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de Figueiredo MPS, Moreira GR, de Brito CCR, Gomes-Silva F, Pinto dos Santos AL, da Costa MLL, Filho MC, Silva do Amaral L. Method to generate growth and degrowth models obtained from existing models compositions applied to animal sciences – The Athens-Canadian chicken growth case. Livest Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2023.105162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Brunner N, Mayrpeter G, Kühleitner M. Parameter estimation of the Solow–Swan fundamental differential equation. Heliyon 2022; 8:e10816. [PMID: 36212007 PMCID: PMC9535275 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Revised: 05/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Fernandes F, Silva M, Silva W, Fernandes T, Muniz J. Cross-sectional and longitudinal method for describing growth curve of rabbits. ARQ BRAS MED VET ZOO 2022. [DOI: 10.1590/1678-4162-12534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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ABSTRACT Rabbit farming is an activity with high growth potential due to its easy handling, high prolificacy, low polluting impact, and easy adaptability to family farming systems, producing meat of high biological value. Therefore, the aim of this work was to evaluate, using von Bertalanffy's nonlinear model, growth curves of weight as a function of age in ‘Flemish Giant Rabbits’ and ‘New Zealand White’ crossbred rabbits. Two different data collections were used: the longitudinal method and the cross-sectional method. The experiment was carried out at the Federal University of Lavras, located in the municipality of Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil, where 10 crossbred rabbits were evaluated, and animals were weighed from 0 to 150 days of age. Both methods proved to be adequate to describe the development of rabbits and the cross-sectional method proved to be an adequate alternative to obtention of growth curves, saving time in data collection and showing consistent estimates.
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Onitsuka M. Conditional Ulam stability and its application to von Bertalanffy growth model. MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING : MBE 2022; 19:2819-2834. [PMID: 35240808 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2022129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The purpose of this paper is to apply conditional Ulam stability, developed by Popa, Rașa, and Viorel in 2018, to the von Bertalanffy growth model $ \frac{dw}{dt} = aw^{\frac{2}{3}}-bw $, where $ w $ denotes mass and $ a > 0 $ and $ b > 0 $ are the coefficients of anabolism and catabolism, respectively. This study finds an Ulam constant and suggests that the constant is biologically meaningful. To explain the results, numerical simulations are performed.
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- Masakazu Onitsuka
- Department of Applied Mathematics, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Japan
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Brunner N, Kühleitner M, Renner-Martin K. Bertalanffy-Pütter models for avian growth. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250515. [PMID: 33901213 PMCID: PMC8075225 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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This paper explores the ratio of the mass in the inflection point over asymptotic mass for 81 nestlings of blue tits and great tits from an urban parkland in Warsaw, Poland (growth data from literature). We computed the ratios using the Bertalanffy-Pütter model, because this model was more flexible with respect to the ratios than the traditional models. For them, there were a-priori restrictions on the possible range of the ratios. (Further, as the Bertalanffy-Pütter model generalizes the traditional models, its fit to the data was necessarily better.) For six birds there was no inflection point (we set the ratio to 0), for 19 birds the ratio was between 0 and 0.368 (lowest ratio attainable for the Richards model), for 48 birds it was above 0.5 (fixed ratio of logistic growth), and for the remaining eight birds it was in between; the maximal observed ratio was 0.835. With these ratios we were able to detect small variations in avian growth due to slight differences in the environment: Our results indicate that blue tits grew more slowly (had a lower ratio) in the presence of light pollution and modified impervious substrate, a finding that would not have been possible had we used traditional growth curve analysis.
