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    The Undergraduate Student’s Guide to Geometric Morphometrics
    Embarking on a new research endeavor can be a daunting task. User guides, books, and published articles are written for an audience that already has some background experience in the field....

    Keywords: researchGeometric Morphometrics"body shape""shape analysis"

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    2020-TeachingModule-GeometricBehaviorOfLinearSysteModeling
    This module concentrates on the geometric properties of a system of 2 linear, homogeneous first order differential equations in 2 variables as dictated by the corresponding eigenvalues. Students...

    Keywords: modulelinear systemsdigoxinTeaching Module

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    Tag You're It: A Lesson Investigating Study Design and Survival Analysis on an American Shad Tagging Study
    In this lesson, students will learn about the various mark-recapture and tagging methods that are used in various scientific disciplines and the information they can gather. Key elements of...

    Keywords: survival analysisAmerican ShadCox Proportional Hazards ModelStudy Design

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    2013-Gonzalez_Parra-Arenas-Mathematical Model for Social Security Systems with Dynamical Systems
    In this paper it is proposed a mathematical approach based on dynamic systems to study the effect of the increase in the Social Security normal retirement age on the worker and on the dynamics of...

    Keywords: dynamical systemsretirement modelSocial Security

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    2013-Fathalla_Rihan-Delay Differential Equations in Biosciences - Parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis
    This is a review article to show that delay differential models have a richer mathematical framework (compared with models without memory or after-effects) and a better consistency with biological...

    Keywords: epidemiologysensitivityImmunologyphysiologyRK-methodstime-lags

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    1-125-DiceyPopulation-ModelingScenario
    We offer students an opportunity to generate data for their team on a death and immigration model using 12 and 20 sided dice and then pass on the data to another student team for analysis with a...

    Keywords: simulationimmigrationdeathdice

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    1988- N_Koblitz-Problems that Teach the Obvious but Difficult
    Four problems are presented and two of them involve differential equations. These involve projectile motion in one and two dimensions.

    Keywords: projectile motion

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    1981-Nielsen-Rosenfeld-Substantive Interpretations of Differential Equation Models
    The use of differential equations models to study social processes has been increasing rapidly. There are, however, ambiguities in the interpretation of the parameters of these models.

    Keywords: sociologypoliticsintragenerational mobilitypolitical mobility

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    2009-Agnes_Rash-Brian_Winkel-Birth_and_Death_Process_Modeling_Leads_to_the_Poisson_Distribution
    In this paper there are details of development of the general birth and death process from which we can extract the Poisson process as a special case.

    Keywords: ProbabilityMeanPoisson processbirth and death processinfinite number of differential equations

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    1981-Nielsen_Francois-Rachel_Rosenfeld-Substantive_Interpretations_of_Differential_Equation_Models
    The interpretation of parameters of dynamic models is illustrated with reference to research on two substantive topics: political mobilization and intragenerational mobility.

    Keywords: differential equationsdynamical systemsFirst order linearintragenerational mobilitypolitical mobilizationmobility

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    2021-G_Nagy-Ordinary_Differential_Equations
    This is an introduction to ordinary differential equations. We describe the main ideas to solve certain differential equations, like first order scalar equations, second order linear equations, and...

    Keywords: differential equationstextbook

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    2019-Ekici_Plyley. Inquiry-Based_Modeling_of_Population_Dynamics_With_Logistic_Differential_and_Difference_Equations
    Inquiry-based learning activities on modeling and controlling the growth of locally relevant species, such as lionfish or sea turtles, are developed by the authors.

    Keywords: population dynamicslogisticInquiry-based modelingIBL

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    Exploring the ecological niches and bioclimatic differences of the greater and lesser Capybara
    In my study, I explored the differences in ecological niches and bioclimatic preferences of the Greater and Lesser Capybara. Wallace was used in obtaining the locality and bioclimatic data...

    Keywords: ecology

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    1-030-EyeModel-ModelingScenario
    We offer a mathematical modeling experience using differential equations to model the volume of an intraocular gas bubble used by ophthalmologists to aid the healing of a surgically repaired region...

    Keywords: retinal surgeryAkaike Information CriterionSpanishsum of square errorssurgeryretionaophthalmologyeyeintraocular gas bubble

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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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    1-145-FastPitch-ModelingScenario
    We consider the problem of comparing pitch velocities using measurement methods in different eras of baseball.

    Keywords: Measurementresistanceair resistancebaseballpitcherfast

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    Hypoxia: A Case Study in R
    Aquatic ecosystems are home to a complex intersection of physical and biological factors and an intersection of natural and anthropogenic factors. In the Chesapeake Bay, low oxygen events have...

    Keywords: data analysisOceanographyProject EDDIE

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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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    1-023-RumorSpread-ModelingScenario
    We use a newspaper report on the spread of a rumor based on shares of articles on the Internet over a 5 day period to demonstrate the value of modeling with the logistic differential equation.

    Keywords: Internetlogisticspreadrumors

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