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Submissions from 2015
“Fighting for the Rock at Home and Abroad": Barbuda Voice Newspaper as a Transnational Space, Amy E. Potter
The Commons as a Tourist Commodity: Mapping Memories and Changing Sense of Place on the Island of Barbuda, Amy E. Potter
Introduction, Amy E. Potter and E. Arnold Modlin
Theoretical Properties of the Weighted Generalized Gamma Distribution and Related Distributions, Hewa A. Priyadarshani and Broderick O. Oluyede
Long-Term Changes in Structure and Function of a Tropical Headwater Stream Following a Disease-Driven Amphibian Decline, Heidi M. Rantala, Amanda M. Nelson, Jessica N. FulgonI, Matt R. Whiles, Robert O. Hall Jr, Walter K. Dodds, Piet Verburg, Alex D. Huryn, Catherine M. Pringle, Susan Kilham, Karen R. Lips, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Amanda T. Rugenski, Scot D. Peterson, Kelley Fritz, Kerry E. McLeran, and Scott Connelly
Editors' Note, Laura B. Regassa and Delena Gatch
Editors' Note, Laura B. Regassa and Delena Bell Gatch
Peat, Its Origins, Characteristics, and Geological Transformations, Fredrick J. Rich
Alfred Traverse: A Man of Letters, Fredrick J. Rich and Paul K. Strother
The Presence of Carya (Hickory) Pollen in St. Catherines Island Sediments (USA), and Its Significance in Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions, Fredrick J. Rich, R. Kelly Vance, and D. B. Potter
The Palynology of Upper Pleistocene and Holocene Sediments From the Eastern Shoreline and Central Depression of St. Catherines Island, Georgia, USA, Fredrick J. Rich, R. Kelly Vance, and Clara R. Rucker
Forest Canopy Precipitation Partitioning: An Important Plant Trait Influencing the Spatial Structure of the Symbiotic Soil Microbial Community, Carl L. Rosier, Leslie Dean Moore, Tiehang Wu, and John T. Van Stan
Forest Canopy Structural Controls Over Throughfall Affect Soil Microbial Community Structure in an Epiphyte-laden Maritime Oak Stand, Carl L. Rosier, John T. Van Stan, Leslie Dean Moore, Joshua O.S. Schrom, Tiehang Wu, James S. Reichard, and Jinjun Kan
Efficiency of the Reformulated Gash's Interception Model in Semiarid Afforestations, Seyed Mohammad Moein Sadeghi, Pedram Attarod, John T. Van Stan, Thomas G. Pypker, and David Dunkerley
Phylogeography of the Peninsula Crowned Snake (Tantilla relicta relicta) on the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida, Aaron W. Schrey, R. K. Evans, Megan Netherland, Kyle G. Ashton, Henry R. Mushinsky, and Earl D. McCoy
Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Pump Laser Induced Thermal Damage for Polycrystalline Ceramic and Crystal Nd:YAG, Yu Shen, Yong Bo, Nan Zong, Ya-Ding Guo, Qin-Jun Peng, Jiang Li, Yu-Bai Pan, Jing-Yuan Zhang, Da-Fu Cui, and Zu-Yan Xu
The Minimal Number of Subtrees of a Tree, Andrew V. Sills and Hua Wang
Discovery of Quinoline-Derived Trifluoromethyl Alcohols, Determination of Their in vivo Toxicity and Anticancer Activity in a Zebrafish Embryo Model, Vinoth Sittaramane, Jihan Padgett, Philip Salter, Ashley Williams, Shauntell N. Luke, Rebecca McCall, Jonathan Arambula, Vincent B. Graves, Mark Blocker, David Van Leuven, Keturah Bowe, Julia Heimberger, Hannah C. Cade, Supriya Immaneni, and Abid Shaikh
Soil and Leaf Nutrient Analysis of the Endangered Herb, Baptisia arachnifera, in Georgia, United States, Ruth Ann Steinbrecher, Lissa M. Leege, and Subhrajit K. Saha
Significant New Records of Amphibians and Reptiles From Georgia, USA, Dirk J. Stevenson, Christopher L. Jenkins, Kevin M. Stohlgren, John B. Jensen, David L. Bechler, Ian Deery, Daniel Duff, Sean P. Graham, Robb Herrington, Phillip Higgins, Robert V. Horan III, Crystal Kelehear, Dylan Kelly, Kelsie Kincaid, Lance D. McBrayer, Matt Moore, Charlie Muise, Tracey Muise, Allan Muise, Justin Oguni, Elizabeth M. Schlimm, and Willa Vaigneur
