Dynamic Modeling of Diseases and Pests

2009
ISBN: 978-0-387-09559-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Buch mit CD-ROM, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

The ease of use of the programs in the application to ever more complex cases of disease and pestilence. The lack of need on the part of the student or modelers of mathematics beyond algebra and the lack of need of any prior computer programming experience. The surprising insights that can be gained from initially simple systems models.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruth, Matthias

Hannon, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Modellierung & Simulation
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Mathematik & Informatik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Systemtheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Computeranwendungen in Wissenschaft & Technologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Kybernetik, Systemtheorie, Komplexe Systeme
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Mathematische & Statistische Software

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Why and How of Dynamic Modeling.- Basic Epidemic Models.- Insect Dynamics.- Applications.- Malaria and Sickle Cell Anemia.- Encephalitis.- Chagas Disease.- Lyme Disease.- Chicken Pox and Shingles.- Toxoplasmosis.- The Zebra Mussel.- Biological Control of Pestilence.- Indirect Susceptible-Infected-Resistant Models of Arboviral Encephalitis Transmission.- Chaos and Pestilence.- Catastrophe and Pestilence.- Spatial Pestilence Dynamics.- Conclusions.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Hannon is Jubilee professor of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and is associated with the departments of Geography, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Bioengineering and the National Center for Super Computing Applications and the Illinois Natural History Survey.

Matthias Ruth is Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics, founding Director of the Center for Integrative Environmental Research at the Division of Research, Director of the Environmental Policy Program at the School of Public Policy, and founding Co-Director of the Engineering and Public Policy Program at the University of Maryland.