Publications



H. Polachek, T. S. Walton, R. Mejia and C. Dawson, Transient Motion of an Elastic Cable Immersed in a Fluid, Math. Comp. 17 (1963), pp.60-63.

E. H. Cuthill, J. W. Schot, B. Gibson and R. Mejia, Specifications for FLAME 1 - A Three-Dimensional Reactor Depletion Code for the UNIVAC-LARC, DTMB 1477 (1965).

E. Cuthill, S. Kenady, J. Schot, R. Mejia, B. Gibson, J. Caldwell and M. Jackson, The FLAME Program Reference Manual, DTMB 1939 (1966).

M. Baldwin and R. Mejia, Effects of Unilateral Section of the Brain Stem after Mesial Cerebral Incision, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 162 1 (1969).

R. Mejia and C. Chang, Time Series Analysis Theory and Practice, DHHS, National Institutes of Health 4 QA280.M45 (1970).

R. Mejia and J. L. Stephenson, Numerical Solution of a Central Core Model of the Renal Medulla, in "Proceedings 1973 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Montreal, Canada," 1973, pp. 806-810.

J. L. Stephenson, R. P. Tewarson and R. Mejia, Quantitative Analysis of Mass and Energy Balance in Non-Ideal Models of the Renal Counterflow System, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 71 (1974), 1618-1622.

J. L. Stephenson, R. Mejia and R. P. Tewarson, Model of Solute and Water Movement in the Kidney, , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 73 (1976), 252-256.

R. Mejia, J. L. Stephenson and R. B. Kellogg, Comparison of Numerical Methods in Solving Renal Counterflow Equations, in "Proceedings 1976 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Washington, DC," 1976, pp. 502-506.

R. P. Tewarson, J. L. Stephenson, A. Kydes and R. Mejia, Use of Sparse Matrix Techniques in Numerical Solution of Differential Equations for Renal Counterflow Systems, Comp. Biomed. Res. 9 (1976), 507-520.

R. Mejia, R. B. Kellogg and J. L. Stephenson, Comparison of Numerical Methods for Renal Network Flows, J. Comput. Phys. 23 (1977), 53-62.

J. L. Stephenson and R. Mejia, Salt, Water and Urea Movement in a Multinephron Model of the Mammalian Kidney, in "Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical Topics in Biology. Kyoto, Japan," 1978, pp. 78-87.

R. Mejia and J. L. Stephenson, Numerical Solution of Multinephron Kidney Equations, J. Comput. Phys. 32 (1979), 235-246.

R. Mejia and J. L. Stephenson, Symbolics and Numerics of a Multinephron Kidney Model, in "Proceedings 1979 MACSYMA User's Conference," Washington, DC, June 20-22, 1979, pp. 596-603.

R. Mejia, J. L. Stephenson and R. J. LeVeque, ia, A Test Problem for Kidney Models, Math. Biosci. 50 (1980), 129-131.

R. Mejia and J. L. Stephenson, Multiple Solutions of Convection-Diffusion Equations Describing the Renal Concentrating Mechanism in "Proceedings of International Congress on Numerical Methods for Engineering, DUNOD, Paris, France," 1980, pp. 1003-1013.

R. Mejia and J. L. Stephenson, Solution of a Multinephron, Multisolute Model of the Mammalian Kidney by Newton and Continuation Methods, Math. Biosci. 68 (1984), 279-298.

R. Mejia, CONKUB: A Conversational Path-Follower for Systems of Nonlinear Equations, J. Comput. Phys. 63 (1986), 67-84.

R. A. Star, I. Kurtz, R. Mejia, M. B. Burg and M. A. Knepper, Disequilibrium pH and Ammonia Transport in Isolated Perfused Cortical Collecting Ducts, Am. J. Physiol. (Renal Fluid Electrolyte Physiol. 22) 253 (1987), F1232-F1242.

R. M. Lynch, R.Mejia and R. S. Balaban, Energy Transduction at the Cell Plasmalemma: Coupling Through Membrane Associated Adenosine Triphosphate? Comments Mol. Cell Biophys. 5 (1988), 151-170.

R. Mejia, Mathematical Modelling of the Renal Concentrating Mechanism, Mathl. Comput. Modelling 11 (1988), 615-620, Pergamon Press.

