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    Lesson I - Introduction to Genome Solver
    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Part I is the Introduction to the Genome Solver Project.

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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    Demography from physical cemeteries, "virtual cemeteries," and census data
    Laboratory experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 8

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEdemographysurvivorshiplife tables

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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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    Sorry to Eat and Run: A Lesson Plan for Testing Trade-off in Squirrel Behavior Using Giving Up Densities (GUDs)
    All animals need to find and compete for food, shelter, and mates in order to survive and reproduce. They also need to avoid being eaten by predators. Optimal foraging theory provides a framework...

    Keywords: ecologyanimal behaviorAnimal form and functionAnimal nutritionSquirrel-Net

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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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    Expanding the Reach of Crop Plants for Food Security: A Lesson Integrating Non-Majors Students Into the Discussion of Food Diversity and Human Nutrition
    University general education (GE) courses host students with various academic backgrounds, interests, and perspectives. Engaging students in GE classes with agricultural issues can be challenging...

    Keywords: cereal graincrop diversitycrop yieldglobal food systemhuman nutritionnutrient qualitypseudocereal grainstaple cropunderutilized crop

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    Gotcha! Which fly trap is the best? An introduction to experimental data collection and analysis
    Collecting data from experimental observations is an important component of the scientific process; likewise, the analysis of the data is essential to understanding the observed trends and patterns...

    Keywords: data analysisexperimental designdata collectionfruit fliesfly traps

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    Authentic Ecological Inquiries Using BearCam Archives
    Learning through authentic scientific inquiries is essential for understanding the nature and process of science and for developing critical thinking and communication skills. It is logistically...

    Keywords: behaviorinterspecific interactionsPeer reviewauthentic inquiryintra-specific interactions

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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-I-Liang_Chern-Mathematical Modeling and Differential Equations
    In this course, I will mainly focus on, but not limited to, two important classes of mathematical models by ordinary differential equations: • population dynamics in biology • dynamics in...

    Keywords: population dynamicsecologydynamicsclassical mechanicschemical reaction

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    2011-Nancy_Rodrıguez-Applied Partial Differential Equations in Crime Modeling and Biological Aggregation
    In the first part we study a fully-parabolic system of PDEs for residential burglary ‘hotspots’ (spatio-temporal areas of high density of crime). In this work we are concerned with the existence...

    Keywords: biologyDiffusionKeller-Segel modelchemotaxiscrime

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    Winter is Coming! Can you handle the freeze?
    This publication contains the adaptations I made to the Data Nuggets module in order to use it with an online, introductory, non-majors botany class. I used this with a unit on natural and...
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    Introduction to Climate Change: Why we should care
    In this lesson, students cover the basics of climate change, interpret and predict several graphs that explain climate change scenarios under different treatment options, and reflect on an...

    Keywords: graph interpretationclimate changePlant Ecologyfmndata literacyBioGraphIrepresentation in STEMNon Majors Intro Biosand dunes

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    2017-ASHP-Intro to Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
    This is the introductory Lesson 1 in an online set of materials to introduce Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics.

    Keywords: absorptioncompartmentbloodstreamplasmapharmacokineticsdrugpharmacodynamics

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    2017-ASHP-Intro to Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
    This is the introductory Lesson 1 in an online set of materials to introduce Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics.

    Keywords: absorptioncompartmentbloodstreamplasmapharmacokineticspharmacodynamicstherapeutic concentration rangedrug dispositiondrug response

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    2015-Cano-EtAl-Bringing partial differential equations to life for students
    This work describes how to use an authoring tool, Easy Java Simulations, to build interactive simulations using FreeFem++ (Hecht F 2012 J. Numer. Math. 20 251) as a PDE solver engine.

    Keywords: Java SimulationFreeFemauthoring toolsauthoring methodsphysical modellingclassroom teaching

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    2011-Kenny_Harwood-Modeling a RLC Circuit Current with Differential Equations
    This paper gives an abbreviated description of the photovaltaic effect (solar power production process) and then a RLC circuit will be modeled that is powered by a photovaltaic panel.

    Keywords: tuningfrequency responseLC circuitRLC

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    2003-Rasmussen-Keynes-Lines of Eigenvectors and Solutions to Systems of Linear Differential Equations
    The purpose of this paper is to describe an instructional sequence where students invent a method for locating lines of eigenvectors and corresponding solutions to systems of two first order linear...

    Keywords: instructional designeigenvalueseigenvalue analysis

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    2001-Tsoularis-Analysis of logistic growth models
    variety of growth curves have been developed to model both unpredated, intraspecific population dynamics and more general biological growth. We further review and compare several such...

    Keywords: logisticGompertzVerhulstPearl and ReedBertalanffy

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    2014-Andre_De Ross-Modeling Population Dynamics
    This course is intended as an introduction to the formulation, analysis and application of mathematical models that describe the dynamics of biological populations.

    Keywords: predator-preycompetitionpopulationgrowthbifrucationtext

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