Closed expressions are derived and discussed for a rectangular distribution. Each passing by another car or of another car is considered as a distracting stimulus which affects the reaction times of the driver. Using previously derived expressions for the safe speed as a function of reaction times, expressions for the safe average speed are derived, in terms of the volume of traffic and of the spread of the distribution of speeds.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 99-103 
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    Notes: Abstract Emphasis upon the importance of homeostatic feedback has drawn attention away from the complexity of biological processes. A study of glucose metabolism indicates the importance of open-cycle as well as closed-cycle mechanisms. Besides the glucose-dependent mechanism of insulin secretion, many open-cycle processes involving the liver, adrenal glands and kidneys, play important roles in the variation of blood glucose. In addition, glucose utilization by the tissues is essentially open-cycle in nature.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 105-106 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 413-416 
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    Notes: Abstract In certain situations like the aftermath of a revolution when discontent rises amongst certain groups of the population, it is frequently observed that the discontented groups are firmly convinced that their point of view is shared by the majority of the population. Yet future events prove that this is far from being the case. This effect is partly attributable to “wishful thinking,” partly to a purely social mechanism. The wishful-thinking effect may be considered as a case of psycho-physical discrimination in which a bias is introduced proportional to the degree of satisfaction anticipated from a given situation. H. D. Landahl's well-known equations can be applied to this case. The social factor is based on the circumstance that an individual associates by preference with such other individuals as have similar opinions. This results in an actual error of estimation of the relative minority or majority because of different frequencies of contact with individuals of the two opposing groups. Both factors may be combined into one equation.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 421-422 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 139-142 
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    Notes: Abstract As an alternative to optimum-processor models in which sensors attempt to circumvent internal and external noise, a mechanism-independent argument is presented for Weber's law in vision and hearing. In vision, the argument is that categories of objects should be independent of the light intensity on these objects. In hearing, sound categorization should be independent of the distance from the sound source. An analogous desideratum for computer-based image segmentation is also presented.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 193-207 
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    Notes: Abstract Rashevsky's treatment of general binary relations between sets of biological elements is extended using the novel mathematical concept of lattice-valued relation (l.v.r.). This yields a quantitative measure of the strength of the relations between components of a biological organism, and some illustrative examples are given. Specific l.v.r.'s are used to define (more precisely than in Rashevsky's preliminary theory of binary relations) the biologically important relationships amongst hormones, metabolism and energy exchange involved in metabolic reactions. The ‘strongest link’ between the set of hormones and the set of metabolic reactions is quantified using a special l.v.r., and other specific biological realisations of lattice-valued relations in abstract-relational biology are presented. L.v.r.'s may also be regarded as a form ofG-relation in relational biology, or as a particular case of generating diagrams. Further possible developments of this approach, using more complex tools of the newly developed mathematical theory of lattice-valued relations, such as function space l.v.r., group l.v.r., l.v.r. morphisms, l.v.r. homology andn-ary l.v.r.'s are suggested.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 259-267 
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    Notes: Abstract The effects of the viscosity-concentration dependence and of the concentration profile on blood flow through a vessel with stenosis have been studied. The flow resistance and the wall shear stress have been found to be smaller than in the two-fluid model with constant viscosities.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 507-519 
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    Notes: Abstract A survey is given of branching process type methods in cell kinetics. Some results are given that allow circadian rhythm and do not require complete independence between cells. Some more classical results on balanced exponential growth are given and some comments are made on flow microfluorometry.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 439-442 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 443-465 
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    Notes: Abstract The spike train activity of neurones is considered as a point process, and methods of analysing and interpreting recorded spike trains are considered. The generation of a continuous process (membrane noise) from interacting point processes is described.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 521-554 
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    Notes: Abstract Stochastic models of population genetics are studied with special reference to the biological interest. Mathematical methods are described for treating some simple models and their modifications aimed at the problems of the molecular evolution. Unified theory for treating different quantities is extensively developed and applied to some typical problems of current interest in genetics. Mathematical methods for treating geographically structured populations are given. Approximation formulae and their accuracy are discussed. Some criteria are given for a structured population to behave almost like a panmictic population of the same total size. Some quantities are shown to be independent of the geographical structure and their dynamics are described.
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    Circuits, systems and signal processing 2 (1983), S. 35-44 
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    Notes: Abstract Via fractional representation methods, this paper tries to clarify the role of various conditions used in the feedback system design and stability with respect to the well-posedness of the system, the existence of a solution for stability and design, and the parameterization of the set of complete solutions. The design criterion for stable feedback system design can be used for filters design, as shown in Section 5. Systems to be considered in this paper include the linear time-varying case and results can easily be extended to the case where systems do not have the same number of inputs and outputs.
