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Submissions from 2017
Electrical Resistivity and Ground Penetrating Radar Investigation of St. Catherines Island, Ryan G. Diederich, Jacque L. Kelly, R. Kelly Vance, and Anne M. DeLua
Geophysical Investigation of St. Catherines Island Using Electrical Resistivity and Ground Penetrating Radar, Ryan G. Diederich, Jacque L. Kelly, R. Kelly Vance, and Anne M. DeLua
Pollen Evidence for the Age of the Lilesville Gravels: A Neogene Strath Terrace Deposit From the Fall Zone of North Carolina, USA, John A. Diemer, Fredrick J. Rich, Matthew Yankech, Rufus C. Mclean, Andy R. Bobyarchick, and Martha C. Eppes
Making Sense to Explore: Teaching Area With Coherence, Heidi Eisenreich, Juli Dixon, and Janet Andreasen
An Exploratory Study on the Influence of Video Clips on Pre-Service Teachers' Learning of Fractions, Heidi Eisenreich and Ha Nguyen
Building Coherence Through Area Concepts, Heidi Eisenreich and Ha Nguyen
Helping Parents Learn Different Strategies: Whole Numbers, Heidi Eisenreich and Ha Nguyen
Supporting Pre-Service Teachers to Make Sense of Fraction Strategies Using Video Clips, Heidi Eisenreich and Ha Nguyen
Intraspecific Space Use in Peromyscus polionotus, Emily H. Evans and J. Michelle Cawthorn
Characterization of the Nitrogen-Fixing Microbial Community Associated with the Dune Plant Oenothera (Evening Primrose), J. Ferguson, N. Tarbell, Heather M. Joesting, and J. Broft-Bailey
Detection of Nitrogen Fixers That Associate with Oenothera Dune Plants on Georgia Barrier Islands, J. Ferguson, N. Tarbell, Heather M. Joesting, and J. Broft-Bailey
Graduate Learning Community: Designing Assignments, Quizzes, and Tests, Delena Bell Gatch and J. Michelle Cawthorn
Combinatorics of n-Colored Cyclic Compositions, Meghann M. Gibson, Daniel Gray, and Hua Wang
Random Graphs and L-Connectivities, Ran Gu, Xiaofeng Gu, Yongtang Shi, and Hua Wang
Completing the Incomplete: Making Sense of Completing the Square Using Manipulatives, Erhan Haciomeroglu, Heidi Eisenreich, and Aline Abassian
Conservation, Procreation and Introgression in Sturgeons of the Genus Scaphirhynchus in the Mississippi and Missouri River Basins, E. Heist, Aaron W. Schrey, K. Kingsland, M. Saltzgiver, R. Boley, Pamela Pitman Brown, M. Krampe, T. Kashiwagi, E. Krahl, and J. Doias
Nature of Mathematical Modeling Tasks for Secondary Mathematics Preservice Teachers, Jia He, Eryn M. Stehr, and Hyunyi Jung
Spatial Distribution of Barnacles on Spartina alterniflora Stems and Leaves, Rachel Hines, Michele Guidone, J. Lane, E. Ashe, and Heather M. Joesting
Bounds for Blow-Up Solutions to Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations in Two Dimensions, Yi Hu
Barnacle Colonization on Spartina alterniflora in Georgia Salt Marshes, Heather M. Joesting, J. Lane, Rachel Hines, E. Ashe, and Michele Guidone
Conceptions of Modeling Reported by Instructors in Teacher Preparation Programs, Hyunyi Jung, Eryn M. Stehr, and Jia He
Swimming While Feeding in Fishes: What Do Guppies Tell Us About the Roles of Specialization and Local Adaptation?, Emily A. Kane, M. M. Roeder, and M. D. DeRue
Stream Channel Morphology Impacts Natural Submarine Groundwater Discharge to Oyster Creek, Georgia, Jacque L. Kelly and Cody Mahaffey
The Effect of Obstacles and Forelimb Positions on Bipedal Locomotion in Lizards, Chase T. Kinsey and Lance D. McBrayer
Restoration by Transplantation: Using a Filter-Feeding Gastropod, Crepidula fornicata, to Rehabilitate Great South Bay, New York: Preliminary Surveys, Nicole L. Kleinas, Bradley J. Peterson, Stephen T. Tettelbach, and John M. Carroll
Invasive Asian Carp: The Role of Epigenetics in the Successful Establishment of Silver and Bighead Carp in Illinois, E. Krahl, Aaron W. Schrey, J. Tong, and E. Heist
The Effects of Barnacle Colonization on Spartina alterniflora Growth and Productivity in Coastal Georgia, J. Lane, E. Ashe, Rachel Hines, Michele Guidone, and Heather M. Joesting
Assessment of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Apsive Samplers for Southeastern Coastal Plain Non-Wadeable Streams, Kelsey A. Laymon, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Damon L. Mullis, and Oscar P. Flite III
Comparing Three Types of Passive Samplers for the Assessment of Macroinvertebrates in Non-Wadeable Rivers, Kelsey A. Laymon, Damon L. Mullis, Chalisa Nestell, Jason Moak, Oscar P. Flite III, and Jose Checo Colón-Gaud
Exploring the Relationship Between Changes in Agricultural Yield and Cropland Area, Meimei Lin
Geography of China, Meimei Lin
