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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Modeling Dynamic Systems
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	28. 07. 2014
Seiten	:	434
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	235 mm
Breite	:	155 mm
Gewicht	:	896 g
ISBN	:	9783319056142
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Dr. Matthias Ruth is a full professor with appointments in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University.Dr. Bruce Hannon is Jubilee Professor (Emeritus) of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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I. INTRODUCTION.- 1. Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems.- 2. Exploring Dynamic Biological Systems.- 3. Risky Population.- 4. Steady State, Oscillation and Chaos in Population Dynamics.- 5. Spatial Dynamics.- II. PHYSICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL MODELS.- 6. Law of Mass Action.- 7. Catalyzed Product.- 8. Two-Stage Nutrient Uptake.- 9. Iodine Compartment.- 10. The Brusselator.- 11. Signal Transmission.- III. Genetic Models.- 12. Mating and Mutation of Alleles.- 13. Artificial Worms.- 14. Langur Infanticide and Long-term Matriline Fitness.- IV. MODELS OF ORGANISM.- 15. Odor Sensing.- 16. Stochastic Resonance.- 17. Heart Beat.- 18. Bat Thermo-Regulation.- 19. The Optimum Plant.- 20. Soybean Plant Growth.- 21. Infectious Diseases.- VI. SINGLE POPULATION MODELS.- 22. Adaptive Population Control.- 23. Roan Herds.- 24. Population Dynamics of Voles.- 25. Lemming Population Dynamics.- 26. Multi-Stage Insect Models.- 27. Two Age-Class Parasites.- 28. Monkey Travels.- 29. Biosynchronicity.- VII. MULTIPLE POPULATION MODELS.- 30. Plant Microbe Interaction.- 31. Wildebeest.- 32. Nicholson-Bailey Host-Parasite Interaction.- 33. Diseased and Healthy Immigrating Insects.- 34. Two-Species Colonization Model.- 35. Herbivore-Algae Predator-Prey Dynamics.- 36. The Grass Carp.- 37. Recruitment and Trophic Dynamics of Gizzard Shad.- 38. Salamander Dispersal. 39. Quail Movement.- 40. Modeling Spatial Dynamics of Spatial Predator-Prey Interactions in a Changing.- VII. CATASTROPHE AND SELF-ORGANIZATION.- 41. Catastrophe.- 42. Spruce Budworm Dynamics.- 43. Game of Life.- 44. Daisyworld.- VIII. CONCLUSION.- 45. Building a Modeling Community.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Pressestimmen

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“I found this book to
be a delightful introduction to symbolic programming using STELLA. … I would
recommend this text to a reader interested in model development using symbolic
programming tasks.” (Megan Sawyer, MAA Reviews, October, 2015)

Deine Buchhandlung

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