Mathematics And 21st Century Biology

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications,Committee on Mathematical Sciences Research for DOE's Computational Biology
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309095846

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Mathematics and 21st Century Biology by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications,Committee on Mathematical Sciences Research for DOE's Computational Biology Pdf

The exponentially increasing amounts of biological data along with comparable advances in computing power are making possible the construction of quantitative, predictive biological systems models. This development could revolutionize those biology-based fields of science. To assist this transformation, the U.S. Department of Energy asked the National Research Council to recommend mathematical research activities to enable more effective use of the large amounts of existing genomic information and the structural and functional genomic information being created. The resulting study is a broad, scientifically based view of the opportunities lying at the mathematical science and biology interface. The book provides a review of past successes, an examination of opportunities at the various levels of biological systemsâ€" from molecules to ecosystemsâ€"an analysis of cross-cutting themes, and a set of recommendations to advance the mathematics-biology connection that are applicable to all agencies funding research in this area.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications,Committee on Mathematical Sciences Research for DOE's Computational Biology
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309165067

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Mathematics and 21st Century Biology by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications,Committee on Mathematical Sciences Research for DOE's Computational Biology Pdf

The exponentially increasing amounts of biological data along with comparable advances in computing power are making possible the construction of quantitative, predictive biological systems models. This development could revolutionize those biology-based fields of science. To assist this transformation, the U.S. Department of Energy asked the National Research Council to recommend mathematical research activities to enable more effective use of the large amounts of existing genomic information and the structural and functional genomic information being created. The resulting study is a broad, scientifically based view of the opportunities lying at the mathematical science and biology interface. The book provides a review of past successes, an examination of opportunities at the various levels of biological systemsâ€" from molecules to ecosystemsâ€"an analysis of cross-cutting themes, and a set of recommendations to advance the mathematics-biology connection that are applicable to all agencies funding research in this area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biology
ISBN : LCCN:2005024164

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Mathematics and 21st Century Biology by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Defining and Advancing the Conceptual Basis of Biological Sciences in the 21st Century
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309134170

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The Role of Theory in Advancing 21st-Century Biology by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Defining and Advancing the Conceptual Basis of Biological Sciences in the 21st Century Pdf

Although its importance is not always recognized, theory is an integral part of all biological research. Biologists' theoretical and conceptual frameworks inform every step of their research, affecting what experiments they do, what techniques and technologies they develop and use, and how they interpret their data. By examining how theory can help biologists answer questions like "What are the engineering principles of life?" or "How do cells really work?" the report shows how theory synthesizes biological knowledge from the molecular level to the level of whole ecosystems. The book concludes that theory is already an inextricable thread running throughout the practice of biology; but that explicitly giving theory equal status with other components of biological research could help catalyze transformative research that will lead to creative, dynamic, and innovative advances in our understanding of life.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on a New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309147866

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A New Biology for the 21st Century by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on a New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution Pdf

Now more than ever, biology has the potential to contribute practical solutions to many of the major challenges confronting the United States and the world. A New Biology for the 21st Century recommends that a "New Biology" approach-one that depends on greater integration within biology, and closer collaboration with physical, computational, and earth scientists, mathematicians and engineers-be used to find solutions to four key societal needs: sustainable food production, ecosystem restoration, optimized biofuel production, and improvement in human health. The approach calls for a coordinated effort to leverage resources across the federal, private, and academic sectors to help meet challenges and improve the return on life science research in general.

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781847653505

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Mathematics Of Life by Ian Stewart Pdf

A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour of entire organisms, how they interact and how changes in biological diversity affect the planet's ecological balance. Mathematics offers new and sometimes startling perspectives on evolution and how patterns of inheritance and population work out over time-scales ranging from millions to hundreds of years - as well as what's going on to change us right now. Ian Stewart, in characteristically clear and entertaining fashion, explores these and a whole range of pertinent issues, including how far genes control behaviour and the nature of life itself. He shows how far mathematicians and biologists are succeeding in tackling some of the most difficult scientific problems the human race has ever confronted and where their research is currently taking us.

Author : Roger Buis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781786304834

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Biology and Mathematics by Roger Buis Pdf

To formalize the dynamics of living things is to search for invariants in a system that contains an irreducible aspect of “fuzziness”, because biological processes are characterized by their large statistical variability, and strong dependence on temporal and environmental factors. What is essential is the identification of what remains stable in a “living being” that is highly fluctuating. The use of mathematics is not limited to the use of calculating tools to simulate and predict results. It also allows us to adopt a way of thinking that is founded on concepts and hypotheses, leading to their discussion and validation. Instruments of mathematical intelligibility and coherence have gradually “fashioned” the view we now have of biological systems. Teaching and research, fundamental or applied, are now dependent on this new order known as Integrative Biology or Systems Biology.

