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POPULATION BIOLOGY AND CRITICALITY
From Critical Birth-Death Processes to Self-Organized Criticality in Mutation Pathogen Systems

by Nico Stollenwerk (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) & Vincent Jansen (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The present book describes novel theories of mutation pathogen systems showing critical fluctuations, as a paradigmatic example of an application of the mathematics of critical phenomena to the life sciences. It will enable the reader to understand the implications and future impact of these findings, yet at same time allow him to actively follow the mathematical tools and scientific origins of critical phenomena. This book also seeks to pave the way to further fruitful applications of the mathematics of critical phenomena in other fields of the life sciences.

 
Contents:
  • From Deterministic to Stochastic Dynamics
  • Spatial Stochastic Birth–Death Process or SIS-Epidemics
  • Criticality in Equilibrium Systems
  • Partial Immunization Models
  • Renormalization and Series Expansion: Techniques to Study Criticality
  • Criticality in Measles Under Vaccination
  • Evolution to Criticality in Meningococcal Disease
 
Readership: Academics in the field of biology, medicine and physics (cross-disciplinary) interested in stochasticity in biological and medical systems, in relation to public health, evolutionary biology and microbiology.
 
 
236pp    Pub. date: Nov 2010  
ISBN:   978-1-84816-401-7
1-84816-401-7
   US$96 / £66

 


236pp    Pub. date: Nov 2010  
ISBN:   978-1-84816-402-4(ebook)
1-84816-402-5(ebook)
   US$125

 


 
 

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