Synthesis and Processing of Solution Spun Cellulose Acetate Fibers Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes, Quazi Nahida Sultana, Saheem Absar, Stephanie Hulsey, Hans Schanz, and Mujibur R. Khan
Aspiring to an Altered Stable State: Rebuilding of Bay Scallop Populations and Fisheries Following Intensive Restoration, Stephen T. Tettelbach, Bradley J. Peterson, John M. Carroll, Bradley T. Furman, Scott W. T. Hughes, Jason Havelin, James R. Europe, Dennis M. Bonal, Andrew J. Weinstock, and Christopher F. Smith
Controllable and Switchable Drug Delivery of Ibuprofen from Temperature Responsive Composite Nanofibers, Toan Tran, Mariana Hernandez, Dhruvil Patel, Elena Burns, Vanessa Peterman, and Ji Wu
Temperature and pH Responsive Microfibers for Controllable and Variable Ibuprofen Delivery, Toan Tran, Mariana Hernandez, Dhruvil Patel, and Ji Wu
A Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Effect on Preterm Births in Georgia, USA, Wei Tu, Jun Tu, and Stuart H. Tedders
Forest Canopy Interception Loss Across Temporal Scales: Implications for Urban Greening Initiatives, John T. Van Stan, Delphis F. Levia, and R. Brett Jenkins
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
Tillandsia Usneoides (L.) L. (Spanish Moss) Water Storage and Leachate Characteristics From Two Maritime Oak Forest Settings, John T. Van Stan, Aron Stubbins, Thais Bittar, James S. Reichard, Kasey A. Wright, and Robert B. Jenkins
Improved Complexity Analysis of Full Nesterov–Todd Step Feasible Interior-Point Method for Symmetric Optimization, G. Q. Wang, L. C. Kong, J. Y. Tao, and Goran Lesaja
Centroid, Leaf-Centroid, and Internal-Centroid, Hua Wang
Extremal Trees of the Eccentric Connectivity Index, Hua Wang
Colored Patterns and Their Packing Densities, Hua Wang and Matthew R. Just
Subtrees, BC-Subtrees of Generalized Bethe Trees and Related Questions, Hua Wang, Hongbo Liu, and Yu Yang
Colonel Blotto’s Combinatorial Decisions – A Resource Allocation Problem, Hua Wang and Toby Sanders
Arc Length Asymptotics for Multivariate Time Series, Tharanga D. Wickramarachchi, Colin Gallagher, and Robert Lund
Using Arc Length to Cluster Financial Time Series According to Risk, Tharanga D. Wickramarachchi and Ferebee Tunno
Behavioral and Ecological Differences of the Florida Scrub Lizard (Sceloporus woodi) in Scrub and Sandhill Habitat, Steven C. Williams and Lance D. McBrayer
Labeling and Comparison of Isomeric Tree-Like Polyphenyl Systems, Tabitha Williford, Alex Collins, Shainaz Landge, and Hua Wang
Subtrees of Spiro and Polyphenyl Hexagonal Chains, Yu Yang, Hongbo Liu, Hua Wang, and Hongsun Fu
Enumeration of BC-Subtrees of trees, Yu Yang, Hongbo Liu, Hua Wang, and Scott Makeig
Existence of Solutions for a Variable Exponent System without PS Conditions, Li Yin, Yuan Liang, Qihu Zhang, and Chunshan Zhao
Fabrication of Polyacrylonitrile Nanofiber Membranes Functionalized With Metal Organic Framework for CO2 Capturing, Wahiduz Zaman, Mujibur R. Khan, Saheem Absar, Spencer Harp, Kyle Edwards, and Nathan Takas
Ranking of Financial Ratios, Aimao Zhang and Scott N. Kersey
Existence of Strong Solutions of a P(X) -Laplacian Dirichlet Problem without the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz Condition, Qihu Zhang and Chunshan Zhao
Restricted Sum Formula of Alternating Euler Sums, Jianqiang Zhao
New Families of Weighted Sum Formulas for Multiple Zeta Values, Yuan Zhao and Jianqiang Zhao
Maximum Entropy Regularized Group Collaborative Representation for Face Recognition, Zhong Zhao, Guocan Feng, Lifang Zhang, and Jiehua Zhu
Error Analysis of Reweighted l₁ Greedy Algorithm for Noisy Reconstruction, Jiehua Zhu, Xiezhang Li, Fangjun Arroyo, and Edward Arroyo
Error Analysis of Reweighted l1 Greedy Algorithm for Noisy Reconstruction, Jiehua Zhu, Xiezhang Li, Fangjun Arroyo, and Edward Arroyo
