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    Lizard cold tolerance and extreme weather events: a scientist spotlight featuring Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton
    Students interpret experimental and observational data about patterns in cold tolerance in the green anole. They reflect on the experience and identity of the lead researcher based on a video...

    Keywords: climate changeNatural Selectionenvironmental variationphenotypic plasticityacclimationenvironmental conditions

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    Examining human impacts on tusk evolution in elephants using authentic research data
    In this activity students explore and analyze real, authentic research data paired with HHMI’s “Selection for Tuskless Elephants” video in a hands-on investigation of human impacts on elephant...
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    Evolution
    This video explores the way evolution happens via natural selection in the context of the microbial world. Viruses and bacteria are discussed. We will see how evolution can be simulated in a...

    Keywords: videosEvolutionNatural SelectionScience Forwardmicrobes

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    2015-Sebesyen-Farago-Invasive Species Model with Linear Rat Harvesting on Easter Island
    In this paper we suggest a natural modification of this model. Namely, we will investigate the case where the amount of the rats is decreased due to some external factor, e.g., exterminations by...

    Keywords: carrying capacityharvestEaster Islandinvasie especiesratsRoughgarden theorem.

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    Infectious Chocolate Joy with a Side of Poissonian Statistics: An activity connecting life science students with subtle physics concepts
    Introductory physics courses are required for many programs in the life sciences, yet traditional curricula fail to help students meaningfully connect physical concepts with biological...

    Keywords: quantitative biologyHIVmultiplicity of infectionPoisson DistributionPhysics for biologists

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    SCIENCE/Fiction: Modular Template for Class Design
    We present a modular scaffold for designing an introductory seminar using speculative fiction and science papers to welcome university undergraduates to the biology major. A list of twelve possible...

    Keywords: geneticscell biologyneurosciencesystems biologyScience Fiction

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    2018-Joseph-EtAl-A Nonlinear differential equation model of Asthma effect of environmental pollution using LHAM
    In this paper, we investigated a nonlinear differential equation mathematical model to study the spread of asthma in the environmental pollutants from industry and mainly from tobacco smoke from...

    Keywords: asthmatobacco smokeLiao’s Homotopy analysis Method (environmental pollutants

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    2015-Jonathon_Easton, Jonathan-Mathematical models of health focusing on diabetes-Delay differential equations and data mining
    This is an exhaustive study with very good references of a linear system of four differential equations with and without delay to model diabetes in a human being.

    Keywords: diabeteshealth model

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    2010-Roberto_Munoz-Alicea-Mathematical Model for Enzyme Kinetics-Multiple Timescales Analysis
    We study a basic model for enzyme substrate reaction. Through several assumptions and via nondimensionalization, we simplify the equations.

    Keywords: kineticsEnzymesubstratenondimensionalizationmultiple timescales

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    2008-Lawson-Marion-An Introduction to Mathematical Modelling
    This is a broad based set of notes with sections: Building Models, Studying Models, and Using Models. No depth on any model, no solution strategies, but good references to models, and general...

    Keywords: time serieslinear regressionAkaike Information Criterionmcomparision models

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    2005-Saifullah-Mathematical Modeling With Differential Equations
    This article aims to provide the students some basic modeling skills, which will have applications to a wide variety of problems.

    Keywords: species interactionsword equationinteractive software

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    2000-Dwayne-Anderson-Estimates of the future membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
    Thus, the purpose of this paper is to model the membership of the Church of the Latter Day Saints from the available data on membership from 1844 to 2000.

    Keywords: population dynamicslogisticLatter-Day Saints

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    1999-Meyer-Ausubel-Carrying Capacity-A Model with Logistically Varying Limits
    This paper extends the logistic equation to simple growth model with a logistically increasing carrying capacity. This is applied to human population situations in several countries with fits to data.

    Keywords: population dynamicsparameter estimationlimited growthgrowthlogisitic

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    2021-Brian_Winkel-Modelling_sublimation_of_carbon_dioxide
    We report results in our efforts to model sublimation of carbon dioxide and the associated kinetics order and parameter estimation issues in our model.

    Keywords: dataparameter estimationcarbon dioxidesublimationdry ice

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    5-001-LSD-ModelingScenario
    We describe the use of a two compartment model of a linear system of first order linear differential equations to model lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in the body. We provide the data from the...

    Keywords: LSDSpanishcompartmentpharmacokineticslysergic acid diethylamide

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    1-070-FisheryHarvest-ModelingScenario
    Students model with logistic growth, harvesting, and diffusion in analyzing ocean fisheries of the Atlantic cod. We help students build models, ever more complex, to capture physical realities. At...

    Keywords: logisticDiffusionmanagementharvestfishery

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    1-089-SpreadOfDisease-ModelingScenario
    In this project I want to use the algebra based concept “difference quotient” to solve differential equations models with the help of Excel. That means even students with only a College Algebra...

    Keywords: SIR modelProportionderivativedifference quotientSleeping Beautycontagious disease

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    3-013-WhiffleBallFall-ModelingScenario
    We are given data on the time and position of a whiffle ball as it falls to the ground. We attempt to model the falling ball and we confront the different resistance terms and models.

    Keywords: Akaike Information CriterionresistancegravityFree Body Diagramforcefalling objectWhiffle ball

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    4-020-AnIEDBlast-ModelingScenario
    These three exercises offer students a chance to model with second order ordinary differential equations, how they might incorporate a spring-mass system into a larger model, and how they can use...

    Keywords: applied mathematicsforcesFree Body DiagramImprovised Explosive Devicessum of forces

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    Mystery box puzzle for model based reasoning
    This is a computer based problem solving activity that I use to engage introductory biology students with discussions about model based reasoning.

    Keywords: Model Based ReasoningScientific reasoningpuzzle

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