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Submissions from 2016

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

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Parent Workshops Focused on Mathematics Knowledge for Parenting (MKP): Shifting Beliefs About Learning Mathematics, Heidi Eisenreich and Janet Andreasen

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Helping Preservice Teachers Make Sense of Whole Number Concepts and Operations: Working in Base 8, Heidi Eisenreich, Janet Andreasen, and Katie Harshman

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Hybridization and Replacement of Roanoke Bass (Ambloplites cavifrons) with Invasive Rock Bass (A. rupestris) in Virginia: How Big is the Problem?, Jackman C. Eschenroeder and James Henry Roberts

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Hybridization and Replacement of Roanoke Bass with Invasive Rock Bass in Virginia: A Genetic Analysis of the Problem, Jackman C. Eschenroeder and James Henry Roberts

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Home Ranges and Burrow Activity of Peromyscus polionotus in Southeastern Georgia, Emily H. Evans and J. Michelle Cawthorn

"You’re Out of Your Place:" The Racial Politics of Orange Crush on Tybee Island, Georgia, Jeffrey Finney and Amy E. Potter

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Gorenstein Projective (Pre)Covers, Michael J. Fox

An Introductory Biology Laboratory on Form and Function Using Hammerhead Sharks, A. Francis, Jay Y.S. Hodgson, and Aaron W. Schrey

The Role of Stress Hormones on Avian Host Competence for West Nile Virus, S. S. Gervasi, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, S. Burgan, Aaron W. Schrey, T. R. Unnasch, and L. B. Martin

The Role of Stress Hormones on Avian Competence to Transmit West Nile Virus, Stephanie S. Gervasi, Sarah C. Burgan, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Aaron W. Schrey, Hassan K. Hassan, Thomas R. Unnasch, and Lynn B. Martin

Vector Preferences and Host Defenses in the West Nile Virus System. Can Avian Stress Hormones Promote Zoonotic Disease Spread?, Stephanie S. Gervasi, Sarah C. Burgan, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Aaron W. Schrey, Hassan K. Hassan, Thomas R. Unnasch, and Lynn B. Martin

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Plane Binary Trees and Superpatterns for Layered Permutations, Daniel Gray

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Geochemical Characterization of a Surficial Aquifer Near the Ogeechee River, Georgia, Daniel X. Gray and Jacque L. Kelly

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l-Connectivity and l-Edge-Connectivity of Random Graphs, Ran Gu, Xiaofeng Gu, Yongtang Shi, and Hua Wang

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Making Sense of Quadratic Equations, Erhan Haciomeroglu, Heidi Eisenreich, and Aline Abassian

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Preservice Teachers’ Acceptance of Number Concepts Instruction in Base 8, Katie Harshman and Heidi Eisenreich

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

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Fourier Restriction and Exponential Sum Estimates, Yi Hu and Xiaochun Li

Totally Acyclic Complexes, Alina Iacob

Spatial and Diurnal Patterns in Plant and Leaf Morphology and Physiology for the Coastal Sand Dune Shrub Croton punctatus Jacq., Heather M. Joesting, Savannah D. Chiarello, and E. Medrano

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Groundwater and Electrical Resistivity Surveys of Marsh Dieback Locations in Coastal Georgia, Jacque L. Kelly, Christine M. Hladik, and Quincy T. Tom-Jack

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Polynomial Approximation on a Sparse Grid, Scott N. Kersey

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Solving Inequality Constrained Spline Optimization Problems, Scott N. Kersey and Joshua A. Holloway

Epigenetic Regulation of Toll-Like Receptor 4 (TLR-4) Expression as a Facilitator of Invasiveness in Kenyan House Sparrows (Passer domesticus), Holly J. Kilvitis, Aaron W. Schrey, and Lynn B. Martin

Submicron Surface Plasmon Biosensors for Glucose Concentration Assessment, Susan B. Klein, Nazanin Mosavian, John Jenkins, Jonathan D. Vo, Dragos Amarie, and James A. Glazier

Comparison of Benthic Macroinvertebrates Colonizing Three Types of Passive Samplers for Non-Wadeable Streams, Kelsey A. Laymon, Damon L. Mullis, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Chalisa Nestell, Jason Moak, and Oscar P. Flite III