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    Circuits, systems and signal processing 2 (1983), S. 57-76 
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    Notes: Abstract Conditions are established which ensure the existence (or non-existence) of limit cycles in feedback systems containing discontinuous elements or elements with hysteresis. The results are applied to a specific example.
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    Circuits, systems and signal processing 2 (1983), S. 45-55 
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    Notes: Conclusion A necessary condition for consistent initial conditions for singular nonlinear systems has been discussed. It is shown that for linear systems or systems of index less than three these conditions are equivlaent to previously reported results. However, for nonlinear systems of index greater than two these new conditions correct those previously reported. One consequence is that Euler's method may fail to estimate solutions for some semi-state equations. R. W. Newcomb's provision of an earlier version of [14] and subsequent correspondence is gratefully acknowledged.
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    Circuits, systems and signal processing 2 (1983), S. 161-177 
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    Notes: Abstract Thep-plane scattering and admittance matrices of SAW transducers consisting ofn equal sections modeled through the hybrid equivalent circuit are explicitly calculated. The results are specialized to the in-line and crossed-field models, and the technique is developed for unequal section transducers.
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    Circuits, systems and signal processing 2 (1983), S. 203-211 
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    Notes: Abstract A set of eight linear spectral transformations which can be used in the design of two-dimensional digital filters is studied from a group-theoretic point of view. Several properties of the transformations, some of them known and some of them new, are deduced and are then applied in the implementation of 2-D digital filters. It is shown that trade-offs exist which can be used to reduce either the amount of memory required for the programming or the amount of data manipulation.
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    Circuits, systems and signal processing 2 (1983), S. 213-238 
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    Notes: Abstract A physically justifiable mathematical model is proposed for a class of current-controlled, negative resistance oscillators having terminal characteristics which are poorly represented by the van der Pol, Scott, and Ceschia-Zecchin equations. Such resonators are typified by the monolithic emitter-coupled astable multivibrator (ECAM). A unique, three-parameter equation, based on the inverse hyperbolic tangent, is matched to the ECAM voltage-current curve. Using the method of Kryloff and Bogoliuboff, the transient and steady-state behavior of the ECAM is derived for oscillation with single-mode and double-mode LCR networks under quasi-linear conditions. An expression for the time of amplitude build-up and decay is derived. A phase plane is constructed for the double-mode case, yielding a system apparently free of simultaneous modes. The validity of the model is experimentally verified for quartz-controlled ECAM devices. The analysis results are extendable ton resonant modes and may be generalized to voltage-controlled devices.
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    Circuits, systems and signal processing 2 (1983), S. 421-443 
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    Notes: Abstract The problem of adaptively detecting two sinusoids corrupted by noise is considered, with emphasis on resolution properties. The approach is to form a spectral estimate from the coefficients of a Δ-step-ahead adaptive predictor. A theoretical analysis reveals that attention to the choice of the prediction horizon Δ gives a distinct improvement in the spectral estimate and in the resolution of the signals. The theoretical results are illustrated with numerical examples. Comparisons with previously suggested techniques are also made.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 31-42 
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    Notes: Abstract This report describes a method by which the concepts of the lead vector and the lead field may be extended to include equivalent cardiac singularities above the first order. The theoretical treatment results in generalization of the well-known lead vector principle into a lead tensor apparatus. The specific electrocardiographic contribution of annth order multipole is found to be the product of annth rank contravariant (“heart”) tensor by a covariant (“lead”) tensor of the same rank, and with identical indices. Methods are also described whereby lead tensor components may be cast into a form which relates them directly to the more usual, spherical harmonic notation of multipolar current generators. Some attention is devoted to the possibility of applying lead tensors to biomedical problems, particularly to the prospect of quantitatively evaluating the significant multipolar components of the human heart.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 43-53 
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    Notes: Abstract A simple model is presented for the formation of functional groups in a random neural net. They show the following characteristics: 1. They can maintain autonomous activity which might serve as temporary memory traces. 2. Early in the process of formation they become resistant to contraction. 3. Later they become resistant to expansion. 4. Nearby groups inhibit one another. 5. Two groups may contain some cells in common.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 55-68 
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    Notes: Abstract Quantum biology is the quantum mechanical study of electrons in molecules of biological interest. This requires the solution of problems involving many electrons. Approximation methods are therefore necessary and are discussed. The present study, concerned with the mobile electrons in riboflavin (FMN) and its radicals (FMN−, FMNH and FMNH2 +), is based on the approximation method, developed by B. Pullman and A. Pullman. The solution of the eigenvalue problems so obtained gives the energy levels of the mobile electron systems involved. The corresponding eigenvectors yield the mobile electronic charges of the atoms of riboflavin radicals which have contributed mobile electrons. Important differences of the net charge distributions of these radicals are emphasized. The longest wave length of light absorption is calculated from the obtained energy levels and agrees, within the accuracy of the method, with corresponding experimental results. From the appropriate calculated results, electronic assignments are obtained for the experimental transitions involved.
