The alcohol abuse level of individuals in a population as it depends on resilience and peer influence is considered in this paper. Several simple models are studied as well as an integro-diflferential ...

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) have developed a new framework based ...

Cancer is viewed as a multistep process whereby a normal cell is transformed into a cancer cell through the acquisition of mutations. We reduce the complexities of cancer progression to a simple set ...

Chickenpox is a common acute and highly contagious disease in childhood; moreover, there is currently no targeted treatment. Carrying out an early warning on chickenpox plays an important role in ...

Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve ...

In this paper, a partial differential equation model for the pricing of pension plans based on average salary is posed by using the dynamic hedging methodology. The existence and uniqueness of ...