Author : Laurinda Leite
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536183342

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Science and Mathematics Education for 21st Century Citizens: Challenges and Ways Forwards by Laurinda Leite Pdf

This book addresses the challenges that face science and mathematics education if it is to be relevant to 21st century citizens, as well as the ways that outstanding specialists from several countries around the world think it should deal with those challenges. Starting with the issue of science and mathematics teacher education in a changing world, it moves on to deal with innovative approaches to teaching science and mathematics. It then discusses contemporary issues related to the role played by technology in science and mathematics education, the challenges of the STEM agenda, and ways of making science and mathematics education more inclusive. Finally, it focuses on assessment issues, as the success of science and mathematics education depends at least in part on the purposes for which, and ways in which, students' learning is assessed. There is a worldwide trend towards providing meaningful science and mathematics education to all children for the sake of literacy and numeracy development and a need to produce enough science and technology specialists. This trend and need, coupled with the concern raised by students' disengagement in these two knowledge areas and the role that technology may play in countering it, put increasingly high demands on teachers.As shown in this book, science and mathematics education may offer a unique contribution in developing responsible citizens by fostering skills required in order to assume wider responsibilities and roles, focusing on personal, social and environmental dimensions. For instance, it offers unique insights into how teachers can build on students' complicated and interconnected real-worlds to help them learn authentic and relevant science and mathematics. Additionally, the book highlights potential positive relationships between science and mathematics, which are often envisaged as having a conflicting relationship in school curricula. By uncovering the similarities between them, and by providing evidence that both areas deal with issues that are relevant for citizens' daily lives, the book explores ways of linking and giving coherence to science and mathematics knowledge as components of everyday life settings. It also provides directions for future research on the educational potential of interconnecting science and mathematics at the different educational levels.Therefore, this is a worthwhile book for researchers, teacher educators and schoolteachers. It covers theoretical perspectives, research-based approaches and practical applications that may make a difference in education that is relevant and inclusive for citizens in the 21st century.

Author : Margaret B. Cozzens,Fred S. Roberts
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821842959

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Biomath in the Schools by Margaret B. Cozzens,Fred S. Roberts Pdf

Even though contemporary biology and mathematics are inextricably linked, high school biology and mathematics courses have traditionally been taught in isolation. But this is beginning to change. This volume presents papers related to the integration of biology and mathematics in high school classes. The first part of the book provides the rationale for integrating mathematics and biology in high school courses as well as opportunities for doing so. The second part explores the development and integration of curricular materials and includes responses from teachers. Papers in the third part of the book explore the interconnections between biology and mathematics in light of new technologies in biology. The last paper in the book discusses what works and what doesn't and presents positive responses from students to the integration of mathematics and biology in their classes.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications,Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in 2025
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780309254731

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Fueling Innovation and Discovery by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications,Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in 2025 Pdf

The mathematical sciences are part of everyday life. Modern communication, transportation, science, engineering, technology, medicine, manufacturing, security, and finance all depend on the mathematical sciences. Fueling Innovation and Discovery describes recent advances in the mathematical sciences and advances enabled by mathematical sciences research. It is geared toward general readers who would like to know more about ongoing advances in the mathematical sciences and how these advances are changing our understanding of the world, creating new technologies, and transforming industries. Although the mathematical sciences are pervasive, they are often invoked without an explicit awareness of their presence. Prepared as part of the study on the Mathematical Sciences in 2025, a broad assessment of the current state of the mathematical sciences in the United States, Fueling Innovation and Discovery presents mathematical sciences advances in an engaging way. The report describes the contributions that mathematical sciences research has made to advance our understanding of the universe and the human genome. It also explores how the mathematical sciences are contributing to healthcare and national security, and the importance of mathematical knowledge and training to a range of industries, such as information technology and entertainment. Fueling Innovation and Discovery will be of use to policy makers, researchers, business leaders, students, and others interested in learning more about the deep connections between the mathematical sciences and every other aspect of the modern world. To function well in a technologically advanced society, every educated person should be familiar with multiple aspects of the mathematical sciences.

Author : Mike Aitken,Bill Broadhurst,Stephen Hladky
Publisher : Garland Science
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781136843938

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Mathematics for Biological Scientists by Mike Aitken,Bill Broadhurst,Stephen Hladky Pdf

Mathematics for Biological Scientists is a new undergraduate textbook which covers the mathematics necessary for biology students to understand, interpret and discuss biological questions. The book's twelve chapters are organized into four themes. The first theme covers the basic concepts of mathematics in biology, discussing the mathematics used in biological quantities, processes and structures. The second theme, calculus, extends the language of mathematics to describe change. The third theme is probability and statistics, where the uncertainty and variation encountered in real biological data is described. The fourth theme is explored briefly in the final chapter of the book, which is to show how the 'tools' developed in the first few chapters are used within biology to develop models of biological processes. Mathematics for Biological Scientists fully integrates mathematics and biology with the use of colour illustrations and photographs to provide an engaging and informative approach to the subject of mathematics and statistics within biological science.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on a New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309144889

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A New Biology for the 21st Century by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on a New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution Pdf

