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    Avida-ED presentation: Context Dependent Fitness
    Avida-ED presentation

    Keywords: fitnessadaptationcontext-dependenceavida-edenvironmentin-class activity

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    Phenotypic plasticity and predation image files
    Database of image files for AIMS Resource: Phenotypic plasticity and predation

    Keywords: imagesResources @ AIMS

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    Student-Led Research; Integrating Citizen Science & Field Methodology in the Ecology Classroom
    Targeting undergraduate students in lower-division ecology courses, this module guides students through authentic research. The purpose of this project is to provide hands-on research experience to...

    Keywords: undergraduate researchcitizen sciencecamera trap

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    1980-Peastrel-Lynch-Armenti-Terminal_velocity_of_a_shuttlecock_in_vertical_fall
    This paper offers a set of data on a falling shuttlecock (the moving object in badminton) in air. How the authors collected the data is described fully and can be replicated easily by modern...

    Keywords: parameter estimationdata collectionresistancefallingterminal velocityNewton's Second Law of Motionshuttlecock

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    4-035-ParEstSteadyState-ModelingScenario
    Students estimate parameters in a second order, linear, ordinary differential equations through analysis of the steady state solution. By applying a driver we can collect data in terms of the...

    Keywords: driversteady statesum of square errors

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    4-050-ResonanceBeats-ModelingScenario
    We study what can happen when a pure oscillator (no damper) is driven by a forced vibration function which has the same or close to the same natural frequency as the system it is driving.

    Keywords: Spring 2020 workshopvibrationtuningdriverresonanceforced vibrationundampedbeatsnaturl frequency

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    Author Guidelines
    These Author Guidelines are designed to assist module authors throughout this participatory process of creating a new OCELOTS module or adapting an existing one.
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    3-045-RampBounce-ModelingScenario
    Students build two projectile motion models (1) a one-dimensional model for a vertically falling ball from a fixed distance until it hits an inclined ramp and (2) a two-dimensional projectile...

    Keywords: projectile motioninclined rampcoefficient of restitutionoptimal anglebounce

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    Faculty Mentoring Networks: Community Professional Development for the Digital Age
    Poster for BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2020. What is an FMN? What is it like to be in one? What are the benefits?

    Keywords: fmn

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    Faculty Mentoring Networks: Community Professional Development for the Digital Age
    Poster for BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2019 What is an FMN? What is it like to be in one? What are the benefits?

    Keywords: fmn

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    2014 QUBES Minisymposium at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research
    Collection of presentations that were part of a minisymposium at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research in 2014.

    Keywords: QUBESBEERminisymposium

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    GSD QUBES Resource Draft (1)
    This QUBES module is focused towards AP Environmental studies courses. It includes hypothesis testing, transect sampling, Shannon Diversity Index, and scatter plot and bar graph creation in excel.

    Keywords: Community EcologyField researchspidersMicrosoft ExcelShannon diversity index

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    2014-XM-Huang-Ordinary Differential Equation Model and its Application in the Prediction Control of Population
    In this paper, we study two kinds of ordinary differential equation models, i.e., Malthus model and Logistic model, and discuss their applications in the prediction control of population.

    Keywords: population dynamicsLogistic modelMalthus ModelPopulation Prediction Control

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    1994-M_Yamaguti-Discrete Models in Social Sciences
    Also, a finite difference model in sociology is given as a chaotic phenomenon.

    Keywords: economicschaossociologydiscretediscretization

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    1971-Carl_Metzler-Usefulness Of Two Compartment Open Model In Pharmacokinetics
    Compartment models are widely used in pharmaceutical research to quantitate the kinetics of absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of a drug. In this article two applications of the two...

    Keywords: LSDcompartmentpharmacokinetics

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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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    1-120-CircularRollerCoaster-ModelingScenario
    Students study the dynamics of a circular roller coaster and work out the equations of motion in the ideal case as well as considering the interesting complication of including kinetic friction....

    Keywords: population dynamicsenergyFluid Mechanicsmfrictionroller coasterintegration by8 parts

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    Essay to students about the fallacy of fixed math ability
    Essay written in 2014 for freshmen in an intro bio course on the fallacy of fixed math ability

    Keywords: modulefixed mindsetgrowth mindsetinnate math abilitymath phobia

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    Calculating and Comparing Biodiversity Materials Across Sites Using NEON Herbaceous Vegetation Data - a Tutorial
    These materials are intended for use at the undergraduate level. They employ R and Excel software.
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    Disease Spread Simulation with M&M's and Information on the wider SIMIODE community
    This is a Student Version of a Modeling Scenario from the community, SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations at www.simiode.org

    Keywords: resourcesdifferential equationsmodelingsimulationmoduledataepidemicsdiseasecommunityapplied mathematicsResources @ SIMIODEretinal surgeryinsect colonyLSDm&mparameter estimationin-class activityproject

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