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Submissions from 2016
Presentation given at The 40th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference (SIAM-SEAS),, Yuting Zou
Submissions from 2015
How to Turn a YouTube Video into an Interactive Learning Experience, Dragos Amarie
Thinking of Personalized Medicine (Part II): A Microcavity Surface Plasmon Resonant Biosensor, Dragos Amarie
Investigating the Role of Phenotypic Plasticity in Hydrocotyle bonariensis, A. Brown, D. Bynes, and Heather M. Joesting
Reinforcement Learning for Categorical Data and Marginalized Transition Models, Stephen W. Carden
Is the Grass Always Greener on the Other Side? A Tale of Two Herbivory Studies From Discovery Bay, Jamaica, John M. Carroll, Christopher M. Finelli, Amber D. Stubler, and Bradley J. Peterson
Millions Strong and Growing: Building Scallop Populations and Fisheries Following Intense Restoration, John M. Carroll, Stephen T. Tettelbach, Bradley J. Peterson, Bradley T. Furman, and Christopher F. Smith
Estimating Distribution Function Based on Stratified Ranked Set Sampling, Arpita Chatterjee
Macroinvertebrate Community Assemblages and Leaf Decomposition in Three River Basins of the Southeastern Coastal Plain, Vallie B. Collins II and Jose Checo Colón-Gaud
Aquatic Invertebrates as Indicators of Ecosystem Health and Condition in Southeastern Coastal Plain Rivers, José Checo Colón-Gaud
Benthic Macroinvertebrates Colonizing Leaf Packs in the Ogeechee River Near Rocky Ford: Contrasting Assemblages Between Drought vs. Wet Years, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Vallie B. Collins II, T. Goehrig, and K. Franks
Promoting Diversity in Freshwater Science Through Mentoring: Celebrating Five Years of Instars, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Tamara D. Sluss, Krista A. Capps, Patina K. Mendez, Judy Li, and Marcelo Ardon-Sayao
Investigating the Function of Leaf Inclination in the Sand Dune Herb Hydrocotyle bonariensis, J. Counts, J. Grier, H. Zook, and Heather M. Joesting
Using Formative Assessment to Foster a Growth Mindset for Learning Fraction Operations, Joy W. Darley, Ha Nguyen, and Olufunke Adefope
Building Early Number Sense: Understanding Your Students' Struggle by Making Sense of Counting and ReGrouping, Heidi Eisenreich and Rebecca G. Gault
Comparing Fractions: Using Strategies and Discourse to Develop Conceptual Understanding, Heidi Eisenreich and Katie Harshman
Hybridization and Replacement of Roanoke Bass (Ambloplites cavifrons) with Invasive Rock Bass (A. rupestris) in Virginia: A Genetic Assessment of the Scope of the Problem, Jackman C. Eschenroeder and James Henry Roberts
Vector Preferences and Host Defenses in the West Nile Virus System: A Role for Avian Stress Hormones?, Stephanie S. Gervasi, Nathan Burkett-Cadena, Aaron W. Schrey, Hassan K. Hassan, Thomas R. Unnasch, and Lynn B. Martin
Integration of in Situ Radon Modeling With High Resolution Aerial Remote Sensing for Mapping and Quantifying Local to Regional Flow and Transport of Submarine Groundwater Discharge From Coastal Aquifers, Craig R. Glenn, Joseph J. Kennedy, Henrieta Dulaiova, Jacque L. Kelly, Paul G. Lucey, Eunhee Lee, and Joseph Fackrell
Introduction to Superpatterns, Daniel Gray
Superpatterns and Generalizations of Layered Permutations, Daniel Gray, Matthew R. Just, and Hua Wang
Gorenstein Flat and Projective (Pre)Covers, Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Flat Preenvelopes, Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Projective Precovers, Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Projective Precovers, Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Projective Precovers, Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Projective Precovers over GF-Closed Rings, Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Projective Precovers over GF-Closed Rings, Alina Iacob
Delayed Development in a Lizard: A Possible Animal Model for Determinants of Ageing and Life Span, D. Jaramillo, P. Pacheco, A. Jacobs, M. Martinez, Aaron W. Schrey, T. Langkilde, M. Izaguirre-Sierra, and Travis R. Robbins
Investigating the Function of Leaf Inclination in Hydrocotyle bonariensis, Heather M. Joesting, J. Counts, J. Grier, and H. Zook
Permutations Containing Large Number of a Prescribed Pattern, Matthew Just and Hua Wang
