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Submissions from 2017

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

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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

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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

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Conceptions of Modeling Reported by Instructors in Teacher Preparation Programs, Hyunyi Jung, Eryn M. Stehr, and Jia He

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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

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Stream Channel Morphology Impacts Natural Submarine Groundwater Discharge to Oyster Creek, Georgia, Jacque L. Kelly and Cody Mahaffey

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The Effect of Obstacles and Forelimb Positions on Bipedal Locomotion in Lizards, Chase T. Kinsey and Lance D. McBrayer

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Connecting the Dots: A Basic Food Web of the Lower Ogeechee River Basin, Allison K. Lutz and Jose Checo Colón-Gaud

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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

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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

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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

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Thermal Dependence of Sprint Performance and Critical Thermal Limits in Ecologically Distinct Populations of a Small Ectotherm, Lauren K. Neel and Lance D. McBrayer

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Spectral Asymptotics of a Class of One-Dimensional Fractal Laplacians, Sze-Man Ngai

Spectral Asymptotics of Fractal Laplace and Schrödinger Operators, Sze-Man Ngai

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Spectral Asymptotics of Some One-Dimensional Fractal Laplacians, Sze-Man Ngai

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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

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Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions and Misconceptions of Physical and Virtual Manipulatives, Enrique Ortiz and Heidi Eisenreich

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Corridors Facilitate Gene Flow in a Fragmented Landscape, Richard William Orton, John Scott Harrison, and Lance D. McBrayer

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Habitat Management Affects Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Genetic Diversity, Richard William Orton, John Scott Harrison, and Lance D. McBrayer

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Predation Alters Local Adaptation and Sexual Dichromatism, Richard William Orton and Lance D. McBrayer

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Predation and Color Polymorphism in a Fragmented Landscape, Richard William Orton and Lance D. McBrayer

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Plantation Museums: Struggling to Remember Slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, Amy E. Potter

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The Wicked Problem of Food Security: Modules that Promote Interdisciplinary and Systems Thinking Using AGO, Amy E. Potter, Rebecca Boger, and Russanne Low

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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

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Searching for Slavery Amongst the Plantation Edutainment Complex, Amy E. Potter and E. Arnold Modlin

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Saltwater Intrusion in the Surficial Aquifer on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, James S. Reichard, R. Kelly Vance, Jacque L. Kelly, and Brian K. Meyer

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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

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Influences of Local and Regional Environmental Factors on Atlantic Coastal Plain Stream Fish Communities, Rebecca L. Scott and James Henry Roberts

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What Determines Who is Where in Atlantic Coastal Plain Streams?, Rebecca L. Scott and James Henry Roberts

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Does Bipedalism Confer an Advantage to Lizards Sprinting Over Obstacles?, Jessica D. Self, Clint E. Collins, and Lance D. McBrayer

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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

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Rogers–Ramanujan Type Partition Identities, Andrew V. Sills

Developing Consistent Meanings for Mathematical Connections, Exploration, and Reasoning, Eryn M. Stehr

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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

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Algebra as a Tool: Making Connections in Teacher Preparation, Eryn M. Stehr, Hyunyi Jung, and Jill Newton

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Occupancy Modeling of eDNA from an Endangered Darter in Turbid Rivers, Garret J. Strickland and James Henry Roberts

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Tree-DOM: DOM Quality From the Headwaters of the Aquatic Carbon Cycle, Aron Stubbins, Sasha Wagner, Thorsten Dittmar, and John T. Van Stan

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With or Without Nutrients, Sponges Are Boring: The Effects of Eutrophication on Bioerosion, Amber D. Stubler, John M. Carroll, and Christopher M. Finelli

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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

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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

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Global Estimate of Lichen and Bryophytes to Forest Rainfall Interception, John T. Van Stan, Philipp Porada, and Axel Kleidon

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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

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The Fundamental Properties of a Family of Stochastic Epidemic Dynamic Models for Vector-Borne Disease, Divine Wanduku

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Pattern Packing: Questions and Observations, Hua Wang

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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

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Minimal Mass-Energy Dynamics for Rotating BEC, Shijun Zheng

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Orbital Stability of Standing Waves for Dispersive Models with Nonlocal Nonlinearity, Shijun Zheng

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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

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Conceptual and Procedural Understanding: Prospective Teachers’ Interpretations and Applications, Janet Andreasen, Erhan Haciomeroglu, and Heidi Eisenreich

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Sharp Condition on Global Well-Posedness for Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations With Rotation, Nyla Basharat, Yi Hu, and Shijun Zheng

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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

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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

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A Note on Dirichlet Process Based Semiparametric Bayesian Models, Arpita Chatterjee

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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

Presentation given at Mathematics in Action (MiA2016): Modeling and Analysis in Molecular Biology and Electrophysiology, Zhan Chen

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Molecular Bioscience and Biophysics-Multiscale Modeling of Solvation - Part II of II, Zhan Chen and Jaydeep P. Bardhan

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Molecular Bioscience and Biophysics-Multiscale Modeling of Solvation - Part I of II, Zhan Chen and Jaydeep P. Bardhan

Examining Phenotypic Plasticity in Hydrocotyle bonariensis in Response to Variations in Soil Conditions, Savannah D. Chiarello, J. Counts, J. Grier, E. Medrano, and Heather M. Joesting

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Leaf Decay Rates and Litter-Dwelling Invertebrates in Georgia Coastal Plain Rivers, Vallie B. Collins II and Jose Checo Colón-Gaud

Mentoring programs provided by professional organizations for undergraduate students from under-represented groups: The example of Instars, José Checo Colón-Gaud

Stream Ecosystem Responses to Loss of Amphibian Diversity, José Checo Colón-Gaud

Succeeding in College and Whatever Comes Next, José Checo Colón-Gaud

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The Instars Mentoring Program: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned Over 5-Years of Broadening Participation in Freshwater Science, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Judy Li, Patina K. Mendez, Tamara D. Sluss, Marcelo Ardon-Sayao, and Krista A. Capps

Oral Presentation at the 12th International Congress on the Biology of Fish, Bi-annual Meeting, Christopher P. Cutler

“Work in Progress” seminar, Christopher P. Cutler

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Phenological Impacts on Litter Interception in a Pinus elliottii Stand, Southeastern US, Michael Dibble, John T. Van Stan, Philine Bogeholz, Zachary Norman, and Miriam Coenders-Gerrits

Connecting Fraction Manipulatives to Context, Heidi Eisenreich

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Parent Workshops on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Grade Whole Number Operation Tasks, Heidi Eisenreich

What Have I Done? Connecting Fraction Manipulatives to Context, Heidi Eisenreich