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Submissions from 2017
Synthesis, Stereochemical Characterization, and Antimicrobial Evaluation of a Potential Non-Nephrotoxic 3'-c-acethydrazide Puromycin Analog, Josh Carter, Blair A. Weaver, Maria A. Chiacchio, Amy R. Messersmith, Will E. Lynch, Brent D. Feske, and Giuseppe Gumina
Proper Distance in Edge-Colored Hypercubes, Eddie Cheng, Colton Magnant, and Dhruv Medarametla
Recent Advancement of SiOx Based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries, Tao Chen, Ji Wu, Qinglin Zhang, and Xin Su
A Zariski-Local Notion of F-Total Acyclicity for Complexes of Sheaves, Lars Winther Christensen, Sergio Estrada, and Alina Iacob
Investigating the Relationship between Instructors’ Use of Active Learning Strategies and Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Affective Changes in Introductory Biology: A Comparison of Two Active-Learning Environments, Lacy M. Cleveland, Jeffrey T. Olimpo, and Sue DeChenne-Peters
Symplectic Meanders, Vincent E. Coll Jr., Matthew Hyatt, and Colton Magnant
Water Balance and Aquaporin, Christopher P. Cutler
Differentiability of Lq-Spectrum and Multifractal Decomposition by Using Infinite Graph-Directed IFSs, Guotai Deng and Sze-Man Ngai
An Exploratory Study on the Influence of Video Clips on Pre Service Teachers' Learning of Fractions, Heidi Eisenreich and Andria Disney
Fractions: Not Always a Two-Way Street, Heidi Eisenreich, Ha Nguyen, and Joy Darley
Totally Acyclic Complexes, Sergio Estrada, Xianhui Fu, and Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Injective Sheaves, Sergio Estrada and Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Projective Precovers, Sergio Estrada, Alina Iacob, and Katelyn A. Coggins
Gorenstein Flat and Projective (Pre)Covers, Sergio Estrada, Alina Iacob, and Sinem Odabasi
Examining the Structure-Activity Relationship of Benzopyran Based Inhibitors of the Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 Pathway, Jalisa Ferguson, Zeus A. De los Santos, Narra Devi, Sarah Zingales, Erwin Van Meir, and Binghe Wang
Design and Synthesis of Benzopyran-Based Inhibitors of the Hypoxia- Inducible Factor-1 Pathway with Improved Water Solubility, Jalisa H. Ferguson, Zeus De los Santos, Saroja N. Devi, Stefan Kaluz, Erwin G. Van Meir, Sarah K. Zingales, and Binghe Wang
Diabetes in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana: An Assessment of Prevalence, Risk Factors, Nutritional Practices and Lifestyle Changes, Worlanyo E. Gato, Samuel Acquah, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, and Blessed K. Boakye
World Diabetes Day: Diabetes-Free Africa and the Role of Women, Worlanyo E. Gato, Bettye A. Apenteng, and Samuel T. Opoku
Assessment of the Short-Term Toxicity Study of TiO2 Nano Fiber in Sprague Dawley Rats, Worlanyo E. Gato, Daniel A. Hunter, Ian Byrd, Christopher A. Mays, Wilson Yau, and Ji Wu
Examining the Link Between the Human Microbiome and Antisocial Behavior: Why Criminologist Should Care About Biochemistry, Too, Worlanyo E. Gato, Chad Posick, Ashley Williams, and Christopher Mays
Non-Inferiority Test Based on Transformations for Non-Normal Distributions, Santu Ghosh, Arpita Chatterjee, and Samiran Ghosh
Placing Specified Vertices at Precise Locations on a Hamiltonian Cycle, Ronald Gould, Colton Magnant, and Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani
Observed Compression of in Situ Tree Stems During Freezing, Ethan D. Gutmann, John T. Van Stan, Jan Friesen, Doug P. Aubrey, and Jessica D. Lundquist
An Ecological-Based Genetic Investigation Using Association Analysis Approach BIOCOMP’16, Ray R. Hashemi, Azita Bahrami, J. A. Young, and Aaron W. Schrey
Nature of Mathematical Modeling Tasks for Secondary Mathematics Preservice Teachers, Jia He, Eryn M. Stehr, and Hyunyi Jung
Parts and Subword Patterns in Compositions, Brian Hopkins, Mark Shattuck, Andrew V. Sills, Thotsaporn Thanatipanonda, and Hua Wang
