# Applied Mathematics Commons™

## All Articles in Applied Mathematics

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Parameter Estimation For Tear Film Thinning, 2020 University of Delaware

#### Parameter Estimation For Tear Film Thinning, Rayanne Luke

##### Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.

2020 University of Tennessee

#### The Role Of Variation In Mate Choice And Wolbachia Infection On Aedes Aegypti Population Dynamics, Bernardo Ameneyro

##### Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.

Using Network Modeling To Understand The Relationship Between Sars-Cov-1 And Sars-Cov-2, 2020 Florida State University

#### Using Network Modeling To Understand The Relationship Between Sars-Cov-1 And Sars-Cov-2, Elizabeth Brooke Haywood, Nicole A. Bruce

##### Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.

2020 Virginia Commonwealth University

#### Exploring The Effect Of The Nestling Recruitment Curve On Enzootic West Nile Virus Transmission, Emily B. Horton

##### Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.

2020 CUNY New York City College of Technology

#### Decision Tree For Predicting The Party Of Legislators, Afsana Mimi

##### Publications and Research

The motivation of the project is to identify the legislators who voted frequently against their party in terms of their roll call votes using Office of Clerk U.S. House of Representatives Data Sets collected in 2018 and 2019. We construct a model to predict the parties of legislators based on their votes. The method we used is Decision Tree from Data Mining. Python was used to collect raw data from internet, SAS was used to clean data, and all other calculations and graphical presentations are performed using the R software.

2020 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

#### Hadamard Well-Posedness For Two Nonlinear Structure Acoustic Models, Andrew Becklin

##### Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research Papers in Mathematics

This dissertation focuses on the Hadamard well-posedness of two nonlinear structure acoustic models, each consisting of a semilinear wave equation defined on a smooth bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ strongly coupled with a Berger plate equation acting only on a flat portion of the boundary of $\Omega$. In each case, the PDE is of the following form: \begin{align*} \begin{cases} u_{tt}-\Delta u +g_1(u_t)=f(u) &\text{ in } \Omega \times (0,T),\\[1mm] w_{tt}+\Delta^2w+g_2(w_t)+u_t|_{\Gamma}=h(w)&\text{ in }\Gamma\times(0,T),\\[1mm] u=0&\text{ on ...

2020 William & Mary

#### Non-Linear Modifications Of Black-Scholes Pricing Model With Diminishing Marginal Transaction Cost, Kaidi Wang

In the field of quantitative financial analysis, the Black-Scholes Model has exerted significant influence on the booming of options trading strategies. Publishing in their Nobel Prize Work in 1973, the model was generated by Black and Scholes. Using Ito’s Lemma and portfolio management methodology, they employed partial differential equation to provide a theoretical estimate of the price of European-style options.

This paper is interested in deriving non-linear modifications of the Black-Scholes model with diminishing marginal transaction cost.

2020 William & Mary

#### Stage-Structured Blue Crab Population Model With Fishing, Predation And Cannibalism, Fangming Xu

Blue crab is a species of crab commonly found in the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the most important shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay. The blue crab fishing industry has a notable impact on the local economy, and blue crabs form a key link in the Chesapeake Bay food web. Between the mid-1990s and 2004, the blue crab population dropped by two thirds. Factors such as habitat loss, harvest pressure and climate change may have contributed to the decline. However, there hasn’t been enough research on the long term dynamic equilibrium, making it difficult ...

2020 William & Mary

#### Dynamics Of Sensory Integration Of Olfactory And Mechanical Stimuli Within The Response Patterns Of Moth Antennal Lobe Neurons, Harrison Tuckman

Odors emanating from a biologically relevant source are rapidly embedded within a windy, turbulent medium that folds and spins filaments into fragmented strands of varying sizes. Environmental odor plumes therefore exhibit complex spatiotemporal dynamics, and rarely yield an easily discernible concentration gradient marking an unambiguous trail to an odor source. Thus, sensory integration of chemical input, encoding odor identity or concentration, and mechanosensory input, encoding wind speed, is a critical task that animals face in resolving the complex dynamics of odor plumes and tracking an odor source. In insects, who employ olfactory navigation as their primary means of foraging for ...

2020 William & Mary

#### Learning & Planning For Self-Driving Ride-Hailing Fleets, Jack Morris

Through simulation, we demonstrate that incorporation of self-driving vehicles into ride-hailing fleets can greatly improve urban mobility. After modeling existing driver-rider matching algorithms including Uber’s Batched Matching and Didi Chuxing’s Learning and Planning approach, we develop a novel algorithm adapting the latter to a fleet of Autos – self-driving ride-hailing vehicles – and Garages – specialized hubs for storage and refueling. By compiling driver-rider matching, idling, storage, refueling, and redistribution decisions in one unifying framework, we enable a system-wide optimization approach for self-driving ride-hailing previously unseen in the literature. In contrast with existing literature that labeled driverless taxis as economically infeasible ...

2020 William & Mary

#### Analysis Of Modelling Deficiencies That Contributed To The High Unanticipated Loan Losses Incurred During The Housing Price Collapse Of The Great Recession, Jennifer Shulman

In this paper the data, modelling and the environmental factors that contributed to the collapse of the US housing market and the high mortgage loan losses during the Great Recession are explored. Deficiencies in data and modelling are discussed with an emphasis on the deficiencies in the mathematical modeling that failed to predict the high level of risk associated with mortgage originations in the mid-2000's. It is suggested that the lack of effective modelling significantly contributed to banks offering aggressive origination guidelines and that this was a major contributing factor that led up to the housing price collapse in ...