Evaluation of the Role of Groundwater and Elevation on Marsh Dieback and Recovery, Jacque L. Kelly and Christine M. Hladik
Discrete Blending, Scott N. Kersey
Interpolation from the Sum of Tensor Product Spaces, Scott N. Kersey
Polynomial Approximation on Quasi-Uniform Grids, Scott N. Kersey
The Effects of Early-Life Stressors on Sickness Behavior in Adulthood in Zebra Finches, Holly J. Kilvitis, M. Boruta, Aaron W. Schrey, Christina L. Richards, and Lynn Martin
Fish Community Assessment across a Longitudinal Gradient Three Years Post Fish Kill in SE Georgia, Thomas Kuhn and Stephen Vives
Post Fish-Kill Monitoring on the Ogeechee River, Thomas Kuhn and Stephen Vives
Fostering Global Sustainability through Teaching, Service and Research, Lisa Leege, Rebecca Larson, Jacek Lubecki, and Subhrajit Saha
An Improved Feasible Full Nesterov-Todd Interior-Point Algorithm for Symmetric Optimization, Goran Lesaja
An Improved Infeasible Full Nesterov-Todd Interior-Point Algorithm for the Linear Complementarity Problem over Symmetric Cones, Goran Lesaja
Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to Identify Interactive Meteorological Conditions Affecting Throughfall, Elliot S. Lewis, John T. Van Stan, and Trent E. Gay
Lq-Spectrum and Multifractal Formalism of a Class of Self-Similar Measures of General Finite Type, Sze-Man Ngai
Topological Properties of a Class of Self-Affine Tiles in R3, Sze-Man Ngai
Topological Properties of a Class of Three Dimensional Self-Affine Tiles, Part I: Connectedness, Sze-Man Ngai
Topological Properties of a Class of Three Dimensional Self-Affine Tiles, Part II: Homeomorphism to a Round 3-Ball, Sze-Man Ngai
The Effects of Early Rote Memorization on Fraction Preparation & Mathematical Interest of Pre-Service Teachers, Ha Nguyen, Joy W. Darley, and Olufunke Adefope
Fence Lizard Response to Fire Ant Invasion at the Phenotypic, Epigenetic, and Genetic Levels, P. Pacheco, D. Jaramillo, Aaron W. Schrey, T. Langkilde, M. Izaguirre-Sierra, and Travis R. Robbins
Fence Lizard Response to Fire Ant Invasion at the Phenotypic, Epigenetic, and Genetic Levels, P. Pacheco, D. Jaramillo, Aaron W. Schrey, T. Langkilde, M. Izaguirre-Sierra, and Travis R. Robbins
“She Goes into Character as the Lady of the House”: Tour Guides, Performance and the Southern Plantation, Amy E. Potter
“She Goes into Character as the Lady of the House”: Tour Guides, Performance and the Southern Plantation, Amy E. Potter
The Commons as a Tourist Commodity: Mapping Memories and Changing Sense of Place on the Island of Barbuda, Amy E. Potter
The Role of Geography in Nexus Thinking: Becoming Institutional and Community Leaders While Defending the Discipline!, Amy E. Potter
A Tale of Mice and Men: The WPA, the LSU Indian Room Museum, and the Emergence of Professional Archaeology in the U.S. South, Amy E. Potter, Dydia DeLyser, and Rebecca Saunders
Placing the Museum: Toward Museum Geography, Amy E. Potter and E. Arnold Modlin
Long-Term Effects of Disease-Driven Amphibian Declines on Macroinvertebrate Communities in Tropical Streams, Heidi M. Rantala, Amanda Rugenski, Thomas R. Barnum, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Cesc Múrria, and Matt R. Whiles
Leaf Decomposition Along a Longitudinal Gradient of the Lower Ogeechee River, Tyler G. Reeves and Jose Checo Colón-Gaud
The North Charleston Mastodon Site – New Insights Drawn From a Paleoecological Synthesis, Fredrick J. Rich and Kathlyn M. Smith
The Sharpest Tool in the Shed? How Molecular Genetic Studies Help Advance the Conservation of Freshwater Fishes, James Henry Roberts
The Food Web of a Tropical Island Stream, Keysa G. Rosas, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Alonso Ramirez, and Tavis K. Anderson
DNA Sequence Variation in the Toll-Like Receptor 4 Gene among House Sparrow Populations, Aaron W. Schrey and L. B. Martin
Genetic Structure of Populations of Mealybugs on Epiphytic Orchids of South Florida, Aaron W. Schrey, Z. Zettler, K. Adams, Bridget Frederick, A. Gutting, Nicholas Ingebretsen, and Alexandria Ragsdale
Generalizations of the Euler–Glaisher Bijection, Andrew V. Sills
MacMahon’s Partial Fractions, Andrew V. Sills
Parts and Subword Patterns in Compositions, Andrew V. Sills
Rogers–Ramanujan Type Identities, Andrew V. Sills
