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Mathematical Modeling Of The American Lobster Cardiac Muscle Cell: An Investigation Of Calcium Ion Permeability And Force Of Contractions, Lauren A. Skerritt May 2014

Mathematical Modeling Of The American Lobster Cardiac Muscle Cell: An Investigation Of Calcium Ion Permeability And Force Of Contractions, Lauren A. Skerritt

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In the American lobster (Homarus americanus), neurogenic stimulation of the heart drives fluxes of calcium (Ca2+) into the cytoplasm of a muscle cell resulting in heart muscle contraction. The heartbeat is completed by the active transport of calcium out of the cytoplasm into extracellular and intracellular spaces. An increase in the frequency of calcium release is expected to increase amplitude and duration of muscle contraction. This makes sense because an increase in cytoplasmic calcium should increase the activation of the muscle contractile elements (actin and myosin). Since calcium cycling is a reaction-diffusion process, the extent to …


Modeling Feral Cat Population Dynamics In Knox County, Tn, Lindsay E. Lee, Nick Robl, Alice M. Bugman, An T.N. Nguyen, Bridgid Lammers, Teresa L. Fisher, Heidi Weimer, Suzanne Lenhart, John C. New Jr. May 2014

Modeling Feral Cat Population Dynamics In Knox County, Tn, Lindsay E. Lee, Nick Robl, Alice M. Bugman, An T.N. Nguyen, Bridgid Lammers, Teresa L. Fisher, Heidi Weimer, Suzanne Lenhart, John C. New Jr.

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Optimizing The Analysis Of Electroencephalographic Data By Dynamic Graphs, Mehrsasadat Golestaneh Apr 2014

Optimizing The Analysis Of Electroencephalographic Data By Dynamic Graphs, Mehrsasadat Golestaneh

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The brain’s underlying functional connectivity has been recently studied using tools offered by graph theory and network theory. Although the primary research focus in this area has so far been mostly on static graphs, the complex and dynamic nature of the brain’s underlying mechanism has initiated the usage of dynamic graphs, providing groundwork for time sensi- tive and finer investigations. Studying the topological reconfiguration of these dynamic graphs is done by exploiting a pool of graph metrics, which describe the network’s characteristics at different scales. However, considering the vast amount of data generated by neuroimaging tools, heavy computation load and …