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    Notes: Abstract A postulated scheme for sequential enzyme synthesis coupled with linear chain reaction is proposed. Mathematical calculations are carried out for the transient-state formation of enzyme coupled with enzyme-substrate reactions. Examples are presented to demonstrate the relations between various operational parameters during enzyme synthesis as a function of time. Significance of the phenomenon of sequential synthesis is discussed in relation to abnormal growth and cellular injury.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 91-97 
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    Notes: Abstract By introducing a plausible model for the initiation of axonal impulses the output is obtained as a function of the input incoming impulses. If the temporal aspects of the excitatory process resulting from the afferent impulses are sufficiently rapid one obtains the discontinuous or microscopic model of McCulloch-Pitts. If these are sufficiently slow a continuous model, such as Rashevsky’s one or two factor theory, is a natural model. But the linear relation between the strength of excitation of one axon and excitatory factor of the next will not in general hold. However, under conditions which are not too restrictive the linear relation with threshold can be considered as satisfactory approximation over a fairly wide range of values.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 107-108 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 217-221 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 233-235 
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    Notes: Abstract With a view to future applications in relational biology, the notion of relations between sets is introduced and several theorems are demonstrated.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 223-232 
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    Notes: Abstract A mathematical theory is developed to explain the observed enhancement of O2 transport through solutions by hemoglobin. At high partial pressures of O2, ordinary diffusion through the solvent accounts for all transport of O2, but at low partial pressures the transport may be increased manyfold by the presence of hemoglobin. This phenomenon is explained and its possible role in living organisms is discussed. The theory also indicates a new method of determining dissociation curves from diffusion experiments.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 261-262 
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    Notes: Abstract A solution in quadratures is found for a special class of differential equations suggested by studies in the growth of competing populations.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 237-260 
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    Notes: Abstract The tremendous complexity of even the simplest living unit makes a correct theoretical guess as to its mechanism very difficult. It is therefore suggested that, following the example of the physical sciences, a number of purely abstract cases in molecular biology be studied mathematically at first. Subsequent comparison of the different conclusions of such an abstract theory with available data would enable us to decide which of the conceivable situations are likely to occur in reality. As a first step toward such a study the problem of the minimal size of a living unit is studied. Usually the minimal size is considered to be determined by information-theoretical requirements. It is shown that the minimal size may have a very different origin. It may be determined by the possibility that too small a system, even though performing all necessary biological functions, may not be viable unless it is a member of a large group of other similar systems. This approach is developed both from a metric and from a relational point of view. Some relational characteristics of systems of reactions which possess the elementary metabolic properties of organisms are studied.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 263-276 
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    Notes: Abstract In Yeh, Martinek and de Beaumont (Bull. Math. Biophysics,20, 203–16, 1958), a method is presented for determining successively better central multipole representations of the current generators in a homogeneous conducting sphere by measuring surface potentials at a successively increasing number of points. This paper generalizes the method such that the multipoles may be located at any chosen point in the conductor. The spherical harmonic expansion is advantageously used and the “interior sphere theorem” of Ludford, Martinek and Yeh (Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc.,51, 389–93, 1955) makes possible disturbance potential expressions in closed forms. A method for approximate determination of the eccentricity is also presented. In the theory of electrocardiography, the eccentric multipoles can more accurately represent the heart as a current generator with fewer surface potential measurements than the central multipoles.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 297-303 
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    Notes: Abstract Given three primary events, occurrences or nonoccurrences of two response classes and nonoccurrence of both response classes, with their respective probabilities to be known, and assuming the first two events are disjoint, this paper deduces the error equation of the incorrect response and the latency equation of the correct response under the condition of correlated reward situation.
