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    6-018-ExploringSIRModel-ModelingScenario
    Students will transform, solve, and interpret Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) models using systems of differential equation models. The project is progressively divided into three parts to...

    Keywords: population dynamicssensitivitydiseaseSIR modelsepidemicrumors

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    2012-Arvind_Kumar_Misra-A simple mathematical model for the spread of two political parties
    In this paper, a non-linear mathematical model for the spread of two political parties has been proposed and analyzed by using epidemiological approach.

    Keywords: epidemiccompartmentpolitical parties

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    Save the Bees, Ditch the Plow: A lesson exploring how squash bee abundance is affected by varying levels of soil disturbance.
    The purpose of this lesson is to explore the effects that three varying degrees of soil disturbance has on the squash bee abundance that is observed. We will learn about the importance of...

    Keywords: beesmutualismpollinatorscommunity-based conservationno till farmingreduced tillage

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    Teaching students to read, interpret, and write about scientific research: A press release assignment in a large, lower-division class
    A central skill in any science discipline is the ability to read, understand, and discuss the primary literature of the discipline. However, teaching this skill presents unique challenges within...

    Keywords: cell biologyScience Communicationscientific literacyGraduate Teaching Assistant Professional DevelopmentBiological LiteracyPrimary ResearchWriting Skills

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    The impact of diversifying and humanizing science role models on student attitudes and interest in science careers
    We introduced diverse and humanized scientist role models into data literacy instruction and quantified changes in student attitudes towards science. We found that the impact of science role models...
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    2011-Nakul-Chitnis-Introduction to Mathematical Epidemiology - Deterministic Compartmental Model
    Deterministic compartmental models form the simplest models in the mathematical study of infectious disease dynamics. They assume that a population is homogenous (all people are the same) and the...

    Keywords: sensitivitydiseaseinfectionthresholdcompartmentbifrucation

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    2002-Nelson-Perelson-Mathematical analysis of delay differential equations models of HIV-1 infection
    We develop and analyze a set of models that include intracellular delays, combination antiretroviral therapy, and the dynamics of both infected and uninfected T cells.

    Keywords: infectionHIVT cells

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    1981-Nielsen-Rosenfeld-Substantive Interpretations of Differential Equation Models
    The use of differential equations models to study social processes has been increasing rapidly. There are, however, ambiguities in the interpretation of the parameters of these models.

    Keywords: sociologypoliticsintragenerational mobilitypolitical mobility

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    Discrete Math Modeling with Biological Applications (Course Materials)
    These are the materials for Math 214 offered at Rhodes College.

    Keywords: labsagent-based modelingDiscrete Difference Equationsmatrix modelscoursebiomath coursedemonstrationin-class activitylab protocolproblem set

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    Data from: Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide
    Review important resources for building IPMs and provide a comprehensive guide, with extensive R code, for their construction.

    Keywords: IPMintegral projection modelsdemographyelasticitylife historymatrix projection modelpopulation growth ratepopulation projection modelsensitivitystage structurevital ratesResources @ DryadResources @ QUBES - Data

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    Harnessing the Power of the Immune System: Influenza Vaccines
    Because most people have been infected by and/or immunized against influenza, students should know how the immune system responds to the infection and how vaccines protect against disease. Vaccines...

    Keywords: VaccinesInfluenzaImmunizationVaccine efficacy

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    2015-European_Bioinformatics_Institute-Bio-Models-Database
    Bio Models Database is a repository of computational models of biological processes. Models described from literature are manually curated and enriched with cross-references. All models are...

    Keywords: biologydatabasebioinformaticsModelscomputational models

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    Integrating the modeling of biogeochemical cycles and energy flow
    This in-class activity challenges students to create and then integrate models of how carbon, nitrogen, water and energy all move within an ecosystem. Using 15 provided standard pools, they work...

    Keywords: modelingecologyintegration4DEE FrameworkBiogeochemical cycles

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    Using Regression Models to Examine the Effect of Carbon Dioxide on Fluid pH
    In this activity students will use statistics and regression models to explore the effects of carbon dioxide on blood pH by measuring pH changes that occur over time as carbon dioxide reacts with...

    Keywords: BiochemistryphysiologyAnatomyGeneral BiologyChoosing modelsCreate graphsInterpret graphsConcepts in Statisticscreate modelsmake predictions

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    2015-The European Bioinformatics Institute-BioModels Database
    BioModels Database is a repository of computational models of biological processes. Models described from literature are manually curated and enriched with cross-references.

    Keywords: computational biologyBioModels Databasebio databaselife science experiments

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    2004-Ledzewicz-Schattler-Application of Control Theory in Modelling Cancer Chemotherapy
    In this paper we discuss how to incorporate more realistic medical aspects of chemotherapy which hitherto have been neglected in the models.

    Keywords: optimal controldrug resistancepharmacokineticspharmacodynamicschemotherapy

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    2014-Allen-EtAl-Perturbations in Epidemiological Models -When zombies attack we can survive
    In this paper, we investigate the existence of stability-changing bifurcations in epidemiological models used to study the spread of zombiism through a human population.

    Keywords: epidemiologydynamical systemszombiesbifurcationperturbation

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    2012-Michael_Kerckhove-From Population Dynamics to Partial Differential Equations
    This article illustrates PDE models for location-dependent carrying capacities, migrations, and the dispersion of a population.

    Keywords: population dynamicslogistic equationlocation-dependent carrying capacities

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    2005-JC_Sprott-Dynamical Models of Happiness
    A sequence of models for the time evolution of one’s happiness in response to external events is described.

    Keywords: happinessoscillation

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    2004-Denny-Yackel-Temperature Models for Ware Hall
    This paper offers some very nice extended models for cooling off a new office area for a mathematics department.

    Keywords: Newton's Law of Coolingcoolingoffice building

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