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Mathematics, Volume 6, Issue 5

2018 May - 22 articles

Cover Story: We have investigated the effects of cytokines on the dynamics of immune response to viral infections, with an emphasis on the role of time delays associated with various aspects of cytokine-mediated processes. We have shown that these time delays play a significant role in determining the type of behaviour exhibited by the model. The system is shown to possess a regime of bi-stability between different steady states, or steady states and periodic orbits. This observation has a profound practical importance, as it demonstrates that, for the same values of immune system parameters, depending on the initial conditions, it can either clear the infection, or result in an autoimmune reaction. View this paper.
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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,041 Views
20 Pages

This paper considers a class of large-scale systems which is composed of many interacting subsystems, and each of them is controlled by an individual controller. For this type of system, to improve the optimization performance of the entire closed-lo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,424 Views
13 Pages

Some Notes about Inference for the Lognormal Diffusion Process with Exogenous Factors

  • Patricia Román-Román,
  • Juan José Serrano-Pérez and
  • Francisco Torres-Ruiz

Different versions of the lognormal diffusion process with exogenous factors have been used in recent years to model and study the behavior of phenomena following a given growth curve. In each case considered, the estimation of the model has been add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,667 Views
12 Pages

In this paper, three-dimensional real hypersurfaces in non-flat complex space forms, whose shape operator satisfies a geometric condition, are studied. Moreover, the tensor field P = ϕ A - A ϕ is given and three-dimensional real hypersurfaces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,603 Views
11 Pages

In the present paper we study the generalized Hyers–Ulam stability of the generalized trigonometric functional equations f ( x y ) + μ ( y ) f ( x σ ( y ) ) = 2 f ( x ) g ( y ) + 2 h ( y ) , x , y S ; f ( x y ) + &mu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,241 Views
17 Pages

On the Bounds for a Two-Dimensional Birth-Death Process with Catastrophes

  • Anna Sinitcina,
  • Yacov Satin,
  • Alexander Zeifman,
  • Galina Shilova,
  • Alexander Sipin,
  • Ksenia Kiseleva,
  • Tatyana Panfilova,
  • Anastasia Kryukova,
  • Irina Gudkova and
  • Elena Fokicheva

The model of a two-dimensional birth-death process with possible catastrophes is studied. The upper bounds on the rate of convergence in some weighted norms and the corresponding perturbation bounds are obtained. In addition, we consider the detailed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,462 Views
23 Pages

A Time-Non-Homogeneous Double-Ended Queue with Failures and Repairs and Its Continuous Approximation

  • Antonio Di Crescenzo,
  • Virginia Giorno,
  • Balasubramanian Krishna Kumar and
  • Amelia G. Nobile

We consider a time-non-homogeneous double-ended queue subject to catastrophes and repairs. The catastrophes occur according to a non-homogeneous Poisson process and lead the system into a state of failure. Instantaneously, the system is put under rep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,681 Views
10 Pages

On the Semigroup Whose Elements Are Subgraphs of a Complete Graph

  • Yanisa Chaiya,
  • Chollawat Pookpienlert,
  • Nuttawoot Nupo and
  • Sayan Panma

Let K n be a complete graph on n vertices. Denote by S K n the set of all subgraphs of K n . For each G , H S K n , the ring sum of G and H is a graph whose vertex set is V ( G ) V ( H ) and whose edges...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,251 Views
27 Pages

Many empirical and theoretical studies indicate that Brownian motion and diffusion models as its mean field counterpart provide appropriate modeling techniques for individual insect movement. However, this traditional approach has been challenged, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,474 Views
18 Pages

This paper presents and discusses the stability of a discrete multirate sampling system whose sets of sampling rates (or sampling periods) are the integer multiple of those operating on all the preceding substates. Each of such substates is associate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,350 Views
19 Pages

We investigate the nonautonomous difference equation with real initial conditions and coefficients g i , i = 0 , 1 which are in general functions of n and/or the state variables x n , x n 1 , , and satisfy g 0...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,810 Views
9 Pages

This paper develops an upper bound design method of the Lipschitz constant for the generalized Fermi–Dirac information entropy operator with a polyhedral admissible set. We introduce the concept of a normal operator from this class in which the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,730 Views
16 Pages

Neutrosophic Permeable Values and Energetic Subsets with Applications in BCK/BCI-Algebras

  • Young Bae Jun,
  • Florentin Smarandache,
  • Seok-Zun Song and
  • Hashem Bordbar

The concept of a ( , ) -neutrosophic ideal is introduced, and its characterizations are established. The notions of neutrosophic permeable values are introduced, and related properties are investigated. Conditions for the ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,820 Views
19 Pages

Process operational safety plays an important role in designing control systems for chemical processes. Motivated by this, in this work, we develop a process Safeness Index-based economic model predictive control system for a broad class of stochasti...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,546 Views
12 Pages

In this paper, we consider a stochastic diffusion process able to model the interest rate evolving with respect to time and propose a first passage time (FPT) approach through a boundary, defined as the “alert threshold”, in order to eval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,162 Views
20 Pages

Two-Level Finite Element Approximation for Oseen Viscoelastic Fluid Flow

  • Nasrin Jahan Nasu,
  • Md. Abdullah Al Mahbub,
  • Shahid Hussain and
  • Haibiao Zheng

In this paper, a two-level finite element method for Oseen viscoelastic fluid flow obeying an Oldroyd-B type constitutive law is presented. With the newly proposed algorithm, solving a large system of the constitutive equations will not be much more...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,692 Views
24 Pages

The systems of reaction-diffusion equations coupled with moving boundaries defined by Stefan condition have been widely used to describe the dynamics of spreading population and with competition of two species. To solve these systems numerically, new...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,863 Views
26 Pages

NC-Cross Entropy Based MADM Strategy in Neutrosophic Cubic Set Environment

  • Surapati Pramanik,
  • Shyamal Dalapati,
  • Shariful Alam,
  • Florentin Smarandache and
  • Tapan Kumar Roy

29 April 2018

The objective of the paper is to introduce a new cross entropy measure in a neutrosophic cubic set (NCS) environment, which we call NC-cross entropy measure. We prove its basic properties. We also propose weighted NC-cross entropy and investigate its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,538 Views
24 Pages

Effects of Viral and Cytokine Delays on Dynamics of Autoimmunity

  • Farzad Fatehi,
  • Yuliya N. Kyrychko and
  • Konstantin B. Blyuss

28 April 2018

A major contribution to the onset and development of autoimmune disease is known to come from infections. An important practical problem is identifying the precise mechanism by which the breakdown of immune tolerance as a result of immune response to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,385 Views
19 Pages

25 April 2018

In this work, we propose a framework for economic model predictive control (EMPC) with zone tracking. A zone tracking stage cost is incorporated into the existing EMPC framework to form a multi-objective optimization problem. We provide sufficient co...

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Mathematics - ISSN 2227-7390