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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024336

Yang Kuang

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Agent-based modeling for the tumor microenvironment (TME).

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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024335

Hasitha N Weerasinghe, Pamela M Burrage, Dan V Nicolau Jr, Kevin Burrage

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Turing patterns in a networked vegetation model.

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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024334

Xiaomei Bao, Canrong Tian

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Global stability for a mosquito-borne disease model with continuous-time age structure in the susceptible and relapsed host classes.

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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024333

Maria Guadalupe Vazquez-Peña, Cruz Vargas-De-León, Jorge Velázquez-Castro

{"title":"Global stability for a mosquito-borne disease model with continuous-time age structure in the susceptible and relapsed host classes.","authors":"Maria Guadalupe Vazquez-Peña, Cruz Vargas-De-León, Jorge Velázquez-Castro","doi":"10.3934/mbe.2024333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2024333","url":null,"abstract":"Mosquito-borne infectious diseases represent a significant public health issue. Age has been identified as a key risk factor for these diseases, and another phenomenon reported is relapse, which involves the reappearance of symptoms after a symptom-free period. Recent research indicates that susceptibility to and relapse of mosquito-borne diseases are frequently age-dependent. This paper proposes a new model to better capture the dynamics of mosquito-borne diseases by integrating two age-dependent factors: chronological age and asymptomatic-infection age. Chronological age refers to the time elapsed from the date of birth of the host to the present time. On the other hand, asymptomatic infection age denotes the time elapsed since the host became asymptomatic after the primary infection. The system of integro-differential equations uses flexible, unspecified functions to represent these dependencies, assuming they are integrable. We analyzed the global stability of both the disease-free and endemic equilibrium states using the direct Lyapunov method with Volterra-type Lyapunov functionals. Additionally, the paper explores several special cases involving well-known host-vector models.","PeriodicalId":49870,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering","volume":"21 11","pages":"7582-7600"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A mathematical model of flavescence dorée in grapevines by considering seasonality.

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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024332

Fernando Huancas, Aníbal Coronel, Rodolfo Vidal, Stefan Berres, Humberto Brito

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Mathematical modeling of the parasitism and hyperparasitism increase on Halyomorpha halys eggs in a five-year survey in Northern Italy.

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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024330

Ezio Venturino, Francesco Cantaloni, Luciana Tavella, Silvia Moraglio, Francesco Tortorici

{"title":"Mathematical modeling of the parasitism and hyperparasitism increase on Halyomorpha halys eggs in a five-year survey in Northern Italy.","authors":"Ezio Venturino, Francesco Cantaloni, Luciana Tavella, Silvia Moraglio, Francesco Tortorici","doi":"10.3934/mbe.2024330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2024330","url":null,"abstract":"The invasive stink bug Halyomorpha halys has become an important pest of many crops, causing severe economic losses to farmers. Control of the pest mainly relies on multiple applications of broad-spectrum insecticides, undermining the integrated pest management programs and causing secondary pest outbreaks. In the native area, egg parasitoids are the main natural enemies of H. halys, among which Trissolcus japonicus is considered the predominant species. In Italy, adventive populations of T. japonicus and Trissolcus mitsukurii, another egg parasitoid of H. halys in Japan, have established themselves. These two species, together with the indigenous Anastatus bifasciatus, are capable of attacking the eggs of the exotic host. Focusing on the situation in Northern Italy, where also the hyperparasitoid Acroclisoides sinicus is present, a discrete-time model is developed for the simulation of the pest evolution. It is based on actual field data collected over a timespan of five years. The simulations indicate that egg parasitoid by themselves do not suppress populations to non-pest levels, but can play an important role in reducing their impact. Both the data from the five-year surveys and those available in the literature are used in the model. It has some limitations in the fact that climatic conditions were not considered, while more accurate simulations could be performed with additional collection of field data, which at the moment are based on partial field observations not sampled at the same sites.","PeriodicalId":49870,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering","volume":"21 11","pages":"7501-7529"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of immune cell interactions on virus quasi-species formation.

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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024331

Ali Moussaoui, Vitaly Volpert

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Cooperation in the face of crisis: effect of demographic noise in collective-risk social dilemmas.

