Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77200 
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Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Technical Report No. 1998,04
Publisher: 
Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen, Dortmund
Abstract: 
Ecological, toxicological, and pharmacological research is often concerned with the answer to the question of how a substance is processed within a biological system. The exact knowledge of the corresponding kinetic pattern forms the basis for a useful answer. In order to identify non-linear kinetics, a first-order approximation method is proposed for complexity-reduction. A simulation study is presented to investigate the error of the approximation in case of a simple Michaelis-Menten kinetic process. The proposed method shows to give useful results which allow to characterize the underlying kinetic pattern. Furthermore it could be shown that in simulating kinetic processes the applied numerical methods may perform with considerable numerical instabilities.
Subjects: 
Compartmental model
Dynamic process
First-order approximation
Michaelis-Menten kinetic
Non-linear kinetic
Numerical integration
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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