A Formula for the Partition Function that "Counts", Andrew V. Sills and Yuriy Choliy
Genetic Stock Structure of Juvenile Channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and Blue (Ictalurus furcatus) Catfish in a Large Unimpounded Midwestern River, V. Alex Sotola, Aaron W. Schrey, Eric K. Bollinger, Les Frankland, and Robert E. Colombo
Age-0 Growth, Timing of Spawning Events, and Genetic Population Structure of Channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and Blue (Ictalurus furcatus) Catfish in the Wabash River, V. Alex Sotola, Aaron W. Schrey, Eric K. Bollinger, Les Frankland, Robert E. Colombo, and S. Rayford
Timing and Location of Spawning Events and Genetic Population Structure of Juvenile Channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and Blue (Ictalurus furcatus) Catfish in the Wabash River, V. Alex Sotola, Aaron W. Schrey, Eric K. Bollinger, S. Rayford, Les Frankland, and Robert E. Colombo
Fejer Polynomials and Non-Linear Dynamics, Alexander M. Stokolos
Magical Waters: The Fishes of Beautiful Eagle Creek, Garret J. Strickland and James Henry Roberts
Structural, Stratigraphic and Anthropogenic Controls on the Hydrology and Wetland Evolution of a Georgia Barrier Island, R. Kelly Vance, James S. Reichard, Brian K. Meyer, Gale A. Bishop, and Fredrick J. Rich
Current State and Challenges of Monitoring Tree Canopy Water Storage, John T. Van Stan
Hydrological and Biogeochemical Effects of Rainfall Partitioning by Forest Canopies, John T. Van Stan
A Review and Evaluation of Forest Canopy Epiphyte Roles in the Partitioning and Chemical Alteration of Precipitation, John T. Van Stan and Thomas G. Pypker
Throughfall-mediated Alterations to Soil Microbial Community Structure in a Forest Plot of Homogenous Soil Texture, Litter, and Plant Species Composition, John T. Van Stan, Carl L. Rosier, Leslie Dean Moore, Trent E. Gay, James S. Reichard, Tiehang Wu, and Jinjun Kan
Can Throughfall Connect Forest Canopy Architecture to Soil Microbial Community Structure & Function? Findings From an Epiphyte-laden Subtropical Forest, John T. Van Stan, Carl L. Rosier, Leslie Dean Moore, Tiehang Wu, and Jinjun Kan
Vectorborne Diseases: a Generalized Scale Structured Network Stochastic Epidemic Dynamic Model, Divine Wanduku
A Small Branch Goes a Long Way: Subtrees and Distances, Hua Wang
Combinatorial Topics from a Distance Question, Hua Wang
Maximizing Distance in Trees, Hua Wang
Numbers and Patterns: Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, Hua Wang
Optimization through Structural Information, Hua Wang
Parts and Subword Patterns in Integer Compositions, Hua Wang
Topological Indices of Trees, Hua Wang
Mathematical Model of Dynamic Protein Interactions Regulating Protein Stability of Tumor Suppressors, Hua Wang and Guang Peng
Not a Fun Threesome: The Prevalence and Impacts of Two Oyster Pests on Their Host, Jessica C. Watts, J. Guis, John M. Carroll, Daphne Munroe, and Christopher M. Finelli
A New Approach to Measure the Risk of a Financial Time Series, Tharanga Wickramarachchi
Long Time Existence for Magnetic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations, Shijun Zheng
Recent Progress on Global Regularity for Rotating BEC, Shijun Zheng
Symplectic Mackey Theory, François Ziegler
The Image of the Change: From the I Ching to the Evolution of Chaos, Yuting Zou
Submissions from 2014
Basics in Laser Scanning Confocal and MultiPhoton Microscopy, Dragos Amarie
Basics in Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy, Dragos Amarie
Thinking of Personalized Medicine (Part I): A Microcavity Surface Plasmon Resonant Biosensor, Dragos Amarie
Molecular Biosciences: Geometric Modeling in Biomolecular Systems, Jaydeep P. Bardhan and Zhan Chen
Development of Soil Carbon Inventory: Understanding the Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Georgia Southern University Campus, Stuart Barker, Matthew Pfister, and Subhrajit Saha
Examining Why Grazing Mayflies Do Not Functionally Compensate for the Top-Down Control of Algal Communities Following Disease-Driven Tadpole Declines in a Neotropical Stream, Thomas R. Barnum, J. Timothy Wootton, Rebecca J. Bixby, John M. Drake, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, David Stoker, Amanda T. Rugenski, Therese C. Frauendorf, Scott J. Connelly, Susan S. Kilham, Matt R. Whiles, and Karen R. Lips
