You are here: Home / Resources / Browse Resources

Open. Adaptable. Free.

Resources created by our members and partners.

The QUBES platform hosts hundreds of teaching materials, reference materials, and cloud-based software free to use and adapt using open Creative Commons licenses.

Text Search:
Applied Filters
    Vegetation Greening: A Snapshot from the Andean Tropics
    This online module explores how satellite images are used to study vegetation greenness and, using Ecuador as an example, demonstrates how tropical vegetation experienced increased greenness...

    Keywords: remote sensingTime Series AnalysisEarth ObservationEarth and Space SciencesgeographyGIMMS NDVIgreening and browningtropical Andes

    278

    views

    72

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    High technology to measure forest carbon stocks: How can advanced remote sensing improve biomass quantification in the Brazilian Amazon?
    A case study on the estimation of aboveground biomass using advanced remote sensors (LiDAR and hyperspectral) in the Brazilian Amazon. Students explore remote sensing (RS) data and compare RS-based...

    Keywords: climate changeremote sensinghyperspectraltropical forestsLiDAR data analysiscarbon stocks

    259

    views

    71

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Restoring tropical forests: Implementing an online module about restoration and succession in an advanced undergraduate ecology course
    “Restoring tropical forests” was implemented, using restoration as an example of variation in successional pathways, in an undergraduate course at Arizona State University. New versions of the...

    Keywords: resourcesimplementationRestorationtropical forestssuccession

    291

    views

    138

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    VISABLI - an RCN-UBE for Visualizations, Interactive Simulations, and Animations for Biology Learning & Instruction (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Our network improves instructional multimedia design for biology education by fostering communication and collaboration among members of three communities: undergraduate biology instructors,...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

    243

    views

    68

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Using the Hardy-Weinberg Equations: Quantifying Natural Selection and Allele Frequencies
    This module contains exercises designed to walk students through a real-world example of the coevolution of fruit color and primate frugivore color vision. Students will apply the Hardy-Weinberg...

    Keywords: Hardy-WeinbergEvolutionintroductory biologyQuantitative reasoninginterdisciplinaryNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsC3. Statistical AnalysisC6. Quantitative LanguageC1. Numeracy

    543

    views

    388

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2018-LA_Peletier-Ordinary Differential Equations in Pharmacodynamics
    Good mix of theory, application, solution technique in a number of areas of applications of differential equations. Develops qualitative behavior issues. Exercises, but not about models, more about...

    Keywords: compartment modelpharmacokineticspharmacodynamicsorbitsturnover

    179

    views

    87

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2017-Xiang_Liu-Mathematical Studies of Optimal Economic Growth Model with Monetary
    In this paper, efforts will be made to study an extended Neoclassic economic growth model derived from Solow-Swan Model and Ramsey-Cass-Koopsman Model.

    Keywords: Optimal Control TheoryJacobianSolow-Swan modelMonetary policyoptimal economic growth

    202

    views

    75

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2017-Suebcharoen-Analysis of a Predator-Prey Model with Switching and Stage-Structure for Predator
    This paper studies the behavior of a predator-prey model with switching and stage-structure for predator.

    Keywords: stage structurepredatorpreybifurcationswitching

    267

    views

    56

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2017-Helen-Byrne-Further Mathematics Biology
    These studies will be in the context of ecological, biological and biochemical applications.

    Keywords: epidemicschemotaxisenzyme-substrateion channelsnerve pulsesgene proagationtumour

    153

    views

    37

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2017-Guy-Bart_Stan-Modelling in Biology
    This is a very rich set of notes, rich in examples and ideas for modeling. In almost all cases after a model is introduced in real context there is attention to stability analysis.

    Keywords: spring massbifurcationmass actionlimit cycles

    130

    views

    64

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2017-Gilbert-Lewis-Harvesting of renewable natural resource
    This is a resource to accompany a commercial text book and has a tutorial nature with some analysis and several good exercises

    Keywords: logisticmaximum sustainable yieldwhaleharvestrenewable resourceconstant harvest

    150

    views

    67

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2017-David_Morin-Oscillations
    So needless to say, an understanding of oscillations is required for an understanding of waves.

    Keywords: dampingfrequency responseresonanceoscillationbeatsunderdampingharmonic oscillatorsover dampingcritical damping

    127

    views

    66

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2017-Chávez-EtAl-Modeling and Analysis of Integrated Pest Control Strategies via Impulsive Differential Equations
    The paper is concerned with the development and numerical analysis of mathematical models used to describe complex biological systems in the framework of Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

    Keywords: bifurcationschaosimpulsive modellimit cycleshysteretic effectsperiod-doubling cascades

    214

    views

    76

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2014-Do-Lee-A Differential Equation Model for the Dynamics of Youth Gambling
    We examine the dynamics of gambling among young people aged 16–24 years, how prevalence rates of at-risk gambling and problem gambling change as adolescents enter young adulthood, and prevention...

    Keywords: reproductive numberGamblingepidemicsensitivity indexyouth gambling

    133

    views

    74

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2017-Biswasa-EtAl-Mathematical Modeling Applied to Sustainable Management of Marine Resources
    We study a nonlinear mathematical model of fishery management to understand dynamics of a fishery resource system in an aquatic environment that consists of two zones; one free fishing zone and...

    Keywords: natural resourcesmarine resourcesfishery model

    128

    views

    70

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2017-Agmour-EtAl-Optimization of the Two Fishermen's Profits Exploiting Three Competing Species Where Prices Depend on Harvest
    The main purpose of this work is to define the fishing effort that maximizes the profit of each fisherman, but all of them have to respect two constraints: the first one is the sustainable...

    Keywords: FishingharvestNash equilibriumoptimizeprofits

    108

    views

    43

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    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.

    129

    views

    60

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    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

    96

    views

    86

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2015-Doust-Saraj-The logistic modeling population having harvesting factor
    The present paper deals with the logistic equation having harvesting factor, which is studied in two cases constant and non-constant.

    Keywords: logisticharvestharvesting factor

    118

    views

    72

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    2014-Michael_Monagan-The Mortgage Payment Problem Approximating a Discrete Process with a Differential Equation
    In this article and a subsequent article I will give two non-standard examples that I've found helpful. The one presented here is a first order linear system. Second order systems and non-linear...

    Keywords: compartmentheatinghouse

    133

    views

    56

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Close

    Home

    Search