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    Notes: Abstract Schemes are presented for induced synthesis of the dissociable enzyme in which repeated use of the template is made. The role of the inducer is to release the repression. A mathematical analysis is carried out and expressions are obtained to describe the kinetics of enzyme formation. A practical case (penicillinase synthesis) is compared with theoretically derived equations by using an analogue computer to simulate an enzyme forming system. A good correlation between theoretical and experimental data is obtained.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 23 (1961), S. 419-419 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 11-20 
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    Notes: Abstract This paper is concerned with a generalization of the simple epidemic model in which the infective population is partitioned intom classes, each of specific infectiousness. Attention is restricted, however, to the case where all the meeting rates between two individuals are equal to each other. Both deterministic and stochastic versions are examined. In either case the development in time of the epidemic process is investigated by exploiting a connection with the standard simple epidemic model. Finally, it is shown that the technique used also applies to a similar model for the spread of information.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 33-40 
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    Notes: Abstract For each rooted binary tree witht labeled terminal vertices (leaves) a natural number can be assigned uniquely. Unrooted trees witht labeled terminal vertices andt-2 unlabeled internal vertices of degree 3 can also be numbered uniquely using the same convention. Rooted trees in which the hights of the internal vertices are rank ordered are also considered. Applications to problems in taxonomy are discussed.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 41-50 
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    Notes: Abstract Expressions and numerical values for hematocrit reduction are calculated as blood flows from a cylindrical feeding tube into a cylindrical capillary at a right-angle branch. Blood is considered to consist of two Newtonian fluids, plasma and red cell suspension, which have equal densities but different viscosities. The concentration profile of the red cells is concluded to depend on the size of the feeding tube. An estimate for the thickness of the plasma layer adjacent to the wall is obtained.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 51-67 
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    Notes: Abstract Asimple model system of two self-reproducing objects is considered. A set of equations, similar to Eigen's equation, describing competition of these objects is derived and analyzed under the effect of an ‘ecological constraint’. The relation with other constraints used in the literature is discussed.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 69-90 
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    Notes: Abstract A membrane with an arbitrary distribution of fixed charges inside and on its surfaces is considered. A procedure for calculating the local electrostatic potential at an arbitrary point of the system is described and its validity discussed. This procedure is based on the linearization of the 3-dimensional Poisson-Boltzmann equation around an exact 1-dimensional solution.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 103-116 
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    Notes: Abstract In this, the first of a series of papers on stochastic and deterministic non-linear allometric growth models, a deterministic model is proposed which generalizes the widely applicable classical linear model of Huxley and Needham. There aren types of producers, each type depositing a product which accumulates monotonically in the environment. Producers interact via a mass action law satisfying an optimality condition. Coefficients may be interpreted as competition between the various producer types in the usual Volterra sense. An ideal coral reef is studied in which then species of coral polyps lay down aragonite calcium carbonate in building the reef framework. This deterministic model predicts that younger reefs are strongly unstable relative to initial species abundance, while older reefs grow in the classical sense of Huxley and Needham, asymptotically, as time goes to infinity.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 151-153 
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    Notes: Abstract First-order spatial gradients are reliquished in the Schrödinger-Bloch equation for bacterial chemotaxis if and only if the flux coefficient-motility ratio equals 2, the precise value measured in recent experiments onEscherichia coli attracted by oxygen. Moreover, for δ/μ=2 the Schrödinger-Bloch function Ψ is simply equal to the number of bacteria cells per unit volume divided by the chemoattractant concentration.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 169-192 
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    Notes: Abstract A mathematical formulation useful in characterizing the effects of light on the pupal eclosion rhythm of the fruit flyDrosophila pseudoobscura is presented. It is based upon the premise that the underlying pacemaker oscillator behaves in a manner analogous to a customized version of a phase-locked loop circuit. Theoretical analyses supplemented with numerical simulations reveal that this phase-locked loop approach yields a concise mathematical characterization which is quite comprehensive in its scope, yet surprisingly accurate in the detail with which it can be used to successfully predict observed experimental results.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 155-168 
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    Notes: Abstract Pointwise upper and lower bounds for the solution of a class of nonlinear problems arising in the steady-state finite cable model of cell membranes are presented. Simple analytical bounding curves are obtained for an illustrative example in the theory of nerve membranes.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 209-227 
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    Notes: Abstract Single-species reaction-diffusion models are analyzed to determine the effect of various diffusion mechanisms on species persistence or extinction.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 401-408 
