Optimal vaccination patterns in age-structured populations: Endemic case

Optimal lineage principle for age-structured populations.

We present a formulation of branching and aging processes that allows age distributions along lineages to be studied within populations, and provides a new interpretation of classical results in the theory of aging. We establish a variational principle for the stable age distribution along lineages. Using this optimal lineage principle, we show that the response of a population's growth rate to...

Optimal immigration age-patterns in populations of fixed size

Optimal sex ratios in structured populations.

In this paper, we develop a general method to determine evolutionary equilibrium sex ratios and to check evolutionary stability, continuous stability and invadability in exact genetic models with or without dominance. This method is then applied to three kinds of models for structured populations: the first one concerns Hamilton's LMC model, except that only a fraction beta of female offspring ...

Gene-drive in age-structured insect populations

To date, models of gene-drive mechanisms proposed for replacing wild-type mosquitoes with transgenic strains that cannot transmit diseases have assumed no age or mating structure. We developed a more detailed model to analyze the effects of age and mating-related factors on the number of engineered insects that must be introduced into a wild population to achieve successful gene-drive based on ...

Toward Optimal Structured Light Patterns

A methodology for the optimal design of projection patterns for stereometric structured light systems is presented. It draws on the similarity as well as the diierence between the design of projection patterns and the design of optimal signals for digital communication. Seemingly unrelated structured light methods, such as the Gray code scheme and intensity ratio techniques, are uniied as speci...