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8 years ago
Referring to following articles,  I would like to know more on the original equations to explain the process of slime mold aggregation, which is developed by two scientists, Mitch Resnick and Evelyn Fox Keller, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Does anyone know any studying materials (articles, YouTube, or any other) related to this topic?

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Mathematical equations written to explain the process of slime mold aggregation have been changed slightly and used in the programming that controls some of the behavior of action figures in video games. The original equations were developed by two scientists, Mitch Resnick and Evelyn Fox Keller, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their equations have also become the basis of the program StarLogo. StarLogo mimics the activities of groups such as ant colonies and flocks of birds. Like the aggregation of cellular slime molds, these organisms' orderly patterns of activity occur without the direction of a leader. Studying patterns and events with the aid of computer software is called "modeling".

Ref : http://herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/funfacts/SlimeMold.htm
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8 years ago
Hi Oem7110,

Have you tried the following link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4121043/

Let us know what you find...

Bio_man
oemBiology Author
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8 years ago
I would look into it.
Thanks you very much for suggestions
oemBiology Author
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8 years ago
Have you tried the following link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4121043/
Let us know what you find...

For Keller and Segel's parabolic systems, I would like to know on how they define and interpret their formula, which is complicated.   Referring to the general nonlinear differential equation, did they simply determine the variables into nonlinear differential equation?

F (u) = Lu + Ru + Nu - g = 0 ,


Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you very much for any suggestions :>


"In 1970, Keller and Segel have offered parabolic systems to illustrate the aggregation process of cellular slime mold by the chemical attraction."

The Homotopy Decomposition Method

We consider a general nonlinear differential equation
F (u) = Lu + Ru + Nu - g = 0 ,
where F represents a general nonlinear operator involving both linear and nonlinear terms, L is the highest order derivative, R is the linear differential operator of less order than L , Nu represents the nonlinear terms, g is the source term, and u is an unknown function with t as an independent variable. We introduce a nonzero auxiliary parameter h, a nonzero auxiliary function H(t) and an auxiliary linear operator L F  to construct such a new kind of auxiliary equation

http://campus.mst.edu/adsa/contents/v2n1p5.pdf (Page 2)
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Educator
8 years ago
That is a highly specific question. I think you'd need to read the whole article to understand what those variables means. I'm not super interested in reading it Frowning Face
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