New Frontiers of Multidisciplinary Research in STEAM-H (Science, Techn

This highly multidisciplinary volume contains contributions from leading researchers in STEAM-H disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Mathematics and Health). The volume explores new frontiers in multidisciplinary research, including: the mathematics of cardiac arrhythmia; brain research on working memory; penalized ordinal regression to classify melanoma skin samples; forecasting of time series data; dynamics of niche models; analysis of chemical moieties as anticancer agents; study of gene locus control regions; qualitative mathematical modelling; convex quadrics and group circle systems; remanufacturing planning and control; complexity reduction of functional differential equations; computation of viscous interfacial motion; and differentiation in human pluripotent stem cells. An extension of a seminar series at Virginia State University, the collection is intended to foster student interest and participation in interdisciplinary research, and to stimulate new research. The content will be of interest to a broad spectrum of scientists, mathematicians, and research students working in interdisciplinary fields including the biosciences, mathematics, engineering, neurosciences, and behavioral sciences.

1. Controlling Chaos in the Heart: Some Mathematics Behind Terminating Cardiac Arrhythmia.- 2. Working Memory and Transfer: Theoretical and Practical Considerations.- 3. Partial Functional Differential Equations, Reduction of Complexity and Applications.- 4. Characterizations of Convex Quadratics in Terms of Mid surfaces and Shadow-Boundaries.- 5. Classifying Normal, Nevus and Primary Melanoma Skin Samples Using Penalized Ordinal Regression.- 6. Structure-Activity Relationship Analysis of &-Deazaadenosines as Anticancer Agents.- 7. More than an African-American Facilitator and a Prayer: Integrating Culture and Community into HIV Prevention Programs for African-American Girls.- 8. Dynamics of Niche Construction in Models "Consumers-renewable resource" and "prey-predators-renewable resource".- 9. Recent Advances in Approaches to the Study of Gene Locus Control Regions.- 10. Dynamical Roles of Jacobian Feedback Loops and Qualitative Modeling.- 11. Forecasting of Time Series Data Using Multiple Break Points and Mixture Distribution.- 12. Direct Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells into Advanced Spermatogenic Cells: In Search of an in vitro System for Model Male Factor Infertility.- 13. Stepanov-like Pseudo-almost periodic functions in Lebesgue Spaces with variable Exponents Lp(x).- 14. Group Circle Systems on Conics.- 15. Remanufacturing Processes, Planning and Control.- 16. Viscous Interfacial Motion: Analysis and Computation.