id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt xp68kd19z78 Richard Sunil Gejji Using Continuous Limit Techniques and Stochastic Computational Modeling to Predict the Biological Behavior of Aggregating Cells 2010 .txt text/plain 291 14 44 In this thesis, results on modeling the predatory bacteria myxococcus xanthus and the slug forming amoeba dictyostelium discoideum are presented as well as results on random placement of non-overlapping cells in an individual based model, and continuous limits of discrete stochastic systems. A connection is described between a one dimensional cell-based stochastic model of reversing non-overlapping bacteria and a non-linear diffusion equation. cache/xp68kd19z78.txt txt/xp68kd19z78.txt