Positivity in Natural Sciences |
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1.2 And if Everything Seems to be Fine? |
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2 Spectral Properties of Operators |
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2.2 Spectral Properties of a Single Operator |
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3 Banach Lattices and Positive Operators |
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3.4 Relation Between Order and Norm |
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3.6 Spectral Radius of Positive Operators |
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4.1 Around the HilleYosida Theorem |
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4.2 Dissipative Operators |
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4.3 Long Time Behaviour of Semigroups |
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4.5 Generation Through Perturbation |
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4.6 Positive Perturbations of Positive Semigroups |
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5.1 Applications to Birth-and-Death Type Problems |
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5.2 Chaos in Population Theory |
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6.1 Essential Growth Bound |
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6.2 Peripheral Spectrum of Positive Semigroups |
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6.3 Compactness, Positivity and Irreducibility of Perturbed Semigroups |
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7 Asymptotic Analysis of Singularly Perturbed Dynamical Systems |
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Rescaling Stochastic Processes: Asymptotics |
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1.1 First Examples of Resealing |
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2.1 Processes with Independent Increments |
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2.4 Brownian Motion and the Wiener Process |
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3.2 The Stochastic Differential |
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3.3 Stochastic Differential Equations |
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3.4 Kolmogorov and Fokker-Planck Equations |
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3.5 The Multidimensional Case |
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4 Deterministic Approximation of Stochastic Systems |
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4.1 Continuous Approximation of Jump Population Processes |
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4.2 Continuous Approximation of Stochastic Interacting Particle Systems |
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4.3 Convergence of the Empirical Measure |
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5 A Specific Model for Interacting Particles |
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5.1 Asymptotic Behavior of the System for Large Populations: A Heuristic Derivation |
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5.2 Asymptotic Behavior of the System for Large Populations: A Rigorous Derivation |
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6 Long Time Behavior: Invariant Measure |
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A Proof of the Identification of the Limit p |
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Modelling Aspects of Cancer Growth: Insight from Mathematical and Numerical Analysis and Computational Simulation |
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1.1 Macroscopic Modelling |
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1.2 Cancer Growth and Development |
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2 Nlodelling Avascillar Solid Tumour Growth |
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2.2 Linearised Stability Theory |
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2.3 The Role of Pre-Pattern Theory in Solid Tumour Growth and Invasion |
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2.4 Model Extension: Application to a Growing Spherical Tumour |
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2.5 Discussion and Conclusions |
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3 Mathematical Modelling of T-Lymphocyte Response to a Solid Tumour |
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3.2 The Mathematical Model |
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3.3 Travelling Wave Analysis |
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4 Mathematical Modelling of Cancer Invasion |
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4.2 Cancer Invasion of Tissue and Metastasis |
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4.3 Proteolysis and Extracellular Matrix Degradation |
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4.4 The Mathematical Model of Proteolysis and Cancer Cell Invasion of Tissue |
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4.5 Nondimensionalisation of the Model Equations |
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4.7 Spatially Uniform Steady States |
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4.8 Taxis-Driven Instability and Dispersion Curves |
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4.11 Computational Simulation Results |
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4.12 Discussion and Conclusions |
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Lins Between Microscopic and Macroscopic Descriptions |
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2 Microscopic (Stochastic) Systems |
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3 Generalized Kinetic Models |
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5 Links in the SpaceHomogeneous Case |
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6 CoagulationFragmentation Equations |
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7 The SpaceInhomogeneous Case: ReactionDiffusion Equations |
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8 React ionDiffusionChemot axis Equations |
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Evolutionary Game Theory and Population Dynamics |
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3 A Crash Course in Game Theory |
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5 Replicator Dynamics with Migration |
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6 Replicator Dynamics with Time Delay |
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6.1 Social-Type Time Delay |
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6.2 Biological-Type Time Delay |
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7 Stochastic Dynamics of Finite Populations |
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8 Stochastic Dynamics of Well-Mixed Populations |
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9 Spatial Games with Local Interactions |
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9.1 Nash Configurations and Stochastic Dynamics |
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9.2 Ground States and Nash Configurations |
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9.4 Stochastic Stability in Non-Potential Games |
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10 Review of Other Results |
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List of Participants |
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Index |
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