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Fall 2019
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men in the world (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers). According to the statistics from the Canadian Cancer Society, it is the third leading cause of death from cancer in men in Canada. In general, prostate cancer is treatable with 5-year...
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Parameter Estimation of Mathematical Models: Estimation of the Burden of HIV Epidemics as a Case Study
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Mathematical models are widely used to describe dynamics in various fields. In practice, it is necessary and important to determine model parameters based on existing data. A major challenge for parameter estimation under modeling framework lies in non-identifiability issue: parameter values on a...
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Fall 2016
Understanding human immunodeficiency-1 (HIV-1) replication and latency in different reservoirs is an ongoing challenge in the care of patients with HIV/AIDS. A mathematical model was created that predicted HIV-1 and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection dynamics within the brain during...