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Deterministic Chaos vs. Stochastic Fluctuation in an Eco-epidemic Model

P.S. Mandal, M. Banerjee (2012)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

An eco-epidemiological model of susceptible Tilapia fish, infected Tilapia fish and Pelicans is investigated by several author based upon the work initiated by Chattopadhyay and Bairagi (Ecol. Model., 136, 103–112, 2001). In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of the same model by considering different parameters involved with the model as bifurcation parameters in details. Considering the intrinsic growth rate of susceptible Tilapia fish as bifurcation parameter, we demonstrate the period doubling...

Do Demographic and Disease Structures Affect the Recurrence of Epidemics ?

A. Castellazzo, A. Mauro, C. Volpe, E. Venturino (2012)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

In this paper we present an epidemic model affecting an age-structured population. We show by numerical simulations that this demographic structure can induce persistent oscillations in the epidemic. The model is then extended to encompass a stage-structured disease within an age-dependent population. In this case as well, persistent oscillations are observed in the infected as well as in the whole population.

Dynamics of Tuberculosis: The effect of Direct Observation Therapy Strategy (DOTS) in Nigeria

D. Okuonghae, A. Korobeinikov (2010)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

This paper presents mathematical models for tuberculosis and its dynamics under the implementation of the direct observation therapy strategy (DOTS) in Nigeria. The models establish conditions for the eradication of tuberculosis in Nigeria based on the fraction of detected infectious individuals placed under DOTS for treatment. Both numerical and qualitative analysis of the models were carried out and the effect of the fraction of detected cases of active TB on the various epidemiological classes...

Entropy solution for anisotropic reaction-diffusion-advection systems with L1 data.

Mostafa Bendahmane, Mazen Saad (2005)

Revista Matemática Complutense

In this paper, we study the question of existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions for a system of nonlinear partial differential equations with general anisotropic diffusivity and transport effects, supplemented with no-flux boundary conditions, modeling the spread of an epidemic disease through a heterogeneous habitat.

Epidemiological Models and Lyapunov Functions

A. Fall, A. Iggidr, G. Sallet, J. J. Tewa (2010)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

We give a survey of results on global stability for deterministic compartmental epidemiological models. Using Lyapunov techniques we revisit a classical result, and give a simple proof. By the same methods we also give a new result on differential susceptibility and infectivity models with mass action and an arbitrary number of compartments. These models encompass the so-called differential infectivity and staged progression models. In the two cases we prove that if the basic reproduction ratio...

Epidemiological Models With Parametric Heterogeneity : Deterministic Theory for Closed Populations

A.S. Novozhilov (2012)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

We present a unified mathematical approach to epidemiological models with parametric heterogeneity, i.e., to the models that describe individuals in the population as having specific parameter (trait) values that vary from one individuals to another. This is a natural framework to model, e.g., heterogeneity in susceptibility or infectivity of individuals. We review, along with the necessary theory, the results obtained using the discussed approach....

Existence of positive periodic solutions of an SEIR model with periodic coefficients

Tailei Zhang, Junli Liu, Zhidong Teng (2012)

Applications of Mathematics

An SEIR model with periodic coefficients in epidemiology is considered. The global existence of periodic solutions with strictly positive components for this model is established by using the method of coincidence degree. Furthermore, a sufficient condition for the global stability of this model is obtained. An example based on the transmission of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is included.

Fixed Point Theorems of the Banach and Krasnosel’skii Type for Mappings on m -tuple Cartesian Product of Banach Algebras and Systems of Generalized Gripenberg’s Equations

Eva Brestovanská, Milan Medveď (2012)

Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Facultas Rerum Naturalium. Mathematica

In this paper we prove some fixed point theorems of the Banach and Krasnosel’skii type for mappings on the m -tuple Cartesian product of a Banach algebra X over . Using these theorems existence results for a system of integral equations of the Gripenberg’s type are proved. A sufficient condition for the nonexistence of blowing-up solutions of this system of integral equations is also proved.

Fractional virus epidemic model on financial networks

Mehmet Ali Balci (2016)

Open Mathematics

In this study, we present an epidemic model that characterizes the behavior of a financial network of globally operating stock markets. Since the long time series have a global memory effect, we represent our model by using the fractional calculus. This model operates on a network, where vertices are the stock markets and edges are constructed by the correlation distances. Thereafter, we find an analytical solution to commensurate system and use the well-known differential transform method to obtain...

Generalization of the Kermack-McKendrick SIR Model to a Patchy Environment for a Disease with Latency

J. Li, X. Zou (2009)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

In this paper, with the assumptions that an infectious disease has a fixed latent period in a population and the latent individuals of the population may disperse, we reformulate an SIR model for the population living in two patches (cities, towns, or countries etc.), which is a generalization of the classic Kermack-McKendrick SIR model. The model is given by a system of delay differential equations with a fixed delay accounting for the latency and non-local terms caused by the mobility of the...

Global Asymptotic Stability of Equilibria in Models for Virus Dynamics

J. Prüss, R. Zacher, R. Schnaubelt (2008)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

In this paper several models in virus dynamics with and without immune response are discussed concerning asymptotic behaviour. The case of immobile cells but diffusing viruses and T-cells is included. It is shown that, depending on the value of the basic reproductive number R0 of the virus, the corresponding equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable. If R0 < 1 then the virus-free equilibrium has this property, and in case R0 > 1 there is a unique disease equilibrium which takes over this...

Global dynamics of a delay differential system of a two-patch SIS-model with transport-related infections

Yukihiko Nakata, Gergely Röst (2015)

Mathematica Bohemica

We describe the global dynamics of a disease transmission model between two regions which are connected via bidirectional or unidirectional transportation, where infection occurs during the travel as well as within the regions. We define the regional reproduction numbers and the basic reproduction number by constructing a next generation matrix. If the two regions are connected via bidirectional transportation, the basic reproduction number R 0 characterizes the existence of equilibria as well as...

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