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    5-036-HalfCarVibration-ModelingScenario
    Vibration vehicle models provide an opportunity to integrate vehicle-based vibrations into a mechanical engineering vibrations course. The project is on a multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF)...

    Keywords: vibrationvehiclehalf-car modelfinite element analysisshock absorberssuspension

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    3-034-CarSuspension-ModelingScenario
    We examine the spring-mass-dashpot that is part of a car suspension, how the ride is related to parameter values, and the effect of changing the angle of installation. We model a ``quarter car'',...

    Keywords: designspring-mass-dashpotspring constantunderdampingcar suspensionsuspension tolerancestatic equilibrium

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    3-103-PullBackCars-ModelingScenario
    This activity offers analysis of a toy pull-back car: solution of a differential equation from model; data collection and parameter estimation; and adapting the model to predict maximum speed and...

    Keywords: modelingdynamicshands-ontoypull-back carpullback

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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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    3-031-SpringCost-ModelingScenario
    We assume students are familiar with overdamping and underdamping of a spring-mass-dashpot system. Students will apply this knowledge to model the interplay between spring constant, tolerance, and...

    Keywords: designunit costspring constantstatic equilibriumspring masss dashpot

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    2011-GA_Koch-Noble-Drugs in the Classroom Using Pharmacokinetics to Introduce Biomathematical Modeling
    By beginning with simple model involving the half-life of a drug, students take advantage of their mathematical abilities to explore the biology.

    Keywords: Biomathematicspharmacokinetics

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    Pharmacokinetics
    This Excel module explores how drugs are processed and absorbed in the human body.

    Keywords: drug metabolismpharmacokinetics

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    5-010-DNADegradation-ModelingScenario
    We ask students to use the system of first order linear differential equations given in a source paper and estimates of the data from laboratory procedures from a plot to estimate the parameters...

    Keywords: DNA\kinetisplasmaratpharmacokinetis

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    1984-W_Brunner-D__Focht-Deterministic Three-Half-Order Kinetic Model for Microbial Degradation
    The kinetics of mineralization of carbonaceous substrates has been explained by a deterministic model which is applicable to either growth or nongrowth conditions in soil.

    Keywords: kineticsnonlinear regressionsum of square errorsMonodlinearizemineralizationsubstratescarbonaceous

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    1-001a-MMDeathImmigration-Variation-ModelingScenario
    We model exponential death with m&m's as well as death with immigration.

    Keywords: simulationdatam&mimmigrationdeath

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    1968-Wagner-Aghajanian-Bing-Correlation of performance test scores with tissue concentration of lysergic acid diethylamide
    This paper offers a two compartment model of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in volunteer students and through parameter estimation models the amount of LSD in the tissue after its initial...

    Keywords: LSDcorrelation coefficientcompartment modellysergic acid diethylamideperformancetest scoretissue concentration

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    2020-TeachingModule-CarSuspension
    The modeling activity on car suspensions assumes that students have grappled with second order linear homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients.

    Keywords: modulesuspensioncar suspensionsecond orderTeaching Module

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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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    Agent-Based Modeling Course Materials
    Materials created for an upper level ABM course. Prerequisite: Students have taken either (a) another modeling course, or (b) the introductory computer science sequence.

    Keywords: agent-based modelingindividual-based modelingcourse materials

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    The Effect of Instructor Communication on Student Perceptions of Mathematics in Biology
    Undergraduate research poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh in 2015.

    Keywords: biology teachingundergraduate researchPresentation

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    1964-Aghajanian-Bing-Persistence Of LSD In Plasma In Human Subjects
    Two micrograms per kilogram of LSD-25 was administered intravenously to five normal human subjects. The concentration of[ drug in plasma was determined serially over the subsequent 8 hours. We...

    Keywords: LSDscoreplasmalysergic acid diethylamidehuman subjuects

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    2012-Augustus-Wali-Mathematical Modeling of Uganda Population Growth
    The purpose of this paper focuses on the application of logistic equation to model the population growth of Uganda using data from 1980 to 2010 (inclusive).

    Keywords: population growthlogistic growthDrug and Alcohol detoxificationcarrying capacityvital coefficients

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    2009-Noakes-Sleigh-Mathematical models for assessing the role of airflow on the risk of airborne infection in hospital wards
    Understanding the risk of airborne transmission can provide important information for designing safe healthcare environments with an appropriate level of environmental control for mitigating risks.

    Keywords: infectioncompartmenthospitalventilationairbornesthochasticWells–Riley

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    Materials for Teaching the SIR Epidemic Model
    This web page contains materials created by faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Mathematics to teach basic fundamentals of mathematical epidemiology.
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    1971-Boyes-Scott-Jebson-Godman-Julian-Lidocaine in Man
    Plasma levels of lidocaine were measured in 5 normal male volunteers following both intravenous and oral administration of the drug.

    Keywords: pPharmacologypharmacokineticslidocaine

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