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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Theoretical biology"”.
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Modeling Mutualism and Competition in Interactive Population Dynamics: How Ants and Aphids Affect Lycaenid Butterfly Ecology
… is an important and complex problem in theoretical biology and quantitative ecology. Mutualistic interactions, which are generally considered relationships in which two or more species benefit from each other's presence, play a significant role in determining population dyanmics, and are …
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VANESA - A bioinformatics software application for the modeling, visualization, analysis, and simulation of biological networks in systems biology applications
… important areas in bioinformatics and systems biology. Using VANESA, scientists have the possibility to automatically reconstruct important biomedical systems with information from the databases KEGG, MINT, IntAct, HPRD, and BRENDA. Additionally, experimental results can be expanded with …
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Mind the Matter: Active Matter, Basal Cognition, and the Making of Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence
This thesis explores a recent trend in theoretical biology and cognitive science called the biogenic approach to life and mind: the view that living processes of self-organization and self-maintenance are intimately linked with agential capacities underpinning survival and reproduction. It …
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Modeling economies and ecosystems in general equilibrium
… General Equilibrium (BGE) model grounded in the theoretical biology literature. The BGE model contributes a novel synthesis of micro-behavioral, bioenergetic features with macroscopic ecosystem outcomes and empirical food web data. Species respond to prevailing ecosystem scarcity conditions that …
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Toward a unified view of complex multiscale stochastic systems: A generalized theory of interactions and its computational infrastructure for their universal and efficient investigation
… interactions in computer-assisted epistemology, theoretical biology, global studies and artificial intelligence.
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Mathematical modeling of pathways involved in cell cycle regulation and differentiation
Cellular processes critical to sustaining physiology, including growth, division and differentiation, are carefully governed by intricate control systems. Deregulations in these systems often result in complex diseases such as cancer. Hence, it is crucial to understand the interactions between …
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Sex and Fear: Mathematical models of mate choice, parental care, and maladaptive anxiety
In many contexts, animals must infer salient information about another individual indirectly by observing some other characteristic of that individual. In Chapter 1 of this thesis, a model of costly signaling is developed to investigate how stochastic signal costs influence the overall cost of …
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The Environment Constrains Successful Search Strategies in Natural Distributed Systems
… systems of simple components exist in both biology and social systems. These systems have been honed through eons of evolution by natural selection to perform well in their environment. I examine two specific systems that use distributed methods to search and recruit individuals to locations …