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Abstract Background Sex is recognized as a significant determinant of outcome among glioblastoma patients, but the relative prognostic importance of glioblastoma features has not been thoroughly explored for sex differences. Methods Combining multi-modal MR images, biomathematical models, and patient clinical information, this investigation assesses which pretreatment variables have a sex-specific impact on the survival of glioblastoma patients (299 males and 195 females). Results Among males, tumor (T1Gd) radius was a predictor of overall survival (HR = 1.027, p = 0.044). Among females, higher tumor cell net invasion rate was a significant detriment to overall survival (HR = 1.011, p

In this paper, a special subclass of reaction diffusion systems with two arbitrary constitutive functions Γ(v) and H(u,v) is considered in the framework of transformation groups. These systems arise, quite often, as mathematical models, in several biological problems and in population dynamics. By using weak equivalence transformation the principal Lie algebra, LP, is written and the classifying equations obtained. Then the extensions of LP are derived and classified with respect to Γ(v) and H(u,v). Some wide special classes of special solutions are carried out.

In this paper, we consider a quite general class of advection reaction diffusion systems. By using an equivalence generator, derived in a previous paper, the authors apply a projection theorem to determine some special forms of the constitutive functions that allow the extension by one of the two-dimensional principal Lie algebra. As an example, a special case is discussed at the end of the paper.