Differential Equations with Applications to Biology

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Shigui Ruan, Gail Susan Kohl Wolkowicz, Jianhong Wu
American Mathematical Soc. - Science - 509 pages

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Contents

Integrodifference Equations Applied to Plant Dispersal Competition
15
Differential and Stochastic Epidemic Models
31
General Recruitment Models for Sexually Transmitted Diseases 45 155
45
Stability and Bifurcation of a Simple Neural Network with Multiple
65
The Emergence of LargeScale Phenomena from
81
On the Formation of Scroll Waves in an Anisotropic Ventricular
97
Natural Selection as an Extensive Form Game
119
Bifurcation Aspects for some Delayed Population Models with Diffusion
143
Bifurcation Structure of Stationary Solutions of a LotkaVolterra
293
Stability Domain of a Chemostat System with Delay
307
Rich Dynamics of GauseType RatioDependent PredatorPrey System
325
Differentiability with Respect to Delays for a Neutral Differential
339
Renormalizations for Trimodal Maps
353
A Generalization of Variation of Parameters and Lyapunovs Method
377
Homoclinic Bifurcations in a Diffusively Coupled Excitable System
397
On Boundary Value Problems for Quasilinear Elliptic Equations
419

Extinction and Persistence in a SizeStructured Discrete Competitive
159
Global Attractivity in a Nonlocal ReactionDiffusion Model
175
Practical Persistence in Stochastic Population Models
205
Continuity of Resetting Curves for FitzHughNagumo Equations
225
Nonlinear Propagation in Reaction Transport Systems
251
Skew Product Flows of QuasiProcesses and Stabilities
269
Global Stability for a General Population Model with Time Delays
447
Feedback Loops Analysis for Chaotic Dynamics with an Application to
473
BogdanovTakens Bifurcations in PredatorPrey Systems with Constant
493
Appendix List of Participants
507
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