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A One-Step Per Iteration Full-Newton-Step Infeasible Interior-Point Method for LCP, Goran Lesaja

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A Second Order Cone Formulation of Continuous CTA Model, Goran Lesaja

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Full-Newton-Step Infeasible Interior-Point Method for LCP That Requires Only One Step Per Iteration, Goran Lesaja

Teaching for Higher Levels of Thinking: Developing Quantitative and Analytical Skills in Undergraduate Science Courses, Timothy Leslie, Ana Porzecanski, Adriana Bravo, Eleanor Sterling, Nora Bynum, and J. Michelle Cawthorn

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Macroinvertebrate Community Structure Along a ~200-km Stretch of the Ogeechee River, Allison K. Lutz and Jose Checo Colón-Gaud

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Consumer Community Structure Along a ~200-km Stretch of the Ogeechee River, Allison K. Lutz, Thomas Kuhn, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, James Henry Roberts, and Stephen P. Vives

Teaching with Technology: GeoGebra Explorations, Bhesh R. Mainali and Heidi Eisenreich

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A Functional Role for Bipedal Locomotion in Lizards, Lance D. McBrayer

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Population Ecology of the Florida Scrub Lizard in Scrub and Longleaf Pine Habitats, Lance D. McBrayer, Matthew D. Kaunert, and Seth Parker

Investigating Spatial and Diurnal Patterns for the Sand Dune Shrub Croton punctatus in Georgia, E. Medrano, Savannah D. Chiarello, and Heather M. Joesting

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Landscape Genetics of Raccoons (Procyon lotor) in a Naturally Fragmented Coastal Landscape, Nancy D. Moncrief, James Henry Roberts, Eric M. Hallerman, Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, and Raymond D. Dueser

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Spectral Asymptotics of One-Dimensional Fractal Laplacians in the Absence of Second-Order Identities, Sze-Man Ngai

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The Multifractal Formalism and Spectral Asymptotics of Self-Similar Measures With Overlaps, Sze-Man Ngai

Wave Propagation Speed on Fractals, Sze-Man Ngai

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Wave Propagation Speed on Fractals, Sze-Man Ngai

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Using Formative Assessment with Pre-Service Teachers to Develop a Conceptual Knowledge of “Arithmetic & Algebraic” Fractions and Operations, Ha Nguyen

Name That Fraction!, Ha Nguyen and Joy W. Darley

The Fraction Dilemma: The Ambiguous Whole, Ha Nguyen and Joy W. Darley

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The Burr XII-Weibull Poisson Distribution: Theory and Applications, Broderick O. Oluyede

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A New Class of Distributions for Survival and Lifetime Data Analysis: Theory and Applications, Broderick O. Oluyede, Baitshephi Mashabe, Adeniyi F. Fagbamigbe, and Shujiao Huang

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Pre-Service Teachers’ Implementation of Physical and Virtual Manipulatives, Enrique Ortiz, Heidi Eisenreich, and Laura Tapp

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Misrepresentations of Haiti in American Media, Amy E. Potter

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SAGE 1: The Role of Geography in Nexus Thinking: Becoming Institutional and Community Leaders While Defending the Discipline!, Amy E. Potter

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SAGE 2: "All By Myself:" Making the Most As A Stand-Alone Geographer, Amy E. Potter

In Search of a Symbiotic Relationship Between Tourism and the Savannah Low Country: Making Mountains Out of Marsh Grass, Amy E. Potter, Dydia DeLyser, and Rebecca Saunders

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“Wade in the Water Children”: Racial Tensions on Tybee Island, Georgia from Civil Rights to Orange Crush, Amy E. Potter and Jeffrey R. Finney

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Bacterial Flux by Net Precipitation from the Phyllosphere to the Forest Floor, Preston Pound, John T. Van Stan, Leslie Dean Moore, and Thais Bittar

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Alignment of Lecture and Lab in Introductory Microbiology and Biology Courses: Analysis of Current Practices, Andrea Rediske, Malcolm Butler, Stephen Sivo, Morgan McAfee, and Heidi Eisenreich