The Game Of Life On The Hyperbolic Plane, 2020 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

#### The Game Of Life On The Hyperbolic Plane, Yuncong Gu

##### Mathematical Sciences Technical Reports (MSTR)

In this paper, we work on the Game of Life on the hyperbolic plane. We are interested in different tessellations on the hyperbolic plane and different Game of Life rules. First, we show the exponential growth of polygons on the pentagon tessellation. Moreover, we find that the Group of 3 can keep the boundary of a set not getting smaller. We generalize the existence of still lifes by computer simulations. Also, we will prove some propositions of still lifes and cycles. There exists a still life under rules B1, B2, and S3.

Congressional Redistricting, 2020 Augsburg University

#### Congressional Redistricting, C. David Robshaw

##### Zyzzogeton Posters

To identify when gerrymandering occurs, one can study compactness measures of districts. After determining that some measures of compactness alone are insufficient to identify fair or biased district boundaries, this study's investigation continues by focusing on wasted votes. Using wasted votes, a procedure is developed and coded in R that takes a given congressional district map and alters it to provide a redistricting of desired fair or partisan results.

2020 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

#### Hydrodynamic Instability Simulations Using Front-Tracking With Higher-Order Splitting Methods, Dillon Trinh

##### Mathematical Sciences Undergraduate Honors Theses

The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) is an instability that occurs at the interface of a lighter density fluid pushing onto a higher density fluid in constant or time-dependent accelerations. The Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability (RMI) occurs when two fluids of different densities are separated by a perturbed interface that is accelerated impulsively, usually by a shock wave. When the shock wave is applied, the less dense fluid will penetrate the denser fluid, forming a characteristic bubble feature in the displacement of the fluid. The displacement will initially obey a linear growth model, but as time progresses, a nonlinear model is required. Numerical studies ...

Stochastic Modeling Of Zoonotic Disease, 2020 Montclair State University

#### Stochastic Modeling Of Zoonotic Disease, Sausan Odatalla

##### Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

We provide an overview of the mathematical modeling of deterministic and stochastic infectious disease models. These models enable one to understand the outbreak, spread, and extinction of disease. We then focus on stochastic models with a disease reservoir to understand outbreak vulnerability for zoonotic diseases such as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Numerical results from a more complicated EVD model are compared with the theoretical results of a simplified stochastic SISk model. We also demonstrate the effect that vaccine has on outbreak vulnerability in a population that is connected to a disease reservoir.

The Mathematics Behind Illusion, 2020 Augsburg University

#### The Mathematics Behind Illusion, Kouassi Adou

##### Zyzzogeton Posters

Historically, research on optical, or visual illusions has belonged mainly to the field of psychology. However, in the 1980s, Professor Kokichi Sugihara, Meiji University, Japan, introduced a mathematical approach to design and classify 3-dimensional optical illusions. This presentation provides a sample of the mathematics behind some types of visual illusions.

Control Of Secondary Extinctions In Stochastic Food Webs, 2020 Montclair State University

#### Control Of Secondary Extinctions In Stochastic Food Webs, Dunia M. Fernandez

##### Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Studies on both model-based and empirical food webs have shown that per- turbations to an ecological community can cause a species to go extinct, often resulting in the loss of additional species in a cascade of secondary extinctions. These eects can seriously debilitate a food web and threaten the existence of an ecosystem. Here, we consider niche model-based food webs with internal noise and investigate the eects of a control on a secondary extinction cas- cade triggered by a noise-induced extinction. We show that the forced removal of a nonbasal species immediately after a primary extinction can extend the mean ...

2020 Bellarmine University

#### A Study Of Addiction: The Opioid Epidemic, An Analysis At The State And County Level, Jamey Van Dyke

Addictive diseases such as those stemming from the use of alcohol, cocaine and opioids lead to serious negative consequences at both the individual and societal level. Over the last two decades, there has been a significant increase in opioid prescriptions and addiction. The potential for addiction is related to factors that include genetics, prescriber behavior, user behavior and characteristics, in addition to environmental and systemic determinants. One measure of the seriousness of the opioid epidemic is the number of overdose deaths. In 2017, drug overdoses killed over seventy thousand Americans, and overdose deaths are projected to increase in the future ...

2020 The University of Western Ontario

#### Contraction Analysis Of Functional Competitive Lotka-Volterra Systems: Understanding Competition Between Modified Bacteria And Plasmodium Within Mosquitoes., Nickolas Goncharenko

##### Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

We propose and analyze an extension to the classic Competitive Lotka-Volterra (CLV) model. The goal is to model competition between species, with a response from the environment. This response is a function of the population of all species and can represent numerous physical phenomena including resource limitation and immune response of a host due to infection. We name this new system a Functional Competitive Lotka-Volterra (FCLV) model. We mainly use the construction of contraction metrics, to determine global properties of the model. We use this result to analyze the competition between Plasmodium sp. and genetically engineered bacteria within the midgut ...

2020 SUNY Geneseo

#### 358— Hybridization Of Particle Swam Optimization And Pattern Search Algorithms With Application, Eric Koessler

##### GREAT Day

We test three methods of hybridizing Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Pattern Search (PS) to improve the global minima, speed, and robustness. All methods let PSO run first followed by PS. The first method lets PSO use a large number of particles for a limited number of iterations. The second method lets PSO run normally until tolerance is reached. The third method lets PSO run normally until the average particle distance from the global best location is within a threshold. Numerical results using non-differentiable test functions reveal that all three methods improve the global minima and robustness versus PSO, while ...