Search Results - "Matis, James H."
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Pharmacokinetics and safety of arginine supplementation in animals
Published in The Journal of nutrition (01-06-2007)“…Anticipating the future use of arginine to enhance fetal and neonatal growth as well as to treat diabetes and obesity, we performed studies in pigs, rats, and…”
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Corn leaf aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis (Hemiptera: Aphididae), is a key to greenbug, Schizaphis graminum (Hemiptera: Aphididae), biological control in grain sorghum, Sorghum bicolor
Published in European journal of entomology (01-07-2008)“…In the sorghum/aphid/ladybeetle ecosystem found in the Texas High Plains Region of the United States, we found that the corn leaf aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis…”
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Population dynamics models based on cumulative density dependent feedback: A link to the logistic growth curve and a test for symmetry using aphid data
Published in Ecological modelling (10-08-2009)“…Density dependent feedback, based on cumulative population size, has been advocated to explain and mathematically characterize “boom and bust” population…”
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Stochastic modeling of aphid population growth with nonlinear, power-law dynamics
Published in Mathematical biosciences (01-08-2007)“…This paper develops a deterministic and a stochastic population size model based on power-law kinetics for the black-margined pecan aphid. The deterministic…”
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Estimating Handling Times for Herbivore Diets: A Statistical Method Using the Gamma Distribution
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-05-1999)“…1. We present a statistical model for the prediction of handling times for different diet items of herbivores foraging in heterogeneous environments, based on…”
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mechanistic model based analysis of cotton aphid population dynamics data
Published in Agricultural and forest entomology (01-11-2008)“…1 A 2-year field study was conducted to generate data on seasonal abundance patterns of cotton aphids Aphis gossypii Glover and to develop a mechanistic model…”
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population dynamics perspective on effect of irrigation regimes and plant densities on greenbug abundance in grain sorghum using regression
Published in Agricultural and forest entomology (01-02-2011)“…1 A dataset generated from previous experiments on greenbug Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) response to irrigation and plant density in…”
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Generalized aphid population growth models with immigration and cumulative-size dependent dynamics
Published in Mathematical biosciences (01-10-2008)“…Mechanistic models in which the per-capita death rate of a population is proportional to cumulative past size have been shown to describe adequately the…”
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A general approach to non-Markovian compartmental models
Published in Journal of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics (01-08-1998)“…Stochastic compartmental models are usually based on continuous-time Markov processes. Markovian models assume that the compartments have exponential retention…”
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Population size models based on cumulative size, with application to aphids
Published in Ecological modelling (10-07-2007)“…This paper investigates the use of a mechanistic model for describing the size of local aphid populations, specifically of the pecan aphid ( Monellia caryella)…”
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On the use of growth rate parameters for projecting population sizes: Application to aphids
Published in Ecological modelling (24-04-2008)“…This paper extends the application of the cumulative size based mechanistic model, which has previously been shown to describe diverse aphid population size…”
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Application of population growth models based on cumulative size to pecan aphids
Published in Journal of agricultural, biological, and environmental statistics (01-12-2006)“…Models for aphid population growth based on cumulative (past) population size have been developed with both a deterministic formulation and a stochastic…”
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Nonlinear stochastic modeling of aphid population growth
Published in Mathematical biosciences (01-12-2005)“…This paper develops a stochastic population size model for the black-margined pecan aphid. Prajneshu [Prajneshu, A nonlinear statistical model for aphid…”
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On stochastic logistic population growth models with immigration and multiple births
Published in Theoretical population biology (01-02-2004)“…This paper develops a stochastic logistic population growth model with immigration and multiple births. The differential equations for the low-order cumulant…”
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A simple saddlepoint approximation for the equilibrium distribution of the stochastic logistic model of population growth
Published in Ecological modelling (15-03-2003)“…The deterministic logistic model of population growth and its notion of an equilibrium ‘carrying capacity’ are widely used in the ecological sciences. Leading…”
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Modeling processes from probabilities
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On interacting bee/mite populations: a stochastic model with analysis using cumulant truncation
Published in Environmental and ecological statistics (01-09-2002)“…Parasitism by the Varroa mite has had recent drastic impact on both managed and feral bee colonies. This paper proposes a stochastic population dynamics model…”
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On the Cumulants of Population Size for the Stochastic Power Law Logistic Model
Published in Theoretical population biology (01-02-1998)“…The deterministic power law logistic model is used to describe density-dependent population growth in cases where the ordinary logistic model is insufficient…”
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On the coefficient of variation for residence time distributions of some stochastic compartmental models
Published in Communications in statistics. Theory and methods (01-01-1998)“…The study of residence time distributions is motivated by the desire to develop new practical tools for the statistical analysis of compartmental systems. In…”
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Migration effects in a stochastic multipopulation model for African bee population dynamics
Published in Environmental and ecological statistics (1997)“…The rate of northern migration of the Africanized honey bee (AHB) in the United States has recently slowed dramatically. This paper investigates the impact of…”
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