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    Biting into "Science Cookies": Are seed fates determined by seed size or chemistry?
    By understanding how animals make seed dispersal decisions, we can predict how plant traits affect seed survival and plant recruitment. Using wild agoutis, we experimentally tested how seed...

    Keywords: predationplant animal interactionsSymbiosisTrophic interactionsTropical ecosystemsArtificial seedsSeed dispersalTerrestrial mammal

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    2014-Do-Lee-A Differential Equation Model for the Dynamics of Youth Gambling
    We examine the dynamics of gambling among young people aged 16–24 years, how prevalence rates of at-risk gambling and problem gambling change as adolescents enter young adulthood, and prevention...

    Keywords: reproductive numberGamblingepidemicsensitivity indexyouth gambling

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    7-010-MultipleDoses-ModelingScenario
    Two multiple dose drug administration regimens are offered. A drug is to maintain a certain level (above a set minimum and below a set maximum) in the blood stream and one regimen involves bolus...

    Keywords: drug discoverystep functiondoseDiracdrug administrationinverse Laplace Transformintraveneousbolussteady drip

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    1-053-SlimeSpread-ModelingScenario
    We offer a video showing real time spread of a cylinder of slime and challenge students to build a mathematical model for this phenomenon.

    Keywords: spreadsheetsslime

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    Undergraduate Research and Microbiology Science Community (µRAMS) lighning talk BIOME Institute 2021
    The uRAMS (undergraduate Research and Microbiology Science community) was created by faculty and researchers at Colorado State University as part of our engagement with the 2021 BIOME Institute....

    Keywords: undergraduate researchcritical readingMicrobiology Educationundergraduate educationquantitative skillsScience Communicationdei

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    Why does Blood Flow Change? Investigating the Math of Blood Flow Dynamics
    This collection of activities explores the relationship between blood flow, pressure, and the factors of resistance through graphs and modeling direct and inverse variation.

    Keywords: quant biographingRatiosmathassessmentcollege algebraundergraduate educationphysiologyAnatomyhuman biologyvariationCardiovascular physiologyAnatomy & Physiologylab activityOpenStaxqbccmanipulate equationsUnderstanding fractionsChoosing modelsUnderstanding ratesEstimating answersUse elementary functionsCreate graphsInterpret graphsRates and ProportionsSolving Equations and Inequalities

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    Supersized Life: Comparing Across Scales
    How wide is the size range of living beings, from "big" to "too small to see"? Students will collect and compare measurements from 3D specimens within the metric system by multiplying or dividing...

    Keywords: paleontologyBiodiversitytechnology in biologynatural history collectionsmiddle grades (4-9)3D models3D printingWhole Numbers & Place ValueMIDDLE SCHOOL MATH#NGSSscientific measurementscale and proportions

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    Going Remote: An Online Adaptation to Using a Primary Cell Culture Model to Study the Neural Extracellular Matrix
    In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, instructors have modified materials to transition to a remote learning platform. The challenge for science instructors has been to design lab exercises that...

    Keywords: remote learningExtracellular matrixNeural extracellular matrixPerineuronal net

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    Data-Driven Decision-Making: Antarctic Fisheries
    This is an entire module for a general education data science and ecology course. The module was originally designed as the fourth and final section of the course; the full course is openly...

    Keywords: population growthRStudiodata visualizationexponential growthlogistic growthR Markdownspatial dataocean sustainability4DEE FrameworkTraditional ecological knowledgecarrying capacityEcosystem Servicesmaximum sustainable yield

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    Module 4: What Kind of Data Goes in a Field Notebook?
    The goal of this activity is to introduce students to biological field notebooks and how they are used by scientists during field work. Specifically, students will learn what a botanist collecting...

    Keywords: Herbarium digitizationField notebookTimothy Plowman

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    Garden peas and cabbage plants: A short 'de-simplified genetics' activity
    Are plants of genotype T/T tall? Are those of genotype t/t short? Let's find out in this short activity entirely based on a segment of: Smith's (2014) "It’s Not Your Grandmother’s Genetics Anymore!"

    Keywords: geneticsintroductory biologyclickersenvironmentplantsin-class activitygenotypephenotypeMendel

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    Using Regression Models to Examine the Effect of Carbon Dioxide on Fluid pH
    In this activity students will use statistics and regression models to explore the effects of carbon dioxide on blood pH by measuring pH changes that occur over time as carbon dioxide reacts with...

    Keywords: BiochemistryphysiologyAnatomyGeneral BiologyChoosing modelsCreate graphsInterpret graphsConcepts in Statisticscreate modelsmake predictions

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    Healing the scars: Implementing an online module about tropical rainforest carbon cycling in an undergraduate majors ecology course
    This resource provides a guide to classroom implementation of a Gala module focused on tropical carbon cycling. I adapted the module to include a discussion of the importance of carbon cycling in...

    Keywords: carbon cyclestreamstropical

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    ROSE Network - The Research on STEM Education Network: Improving Research Inclusivity through a Grassroots Culture of Scientific Teaching (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    ROSE provides professional development and networking opportunities for CC and HBCU faculty.

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    2020-Cline-EtAl-A Vision for Projects Across the Mathematics Curriculum
    We describe a model that incorporates projects at all stages across the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Finally, we provide samples of projects that we have used in selected courses.

    Keywords: projectstechnical writinginterdisciplinary skills

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    2017-Jun_Liu-Hammer Throwing parameters optimization model research based on flight dynamical differential equation
    With progress of times, sports techniques are also rapidly developing, in order to let Chinese hammer throwers more quickly improve themselves levels.

    Keywords: sportsprojectilehammer throwrelease angle

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    2011-W_Wood-Squigonometry
    The differential equations used to define a unit circle, namely x’(t) = - y(t), y’(t) = (t), x(0) = 1, y(0) = 0 are generalized to produce interesting functions which...

    Keywords: Trigonometric Functionscirclesquigonometryinverse functiontrigonmetry

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    2015-Carl_Lutzer-Using Expected Value to Introduce the Laplace Transform
    We propose an introduction to the Laplace transform in which Riemann sums are used to approximate the expected net change in a function, assuming that it quantifies a process that can terminate at...

    Keywords: Expected ValueRiemann sumnet change

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    2015-Beier-EtAl-Building Context with Tumor Growth Modeling Projects in Differential Equations
    Here we present two projects related to tumor growth appropriate for a first course in differential equations. They illustrate the use of problem-based learning to reinforce and extend course...

    Keywords: tummor growthresearch experience

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    2011-W_Wood-Squigonometry
    The differential equations used to define a unit circle, namely x’(t) = - y(t), y’(t) = x(t), x(0) = 1, y(0) = 0 are generalized to produce interesting functions which...

    Keywords: TrigonometryTrigonometric Functionsparametric equationscirclesinecosinesquigonometryinverse function

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