Synthesis and Spectral Studies of (2-(furanyl)vinyl)-1-tetralone Chalcones, Sarah K. Zingales, Andrew Goetz, Jessica Futch, Kathryn Brown, Maya Z. Wallace, and Morgan E. Moore
Crystal Structure of (E)-1-(3-chlorophenyl)- 3-(3-furyl)prop-2-en-1-one, Sarah K. Zingales, Maya Z. Wallace, and Clifford W. Padgett
The Image of the Change: From the I Ching to the Evolution of Chaos, Yuting Zou
Submissions from 2014
The European Eel NCCβ Gene Encodes a Thiazide-Resistant Na-Cl Cotransporter, Eduardo R. Argaiz, Erika Moreno, Christopher P. Cutler, Norma Hilda Vázquez, Maria Chavez-Canales, and Gerardo Gamba
The Convergence of Block Cyclic Projection with Underrelaxation Parameters for Compressed Sensing Based Tomography, Fangjun Arroyo, Edward Arroyo, Xiezhang Li, and Jiehua Zhu
A Case Study for Teaching Quantitative Biochemical Buffer Problems Using Group Work and "Khan Style" Videos, Jose Barreto, John Reilly, David Brown, Laura Frost, Sulekha Rao Coticone, Terry Ann Dubetz, Zanna Beharry, C. Michele Davis McGibony, Ria Ramoutar, and Gillian Rudd
Variations of Distance-Based Invariants of Trees, Marcus Bartlett, Elliot Krop, Colton Magnant, Fedelis Mutiso, and Hua Wang
Stem Girdling Affects the Quantity of CO2 Transported in Xylem as well as CO2 Efflux from Soil, Jasper Bloeman, Laura Agneessens, Lieven Van Meulebroek, Doug P. Aubrey, Mary Anne McGuire, Robert O. Teskey, and Kathy Steppe
Water Resources and the Historic Wells of Barbuda: Tradition, Heritage and Hope for a Sustainable Future, Rebecca Boger, Sophia Perdikaris, Amy E. Potter, and John Mussington
Palatable Species of Amphibians are More Heavily Impacted by Visual and Chemical Cues of Predatory Fish, Jonathan Brink, Eddie Barnett, Nicholas Stacy, Alex Collier, and Brett A. Larson
The Informal Economy of Veracruz State during the Fox Administration, Gregory J. Brock, Jie Tan, and Robert Yarbrough
Convergence of a Q-Learning Variant for Continuous States and Actions, Stephen W. Carden
Function Spaces and Contractive Extensions in Approach Theory: The Role of Regularity, Eva Colebunders, Frédéric D. Mynard, and William Trott
Boxes, Pans, and Cans: A Diohpantine Approach to Optimization, Vincent E. Coll Jr., Jeremy Davis, Martin Hall, Colton Magnant, James Stankewicz, and Hua Wang
Integer Solutions to Box Optimization Problems, Vincent E. Coll Jr., Jeremy Davis, Martin Hall, Colton Magnant, James Stankewicz, and Hua Wang
Initial Versus Longer-Term Effects of Tadpole Extirpation on Algal Resources and Nitrogen Cycling in a Neotropical Stream, Scott Connelly, Catherine M. Pringle, Thomas Barnum, Meshagae Hunte-Brown, Susan Kilham, Matt R. Whiles, Karen R. Lips, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, and Roberto Brenes
Successful Knockdown of Aquaporin 1 (AQP1) Protein Expression in American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) Gastrointestinal Tract Using Direct-Infusions of Vivo-Morpholinos, Christopher P. Cutler and Paige Tanner
Bio-diverse integrated farms: Means for reducing rural poverty, Purnabha Dasgupta, Rupak Goswami, Nasim Ali, Sudarsan Biswas, and Subhrajit Saha
Dimensions of Fractals Generated by Bi-Lipschitz Maps, Qi-Rong Deng and Sze-Man Ngai
Structural Equation Modeling of Multivariate Gamma Density, Norou Diawara, Broderick O. Oluyede, and Robert A.R. King
Building a Better Bijection between Classes of Compositions, James D. Diffenderfer
Fejér and Suffridge Polynomials in the Delayed Feedback Control Theory, Dmitriy Dmitrishin, Anna Khamitova, Anatolii Korenovskyi, and Alexander M. Stokolos
Fejér Polynomials and Chaos, Dmitriy Dmitrishin, Anna Khamitova, and Alexander M. Stokolos
The Sucking Lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) Of Georgia, USA: Hosts, Geographical Distributions, and Medical/Veterinary Importance, Lance A. Durden, Edie E. Willis, Allison M. Garretson, and Marina E. Eremeeva
