This is a book of a series on interdisciplinary topics of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences. The chapters correspond to selected papers on special research themes, which were presented at BIOMAT 2012 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, in Tempe, Arizona, USA, November 6-10. This book contains state-of-the art articles on special research topics on mathematical biology, biological physics and mathematical modeling of biosystems; comprehensive reviews on interdisciplinary areas written by prominent leaders of scientific research groups. The treatment is both pedagogical and advanced in order to motivate research students as well as to fulfill the requirements of professional practitioners.

This is a book of a series on interdisciplinary topics of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences. The chapters correspond to selected papers on special research themes, which were presented at BIOMAT 2012 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, in Tempe, Arizona, USA, November 6-10.This book contains state-of-the art articles on special research topics on mathematical biology, biological physics and mathematical modeling of biosystems; comprehensive reviews on interdisciplinary areas written by prominent leaders of scientific research groups. The treatment is both pedagogical and advanced in order to motivate research students as well as to fulfill the requirements of professional practitioners.

This is a book of a series on interdisciplinary topics on the Biological and Mathematical Sciences. The chapters correspond to selected papers on special research themes, which have been presented at BIOMAT 2013 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology which was held in the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on November 04 – 08, 2013. The treatment is both pedagogical and advanced in order to motivate research students as well as to fulfill the requirements of professional practitioners. There are comprehensive reviews written by prominent scientific leaders of famous research groups. Contents:Population Dynamics:The Princess and the Pea: The Unexpected Importance of Movement Algorithms (Rebecca Tyson)Plankton Nutrient Interaction Model with Harvesting under Constant Environment (Samares Pal and A Chatterjee)Traveling Wave Solutions for a Chemotaxis System (F Catrina and V M Reyes G)Dynamics of a General Stage Structured N Parallel Food Chains (Isam Al-Darabsah and Yuan Yuan)Pattern Recognition of Biological Phenomena:Complex Data Clustering: From Neural Network Architecture to Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics of Pattern Recognition (Guojun Gan, Jialun Yin, Yulia Wang and Jianhong Wu)Dynamic and Geometric Modelling of Biomolecular Structures:A Two-Step Kinetic Model of Insulin Aggregation with a Competitive Inhibitor (Mark Whidden, Allison Ho and Santiago Schnell)Optimal Control Techniques in Mathematical Modelling of Biological Phenomena:Optimal Control of Resource Coefficient in a Parabolic Population Model (J Bintz, H Finotti and S Lenhart)Optimization of Costs for Combating Aedes Aegypti in Optimal Time-Windows (W O Dias, G A Xavier, D A P Lima, E F Wanner and R T N Cardoso)Dynamics of a Varroa-Infested Honey Bee Colonies Model (K O Okosun)Computational Biology:Probability Distributions of GC Content Reflect the Evolution of Primate Species (Marco V José, Qi Lu and Juan R Bobadilla)Mining the Constraints of Protein Evolution (Fernando Encinas and Antonio Basilio de Miranda)Entropy Measures Based Methods for the Classification of Protein Domains into Families and Clans (Nicolas Carels, Cecilia F Mondaini and Rubem P Mondaini)Modelling Physiological Disorders:Modelling of Porous Elastic and Viscoelastic Media and Its Application to the Brain (R Begg, J Murley, M. Kohandel and S Sivaloganathan)The Mathematics of Liver Transplantation (F A B Coutinho, E Chaib, M Amaku, M M Burattini and E Massad)Complexity of Molecular Signaling Networks for Various Types of Cancer and Neurological Diseases Correlates with Patient Survivability (D Breitkreutz, E A Rietman, P Hinow, M Healey and J A Tuszynski)Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases:Modelling Malaria Dynamics in Temperate Regions with Long Term Incubation Period (Kyeongah Nah, Gergely Röst and Yongkuk Kim)A Simulation of the U S Influenza Outbreak in 2009–2010 Using a Patch SIR Model based on Airport Transportation Data (D L Wallace and M Chen)Modelling Directly Transmitted Infections considering Age-structured Contact Rate and Vaccination (H M Yang and C H Dezotti)A General Framework for Agent-Based Modelling with Applications to Infectious Disease Dynamics (Marek Laskowski and Seyed M Moghadas)Analysis of the Basic Reproduction Number from the Initial Growth Phase of the Outbreak in Diseases Caused by Vectors (R P Sanches and E Massad)Parameter Estimation of a Tuberculosis Model in a Patchy Environment: Case of Cameroon (D P Moualeu, S Bowong and J Kürts)An Agent-Based Modelling Framework for Tuberculosis Infection with Drug-Resistance (Aquino L Espindola, A S Martinez and Seyed M Moghadas)Some Extensions of the Classical Epidemic Models (Fred Brauer) Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, researchers and all practitioners on the interdisciplinary fields of Mathematical Biology, Biological Physics and Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems. Keywords:Mathematical Biology;Biomathematics;Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems;Biological Physics;Biophysics;Computational Biology;Bioinformatics

