Dynamic Modeling in the Health Sciences - Hargrove, James L.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1998)
1 Discoveries with a Computer: Dynamic behavior -- 2 How to Create STELLA® Models to Solve Basic Equations -- 3 How an Equation from Physiology Can Become a Model -- 4 Rates of Change -- 5 The Steady State: A Question of Balance -- 6 Equations for Model Building: The Surface Law and Body Composition -- 7 A Primer on Biodynamics and Gene Expression -- 8 Chronological Time Versus Physiological Time -- 9 Energy Needs for Work -- 10 The Human Thermostat -- 11 Dietary Polyunsaturated Fats and Your Cell Membranes -- 12 Responses to Nutrients -- 13 Symmetry of Human Growth and Aging -- 14 A Stochastic Model of Senescence and Demise -- 15 Mortality and Risk for Chronic Disease -- 16 Kinetic Genetics: Compartmental Models of Gene Expression -- 17 From Genotype to Phenotype -- 18 The Plateau Principle: A Key to Biological System Dynamics -- 19 Compartmental Models in Metabolic Studies: Vitamin C -- 20 Orcadian Rhythms -- 21 Diet Composition and Fat Balance -- 22 Human Cholesterol Dynamics -- 23 Stochastic Model of Bone Remodeling and Osteoporosis -- 24 Positive and Negative Feedback: Insulin and the Use of Fatty Acids and Glucose for Energy -- 25 A Multistage Model for Tumor Progression -- 26 The Biokinetic Database -- Appendix: Quick Help Guide to STELLA® Software Mechanics.
Keywords: Human physiology; Statistics .; Food-Biotechnology.; General practice (Medicine).; Nutrition .; Human Physiology; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences; Food Science; General Practice / Family Medicine; Nutrition