Now more than ever, biology has the potential to contribute practical solutions to many of the major challenges confronting the United States and the world. A New Biology for the 21st Century recommends that a "New Biology" approach-one that depends on greater integration within biology, and closer collaboration with physical, computational, and earth scientists, mathematicians and engineers-be used to find solutions to four key societal needs: sustainable food production, ecosystem restoration, optimized biofuel production, and improvement in human health. The approach calls for a coordinated effort to leverage resources across the federal, private, and academic sectors to help meet challenges and improve the return on life science research in general.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Defining and Advancing the Conceptual Basis of Biological Sciences in the 21st Century
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309112499

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The Role of Theory in Advancing 21st-Century Biology by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Defining and Advancing the Conceptual Basis of Biological Sciences in the 21st Century Pdf

Although its importance is not always recognized, theory is an integral part of all biological research. Biologists' theoretical and conceptual frameworks inform every step of their research, affecting what experiments they do, what techniques and technologies they develop and use, and how they interpret their data. By examining how theory can help biologists answer questions like "What are the engineering principles of life?" or "How do cells really work?" the report shows how theory synthesizes biological knowledge from the molecular level to the level of whole ecosystems. The book concludes that theory is already an inextricable thread running throughout the practice of biology; but that explicitly giving theory equal status with other components of biological research could help catalyze transformative research that will lead to creative, dynamic, and innovative advances in our understanding of life.

Author : Pee Choon Toh,Berinderjeet Kaur
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789813143630

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Developing 21st Century Competencies in the Mathematics Classroom by Pee Choon Toh,Berinderjeet Kaur Pdf

The aim of this book is to contribute towards literature in the field of mathematics education, specifically the development of 21st century competencies amongst learners of mathematics. The book comprising fourteen chapters, written by renowned researchers in mathematics education, provides readers with approaches and applicable classroom strategies to foster skills and dispositions that will enable learners to thrive in the fast-changing and complex world that we live in today. The chapters in the book can be classified into three broad themes. The first is an examination of what is meant by 21st century competencies and how they can be developed within the context of the mathematics curriculum. The second is an in-depth discussion of evidence-based practices aimed at fostering specific competencies like metacognition and reflective thinking, critical thinking and communication skills. The last and third theme is about teaching approaches that are likely to feature increasingly in the 21st century classroom, for example flipped learning or the use of comics and storytelling. Contents:21st Century Competencies in Mathematics Classrooms (Pee Choon TOH & Berinderjeet KAUR)Mathematics Education, Virtues and 21st Century Competencies (Stephen THORNTON)Enriching Secondary Mathematics Education with 21st Century Competencies (WONG Khoon Yoong)Mathematics in 21st Century Life (Barry KISSANE)Mathematics Subject Mastery — A Must for Developing 21st Century Skills (Berinderjeet KAUR, WONG Lai Fong & Divya BHARDWAJ)Teaching in the 21st Century Mathematics Classroom: Metacognitive Questioning (Cynthia SETO)Listening and Responding to Children's Reflective Thinking: Two Case Studies on the Use of the National Assessment in Japan (Keiko HINO)Using Open-Ended Tasks to Foster 21st Century Learners at the Primary Level (YEO Kai Kow Joseph)Productive Talk in the Primary Mathematics Classroom (KOAY Phong Lee)Justification in Singapore Secondary Mathematics (CHUA Boon Liang)Examples in the Teaching of Mathematics: Teachers' Perceptions (Lay Keow NG & Jaguthsing DINDYAL)On the Efficacy of Flipped Classroom: Motivation and Cognitive Load (Weng Kin HO & Puay San CHAN)Use of Comics and Storytelling in Teaching Mathematics (TOH Tin Lam, CHENG Lu Pien, JIANG Heng & LIM Kam Ming)Game Theory: An Alternative Mathematical Experience (Ein-Ya GURA) Readership: Graduate students, researchers, practitioners and teachers in mathematics.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Undergraduate Biology Education to Prepare Research Scientists for the 21st Century
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309085359

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BIO2010 by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Undergraduate Biology Education to Prepare Research Scientists for the 21st Century Pdf

Biological sciences have been revolutionized, not only in the way research is conductedâ€"with the introduction of techniques such as recombinant DNA and digital technologyâ€"but also in how research findings are communicated among professionals and to the public. Yet, the undergraduate programs that train biology researchers remain much the same as they were before these fundamental changes came on the scene. This new volume provides a blueprint for bringing undergraduate biology education up to the speed of today's research fast track. It includes recommendations for teaching the next generation of life science investigators, through: Building a strong interdisciplinary curriculum that includes physical science, information technology, and mathematics. Eliminating the administrative and financial barriers to cross-departmental collaboration. Evaluating the impact of medical college admissions testing on undergraduate biology education. Creating early opportunities for independent research. Designing meaningful laboratory experiences into the curriculum. The committee presents a dozen brief case studies of exemplary programs at leading institutions and lists many resources for biology educators. This volume will be important to biology faculty, administrators, practitioners, professional societies, research and education funders, and the biotechnology industry.