To switch or taper off: The dynamics of saturation

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-152

  Kribs Zaleta, Christopher M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Contact process; Saturation; Switching model; Variable population

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CONTACT PROCESS; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; POPULATION BIOLOGY; SWITCHING MODEL;

MICROBIOLOGY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; STATISTICS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 14544288659     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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