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    Instructor Solutions Second Edition SIMIODE Textbook HTML Version
    This is material we make available for instructors teaching a modeling-first approach to differential equations when using the Second Edition of SIMIODE Textbook, Differential Equations: A Toolbox...

    Keywords: textbookhtmlSIMIODE textbookSecond Edition

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    javaFOODWEB
    More than 100 food web matrices (multiple predators/prey Excel worksheets) are included with the javaFOODWEB tool.

    Keywords: niche spacesCommunity Ecologyfood webspredator-prey interactionsMatricestrophic chain

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    BioGrapher
    BioGrapher is an Excel front-end for the AT&T GraphViz graphical visualization and layout package (http://www.graphviz.org/).

    Keywords: network theorygraph theoryphylogenetic trees

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    Balancing Chemical Equations Using Matrix Algebra
    This Excel workbook introduces using matrix algebra to balance chemical reactions. The workbook allows the user to set up their own matrices for chemical reactions involving 2-7 elements.

    Keywords: chemical reactionsInverse matrix methodmatrix algebra

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    5-024-PhGreatLakes
    In this teaching modeling scenario, we demonstrate how lessons on salt-tank compartmental modeling can be used to predict phosphorus levels in the Great Lakes.

    Keywords: Great Lakeslimnologycomparmentpollutioncompartmental modelsphosphorous

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    5-007-ChemOpt-ModelingScenario
    Modeling a chemical reaction and estimating parameters in the model permits optimization of profits from extracting reactants.

    Keywords: optimizationpYield and sustainabilitynonprofit managementLaw of Mass Actionkineticreaction

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    2017-GR_Gustafson-Differential Equations Course Materials
    There are many applications from compartment and cascade analysis, recycling brine tank, home heating with multiple rooms, chemostat, microbes, heartbeats, lidocaine, nutrient flow in an aquarium,...

    Keywords: chemostatmicrobesbiomassforecastingtransfercompartmentpesticidesearthquaketankheatinglidocainebrineheartbeatsnutrient flowaquariumelectric networkscircuitsloggingbuildingcascade

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    2014-Hrydziuszko-EtAl-Mathematical Two-compartment Model of Human Cholesterol Transport
    We develop a two-compartment mathematical model to investigate cholesterol transport in the circulatory system and its de novo synthesis in the liver.

    Keywords: metabolic syndromecompartmentcholesteroltwo-compartment modelcholesterol transport

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    2003-Knorrenschild-Gross-Text Books on Mathematical Modeling in Biology
    Text Books on Mathematical Modeling in Biology Compiled from the Internet by Michael Knorrenschild,

    Keywords: biologyMathematical Biologytextbooktext

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    2016-I-Liang_Chern-Mathematical Modeling_and_Ordinary_Differential_Equations
    We let the author's Table of Contents speak for itself.

    Keywords: differential equationsmodelingtextbook

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    5-030-LinNonHomoSystemSol-TechniqueNarrative
    We offer strategies for solving linear systems of nonhomogeneous differential equations using a conjectured solution strategy for a system of constant coefficient, linear, n

    Keywords: strategiesdiscovery learningeigenvectorseigenvalue

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    5-012-LinearSystemConjecture-TechniqueNarrative
    Students go from the solution for y'(t) = k*y(t) to a natural extension to the solution conjecture of a system of two constant coefficient, homogeneous, linear differential equations introducing...

    Keywords: discovery learningconjecturesolutionsubstitution

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    5-010-MatrixExponential-TechniqueNarrative
    The matrix exponential is a powerful computational and conceptual tool for analyzing systems of linear, constant coefficient, ordinary differential equations (ODE's). This narrative offers a quick...

    Keywords: matrix esponentialPutzer's Algorithmdiagonalizationeigenvalueseigenvectors

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    5-077-MandMAttritionWarfare-ModelingScenario
    Students model attrition between two opposing forces using M&M candies and discover a system of linear differential equations of order one, often called the Lanchester equations.

    Keywords: attritionLanchester modelpredator-predatorN-square Law

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    6-020-AlgaePopulationSelf-Replenishment-ModelingScenario
    This modeling scenario investigates the massive algal blooms that struck Lake Chapala, Mexico, in 1994. A

    Keywords: algaepopulationMexicoqualitativecompartmentlinearizationJacobianlaknondimensionalizationpplane

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    Using a Primary Cell Culture Model to Study the Neural Extracellular Matrix
    The extracellular matrix (ECM) provides structural support to cells, but also has key roles in mediating cell adhesion, cell signaling, and differentiation. While this topic is discussed in the...

    Keywords: Neural extracellular matrixPerineuronal netPrimary neuronal culture

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    Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses
    Introductory bioinformatics exercises often walk students through the use of computational tools, but often provide little understanding of what a computational tool does "under the...

    Keywords: BLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityphylogramZika virusAlgorithmScoring Matrix

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    Out of Your Seat and on Your Feet! An adaptable course-based research project in plant ecology for advanced students
    University capstone projects can offer science students a rich research experience that illustrates the process of doing scientific research, and can also help students better choose future...

    Keywords: statisticsactive learningecologyinterdisciplinaryplantscommunicating sciencegroup workfield workproces of science

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    Graphical Organizers as Course Road Maps: Using a geologic timescale in a history of life course
    Both major and non-major biology students lack understanding of important evolutionary events, how they are spaced in time, and how they relate back to the earth system. Graphical organizers like...

    Keywords: Evolutionecologyextinctionadaptive radiationdiversification

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    Population Ecology in Swirl: Estimating Population Sizes
    The students will learn to estimate population sizes and consider assumptions of mathematical models and their applicability to the ecology of an organism/population

    Keywords: RSwirl

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