Multi-Variate Regression Analyses Combined with Fixed-Effect (FE) Model, Meimei Lin
Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Study Agricultural Land Shift in US Midwest, Meimei Lin
What Is the Cost to Nature to Sustain an Increasing Population?, Meimei Lin
Mapping Regional Impervious Surface Distribution from Night Light: The Variability of Regression Models Across Multiple Cities, Meimei Lin, Hogeun Park, Song Qian, Jiquan Chen, and Peilei Fan
Connecting the Dots: A Basic Food Web of the Lower Ogeechee River Basin, Allison K. Lutz and Jose Checo Colón-Gaud
Diet of the Snail Bullhead (Ameiurus brunneus) in the Lower Ogeechee River, Allison K. Lutz, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, and Stephen P. Vives
The Role of Physiological Integrators in Avian Range Expansions, Lynn Martin, Aaron W. Schrey, Haley E. Hanson, and Holly J. Kilvitis
The Role of Physiological Integrators in Avian Range Expansions, Lynn Martin, Aaron W. Schrey, Haley E. Hanson, and Holly J. Kilvitis
Substrates and Settings: Quantifying Locomotor Performance in Functional and Ecological Contexts, Lance D. McBrayer, Eric J. McElroy, and L. Kerouac
Oyster Recruitment and Growth in Areas of High and Low Groundwater Discharge in Oyster Creek, Georgia, A. L. McKenna, John M. Carroll, and Jacque L. Kelly
Can Riparian Habitat Impact Water Chemistry and Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in Small Blackwater Creeks?, Candace Moon, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Aubrie Goodson, and Ashley Deal
Thermal Dependence of Sprint Performance and Critical Thermal Limits in Ecologically Distinct Populations of a Small Ectotherm, Lauren K. Neel and Lance D. McBrayer
Spectral Asymptotics of a Class of One-Dimensional Fractal Laplacians, Sze-Man Ngai
Spectral Asymptotics of Fractal Laplace and Schrödinger Operators, Sze-Man Ngai
Spectral Asymptotics of Some One-Dimensional Fractal Laplacians, Sze-Man Ngai
Spectral Dimension of a Class of One-Dimensional Fractal Laplacians, Sze-Man Ngai
Teaching Mathematics Through Social Justice: An Exploratory Study on Pre-Service Teachers' Learning, Ha Nguyen and Heidi Eisenreich
Development, Implementation, and Assessment: Designing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences that Effectively Maximize Learning for All Students, J. T. Olimpo, C. E. D'Arcy, W. B. Davis, Sue DeChenne-Peters, D. Esparaza, G. R. Fisher, and T. M. McCabe
Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions and Misconceptions of Physical and Virtual Manipulatives, Enrique Ortiz and Heidi Eisenreich
Corridors Facilitate Gene Flow in a Fragmented Landscape, Richard William Orton, John Scott Harrison, and Lance D. McBrayer
Habitat Management Affects Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Genetic Diversity, Richard William Orton, John Scott Harrison, and Lance D. McBrayer
Predation Alters Local Adaptation and Sexual Dichromatism, Richard William Orton and Lance D. McBrayer
Predation and Color Polymorphism in a Fragmented Landscape, Richard William Orton and Lance D. McBrayer
Plantation Museums: Struggling to Remember Slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, Amy E. Potter
The Wicked Problem of Food Security: Modules that Promote Interdisciplinary and Systems Thinking Using AGO, Amy E. Potter, Rebecca Boger, and Russanne Low
Assemblage of the Emergent Plantation Museum Experience, Amy E. Potter, Candace Bright, Derek H. Alderman, David L. Butler, Perry L. Carter, Stephen P. Hanna, and E. Arnold Modlin
Searching for Slavery Amongst the Plantation Edutainment Complex, Amy E. Potter and E. Arnold Modlin
Saltwater Intrusion in the Surficial Aquifer on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, James S. Reichard, R. Kelly Vance, Jacque L. Kelly, and Brian K. Meyer
Structural Controls on Saltwater Intrusion in the Surficial Aquifer on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, James S. Reichard, R. Kelly Vance, Jacque L. Kelly, and Brian K. Meyer
The River of No Return? Exploring the Resiliency of Stream-Fish Communities to Hydrologic Change, James Henry Roberts
Ecological Epigenetics of Non-Model Organisms, Aaron W. Schrey
Molecular Ecology and Ecological Epigenetics in Altered Environments, Aaron W. Schrey
Influences of Local and Regional Environmental Factors on Atlantic Coastal Plain Stream Fish Communities, Rebecca L. Scott and James Henry Roberts
What Determines Who is Where in Atlantic Coastal Plain Streams?, Rebecca L. Scott and James Henry Roberts
