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    2015-Heiko_Enderling-Integrating experimental data to calibrate quantitative cancer models
    For quantitative cancer models to be meaningful and interpretable the number of unknown parameters must be kept minimal. We focus on a tumor hierarchy of cancer stem and progenitor non-stem cancer...

    Keywords: cancertumorfittingagent-based

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    1-017-DiseaseSpread-ModelingScenario
    Using a grid and m&m candies, we simulate the spread of disease. Students conduct the simulation and collect data to estimate parameters (in several ways) in a differential equation model for the...
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    1-047a-CondensationOptimization-ModelingScenario
    We seek to optimize a condensation process which is modeled by a simulation using the random motion of 200 particles in a 50 by 50 square in which a particle bounces off the two vertical and top...

    Keywords: simulationdataoptimizationenergycondensationbest fitcostsum of scquare errors

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    1-001B-DeathImmigrationMystery-ModelingScenario
    We describe a classroom activity in which students use M\&M candies to simulate death and immigration. Each student conducts an experiment with an immigration rate unique to that student - of that...

    Keywords: m&mMystery Novelsimmigrationexperimentdeath

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    1-054-GrowthInFarmland-ModelingScenario
    An enriching project developing a model from data with missing temporal information is described. Students fit functions to the data that leads to the creation of a differential equations model,...

    Keywords: fittingfarmfarmland

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    Using Natural History Collection Data in Your CURE: BLUE BIOME 2020
    This is the report for the BLUE working group from the Biome Institute 2020. It reflects our group's efforts and products related to CUREs and Natural History Collection Digital Data.

    Keywords: digitized natural history collectionsBIOME 2020Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education

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    Facilitating the implementation and adaptation of data-centric teaching resources by closing gaps in the Open Education Resource (OER) lifecycle
    Presentation on data-centric open educational resources given at the 2019 UBER-GRC

    Keywords: DIGdata-centric teaching

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    Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections
    This educational module utilizes the traditional plant collection experience to engage students with biodiversity data protocols and resources available in our information-rich digital age.

    Keywords: Biodiversityplantsnatural history collectionherbarium

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    DIG into Data for the Biology Classroom
    Session presentation on ecological data-centric teaching modules at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: teaching with data.DIGSummer Workshop 2018ecological datasets

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    Data Nugget- City Parks and Texas A&M University-Kingsville Camera Trap Assignment
    The Data Nugget- City Parks module was used in a sophomore-junior level undergraduate wildlife management techniques course (with lab) in Fall 2017. Modifications were made to the original Data...

    Keywords: species richnessspecies diversityResource Typecamera trap

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    Performing a Population Viability Analysis from Data Students Collect on a Local Plant
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 9

    Keywords: RResources @ ESA - TIEEmatrix model

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    RNA-seq Analysis
    In this computer lab module, students learn how to process an RNA-seq data set to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs). The samples for this data set were collected from yeast cells...

    Keywords: LabRNAsequencingUndergraduateNIBLSEincubatorsRNAseqInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hourC4. Bioinformatics toolsC5. Data retrievalReviewed at NIBLSEdifferentially expressed genes

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    Identifiers in Digital Natural History Collections
    This is a collection of resources focusing on GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) on what they are, what role they play in digital natural history collections, and how to incorporate them in...

    Keywords: idigbioStudy guidedata managementnatural history collectionsBLUEdigitized natural history collectionsidentifiers

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    1999-Richard_Single-Different quotients-derivatives-and data through modeling with slime
    In this article, I present an experiment that can be conducted in a calculus class to investigate the difference quotient and the derivative, using mathematical modeling with student-collected data.

    Keywords: data analysisslimedifference quotientspread of slime

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    9-125-BeamModeling-ModelingScenario
    This modeling scenario examines the deflection of a cantilever beam under two different distributed loads. Students will have the opportunity to conduct experiments with their own cantilever beam...

    Keywords: Fluid MechanicsbeamcantileverimpulseLaplace transformboundary conditionfourth order

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    1-110-TidePoolSnails-ModelingScenario
    Students use linear differential equations to model temperature change, in a sand tide pool and inside the shell of a snail in the tide pool. We offer data on temperature in a tide pool as the...

    Keywords: datasnailstemperatureNewton's Law of CoolingcoolingNewtonwarmingtital pooltide pool

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    1-142-WaterBottles-ModelingScenario
    This project involves the application of Newton's law of cooling to the study of insulated water bottles. Students have the option to conduct experiments with their own bottles outside of class or...

    Keywords: data collectionexperimenthalf-lifeNewton's Law of Coolingwater bottle

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    3-019-ShuttleCockFalling-ModelingScenario
    We are given data on the time and position of a shuttlecock as it falls to the ground from a set height. We attempt to model the falling object and we confront the different resistance terms and...

    Keywords: resistancegravityFree Body Diagramshuttlecockfallingc object

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    Following the Data
    The video and exercise provides insight into how researchers are using digital data resources to investigate biodiversity in prairie fen wetlands.

    Keywords: data in the classroomprocess of sciencebiodiversity informatics

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    Using Digitized Collections-Based Data in Research: A Hands-On Crash Course in Ecological Niche Modeling
    Step-by-step, hands-on instruction on ways to access and download these specimen data, how to process climate layer data, and how to apply Maxent software to construct ecological niche models.

    Keywords: ecology labbiodiversity informaticsnatural history collectionsMicrosoft Excelbiodiversity collectionsRstatsecological niche modelingQGISENMToolsMaxent

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