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    Notes: Abstract A restriction is imposed on the number of particles that can possibly move at any time from a compartment, so that any other particles present in the compartment must wait until such particles have moved out. The equations for such a system are formulated and the solution is given for a single compartment system; increased variability of the compartmental particle count is one effect of this restriction.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 323-345 
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    Notes: Abstract Two classes of dose-effect models for cell killing (additive damage and independent effects) are developed under alternative hypotheses about the damage that leads to cell death. Generalized models, along with specific models for cell killing after exposure to a specific cytotoxicant, are used to make predictions about the effects of sequential or simultaneous exposure to different cytotoxicants. It is demonstrated that with the additive damage models developed one can adequately account for the combined effects of the cytotoxicants considered. Theoretical results are presented which suggest that after simultaneous exposure of cells to low total doses (〈0.1 Gy) of different ionizing radiations, use of the conventional relative biological effectiveness approach to predict cell killing risks is unnecessary; cell killing risks can adequately be determined by assuming the effects of the different radiations to be independent. Also, for simultaneous exposure of cells to total doses of different radiations much larger than 0.1 Gy, use of the conventional RBE approach to arrive at cell killing risk could lead to overestimation of the risk.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 347-400 
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    Notes: Abstract A predator which is preying on a model-mimic system can choose either the single-trial strategy or a multi-trial strategy as its behavior in learning to prudently harvest such a prey system. In this learning behavior, an important and often-posed problem is to determine which among these two strategies is better suited for the predator and why one is preferable over the other. We present in this article, using Markov chain methods, an extensive analysis of these strategies (and also of eat-everything, strategy). We conclude that the multi-trial strategy is the one that the predator should adopt (but we will also describe the situations when the single-trial strategy seems to be better). Our conclusions are based on the comparisons of quantities such as the mean benefit to the predator, energy derived by a predator from the model-mimic system and (a newly introduced notion of) contagion in eating mimics and models (these quantities are computed for different strategies). The first two quantities are functions of the abundancep and noxiousnessb of models. The contagion is a function of onlyp; and, though independent ofb, it is also in support of multi-trial, strategy. We introduce, in the present context, a biological analog of the d'Alembert principle and also derive functions describing the influences of eating a specified type of prey at a given time on eating any type of prey at a later time. Various results of Estabrook-Jespersen (single-trial strategy) and Bobisud-Potratz (multi-trial strategy) are re-derived as special cases of our more general results. A central limit theorem under the eat-everything strategy is given.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 431-435 
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 425-430 
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    Notes: Abstract We consider the one-dimension (one-compartment) exponential model using a diffusion process approach. In particular, we summarize the known results in the case where the stochastic component of the model is a Gaussian white noise process with mean zero and variance σ2. Finally, we briefly illustrate a number of cases where similar forms of model arise.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 467-482 
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    Notes: Abstract The surfaces of many cells are viscous fluids; consequently, most membrane proteins are able to diffuse laterally, in a more or less random fashion, with diffusion coefficients typically of order 10−10 cm2/sec. If a molecule (ligand) in solution outside the cell and a protein molecule on the surface (receptor) each have two or more sites at which they can interact with one another, large, branched receptor-ligand networks can form on the cell surface by virtue of the chemical interactions that surface fluidity permits. Evidence from a variety of systems indicates that such receptor clustering plays a role in the sequence of events leading to cellular activity. This paper describes a number of mathematical problems that arise in the analysis of experiments in which clustering occurs. I begin by reviewing methods for finding the time evolution of the cluster size distribution function in terms of reaction rate constants. The methods solve an essentially infinite system of coupled nonlinear differential equations. Next, the rate constants are analyzed, the Brownian motion problems that arise in attempting to understand ligand recognition are described and relevant experimental systems are discussed. Finally the notion of ligand as a signal amplifier is introduced—an idea that emerges naturally from the requirement that receptors be clustered for a finite amount of time before a signal can be transmitted.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 555-569 
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    Notes: Abstract The covariances among the populations of distinct compartments are studied for the multi-compartmental birthless death-migration-immigration process. The important role played by the transition matrix of the deterministic process is underlined. Several examples are discussed.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 483-506 
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    Notes: Abstract Qualitative theory for multidimensional stochastic dynamical models $$\dot x = f(x, \xi )$$ is presented where the random influences ξ may be white or colored, i.e. a (possibly bounded) diffusion process. We concentrate on transience, stationary solutions and boundary behavior and discuss a set-up for reliable simulations. The method consists in associating a deterministic control system where the (approximate) controllability properties determine the qualitative behavior of the stochastic system. Applications to some biological systems indicate the usefulness of qualitative theory in life sciences.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 45 (1983), S. 599-603 
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    Notes: Abstract We study some linear stochastic differential equations in Hilbert spaces.
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