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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024329

José F Fontanari

{"title":"Cooperation in the face of crisis: effect of demographic noise in collective-risk social dilemmas.","authors":"José F Fontanari","doi":"10.3934/mbe.2024329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2024329","url":null,"abstract":"In deciding whether to contribute to a public good, people often face a social dilemma known as the tragedy of the commons: either bear the cost of promoting the collective welfare, or free-ride on the efforts of others. Here, we study the dynamics of cooperation in the context of the threshold public goods games, in which groups must reach a cumulative target contribution to prevent a potential disaster, such as an environmental crisis or social unrest, that could result in the loss of all private wealth. The catch is that the crisis may never materialize, and the investment in the public good is lost. Overall, higher risk of loss promotes cooperation, while larger group size tends to undermine it. For most parameter settings, free-riders (defectors) cannot be eliminated from the population, leading to a coexistence equilibrium between cooperators and defectors for infinite populations. However, this equilibrium is unstable under the effect of demographic noise (finite population), since the cooperator-only and defector-only states are the only absorbing states of the stochastic dynamics. We use simulations and finite-size scaling to show that cooperators eventually die off and derive scaling laws for the transient lifetimes or half-lives of the coexistence metastable state. We find that for high risk, the half-life of cooperators increases exponentially with population size, while for low risk, it decreases exponentially with population size. At the risk threshold, where the coexistence regime appears in a discontinuous manner, the half-life increases with a power of the population size.","PeriodicalId":49870,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering","volume":"21 11","pages":"7480-7500"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A stage structured model for mosquito suppression with immigration.

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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024328

Mugen Huang, Zifeng Wang, Zixin Nie

{"title":"A stage structured model for mosquito suppression with immigration.","authors":"Mugen Huang, Zifeng Wang, Zixin Nie","doi":"10.3934/mbe.2024328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2024328","url":null,"abstract":"The incompatible insect technique based on Wolbachia is a promising alternative to control mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue fever, malaria, and Zika, which drives wild female mosquitoes sterility through a mechanism cytoplasmic incompatibility. A successful control program should be able to withstand the perturbation induced by the immigration of fertilized females from surrounding uncontrolled areas. In this paper, we formulated a system of delay differential equations, including larval and adult stages, interfered by Wolbachia-infected males. We classified the release number of infected males and immigration number of fertile females, to ensure that the system displays globally asymptotically stable or bistable dynamics. The immigration of fertile females hinders the maximum possible suppression efficiency so that the wild adults cannot be reduced to a level below $ A^*_infty $. We identified the permitted most migration number to reduce the wild adults to a target level. To reduce up to $ 90% $ of wild adults in the peak season within two months, an economically viable strategy is to reduce the immigration number of wild females less than $ 0.21% $ of the carrying capacity of adults in the control area.","PeriodicalId":49870,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering","volume":"21 11","pages":"7454-7479"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An epidemiological modeling investigation of the long-term changing dynamics of the plague epidemics in Hong Kong.

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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024327

Salihu S Musa, Shi Zhao, Winnie Mkandawire, Andrés Colubri, Daihai He

{"title":"An epidemiological modeling investigation of the long-term changing dynamics of the plague epidemics in Hong Kong.","authors":"Salihu S Musa, Shi Zhao, Winnie Mkandawire, Andrés Colubri, Daihai He","doi":"10.3934/mbe.2024327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2024327","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying epidemic-driving factors through epidemiological modeling is a crucial public health strategy that has substantial policy implications for control and prevention initiatives. In this study, we employ dynamic modeling to investigate the transmission dynamics of pneumonic plague epidemics in Hong Kong from 1902 to 1904. Through the integration of human, flea, and rodent populations, we analyze the long-term changing trends and identify the epidemic-driving factors that influence pneumonic plague outbreaks. We examine the dynamics of the model and derive epidemic metrics, such as reproduction numbers, that are used to assess the effectiveness of intervention. By fitting our model to historical pneumonic plague data, we accurately capture the incidence curves observed during the epidemic periods, which reveals some crucial insights into the dynamics of pneumonic plague transmission by identifying the epidemic driving factors and quantities such as the lifespan of flea vectors, the rate of rodent spread, as well as demographic parameters. We emphasize that effective control measures must be prioritized for the elimination of fleas and rodent vectors to mitigate future plague outbreaks. These findings underscore the significance of proactive intervention strategies in managing infectious diseases and informing public health policies.","PeriodicalId":49870,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering","volume":"21 10","pages":"7435-7453"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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