On Two Conjectures About the Proper Connection Number of Graphs, Fei Huang, Xueliang Li, Zhongmei Qin, Colton Magnant, and Kenta Ozeki
Gorenstein Injective Envelopes and Covers Over Two Sided Noetherian Rings, Alina Iacob
Conceptions of Modeling Reported by Instructors in Teacher Preparation Programs, Hyunyi Jung, Eryn M. Stehr, and Jia He
Ghost Series and a Motivated Proof of the Andrews–Bressoud Identities, Shashank Kanade, James Lepowsky, Matthew C. Russell, and Andrew Sills
Forbidden Properly Edge-Colored Subgraphs that Force Large Highly Connected Monochromatic Subgraphs, Robert Katic, Colton Magnant, and Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani
Epigenetic Potential as a Mechanism of Phenotypic Plasticity in Vertebrate Range Expansions, Holly J. Kilvitis, Haley Hanson, Aaron W. Schrey, and Lynn B. Martin
Hodge Theory on Transversely Symplectic Foliations, Yi Lin
Construction of a Full Row-Rank Matrix System for Multiple Scanning Directions in Computed Tomography, Xiezhang Li, James D. Diffenderfer, and Jiehua Zhu
Assessment of the Link Between In Utero Exposure to 2-Aminoanthracene (2AA) and Type-1 Diabetes (T1D), Christopher A. Mays, Daniel A. Hunter, Wilson Yau, and Worlanyo E. Gato
Landscape Genetics of a Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Metapopulation in an Undeveloped Coastal Island System, Nancy D. Moncrief, James Henry Roberts, Eric M. Hallerman, Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, John H. Porter, and Raymond D. Dueser
Co-Characterization of Symplectic and Contact Embeddings and Lagrangian Rigidity, Stefan Müller
Geometric Aspects of Representation Theory for DG Algebras: Answering a Question of Vasconcelos, Saeed Nasseh and Sean Sather-Wagstaff
Vanishing of Ext and Tor Over Fiber Products, Saeed Nasseh and Sean Sather-Wagstaff
Structure of Irreducible Homomorphisms to/from Free Modules, Saeed Nasseh and Ryo Takahashi
On Gorenstein Fiber Products and Applications, Saeed Nasseh, Ryo Takahashi, and Keller VandeBogert
The Gamma-Generalized Inverse Weibull Distribution with Applications to Pricing and Lifetime Data, Broderick O. Oluyede, Boikanyo Makubate, Divine Wanduku, Ibrahim Elbatal, and Valeriia Sherina
Review of The Migration of People From the Caribbean to the Bahamas by Keith L. Tinker, Amy E. Potter
Antigua and Barbuda, Amy E. Potter, Sean Chenoweth, and Mick Day
Commemorating the Enslaved Along Louisiana’s River Road, Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, and Perry L. Carter
Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, Amy E. Potter, E. Arnold Modlin, and Phillip P. Schmutz
The Absorption and Evaporation of Water Vapor by Epiphytes in an Old-growth Douglas-fir Forest During the Seasonal Summer Dry Season: Implications for the Canopy Energy Budget, Thomas G. Pypker, Michael Unsworth, John T. Van Stan, and Barbara J. Bond
Natural Epigenetic Variation Within and Among Six Subspecies of the House Sparrow Passer domesticus, Sepand Riyahi, Roser Vilatersana, Aaron W. Schrey, Hassan Ghorbani Node, Mansour Alibadian, and Juan Carlos Senar
Genetic and Epigenetic Variation in Spartina alterniflora Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Marta Robertson, Aaron W. Schrey, Ashley Shayter, Christina J. Moss, and Christina L. Richards
Canopy Hydrometeorological Dynamics Across a Chronosequence of a Globally Invasive Species, Ailanthus Altissima (Mill., Tree of Heaven), Seyed Mohammad Moein Sadeghi, John T. Van Stan, Thomas G. Pypker, and Jan Friesen
More Efficient Logistic Analysis Using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, and Arpita Chatterjee
Bond Dissociation Energies of TiSi, ZrSi, HfSi, VSi, NbSi, and TaSi, Andrew Sevy, Jason J. Sorensen, Thomas D. Persinger, Jordan A. Franchina, Eric L. Johnson, and Michael D. Morse
