The purpose of the following study was to investigate the long-term effects of cannabis use
on attention to motion. Methods: Cannabis users, who varied in age of onset of use, were …

Background Only 35% of patients with major depressive disorder remit after first-line
treatment on medications with antidepressant properties. Furthermore, sex differences in …

It is well understood that populations cannot grow without bound and that it is competition
between individuals for resources which restricts growth. Despite centuries of interest, the …

… The current paper is based on the thesis of McCaig [19] and the related technical report [22]. …
The example comes from McCaig’s thesis [19] and is based on the same assumptions as …

Is it possible to symbolically express and analyse an individual-based model of disease
spread, including realistic population dynamics? This problem is addressed through the use of …

Changing scale, for example, the ability to move seamlessly from an individual-based model
to a population-based model, is an important problem in many fields. In this paper, we …

In many domain areas the behaviour of a system can be described at two levels: the behaviour
of individual components, and the behaviour of the system as a whole. Often deriving one …

We present two individual based models of disease systems using PEPA (Performance
Evaluation Process Algebra). The models explore contrasting mechanisms of disease …

Superspreaders are an important phenomenon in the spread of infectious disease,
accounting for a higher than average number of new infections in the population. We use …

Plague is caused by a bacteria known as Yersinia pestis, and is affecting over 200 mammalian
species worldwide [6], including human. It is famous for being the Black Death, who killed …