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    Glycolysis Can Be Fun: Rediscovering Glycolysis as a Problem-Solving Introduction to Metabolism
    A thorough understanding of glycolysis forms a foundation for students to analyze subsequent topics in metabolism, a core competency recognized by multiple national societies for biology and...

    Keywords: Problem based learningPOGILenzymesGlycolysisMetabolismFermentationchemical reactionsCard sorting activityCofactors

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    Learning the Landscape: An Active and Applied Lesson on Landscape Ecology for General Ecology Courses
    Landscape ecology is an important subtopic of ecology. As a field, it is inherently interdisciplinary and provides opportunities to teach not only content, but transferable ecological and...

    Keywords: landscape ecologyspatial scaleecosystem managementHabitat fragmentation

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    Student-Generated Analogies for Learning about Information Flow
    Using analogies is a standard practice for both teaching and communicating ideas in science. Here we upend the traditional lesson, where the instructor provides a fully constructed analogy and...

    Keywords: critical thinkingcentral dogmaanalogical reasoning

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    Causes and consequences of resisting herbivory: How long-lived plants avoid damage from diverse short-lived insect herbivores
    This module guides students through decades-long studies of tropical plant-insect interactions to elucidate the ecology and evolution of plant defenses while encouraging students to consider the...
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    Science “Fails”: A Bank of Historical Examples for Learning From Failure in Science
    Learning from failure is critically important to the processes of scientific inquiry, discovery, and invention. However, students are not routinely taught how to reflect on, learn from, and...

    Keywords: metacognitionScience process skillsLearning from failurepower and privilegestudent wellbeing

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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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    2017-Ole_Witt-Hansen-Examples Of Differential Equations In Physics
    This is an article from the author’s homepage. The work contains fundamental and basic background and derivation of the differential equation models for a number of phenomena.

    Keywords: projectileair resistancefree falldragharmonic oscillation

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    2016-Lewnard-Townsend-Climatic and evolutionary drivers of phase shifts in the plague epidemics of colonial India
    Our analysis shows that historical datasets can yield powerful insights into the transmission dynamics of reemerging disease agents with which we have limited contemporary experience to guide...

    Keywords: infectious diseasepVector-Borne Diseaselagueplague

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    2009-James_May-Nonlinear vibration control of long flexible structures
    An automated, non-linear control scheme was developed to transfer energy from the fundamental vibration mode, where most vibration energy of the structures of interest resides, to higher order...

    Keywords: vibrationdampingtuned mass damperviscousnodalmodel dampingflexible structureenergy transfer

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    2008-Padir-EtAl-Teaching Differential Equations in a Diverse Classroom
    The interesting portion of this paper are the descriptions of student projects offered: Vibrations of a 3-Story Building in an Earthquake, Triple Pendulum, Nonlinear Circuit. Phase portraits were...

    Keywords: circuitearthquakevibrationpendulumbuikldingtriple pendumlumnonlinear circuit

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    1999-Marchand-McDevitt-Learning Differential Equations by Exploring Earthquake Induced Structural Vibrations
    The project takes full advantage of analytical, numerical, and qualitative techniques to explore the mechanical vibrations of buildings during an earthquake.

    Keywords: earthquakenondimensionalizationCoulomb dampingmechanical vibration

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    Learning R for Biologists: A Mini Course Grab-Bag for Instructors
    As biology becomes more data driven, teaching students data literacy skills has become central to biology curriculum. Despite a wealth of online resources that teach researchers how to use R, there...

    Keywords: Rdata analysisRStudio

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    2008-Keith_Landry-Brian_Winkel-Peak_Frequency_Responses_and_Tuned_Mass_Dampers
    We present two applications of systems of ordinary differential equations concerning excitation of a structure through resonance and (1) peak frequency responses with stabilization of the...

    Keywords: vibrationresonancetuned mass damperpeak frequency responseexcitation

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    2014-Robert_Terrell-Notes_on_Differential_Equations
    We point out that the title is not Solving Differential Equations; we derive them, discuss them, review calculus background for them, apply them, sketch and compute them, and also solve them and...

    Keywords: octaveengineeringtextsbook

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    2019_Isaac_Eshakoff-Differential_Equations_of_Love_and_Love_of_Differential_Equations
    In this paper, simple ordinary differential equations are discussed against the background of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

    Keywords: mathematical modelsystemmechanicalRomeo and Julietlovelove-hatejealousyShakespeare

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    2019-Stender_EtAl-Recovery_Of_Differential_Equations_From_Impulse_Response
    In this work, a recent method, which allows reconstructing differential equations from time series data, is extended for higher degrees of automation.

    Keywords: time seriesregressionresponseimpulseoscillationsignal processingsparse regressionsystem identification

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    Film as a Powerful Tool for Increasing Awareness of the Importance of Belonging in STEM
    People of color in STEM fields can face a variety of challenges with belonging due to structural, cultural, psychological, and institutional barriers. The professional development sessions...

    Keywords: steminclusionfilmbelonging

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    Transitioning Two-Stage Exams to an Online Class
    Students often find biology courses to be very difficult and isolating, particularly if they identify as part of a group that has been historically excluded from STEM. Some of this anxiety and...

    Keywords: lower division STEMupper division STEM

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    Integrating Community Ecology Into the Study of Parasites: Exploring the Effect of Host Behavior on Parasite Transmission Rates
    Organismal life cycles are often presented as a set of facts to memorize in undergraduate biology courses. This approach is cognitively demanding for students and fails to convey how central life...

    Keywords: statisticsspecies interactionsQuantitative reasoninggraphsCommunity EcologyParasitologyfood webs

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    Sequences and Properties of Gluten Proteins From Different Grains: A Virtual-Friendly Protein Laboratory
    The COVID-19 pandemic has forced much university instruction into virtual modes. As a result, many laboratory courses have either dropped content altogether or replaced hands-on activities with...

    Keywords: protein structure and functionProtein sequenceintermolecular forcesBiomacromolecules

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