Using Early Introduction to Research to Increase STEM Majors: A Tale of Two Colleges, One Small Highly Selective Private and One Non-Selective Regional Public, George C. Shields, Delana A. Gajdosik-Nivens, and Traci Ness
Do Storm Synoptic Patterns Affect Biogeochemical Fluxes From Temperate Deciduous Forest Canopies?, Courtney M. Siegbert, Delphis F. Levia, Daniel Leathers, John T. Van Stan, and Myron J. Mitchell
Genetic Evidence of Isolation by Distance and Impact of Impoundments Among Channel Catfish, V. Alex Sotola, Aaron W. Schrey, Alexandria K. Ragsdale, Gregory W. Whitledge, Les Frankland, Eric K. Bollinger, and Robert E. Colombo
Synthesis, Characterization, Computational Study, and Biological Relevance of a Family of Isostructural, Mononuclear Ln (Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er) Complexes Containing Pyridoxine, an Essential Ingredient of Vitamin B6 Enzyme, Caitlyn E. Stouder, Khairi J. Warren, Olivia F. Perdue, Amanda L. Stewart, Clifford W. Padgett, Allison J. Amonette, and Arpita Saha
Molecular and Optical Properties of Tree-derived Dissolved Organic Matter in Throughfall and Stemflow From Live Oaks and Eastern Red Cedar, Aron Stubbins, Leticia M. Silva, Thorsten Dittmar, and John T. Van Stan
Reproductive and Recruitment Dynamics of Clionaid Sponges on Oyster Reefs in North Carolina, Amber D. Stubler, Heather Robertson, Henry J. Styron, John M. Carroll, and Christopher M. Finelli
Hydrology, John T. Van Stan
Effects of Phenology and Meteorological Disturbance on Litter Rainfall Interception for a Pinus Elliottii Stand in the Southeastern US, John T. Van Stan, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Michael Dribble, and Zachary Norman
Edge-to-Stem Variability in Wet-Canopy Evaporation From an Urban Tree Row, John T. Van Stan, Zachary Norman, Adrian Meghoo, Jan Friesen, Anke Hildebrandt, Jean-François Côté, S. Jeffrey Underwood, and Gustavo O. Maldonado
Complete Global Analysis of a Two-Scale Network SIRS Epidemic Dynamic Model with Distributed Delay and Random Perturbations, Divine Wanduku
Global Analysis of a Stochastic Two-Scale Network Human Epidemic Dynamic Model with Varying Immunity Period, Divine Wanduku and G. S. Ladde
Preparation of Bi2S3/Carbon Quantum Dots Hybrid Materials for Enhanced Photocatalytic Properties Under Ultraviolet–, Visible–and Near Infrared–Irradiations, Jingmin Wang, Xiang Zhang, Ji Wu, Hao Chen, Song Sun, Jun Bao, Shikuo Li, and Hong Bi
Anomalous Surface Doping Effect in Semiconductor Nanowires, Yuejian Wang, Wenge Yang, Guifu Zou, Ji Wu, Jeffery L. Coffer, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, and Jianzhong Zhang
Reinvigorating Reverse Osmosis Membrane Technology for Stabilizing V2O5 Lithium Ion Battery Cathode, Ji Wu, Ian Byrd, Congrui Jin, Jianlin Li, Hao Chen, Anju Sharma, Tyler C. Camp, Ryan Bujol, and Hanlei Zhang
On Algorithms for Enumerating Subtrees of Hexagonal and Phenylene Chains, Yu Yang, Hongbo Liu, Hua Wang, Ansheng Deng, and Colton Magnant
Surface Roughness Affects the Running Speed of Tropical Canopy Ants, Stephen P. Yanoviak, Cheryl Silveri, Alyssa Y. Stark, John T. Van Stan, and Delphis F. Levia
Multiple Solutions With Constant Sign of a Dirichlet Problem for a Class of Elliptic Systems With Variable Exponent Growth, Li Yin, Jinghua Yao, Qihu Zhang, and Chunshan Zhao
On Stratified Bivariate Ranked Set Sampling with Optimal Allocation for Naïve and Ratio Estimators, Lili Yu, Hani M. Samawi, Daniel Linder, Arpita Chatterjee, Yisong Huang, and Robert L. Vogel
Genetic Structure of Pseudococcus microcirculus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) Populations on Epiphytic Orchids of South Florida, Jennifer A. Zettler, K. Adams, Bridget Frederick, A. Gutting, N. Ingebretsen, Alexandria K. Ragsdale, and Aaron W. Schrey
Design and Preparation of a Ternary Composite of Graphene Oxide/Carbon Dots/Polypyrrole for Supercapacitor Application: Importance and Unique Role of Carbon Dots, Xiang Zhang, Jingmin Wang, Jian Liu, Ji Wu, Hao Chen, and Hong Bi
