Positive solutions of a neutral difference equation with positive and negative coefficients.
Positive solutions of a renewal equation
An existence theorem is proved for the scalar convolution type integral equation .
Positive solutions of nonlinear delay integral equations modelling epidemics and population growth.
Possibly Longest Food Chain: Analysis of a Mathematical Model
We consider the number of trophic levels in a food chain given by the equilibrium state for a simple mathematical model with ordinary differential equations which govern the temporal variation of the energy reserve in each trophic level. When a new trophic level invades over the top of the chain, the chain could lengthen by one trophic level. We can derive the condition that such lengthening could occur, and prove that the possibly longest chain is globally stable. In some specific cases,...
Practical persistence for differential delay models of population interactions.
Pravděpodobnost vymření kontinuální kultivace
Precise spectral asymptotics for nonautonomous logistic equations of population dynamics in a ball.
Problems with classical models of sex-ratio evolution
The classical theory of the sex-ratio evolution, known as the sex-ratio game, is based on the maximization of the number of grandchildren, treated as a fitness measure of a female producing offspring of the sex ratio that is coded in her genes. The theory predicts that it is more profitable to produce offspring with less numerous sex. We can find in the literature mutually exclusive conclusions based on this prediction: some textbooks say that populations with the equal number of sons and daughters...
Proč má DNA tři terminační triplety a jen jeden iniciační?
Progressive diseases: Interpretation of genetic data.
Propagation of Growth Uncertainty in a Physiologically Structured Population
In this review paper we consider physiologically structured population models that have been widely studied and employed in the literature to model the dynamics of a wide variety of populations. However in a number of cases these have been found inadequate to describe some phenomena arising in certain real-world applications such as dispersion in the structure variables due to growth uncertainty/variability. Prompted by this, we described two recent...
Properties of a singular value decomposition based dynamical model of gene expression data
Recently, data on multiple gene expression at sequential time points were analyzed using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) as a means to capture dominant trends, called characteristic modes, followed by the fitting of a linear discrete-time dynamical system in which the expression values at a given time point are linear combinations of the values at a previous time point. We attempt to address several aspects of the method. To obtain the model, we formulate a nonlinear optimization problem...
Protector control: Extension to a class of nonlinear distributed systems
We present an extension of the protector control scheme introduced for the linear case in a previous work to a class of nonlinear systems. The systems considered are assumed to have a finite propagation velocity while the initial state is subject to a spreading disturbance. We characterize such a control first by using the remediability approach to the resulting nonlinear delay system, and then by coupling families of transformations and the delay approach. To illustrate this work, we provide a...