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    Template BioGraphI FMN Flash Talks - Google Slides
    This document contains a template for creating the final show-and-tell slide deck for the Biologist and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) Network’s semester-long Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN)....

    Keywords: professional developmentPresentationtemplateBioGraphIBioGraphI FMNslide deck

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    Module 3: What on Earth is a Herbarium?
    The goal of this activity is to introduce students to herbarium specimens and why they are an important source of information. The emphasis of this activity is on examining the types of data that...

    Keywords: natural history collectionsherbariumHerbarium digitizationYnez Mexia

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    Module 2: Opening Your Eyes to the Diversity of Plants
    This activity picks up from Module 1 where students chose the plant they wanted to represent their botanical history. In that module, they each identified their plant’s family and were given its...

    Keywords: botanyPlant diversityLand plantsembryophytes

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    A STEAM Approach to Understanding Water Systems
    Students will investigate their relationships to water through STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) using a combination of science, art, and reflection and build new...

    Keywords: STEAMwater qualitypollutionRiver Field Studies Networkwatershedparticipatory mappingPhotovoice

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    Understanding Fish Habitat Selection Using Snorkel Surveys
    Identifying the habitat selection patterns of aquatic species is necessary for protecting threatened and endangered native fishes, as well as for producing satisfying and exciting sport fisheries....

    Keywords: fishfisheriesstreamshabitatRiver Field Studies NetworkResource Selection

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    2018-Hu-Huang-Dynamic Regulation Responding to an External Stimulus
    This study examines the dynamic regulation process responding to an external stimulus. This study introduces the driven damped oscillator model which has an additional parameter to identify...

    Keywords: dynamical systemsregulationsteady statesales modelexternal stimulus

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    2017-Suebcharoen-Analysis of a Predator-Prey Model with Switching and Stage-Structure for Predator
    This paper studies the behavior of a predator-prey model with switching and stage-structure for predator.

    Keywords: stage structurepredatorpreybifurcationswitching

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    2012-Rusinko-Swan-Agent-Based Fabric Modeling Using Differential Equations
    We use an agent-based modeling software, NetLogo, to simulate fabric drape by applying a modified mass spring system.

    Keywords: NetLogospring massagent-baseddrapingyarnfabric

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    2011-Kenny_Harwood-Modeling a RLC Circuit Current with Differential Equations
    This paper gives an abbreviated description of the photovaltaic effect (solar power production process) and then a RLC circuit will be modeled that is powered by a photovaltaic panel.

    Keywords: tuningfrequency responseLC circuitRLC

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    2010-Shaza_Hussein-Predator-Prey Modeling
    The objective of this project was to create five projections of animal populations based on a simple predator-prey model and explore the trends visible.

    Keywords: population dynamicspredator-preylogistic equationEndangered Catsdecreasing populationrabbitsfoxes

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    2010-Del-Ciello-EtAl-Modeling Disease
    We model the transmission of a disease through a population. Such modeling is very important to the study of epidemiology and the practice of medicine.

    Keywords: diseasespreadcarriessymptomaticasymptomatic

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    2009-Das-EtAl-Bioeconomic harvesting of a pre-predator fishery
    This paper deals with the problem of non-selective harvesting of a prey–predator system by using a reasonable catch-rate function instead of usual catch-per-unit-effort hypothesis.

    Keywords: predator-preyharvestingPontryagin’s maximum principlebioeconomicbionomic equilibriumbiotechnical productivitycatch-rate functionoptimal equilibrium

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    2008-Jai-Li-Differential equations models for interacting wild and transgenic mosquito populations
    We formulate and study continuous-time models, based on systems of ordinary differential equations, for interacting wild and transgenic mosquito populations.

    Keywords: Mosquito borne diseasespopulationsHolling-II-type mating ratestransgenic mosquitoesnonhyperbolic equilibriummosquitoes

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    2007-Choisy-Guégan-Rohani-Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases Dynamics
    After presenting general notions of mathematical modeling (Section 22.2) and the nature of epidemiological data available to the modeler (Section 22.3), we detail the very basic SIR epidemiological...

    Keywords: stochasticSIR modeldeterministicincubationinfectives

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    2004-Mark_McCartney-Using_second-order_ordinary_differential_equations_to_model_traffic_flow
    A simple mathematical model for how vehicles follow each other along a stretch of road is presented. The resulting linear second-order differential equation with constant coefficients is...

    Keywords: differential equationstraffic flowvehicle followsecond order

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    2020-Ciaroshi-How_COVID-19_Spreads_MathModels
    On December 31, 2019, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported an outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that has since killed over 4,200 people. As of March 11, 2020, over 118,000 infections—have...

    Keywords: diseasecovidoutbreakWuhancoronoavirus

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    1-005-OilSlick-ModelingScenario
    We describe a modeling activity with difference and differential equations which enlightens students on the model building process and parameter estimation for a linear, first-order,...

    Keywords: model fittingspreadsheetsSpanishderrame de petróleodatosexpansiónoil slick

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    5-005-StiffDifferentialEquations-TechniqueNarrative
    This material introduces the topic of ``stiffness'' for a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE's), through a series of examples. Stiffness is a property that a system of ODE's may...

    Keywords: Euler's methodexplicit methodsimplicit methodsstiffsitffnessstiff differential equationinstability

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    1-029-ConeToCubeFlow-ModelingScenario
    An inverted right circular cone with a hole at the bottom is suspended above an open-topped cube which also has a hole in the center of the bottom. The cone is filled with water and we model...

    Keywords: waterflowTorricelli's Lawconecube

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    1-028-SouthernSweetIcedTea-ModelingScenario
    We offer raw data collected from a webcam and a thermometer for evaluating the strength of steeping tea. We ask students to build a mathematical model using the data to predict how long the tea...

    Keywords: dataNewton's Law of Coolingteasweet tea

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