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    2023-Roberto_Camassaa-Richard_McLaughlina-Tauberian identities and the connection to Wile E Coyote physics
    The application of the motion of a vertically suspended mass-spring system released under tension is studied focusing upon the delay timescale for the bottom mass as a function of the spring...

    Keywords: HangtimeTauberian IdentitiesRoad RunnerWile E. Coyote

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    Bacteria to Brains in Backyard Coyotes: An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Case Study
    Our interdisciplinary pedagogical case study explores the differences between rural and urban coyotes at the levels of organismal and community ecology. The focus is on how coyotes’ gut microbiomes...

    Keywords: Vision and Changeecologyintroductory biologyImmunologymicrobiologydietanimal behaviormicrobiomecore conceptscoyotesBraingut-brain axisImmunoReachcytokinedysbiosis

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    Exploring Coyote Morphology: Introduction to Research and Study Design
    This module is designed as a first foray for freshman-level (novice undergraduate) students into science literacy, research design, and use of museum resources in research activities. The module...

    Keywords: statisticsnatural history museumsdistance learningscience literacyStudy Designintraspecific variation

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    Bacteria to Brains in Backyard Coyotes: An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Case Study
    Our interdisciplinary pedagogical case study explores the differences between rural and urban coyotes at the levels of organismal and community ecology. The focus is on how coyotes’ gut...

    Keywords: dietanimal behaviorimmune systemmicrobiomeNervous systemgut-brain axisImmunoReachdysbiosisCoyoteCytokines

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    Operon
    This Excel workbook models lac operon function in a partial diploid E. coli. The user chooses the bacterial genotype and the sugars present in the surrounding medium: the workbook then determines...

    Keywords: Lac OperonE. coli

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    Cladistic Analysis Lesson Using Bats
    Phylogenetic analysis can be a challenging concept to grasp for undergraduate biology students. This cladistic analysis lesson utilizes the amazingly diverse Order Chiroptera as a model to...

    Keywords: batsphylogeny and classificationVertebrate Morphologycladistic analysisbat evolution

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    Coyote Habituation and a Scientist Spotlight on Dr. Christopher Schell
    Dr. Christopher Schell is an ecologist who uses a variety of techniques to study mammalian carnivores in urban areas. This scientist spotlight uses graphs from his study on parental habituation to...

    Keywords: conservation ecologyanimal behaviorurban ecologyInterpreting GraphsBLACK SCIENTISTS IN STEMcoyotes

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    SOAR - San Francisco Bay Research Coordination Network for Student Opportunities in Avian Research to enhance STEM education and assess human impacts on avian biodiversity (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The San Francisco Bay Research Coordination Network for Student Opportunities in Avian Research (SOAR) brings together faculty, students, and volunteers to implement an experiential learning and...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Untitled QUBES Resource Draft (1)
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    Keywords: High School

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    2014-Michael_Monagan-The Mortgage Payment Problem Approximating a Discrete Process with a Differential Equation
    In this article and a subsequent article I will give two non-standard examples that I've found helpful. The one presented here is a first order linear system. Second order systems and non-linear...

    Keywords: compartmentheatinghouse

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

    Keywords: modulephylogeneticsecologycell biologymolecular genetics

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    An Open Source, Collaborative Electronic Notebook for Undergraduate Laboratory Classes
    To overcome many of the limitations of the paper laboratory notebook (PLN), we developed an electronic laboratory notebook (e-LN) for the Dynamic Genome course at the University of California. The...

    Keywords: data collectionData annotationNotebook Skills

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    MCC - A National Malate Dehydrogenase Protein-Centric Molecular Life Sciences Couse-based Undergraduate Research Network (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The MCC is an inclusive national community consisting of faculty, from community colleges, MSI, PUI and Research Intensive institutions teaching and developing Course based Undergraduate Research...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    2000-Idels-Wang-Harvesting Fisheries Management Strategies With Modified Effort Function
    This study concludes that a control parameter beta (the magnitude of the effect of the fish population size on the fishing effort function E), changes not only the rate at which the population goes...

    Keywords: sustainabilityfishFishingmanagementharvestfisherstrategyoverfishing

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    Cluster EB Annotation Report
    This short report describes the characteristics of actinobacteriophages assigned to Cluster EB.

    Keywords: phageSEA-PHAGEScluster reportactinobacteriophages

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    Subcluster BI2 Annotation Report
    This short report describes the characteristics of actinobacteriophages assigned to subcluster BI2.

    Keywords: phagesSEA-PHAGEScluster reportactinobacteriophages

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    Subcluster BE1 Annotation Report
    This short report describes the characteristics of actinobacteriophages assigned to subcluster BE1.

    Keywords: phageSEA-PHAGEScluster reportactinobacteriophages

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    Cluster BH Annotation Report
    This short report describes the characteristics of actinobacteriophages assigned to Cluster BH.

    Keywords: phageSEA-PHAGEScluster reportactinobacteriophages

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    Hidden Markov Model
    Hidden Markov models are a set of mathematical tools that can be used to draw inferences about genomic and evolutionary processes.

    Keywords: hidden markov models

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    Dynamic Programming
    In bioinformatics, dynamic programming is mainly used to align nucleotide and amino acid sequences, and to predict RNA and protein folding from primary sequence data.

    Keywords: RNAamino acid sequenceSequence alignmentdynamic programmingprotein folding

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