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Ramírez-Terrazo, Amaranta; Garibay-Orijel, Roberto; Ruan-Soto, Juan Felipe; Casas, Alejandro; Reyes Chilpa, Ricardo – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2023
This work analyzes the safe consumption of wild mushrooms in Mexico, addresses the mushroom poisoning phenomenon, and discusses the role of communication and environmental education to prevent them. We documented that most mushroom poisonings happen in mestizo and transculturized indigenous communities. We constructed the online 'Digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plants (Botany), Biological Sciences, Poisoning
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Restrepo, Silvia; ter Horst, Enrique; Zambrano, Juan Diego; Gunn, Laura H.; Molina, German; Salazar, Carlos Andres – Education for Information, 2022
This manuscript builds on a novel, automatic, freely-available Bayesian approach to extract information in abstracts and titles to classify research topics by quartile. This approach is demonstrated for all N= 149,129 ISI-indexed publications in biological sciences journals during 2017. A Bayesian multinomial inverse regression approach is used to…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Biological Sciences, Trend Analysis, Classification
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Mascaró, Maite; Sacristán, Ana Isabel; Rufino, Marta M. – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2016
For the past 4 years, we have been involved in a project that aims to enhance the teaching and learning of experimental analysis and statistics, of environmental and biological sciences students, through computational programming activities (using R code). In this project, through an iterative design, we have developed sequences of R-code-based…
Descriptors: Programming, Statistics, Biological Sciences, Foreign Countries