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- Norbert Brunner
- Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research (DIBB), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research (DIBB), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research (DIBB), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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Bürger R, Chowell G, Lara-Díaz LY. Measuring differences between phenomenological growth models applied to epidemiology. Math Biosci 2021; 334:108558. [PMID: 33571534 PMCID: PMC8054577 DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2021.108558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Revised: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Phenomenological growth models (PGMs) provide a framework for characterizing epidemic trajectories, estimating key transmission parameters, gaining insight into the contribution of various transmission pathways, and providing long-term and short-term forecasts. Such models only require a small number of parameters to describe epidemic growth patterns. They can be expressed by an ordinary differential equation (ODE) of the type C'(t)=f(t,C;Θ) for t>0, C(0)=C0, where t is time, C(t) is the total size of the epidemic (the cumulative number of cases) at time t, C0 is the initial number of cases, f is a model-specific incidence function, and Θ is a vector of parameters. The current COVID-19 pandemic is a scenario for which such models are of obvious importance. In Bürger et al. (2019) it is demonstrated that some PGMs are better at fitting data of specific epidemic outbreaks than others even when the models have the same number of parameters. This situation motivates the need to measure differences in the dynamics that two different models are capable of generating. The present work contributes to a systematic study of differences between PGMs and how these may explain the ability of certain models to provide a better fit to data than others. To this end a so-called empirical directed distance (EDD) is defined to describe the differences in the dynamics between different dynamic models. The EDD of one PGM from another one quantifies how well the former fits data generated by the latter. The concept of EDD is, however, not symmetric in the usual sense of metric spaces. The procedure of calculating EDDs is applied to synthetic data and real data from influenza, Ebola, and COVID-19 outbreaks.
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- Raimund Bürger
- CI2MA and Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile
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- School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA,Simon A. Levin Mathematical and Computational Modeling Sciences Center, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA,Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- CI2MA and Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile,Corresponding author
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Brunner N, Kühleitner M. Bertalanffy-Pütter models for the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. Infect Dis Model 2021; 6:532-544. [PMID: 33748553 PMCID: PMC7955808 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2021.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Revised: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The COVID-19 pandemics challenges governments across the world. To develop adequate responses, they need accurate models for the spread of the disease. Using least squares, we fitted Bertalanffy-Pütter (BP) trend curves to data about the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 from 49 countries and provinces where the peak of the first wave had been passed. BP-models achieved excellent fits (R-squared above 99%) to all data. Using them to smoothen the data, in the median one could forecast that the final count (asymptotic limit) of infections and fatalities would be 2.48 times (95% confidence limits 2.42-2.6) and 2.67 times (2.39-2.765) the total count at the respective peak (inflection point). By comparison, using logistic growth would evaluate this ratio as 2.00 for all data. The case fatality rate, defined as the quotient of the asymptotic limits of fatalities and confirmed infections, was in the median 4.85% (confidence limits 4.4%-6.5%). Our result supports the strategies of governments that kept the epidemic peak low, as then in the median fewer infections and fewer fatalities could be expected.
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- Norbert Brunner
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research (DIBB), A-1180, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research (DIBB), A-1180, Vienna, Austria
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Using monthly data from the Ebola-outbreak 2013-2016 in West Africa, we compared two calibrations for data fitting, least-squares (SSE) and weighted least-squares (SWSE) with weights reciprocal to the number of new infections. To compare (in hindsight) forecasts for the final disease size (the actual value was observed at month 28 of the outbreak) we fitted Bertalanffy-Pütter growth models to truncated initial data (first 11, 12, …, 28 months). The growth curves identified the epidemic peak at month 10 and the relative errors of the forecasts (asymptotic limits) were below 10%, if 16 or more month were used; for SWSE the relative errors were smaller than for SSE. However, the calibrations differed insofar as for SWSE there were good fitting models that forecasted reasonable upper and lower bounds, while SSE was biased, as the forecasts of good fitting models systematically underestimated the final disease size. Furthermore, for SSE the normal distribution hypothesis of the fit residuals was refuted, while the similar hypothesis for SWSE was not refuted. We therefore recommend considering SWSE for epidemic forecasts.
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Brunner N, Kühleitner M. The growth of domestic goats and sheep: A meta study with Bertalanffy-Pütter models. Vet Anim Sci 2020; 10:100135. [PMID: 32885092 PMCID: PMC7451746 DOI: 10.1016/j.vas.2020.100135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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We studied 122 mass-at-age data for goats, sheep, and wildlife. We used Bertalanffy-Pütter models to obtain better fitting growth curves. The Brody model had an acceptable fit to 70% of the data. For 39% of data the best-fitting BP-model had a discernable inflection-point. For these models, maximal weight gain per day was 55% higher than natal weight gain.
