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    Navigating Bacterial Changes in Aging Organisms: Graphs, Patterns, and Models
    Aging is an incredibly important area of research, and recent biological advances implicate the intestines in aging pathologies. Given that the gut harbors an immense amount of an organism’s...

    Keywords: statisticsgraphingmathematics for life sciencesmathexponential growthPrecalculus

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    Learn genomics and bioinformatics through scientific thinking, creation and analysis (virtual and hands-on)
    Nucleic acid are biological molecules composed of nitrogen-containing bases, phosphate groups, and sugar molecules. The complimentary chemical bonding results in formation of double stranded DNA....

    Keywords: data analysisbioinformaticsnucleotidesproteinsRNAgenomicsScientific communicationscientific writingDNAmodelling scientific thinkinggenescientific thinkingcreation

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    Using Raw Sequence Data to Analyze Tumor Suppressor Mutations
    Learning to identify DNA sequence variants from raw sequencing data (electropherograms) is a basic molecular biology skill with applications to basic research and clinical practice. Yet learning to...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsmutationDNAgenomic visualizationparts of a geneclinical consequencesraw data

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    Exploring Indigenous Viewpoints in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom: An Environmental Case Study Incorporating Hawaiian Traditional Ecological Knowledge
    Changing science education to foster greater equity and inclusion for Indigenous students will require effort from instructors and institutions. Instructors can help by including Traditional...

    Keywords: ecologycase studyenvironmentsystems thinkingTraditional ecological knowledgeindigenous knowledgehawai'idecolonizing scienceNative knowledgeFish ponds

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    Keep It Shrimple: An Adaptable Student-Driven Research Project for the Introductory Biology Laboratory
    A challenge in introductory biology laboratory courses is to provide students with authentic, engaging research opportunities that allow them to take ownership of their experiments. We present a...

    Keywords: hypothesis testingexperimental designanimal behaviorbrine shrimp

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    An Inquiry-Based Project Added to Traditional Labs: Hands-On Fish Awareness Research in Freshwater Systems Conducted by First-Year Biology Students
    This project involves students in an inquiry-based project added to the introductory biology laboratory course for majors in fall 2019. Research has shown that student engagement in authentic...

    Keywords: Evolutionbehaviorichthyology

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    An Interactive Protocol for In-Classroom DNA Extraction
    Using commonly available materials, this tool allows students to extract DNA, exploring DNA chemistry and the principles of experimental design and execution. We take a “Choose Your Own...

    Keywords: geneticsDNAbiochemical structure and function

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    Teaching the Photoelectric Effect Using an Open-Source Interactive Simulation
    The photoelectric effect is one of the fundamental experiments that established the basis of quantum mechanics. Students studying this experiment in modern physics courses struggle to understand...

    Keywords: photoelectric effectquantum mechanicsquantalight-matter interactions

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    Quantifying Bacterial Growth in the Guts and Hemolymph of Fruit Flies: Mathematical Modeling and Data Interpolation/Extrapolation
    In this activity, students will analyze raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Ssk protein in order to strengthen the intestinal barrier and prevent...

    Keywords: graphingexponential growthlinear modelsqbccinterpolationConcepts in Statistics and Precalculus Understanding exponential rates and linear slopesExtrapolation

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    1-104A-T-InfectionRisk-ModelingScenario
    This project is designed to examine differences between the exponential and logistic growth models in biology and how to apply these models in solving epidemic questions and comparing to actual...

    Keywords: regressioninfectionCOVID19carrying capacitylogistic equationexponential model

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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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    2017-Zhang-Wang-Study on public opinion propagation in self media age based on time delay differential model
    We establish the Logistic equation, introduce the operator time delay differential equation, and finally establish the improved delay differential equation, which can describe the propagation trend...

    Keywords: propagationpubic opinionNetwork public opinionpropagation lawself-mediaXiongan New Area

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    2013-Michael-Evans-Growth and Decay
    Sometimes, we can describe processes of growth and decay—whether physical, chemical, biological or sociological—by mathematical models.

    Keywords: exponential growthexponential decayisotopespopulationsresource depletion

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    RAT ATTACK! Population growth
    This module contains exercises focused on the use and interpretation of density independent and density dependent population growth models. Students build logistic and exponential growth models in...

    Keywords: modelingecologyExcelintroductory biologygraphingQuantitative reasoningdata visualizationinterdisciplinaryexponential growthlogistic growthdata managementInterpreting Graphspopulation modelingNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsnonlinear models

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    2012-Nokkaew-EtAl-Estimation of Algae Growth Model Parameters by a Double Layer Genetic Algorithm
    This paper presents a double layer genetic algorithm (DLGA) to improve performance of the information-constrained parameter estimations.

    Keywords: optimizationalgae growthgenetic algorithmssimulated dataconvergence of parameters

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    2011-Kurt_Kreith-The Mathematics of Global Change
    The authors discuss broad issues and then focus on specifics like exponential growth, logistic growth, and the logistic equation with delay.

    Keywords: exponential growthlogistic growth

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    2010-Singh-Mishra-athematical modeling approach to study growth rate of grassroots technological innovations
    In this paper we have proposed a simple mathematical model by using ordinary differential equation to know the spread rate of technological innovations in rural India.

    Keywords: logisticexponentialsigmoidtechnological innovationsasymptoticspread of innovation

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    2008-Huet-Deffuant-Differential Equation Models Derived from an Individual-Based Model Can Help to Understand Emergent Effects
    We study a model of primacy effect on individual's attitude. Typically, when receiving a strong negative feature first, the individual keeps a negative attitude whatever the number of moderate...

    Keywords: agent-based modelprimacy effectinformation filteringaggregated modelcollectiveinteractionsdouble-modelling

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    2008-Chernyshov-EtAl-The Problem of Modelling of Economic Dynamics in Differential Form
    The authors have tried to analyze procedures of the construction of differential equations that are employed for modeling of macroeconomic processes. The results prove to be rather unexpected.

    Keywords: Fredholm integral equation ofLeontief’s modelmacroeconomic processes

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    2007-Hui_Luo-Population Modeling by Differential Equations
    A general model for the population of Tibetan antelope is constructed. The present model shows that the given data is reasonably logistic.

    Keywords: population dynamicsextinctionlogisticTibetan antelope

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