Mathematical studies on human disease dynamics : emerging paradigms and challenges : AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on modeling the dynamics of human diseases : emerging paradigms and challenges, July 17-21, 2005, Snowbird, Utah / / Abba B. Gumel, editor-in-chief ; Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Ronald E. Mickens, Dominic P. Clemence, editors

• Pubblicazione: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2006]; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.401/5118
• Soggetto topico: Epidemiology - Mathematical models; Diseases - Mathematical models
• Persona (resp. second.): GumelAbba B. <1966->; Castillo-ChávezCarlos; MickensRonald E. <1943->; ClemenceDominic P. <1959->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Prologue""; ""List of Participants""; ""The impact of environmental variation on hantavirus infection in rodents""; ""Preventive treatment of tuberculosis through contact tracing""; ""Optimal vaccination strategies for an influenza-like illness in a heterogeneous population""; ""Mathematical applications associated with the deliberate release of infectious agents""; ""Critical response to post-outbreak vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease""; ""Some promising approaches to tumor-immune modeling"" ; ""Impact of prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus infection""""Population dynamics of developmental deficits due to an environmental neurotoxicant""; ""Optimal therapy regimens for treatment-resistant mutations of HIV""; ""Cancer modeling: A perspective on what's new and what's next""; ""Understanding a killer: A predictive model for tumor development""; ""Optimal control methods applied to disease models""; ""Infection dynamics on small-world networks""; ""Moving beyond averages: Individual-level variation in disease transmission"" ; ""Models for the spread of HIV /AIDS: Trends in Southern Africa""""Epidemic spread in populations at demographic equilibrium""; ""Models for Dengue transmission and control""; ""Seasonality of rotavirus infection with its vaccination""; ""Current research issues in mosquito-borne diseases modeling""; ""The role of transactional sex in spreading HIV in Nigeria""
• Titolo autorizzato: Mathematical studies on human disease dynamics
• ISBN: 0-8218-8073-X; 0-8218-3775-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822591403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; ; v. 410.