Growth literature often uses the Brody, Gompertz, Verhulst, and von Bertalanffy models. Is there a rationale for the preference of these classical named models? The versatile five-parameter Bertalanffy-Pütter (BP) model generalizes these models. We revisited peer-reviewed publications from the years 1970–2019 that fitted growth models to together 122 mass-at-age data of sheep and goats from 19 countries and studied the best-fit BP-models using the least-squares method. None of the named models was ever best-fitting. However, for 70% of the data a single non-sigmoidal model had an acceptable fit (normalized root mean squared error 〈 5% and F-ratio test 〉 5% in comparison to the best-fit): the Brody model. The inherently non-sigmoidal character was further underlined, as there were only 39% of the data, where the best-fitting BP-model had a discernible inflection point. For these data, conclusions of biological interest could be drawn from the sigmoidal best-fit BP-models: the maximal weight gain per day was about 55% higher than the natal weight gain per day.
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- Norbert Brunner
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research (DIBB), A-1180 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research (DIBB), A-1180 Vienna, Austria
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Brunner N, Kühleitner M, Nowak WG, Renner-Martin K, Scheicher K. Comparing growth patterns of three species: Similarities and differences. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0224168. [PMID: 31644562 PMCID: PMC6808503 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Quantitative studies of the growth of dinosaurs have made comparisons with modern animals possible. Therefore, it is meaningful to ask, if extinct dinosaurs grew faster than modern animals, e.g. birds (modern dinosaurs) and reptiles. However, past studies relied on only a few growth models. If these models were false, what about the conclusions? This paper fits growth data to a more comprehensive class of models, defined by the von Bertalanffy-Pütter (BP) differential equation. Applied to data about Tenontosaurus tilletti, Alligator mississippiensis and the Athens Canadian Random Bred strain of Gallus gallus domesticus the best fitting growth curves did barely differ, if they were rescaled for size and lifespan. A difference could be discerned, if time was rescaled for the age at the inception point (maximal growth) or if the percentual growth was compared.
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- Norbert Brunner
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Vienna, Austria
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Kühleitner M, Brunner N, Nowak WG, Renner-Martin K, Scheicher K. Best fitting tumor growth models of the von Bertalanffy-PütterType. BMC Cancer 2019; 19:683. [PMID: 31299926 PMCID: PMC6624893 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-019-5911-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background Longitudinal studies of tumor volume have used certain named mathematical growth models. The Bertalanffy-Pütter differential equation unifies them: It uses five parameters, amongst them two exponents related to tumor metabolism and morphology. Each exponent-pair defines a unique three-parameter model of the Bertalanffy-Pütter type, and the above-mentioned named models correspond to specific exponent-pairs. Amongst these models we seek the best fitting one. Method The best fitting model curve within the Bertalanffy-Pütter class minimizes the sum of squared errors (SSE). We investigate also near-optimal model curves; their SSE is at most a certain percentage (e.g. 1%) larger than the minimal SSE. Models with near-optimal curves are visualized by the region of their near-optimal exponent pairs. While there is barely a visible difference concerning the goodness of fit between the best fitting and the near-optimal model curves, there are differences in the prognosis, whence the near-optimal models are used to assess the uncertainty of extrapolation. Results For data about the growth of an untreated tumor we found the best fitting growth model which reduced SSE by about 30% compared to the hitherto best fit. In order to analyze the uncertainty of prognosis, we repeated the search for the optimal and near-optimal exponent-pairs for the initial segments of the data (meaning the subset of the data for the first n days) and compared the prognosis based on these models with the actual data (i.e. the data for the remaining days). The optimal exponent-pairs and the regions of near-optimal exponent-pairs depended on how many data-points were used. Further, the regions of near-optimal exponent-pairs were larger for the first initial segments, where fewer data were used. Conclusion While for each near optimal exponent-pair its best fitting model curve remained close to the fitted data points, the prognosis using these model curves differed widely for the remaining data, whence e.g. the best fitting model for the first 65 days of growth was not capable to inform about tumor size for the remaining 49 days. For the present data, prognosis appeared to be feasible for a time span of ten days, at most.
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- Manfred Kühleitner
- Institute of Mathematics, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Gregor Mendel Strasse 33, A-1180, Vienna, Austria.
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- Institute of Mathematics, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Gregor Mendel Strasse 33, A-1180, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Mathematics, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Gregor Mendel Strasse 33, A-1180, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Mathematics, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Gregor Mendel Strasse 33, A-1180, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Mathematics, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Gregor Mendel Strasse 33, A-1180, Vienna, Austria
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