Crystal Structure of 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-hydroxy-4H- chromen-4-one, Sarah K. Zingales and Clifford W. Padgett
Submissions from 2016
Molecular Response to Challenging Environmental Conditions in Spartina alterniflora: An Integrated Approach, Mariano Alvarez, Christy M. Foust, Marta Robertson, Malika Ainouche, Julie Ferreira de Carvalho, C. Meals, Veronica Preite, A. Salmon, Ashley Shayter, Aaron Schrey, Koen J.F. Verhoeven, and Christina L. Richards
Maximum Wiener Index of Trees With Given Segment Sequence, Eric Ould Dadah Andriantiana, Stephan G. Wagner, and Hua Wang
Targeting Antioxidant Pathways with Ferrocenylated N-Heterocyclic Carbene Supported Gold(I) Complexes in A549 Lung Cancer Cells, Jonathan Arambula; Rebecca McCall; K, J, Sidoran; Darren Magda; Nicholas Mitchell; Christopher W. Bielawski; Vincent M. Lynch; Jonathan L. Sessler; and Kuppuswamy Arumugam
The Wicked Problem of Global Food Security, Rebecca Boger, Rusty Low, and Amy E. Potter
Sustainable Resilience in Barbuda: Learning From the Past and Developing Strategies for the Future, Rebecca Boger, Sophia Perdikaris, Amy E. Potter, and Jennifer Adams
Applying Linear Controls to Chaotic Continuous Dynamical Systems, James P. Braselton and Yan Wu
Stabilizing the Lorenz Flows Using a Closed Loop Quotient Controller, James P. Braselton and Yan Wu
Teaching for Higher Levels of Thinking: Developing Quantitative and Analytical Skills in Environmental Science Courses, Adriana Bravo, Ana Porzecanski, Eleanor Sterling, Nora Bynum, J. Michelle Cawthorn, Denny S. Fernandez del Viso, Laurie Freeman, Stuart Ketcham, Timothy Leslie, John Mull, and Donna Vogler
Bird-Brained Foraging: Learn to Eat Like a Crow!, Brigette A. Brinton and Mary C. Curran
Asymmetric Membranes Containing Micron-Size Silicon for High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Anode, Ian Byrd and Ji Wu
Note on Semi-Linkage with Almost Prescribed Lengths in Large Graphs, Emily C. Chizmar, Colton Magnant, and Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani
Note on Vertex and Total Proper Connection Numbers, Emily C. Chizmar, Colton Magnant, and Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani
A Formula for the Partition Function That "Counts", Yuriy Choliy and Andrew V. Sills
Graph Linkedness With Prescribed Lengths, Vincent E. Coll Jr., Alexander Halperin, and Colton Magnant
Dimensions of the Boundary of a Graph-Directed Self-Similar Set With Overlaps, Guotai Deng, Chuntai Liu, and Sze-Man Ngai
Example of an Order 16 Non Symplectic Action on a K3 Surface, Jimmy J. Dillies
Fast Cycles Detecting in Non-Linear Discrete Systems, Dmitriy Dmitrishin, Elena Franzheva, and Alexander M. Stokolos
From Chaos to Order Through Mixing, Dmitriy Dmitrishin, I. M. Skrinnik, and Alexander M. Stokolos
On the Nature of Plasmon Drag Effect, Maxim Durach and Natalia Noginova
Mathematics Knowledge for Parenting (MKP): Workshops to Help Parents Make Sense of Mathematics, Heidi Eisenreich
Parent Workshops Focused on Mathematics Knowledge for Parenting (MKP): Shifting Beliefs About Learning Mathematics, Heidi Eisenreich and Janet Andreasen
Gorenstein Projective Resolvents, Edgar E. Enochs, Sergio Estrada, Alina Iacob, and Sinem Odabasi
Novel Polymorphic Microsatellite Loci for Distinguishing Rock Bass (Ambloplites rupestris), Roanoke Bass (Ambloplites cavifrons), and Their Hybrids, Jackman C. Eschenroeder and James Henry Roberts
Minimum Degree and Even Cycle Lengths, Ralph J. Faudree, Ronald Gould, Michael S. Jacobson, and Colton Magnant
Genetic and Epigenetic Differences Associated with Environmental Gradients in Replicate Populations of Two Salt Marsh Perennials, Christy M. Foust, Veronica Preite, Aaron W. Schrey, Koen J.F. Verhoeven, and Christina L. Richards
