Increasing evidence has emerged for non-random spatial distributions of microbes, but knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among ecosystems is lacking. For instance, ...

Lymphocytes are the cornerstone of the adaptive immune system. Their absence causes severe immunodeficiency and renders individuals unable to thrive in a 'germ-filled' world. Each lymphocyte has a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We present a numerical method to compute the survival function and the moments of the exit time for a piecewise-deterministic Markov process ...