Contributions

  • Jacobs, Patricia A. - Contributor
  • Carpenter, Robert L. - Contributor
  • Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Dept. of Operations Research - Contributor

Publication

1995 - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif, California

Language

English

Word Count

4,250 words, Guess

Page Count

17 pages

Identifiers

Alternate Titles

  • NPS-OR-95-013.

Description

Populations of cells that make up organ tissue grow and contract. A traditional approach to modeling organ size restriction to an observed 'normal' level is to postulate a physical carrying capacity: effectively a limit on the physical region that can be occupied by the organ. The purpose of this note is to provide a very simple model for a cell population that grows under the control of positive and negative growth factors. It will be seen that such a model can result in logistic growth without the necessity of postulating a physical carrying capacity.

Subjects

Topics

CELLS(BIOLOGY)GROWTH(GENERAL)

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