Fabricating Microfluidic Valve Master Molds in SU‐8 Photoresist, Aaron Dy, Alin Cosmanescu, James Sluka, James Glazier, Dwayne Stupack, and Dragos Amarie
Hysteresis in Superfluid Ring Bose-Einstein Condensates, Stephen Eckel, Jeffrey G. Lee, Fred Jendrzejewski, Noel Murray, Charles W. Clark, Christopher J. Lobb, William D. Phillips, Mark Edwards, and Gretchen K. Campbell
Enhanced Charge Carrier Concentration of SiC/CNT with N and P Type Doping Agents, Kyle Edwards, Mujibur R. Khan, Rafael Quirino, Brenda Beckler, and Saheem Absar
Cotorsion Pairs, Model Structures and Adjoints in Homotopy Categories, Edgar E. Enochs, Sergio Estrada, and Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Injective Projective and Flat (Pre)Covers, Edgar E. Enochs, Sergio Estrada, and Alina Iacob
The Second-Generation z (Redshift) and Early Universe Spectrometer. I. First-Light Observation of a Highly Lensed Local Ulirg Analog at High-z, Carl Ferkinhoff, Drew Brisbin, Stephen Parshley, Thomas Nikola, Gordon J. Stacey, Justin Schoenwald, James L. Higdon, Sarah J.U. Higdon, Aprajit Verma, Dominik Riechers, Steven Hailey-Dunsheath, Karl M. Menten, Rolf Güsten, Axel Weiß, Kent Irwin, Hsiao M. Cho, Michael Niemack, Mark Halpern, Mandana Amiri, Matthew Hasselfield, D.V. Wiebe, Peter A.R. Ade, and Carol E. Tucker
The Lineage-Specific Evolution of Aquaporin Gene Clusters Facilitated Tetrapod Terrestrial Adaptation, Roderick Nigel Finn, François Chauvigné, Jón Baldur Hlidberg, Christopher P. Cutler, and Joan Cerdà
Rainbow Generalizations of Ramsey Theory - A Dynamic Survey, Shinya Fujita, Colton Magnant, Yaping Mao, and Kenta Ozeki
Rainbow Generalizations of Ramsey Theory - A Dynamic Survey, Shinya Fujita, Colton Magnant, and Kenta Ozeki
Time-Dependent Regulation of Apoptosis by Aen and Bax in Response to 2-Aminoanthracene Dietary Consumption, Worlanyo E. Gato, Dale B. Hales, Stacey R. McGee, and Jay C. Means
Special Functions, Partial Differential Equations, and Harmonic Analysis: In Honor of Calixto P. Calderón, Constantine Georgakis, Alexander M. Stokolos, and Wilfredo Urbina
Multiply Chorded Cycles, Ronald Gould, Paul Horn, and Colton Magnant
Improved Upper Bounds for Gallai-Ramsey Numbers of Paths and Cycles, Martin Hall, Colton Magnant, Kenta Ozeki, and Masao Tsugaki
Note on Enomoto and Ota’s Conjecture for Short Paths in Large Graphs, Martin Hall, Colton Magnant, and Hua Wang
A Decomposition of Gallai Multigraphs, Alexander Halperin, Colton Magnant, and Kyle Pula
Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium in Nearby Tidal Streams (SAINTS): Spitzer Mid-infrared spectroscopy and Imaging of Intergalactic Star-forming Objects, Sarah J.U. Higdon, James L. Higdon, B. J. Smith, and M. Hancock
Note on Rainbow Connection in Oriented Graphs with Diameter 2, Rebecca Holliday, Colton Magnant, and Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani
Note on Rainbow Connection in Oriented Graphs with Diameter 2, Rebecca Holliday, Colton Magnant, and Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani
Instructor's Guide with Full Solutions, Patricia B. Humphrey
Instructor's Guide with Full Solutions, Patricia B. Humphrey
Student Solutions Manual, Patricia B. Humphrey
Student Study Guide with Solutions Manual, Patricia B. Humphrey
Was Ist Eigentlich ein p-Wert?, Patricia B. Humphrey
Developing Consistency in the Terminology and Display of Bar Graphs and Histograms, Patricia B. Humphrey, Sharon E. Taylor, and Kathleen Cage Mittag
Spontaneous Emission of Electric and Magnetic Dipoles in the Vicinity of Thin and Thick Metal, Rabia Hussain, David Keene, Natalia Noginova, and Maxim Durach
Discrete Fourier Restriction Associated with Schrödinger Equations, Yi Hu and Xiaochun Li
Gorenstein Injective Covers and Envelopes over Noetherian Rings, Alina Iacob and Edgar E. Enochs
