This book contains some original results on the growth of gliomas: the role played by membrane channels on activity-dependent modulation of spike transmission; a proposal for reconsidering the concept of gene and the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for gene expression; a differential geometric approach to the influence of the drying effect on the dynamics of pods of Leguminosae; the comparison of agent-based models with the approach of differential equations on the study of selection mechanisms in germinal centers; and the synchronization phenomenon for protocell systems driven by linear kinetic equations.

Contents:

• Protein Structure and Function:
• Systems Protein Folding as a Physical Stochastic Process (K Huang)
• The Differential Geometry of Proteins and Its Applications to Structure Determination (A Goriely et al.)
• Modeling Physiological Disorders:
• Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Physiological Disorders: A Case Study of the IUPS Human Physiome Project and Aneurysmal Models (A R Oshmyansky & P K Maini)
• Advanced-Delay Differential Equation for Aeroelastic Oscillations in Physiology (J C Lucero)
• Population Dynamics:
• Models of Allee Effects and Their Implications for Population and Community Dynamics (L Berec)
• The Decoupling and Solution of Logistic and Classical Two-Species Lotka–Volterra Dynamics with Variable Production Rates (C E M Pearce & R B Leipnik)
• Epidemiological Modeling:
• Epidemic Predictions and Predictability in Complex Environments (V Colizza et al.)
• Assessing the Spatial Propagation of West Nile Virus (N A Maidana & H M Yang)
• Biological and Chemical Pattern Recognition:
• On Turing–Hopf Instabilities in Reaction-Diffusion Systems (M Rodriguez Ricard)
• Grasshopper Density Population Classification with Neural Networks (I Chairez Hernández et al.)
• Modeling of Biosystems:
• Geodesic Curves for Biomolecular Structure Modeling (R P Mondaini & R A C Prata)
• Synchronization Phenomena in Protocell Models (A Filisetti et al.)
• and other papers