Biomaterials are composed of metallic materials, ceramics, polymers, composites and hybrid materials. Biomaterials used in human beings require safety regulations, toxicity, allergic reaction, etc. When used as implantable materials their biological compatibility, biomechanical compatibility, and morphological compatibility must be acessed. This book explores the design and requirements of biomaterials for the use in implantology.

This book addresses automated software fingerprinting in binary code, especially for cybersecurity applications. The reader will gain a thorough understanding of binary code analysis and several software fingerprinting techniques for cybersecurity applications, such as malware detection, vulnerability analysis, and digital forensics. More specifically, it starts with an overview of binary code analysis and its challenges, and then discusses the existing state-of-the-art approaches and their cybersecurity applications. Furthermore, it discusses and details a set of practical techniques for compiler provenance extraction, library function identification, function fingerprinting, code reuse detection, free open-source software identification, vulnerability search, and authorship attribution. It also illustrates several case studies to demonstrate the efficiency, scalability and accuracy of the above-mentioned proposed techniques and tools. This book also introduces several innovative quantitative and qualitative techniques that synergistically leverage machine learning, program analysis, and software engineering methods to solve binary code fingerprinting problems, which are highly relevant to cybersecurity and digital forensics applications. The above-mentioned techniques are cautiously designed to gain satisfactory levels of efficiency and accuracy. Researchers working in academia, industry and governmental agencies focusing on Cybersecurity will want to purchase this book. Software engineers and advanced-level students studying computer science, computer engineering and software engineering will also want to purchase this book.

Undoubtedly the applications of polymers are rapidly evolving. Technology is continually changing and quickly advancing as polymers are needed to solve a variety of day-to-day challenges leading to improvements in quality of life. The Encyclopedia of Polymer Applications presents state-of-the-art research and development on the applications of polymers. This groundbreaking work provides important overviews to help stimulate further advancements in all areas of polymers. This comprehensive multi-volume reference includes articles contributed from a diverse and global team of renowned researchers. It offers a broad-based perspective on a multitude of topics in a variety of applications, as well as detailed research information, figures, tables, illustrations, and references. The encyclopedia provides introductions, classifications, properties, selection, types, technologies, shelf-life, recycling, testing and applications for each of the entries where applicable. It features critical content for both novices and experts including, engineers, scientists (polymer scientists, materials scientists, biomedical engineers, macromolecular chemists), researchers, and students, as well as interested readers in academia, industry, and research institutions.

​​Fungal nanobiotechnology has emerged as one of the key technologies, and an eco-friendly, as a source of food and harnessed to ferment and preserve foods and beverages, as well as applications in human health (antibiotics, anti-cholesterol statins, and immunosuppressive agents), while industry has used fungi for large-scale production of enzymes, acids, biosurfactants, and to manage fungal disease in crops and pest control. With the harnessing of nanotechnology, fungi have grown increasingly important by providing a greener alternative to chemically synthesized nanoparticles.