R. Mejia, J. M. Sands, J. L. Stephenson and M. A. Knepper, Renal Actions of Atrial Natriuretic Factor: A Mathematical Modelling Study, Am. J. Physiol. (Renal Fluid Electrolyte Physiol. 26) 257 (1989), F1146-F1157.

R.Mejia, Interactive Program for Continuation of Solutions of Large Systems of Nonlinear Equations, in "Computational Solution of Nonlinear Systems of Equations (E. L. Allgower and K. Georg, Eds.)," Lectures in Applied Mathematics, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1990, pp. 429-449.

R. Mejia, Model Problems for Renal Network Flows, in A Collection of Nonlinear Model Problems by J. J. More, in "Computational Solution of Nonlinear Systems of Equations (E. L. Allgower and K. Georg, Eds.)," Lectures in Applied Mathematics, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1990, pp. 742-747.

R. Mejia and M. A Knepper, Acid-Base Transport in the Renal Thick Ascending Limb, Mathl. Comput. Modelling 14 (1990), 538-542, Pergamon Press.

M. von Kienlin and R. Mejia, Spectral Localization with Optimal Pointspread Function, J. Magn. Reson. 94 (1991), 268-287, Academic Press.

R. Mejia, Solution of Differential-Algebraic Equations for Renal Acid-Base Balance Fifth International Symposium on Domain Decomposition Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Methods for PDE (Eds. D. E. Keyes, T. F. Chan, G. Meurant, J. S. Scroggs, and R. G. Voigt) (1992), 518-526, SIAM.

M. F. Flessner, R. Mejia and M. A. Knepper, Ammonium and Bicarbonate Transport in Isolated Perfused Rodent Long-Loop Thin Descending Limbs, Am. J.Physiol. (Renal Fluid Electrolyte Physiol. 33) 264 (1993), F388-F396.

R. Mejia, M. F. Flessner and M. A. Knepper, Model of Ammonium and Bicarbonate Transport along the Long-Loop Thin Descending Limb: Implications for Alkalinization of Luminal Fluid, Am. J. Physiol. (Renal Fluid Electrolyte Physiol. 33) 264 (1993), F397-F410.

M. A. Knepper, M. F. Flessner, R. Mejia and C. -L. Chou, NH4+ and NH3 Permeabilities of Henle's Loop Segments, Contrib. Nephrol. 110 (1994), 54-59.

C.-L. Chou, S. R. DiGiovanni, R. Mejia, S. Nielsen and M. A. Knepper, Oxytocin as an Antidiuretic Hormone: I. Concentration Dependence of Action, Am. J. Physiol. (Renal Fluid Electrolyte Physiol. 38) 269 (1995), F70-F77.

R. Mejia, Neural Net Models to Characterize Integral Membrane Proteins - Preliminary Report, In Applied Sciences, Mechanics, ZAMM, vol. IV, E. Kreuzer and O. Mahrenholtz, Eds. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin (1996), 39-42.

R. C. Boston and R. Mejia, Introduction, Special Issue on Biomathematics, Journal of The Franklin Institute: 335B, No. 2 (1998), v-x.

R. Mejia and J. B. Wade, Immunomorphometric Study of Rat Renal Inner Medulla, Am. J. Physiol. (Renal Physiol.) 288 (2002), F553-F557.

J. Legato, M. A. Knepper, R. A. Star,and R. Mejia, Database for Renal Collecting Duct Regulatory and Transporter Proteins, Physiol. Genomics 13 (2003), 179-181.

R. Mejia, Mathematical Physiology Today: Examples of Synergies, Braz. Symp. Math. Comp. Biol. IV, e-papers ltda. Rio de Janeiro, ISBN 85-7650-026-4, (2004), 239-254.

R. Mejia, O. Olivero, M. Rivera-Goba, A. Anders, C. Caban, M. Leon-Monzon, and E. Marquez, Asian scientists and the "glass ceiling", Science. 2005 286 (2005), 1767-1768.

R. Mejia and R. M. Lynch, Mathematical Prediction of High Energy Metabolite Gradients in Mammalian Cells, BIOMAT 2006 Int. Symp. Math. Comp. Biol. Manaus, Brazil, ISBN 978-981-270-768-0, (2007).

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