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    E. coli Citrate Use
    EvoEd module on citrate use in E.coli

    Keywords: modulephylogeneticsecologycell biologymolecular genetics

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    A class activity on classification
    Within the sciences, we are often talking of phylogenetic classification; hominin and non-human primate phylogenetic trees are often introduced in a course in biological anthropology. Students are...

    Keywords: hands-onphylogeny and classification

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    Teaching introductory bioinformatics with Jupyter notebook-based active learning
    Presentation on teaching introductory bioinformatics with Jupyter notebook-based active learning at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    Data Management using National Ecological Observatory Network's (NEON) Small Mammal Data with Accompanying Lesson on Mark Recapture Analysis
    Students use small mammal data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to understand necessary steps of data management from data collection to data analysis by estimating small mammal...

    Keywords: data managementspreadsheetssmall mammals community dynamicsNEONCapture mark-recaptureResource TypeNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    Designing a High Quality and Accessible Scientific Poster
    The aim of this project is to help undergraduates understand the importance of making their research accessible to a wide audience and to practice this idea by deliberately designing a scientific...

    Keywords: Accessibilityscientific poster

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    2017-Brandi-Garcia-Motivating engineering students to math classes - Practical experience teaching ODEs
    In this paper we propose an approach to teaching-learning process of mathematical concepts to engineering students with a motivational factor: a practical problem to be modeled in which students...

    Keywords: computational toolsteachingengineering studentspractical problem

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    2006-Cooke-Elderkin-Huang-Predator-Prey interactions with delays due to juvenile maturation
    This paper focuses on predator-prey models with juvenile/mature class structure for each of the predator and prey populations in turn, further classified by whether juvenile or mature individuals...

    Keywords: predator-preyhost-parasitebifurcationage structrematuration delay

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    1984-Marguerite_Hays-Compartmental Models for Human Iodine Metabolism
    Compartmental models for the various aspects of human iodine metabolism are reviewed, emphasizing the role of Mones Berman in the development of this field.

    Keywords: compartment modeliodinethyroid

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    1-165-FlushToilet-ModelingScenario
    This activity analyzes the spread of a technological innovation using the Bass Model from Economics. The equation is a first-order, two-parameter separable equation and the solution has a...

    Keywords: juliaDiffusioninnovationrate of innovationBass modelSolver

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    5-040-TunedMassDamper-Part-I-Modeling Scenario
    We offer an opportunity to build mathematical models to mitigate dangerous displacements in structures using structural improvements called Tuned Mass Dampers. We model the motion of the original...

    Keywords: structurespring-mass-dashpotspring massearthquakevibrationtuned mass tunerrestoring forcecontroldampe

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    1-012-Sublimation-Modeling Scenario
    We offer data on the sublimation of dry ice (carbon dioxide) collected in a classroom setting so that students can model the rate of change in the mass of a small solid carbon dioxide block with a...

    Keywords: sublimationdry ice

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    1-155-CruiseControl-ModelingScenario
    In this project we illustrate the design of a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) cruise control algorithm for an automobile. PID control is one of the most common techniques in control...

    Keywords: PID controllerfeedback controlControl theorycruise controlautomobileclosed-loop controlinput-ouputblock diagram

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    3-130-MatterOfSomeGravity-ModelingScenario
    This project introduces the concept of an inverse problem (or parameter estimation), in the context of the simple linearized pendulum ordinary differential equation.

    Keywords: gravityinverse problemacceleration

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    2016-Helena_Sofia_Rodrigues-Application of SIR epidemiological model new trends
    In this paper, the basic transmission model is analyzed, as well as simple tools that allows us to extract a great deal of information about possible solutions. A set of applications - traditional...

    Keywords: epidemiologybasic reproduction numberSIR

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    2006-Shigui_Ruan-Delay differential equations in single species dynamics
    In this survey, we shall review various delay differential equations models arising from studying single species dynamics.

    Keywords: allee_effectdelayed biological systemsfood limitperiodiciityrecruitment modelRegulation of Haematopoiesis

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    2005-P_Howard-Modeling with ODE
    In these notes we consider three critical aspects in the theory of ordinary differential equations: developing models of physical phenomena, mathematically well-posed, solving ODE numerically .

    Keywords: Fluid Mechanicscompartmentpopulationsvariational methodsHamiltonian mechanics

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    2001-Edwards-Buckmire-A differential equation model of North American cinematic box-office dynamics
    A new mathematical model is presented for the box-office dynamics of a motion picture released in North America.

    Keywords: cinemamoviesbox-office

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    1986-Istvan_Gyori-Connections between compartment systems pipes and integro-differential equations
    In this paper we give the mathematical description of models in which the mass transport between compartments requires a given definite time or transit times are distributed according to given...

    Keywords: physiologypipelinecompartmentbloodcirculationintegro-differential equation

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    2009-Brian_Winkel-Modelling_Growth_Of_an_OilSlick
    An oil-slick spreads at sea. From time to time, but irregularly, a helicopter is dispatched. On each trip, it arrives over the slick, the pilot takes a picture, waits 10 minutes, takes another, and...

    Keywords: differential equationssimulationparameter estimationdifference equation

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    6-004-VillageEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    Students are offered data from a plague epidemic that occurred in the middle of the seventeenth century in Eyam, a small English village. With only two assumptions offered to students they...

    Keywords: SIR modelsepidemicsusceptibleinfectiveremovedEyamEnglish village

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