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Attitudes of Instructors Towards the Importance and Necessity of Alignment of Topics in Lecture and Lab in Introductory Microbiology and Biology Courses, Andrea Rediske, Morgan McAfee, Heidi Eisenreich, Stephen Sivo, and Malcolm Butler

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

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Paleoecological Analyses of Modern and Ancient Barrier Island Sediments in Georgia, More Than 80,000 Years of Change and Modification, Fredrick J. Rich, R. Kelly Vance, and Fredric L. Pirkle

How Molecular Genetic Tools Can Advance the Conservation of Fish and Wildlife Populations, James Henry Roberts

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Habitat Shapes Assemblage Composition, Production, and Food Web Structure of Shrimp Dominated Tropical Island Streams, Keysa G. Rosas, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, and Alonso Ramirez

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The Efficacy of Mammal Urine as a Lure in Camera Trapping Studies, Megan T. Sanders and J. Michelle Cawthorn

Ecological Epigenetics of Non-Model Organisms, Aaron W. Schrey

Epigenetics: A Mechanism for Rapid Adaptation and Response to Environmental Change, Aaron W. Schrey

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Growing Up in SFS: Instars Participation From Mentees to Mentors, Arial Shogren, Janet Hsiao, and Jose Checo Colón-Gaud

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A Classical Q-Hypergeometric Approach to the A2^(2) Standard Modules, Andrew V. Sills

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Euler-Type Partition Recurrences, Andrew V. Sills

Genetic Population Structure and Genetic Diversity of Adult Channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and Blue (I. furcatus) Catfish in Two Large Midwestern Rivers, V. Alex Sotola, Aaron W. Schrey, Eric Bollinger, Les Frankland, and Robert E. Colombo

On Chaos Stabilization in Nonlinear Autonomous Discrete Dynamical Systems, Alexander M. Stokolos

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On Chaos Stabilization in Nonlinear Autonomous Discrete Dynamical Systems, Alexander M. Stokolos

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On Some Applications of Complex Analysis in Non-Linear Dynamics, Alexander M. Stokolos

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On Some Polynomials in Complex Variable, Alexander M. Stokolos

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Selected Problems of Non-Linear Dynamics, Alexander M. Stokolos

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Electrical Resistivity in the Bull River and Surrounding Creeks, Savannah, GA, Jake P. Swanson and Jacque L. Kelly

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Restoration of Bay Scallop Populations and Fisheries in the Peconic Bays, New York, Stephen T. Tettelbach, Bradley J. Peterson, John M. Carroll, Bradley T. Furman, Scott W. T. Hughes, Jason Havelin, Christian R. H. Tettelbach, and Christopher F. Smith

Comparative Age and Growth of Two Competing Bass Species, Garrett Vance and James Henry Roberts

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Chronological Changes in Canopy Hydrometeorological Dynamics May Aid Invasion of a Globally Invasive Species (Ailanthus Altissima Mill. Tree of Heaven), John T. Van Stan, Seyed Mohammad Moein Sadeghi, Thomas G. Pypker, and Jan Friesen

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Generalized Epidemic Dynamic Models with Delays for Hierarchic Network Populations, Divine Wanduku

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Extremal Ratio Questions in Binary Trees, Hua Wang

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Trees With Given Degree Sequence and the Maximum Wiener Index, Hua Wang

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Patterns and Parts in Compositions: Enumeration and Bijection, Hua Wang, Brian Hopkins, Mark Shattuck, Andrew V. Sills, and Thotsaporn Thanatipanonda

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Recovery, Resiliency and Reggae: Is the Discovery Bay, Jamaica Coral Reef Ecosystem Recovered and Able to Withstand Natural Perturbations?, J. D. Warren, Bradley J. Peterson, John M. Carroll, and A. D. Stubler

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Population Genetic Structure and Dispersal of the Reticulated Flatwoods Salamanders (Ambystoma bishopi) on Eglin Air Force Base, Alexander S. Wendt and James Henry Roberts

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Minimal Mass-Energy Dynamics for Solitons Arising in Mathematical Physics, Shijun Zheng

Analysis of Generalized l₁ Greedy Algorithm for CT Image Reconstruction, Jiehua Zhu

Image Reconstruction in Computed Tomography, Jiehua Zhu

Presentation given at Analysis Seminar talks, Yuting Zou