Does Bipedalism Confer an Advantage to Lizards Sprinting Over Obstacles?, Jessica D. Self, Clint E. Collins, and Lance D. McBrayer
Linking Inter-River Movements of Savannah River Striped Bass, Morone saxatilis with Spawning Activity in the Nearby Ogeechee River, Jackson Sibley, James Henry Roberts, and Joel Fleming
Rogers–Ramanujan Type Partition Identities, Andrew V. Sills
Developing Consistent Meanings for Mathematical Connections, Exploration, and Reasoning, Eryn M. Stehr
Using Open Applet Tasks to Support Discussion of Area Measurement, Eryn M. Stehr
Using Technology for Mathematical Learning: Immediate Grades or Mathematical Consequences, Eryn M. Stehr
Algebra as a Tool: Making Connections in Teacher Preparation, Eryn M. Stehr, Hyunyi Jung, and Jill Newton
Occupancy Modeling of eDNA from an Endangered Darter in Turbid Rivers, Garret J. Strickland and James Henry Roberts
Tree-DOM: DOM Quality From the Headwaters of the Aquatic Carbon Cycle, Aron Stubbins, Sasha Wagner, Thorsten Dittmar, and John T. Van Stan
With or Without Nutrients, Sponges Are Boring: The Effects of Eutrophication on Bioerosion, Amber D. Stubler, John M. Carroll, and Christopher M. Finelli
Estimating Submarine Groundwater Discharge on St. Catherines Island, Ga via Radon-222, Scott D. Thorson and Jacque L. Kelly
Quantifying Submarine Groundwater Discharge via Radioisotope Tracers Along the Southwestern Coast of St. Catherines Island, Ga, Scott D. Thorson and Jacque L. Kelly
Investigation of the Shallow Hydrogeologic System on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, R. Kelly Vance, James S. Reichard, Jacque L. Kelly, Brian K. Meyer, Fredrick J. Rich, Ryan G. Diederich, and Anne M. DeLua
Global Estimate of Lichen and Bryophytes to Forest Rainfall Interception, John T. Van Stan, Philipp Porada, and Axel Kleidon
A Generalized Stochastic SEIRS Epidemic Dynamic Model for Vector-borne Diseases with three Distributed Delays and Nonlinear Incidence, Divine Wanduku
The asymptotic properties of a class of vector-borne epidemic dynamic models with emphasis on the intensity of random perturbations, Divine Wanduku
The Fundamental Properties of a Family of Stochastic Epidemic Dynamic Models for Vector-Borne Disease, Divine Wanduku
Pattern Packing: Questions and Observations, Hua Wang
How Well Does the Flow-Trait Framework Predict Short-Term Fish Community Dynamics in Unregulated Rivers?, Kit Wheeler, James Henry Roberts, Mary C. Freeman, Byron J. Freeman, and Paul L. Angermeier
Minimal Mass-Energy Dynamics for Rotating BEC, Shijun Zheng
Orbital Stability of Standing Waves for Dispersive Models with Nonlocal Nonlinearity, Shijun Zheng
Symplectic and Contact Imprimitivity, Francois Ziegler
Submissions from 2016
Prevalence and Ribotype Diversity of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile in Animals, M. Jahangir Alam, Jacob McPherson, Julie Marinda, Allyson Thrall, Van Ngo, Apurba Apu, Ananna Anu, Rebecca Kessinger, D. Biswas, Wasimul Q. Chowdhury, Salina Parveen, A. Romero, F. N. Baliraine, and Kevin W. Garey
Ribotype Diversity of Clostridium Difficile Strains from Diverse Environmental Sources and Geographical Areas, M. Jahangir Alam, Julie Miranda, Jacob McPherson, Ananna Anu, Apurba Apu, Eric Z. Kao, Kaitlin R. Wasko, Wasimul Q. Chowdhury, Mursheda Ali, Salina Parveen, James Masuoka, and Kevin W. Garey
Conceptual and Procedural Understanding: Prospective Teachers’ Interpretations and Applications, Janet Andreasen, Erhan Haciomeroglu, and Heidi Eisenreich
Sharp Condition on Global Well-Posedness for Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations With Rotation, Nyla Basharat, Yi Hu, and Shijun Zheng
Spatiotemporal Throughfall Patterns Beneath an Urban Tree Row, Philine Bogeholz, John T. Van Stan, Anke Hildebrandt, Jan Friesen, Michael Dibble, and Zachary Norman
Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning, Stephen W. Carden
Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning, Stephen W. Carden
Streamlining the Johnson-Neyman Technique for Two-Way Interactions, Stephen W. Carden
The SMART Scholarship at Georgia Southern University, J. Michelle Cawthorn, Joy Darley, Marlynn Griffin, Delena B. Gatch, Brian Koehler, and James Lobue
A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for the Reliability of Repairable Systems, Arpita Chatterjee
A Note on Dirichlet Process Based Semiparametric Bayesian Models, Arpita Chatterjee
A Semiparametric Bayesian Approach to Borrow Information from Historical Control Data in Two Arm Clinical Trials, Arpita Chatterjee
Bayesian Modeling for Sparse Data, Arpita Chatterjee
