A New Mathematical Approach in Environmental and Life Sciences: Gene-Environment Networks and Their Dynamics

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2009-04-01

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Weber, Gerhard Wilhelm
Alparslan-Gok, S. Z.
Soyler, B.

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An important research area in life sciences is devoted to modeling, prediction, and dynamics of gene-expression patterns. As clearly understood in these days, this enterprise cannot become satisfactory without acknowledging the role of the environment. To a representation of past, present, and most likely future states, we also encounter measurement errors and uncertainties. This paper surveys and improves recent advances in understanding the foundations and interdisciplinary implications of the newly introduced gene-environment networks, and it integrates the important theme of carbon dioxide emission reduction into the networks and dynamics. We also introduce some operational and managerial issues of practical working and decision making, expressed in terms of sliding windows, quadrants (modules) of parametric effects, and navigating (controlling) between such effects and directing them. Given data from DNA microarray experiments and environmental records, we extract nonlinear ordinary differential equations that contain parameters that have to be determined. For this, we employ modern (Chebychevian) approximation and (generalized semi-infinite) optimization. After this is provided, time- discretized dynamical systems are studied. A combinatorial algorithm with polyhedra sequences allows to detect the region of parametric stability. Finally, we analyze the topological landscape of gene-environment networks with its structural (in)stability. By embedding as a module and investigating CO2 emission control and figuring out game theoretical aspects, we conclude. This pioneering work is theoretically elaborated, practically devoted to health care, medicine, education, living conditions, and environmental protection, and it invites the readers to future research.

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General Environmental Science

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56743

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ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING & ASSESSMENT

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-007-9137-z

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G. W. Weber, S. Z. Alparslan-Gok, and B. Soyler, “A New Mathematical Approach in Environmental and Life Sciences: Gene-Environment Networks and Their Dynamics,” ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING & ASSESSMENT, pp. 267–288, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56743.