About this Collection
The publications archived in this Digital Commons@Georgia Southern collection are produced by the faculty of the College of Science and Mathematics.
Faculty Research in Digital Commons@Georgia Southern
Georgia Southern University faculty members are eligible to showcase their research in Digital Commons@Georgia Southern and to join the Expert Gallery hosted by the University Libraries. Their intellectual and creative works are accessible through galleries organized by College, Department, Research Center, and a customized SelectedWorks researcher profile.
We invite and encourage Georgia Southern faculty members to sign up to Join the Expert Gallery!
Publishing Information
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern is an open-access digital repository. Copyright and licensing agreements for works published by Digital Commons@Georgia Southern protect the author's rights while facilitating the sharing of research. The works in this gallery were originally published or presented under agreements with entities external to this repository. Records for each work provide the access permitted by the original copyright and licensing agreement. For additional access or questions about a work, please contact the authors or email the Digital Commons team.
Submissions from 2013
Quantitative Reasoning Learning Progressions for Environmental Science: Developing a Framework, Robert L. Mayes, Franziska Peterson, and Rachel Bonilla
Pattern Avoidance in Cryptography: Theoretical Supports and Questions, Katie Milhous and Hua Wang
Probing the Circulation of Ring-shaped Bose-Einstein Condensates, Noel Murray, Michael Krygier, Mark Edwards, K. C. Wright, Gretchen K. Campbell, and Charles W. Clark
Local Rings of Embedding Codepth at Most 3 Have Only Trivial Semidualizing Complexes, Saeed Nasseh and Sean Sather-Wagstaff
Integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into Sport Business Practice and Research, Calvin Nite and S. Jeffrey Underwood
The Mc-Dagum Distribution and Its Statistical Properties with Applications, Broderick O. Oluyede and Sasith Rajasooriya
Ionic Rectification via the Formation of Complexes or Precipitation in Carbon Nanotube Membranes, Bhavin Patel, Mayur Patel, Matthew Bassett, Shainaz Landge, Xuezhen Haung, Hongrui Jiang, and Ji Wu
The Tools and Technologies of Transdisciplinary Climate Change Research and Community Empowerment in Barbuda, Sophia Perdikaris, Katherine Hejtmanek, Rebecca Boger, Jennifer D. Adams, Amy E. Potter, and John Mussington
Heavy-Mineral Mining in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and What Deposit Locations Tell Us about Ancient Shorelines, Fredrick J. Rich, Fredric L. Pirkle, and William A. Pirkle
Depositional Environment of the Heavy-Mineral Deposits of Bailey, North Carolina, U.S.A, Fredrick J. Rich, Fredric L. Pirkle, William A. Pirkle, E. C. Pirkle, Daniel P. Spangler, and David L. Pirkle
On the Incidences of Cannibalism in the Lizard Genus Sceloporus: Updates, Hypotheses, and the First Case of Siblicide, Travis R. Robbins, Aaron W. Schrey, Shannen McGinley, and Aaron Jacobs
Landscape Estimates of Habitat Types, Plant Biomass, and Invertebrate Densities in a Georgia Salt Marsh, John F. Schalles, Christine M. Hladik, Alana A. Lynes, and Steven C. Pennings
Highly Effective Emulsion ROMP of DCPD and COE Using pH-Responsive Ru-Alkylidene Complexes, Hans-Joerg Schanz
Stimuli-Responsive Olefin Metathesis Catalysts, Hans-Joerg Schanz
Ecological Epigenetics: Beyond MS-AFLP, Aaron W. Schrey, Mariano Alvarez, Christy M. Foust, Holly J. Kilvitis, J. D. Lee, Andrea Lyn Liebl, Lynn Martin, Christina L. Richards, and Marta Robertson
The Apostles and Brothers of Jesus, Andrew Sills
Rademacher's Infinite Partial Fractions Conjecture is (Almost Certainly) False, Andrew Sills and Doron Zeilberger
Sexual Dimorphism and Inter-generic Variation in Proboscidean Tusks: Multivariate Assessment of American Mastodons (Mammut americanum) and Extant African Elephants, Kathlyn M. Smith and Daniel C. Fisher
The Ontogeny of Escape Behavior, Locomotor Performance, and Hind Limb Morphology in Sceloporus woodi, Reed B. Stiller and Lance D. McBrayer
Moduli of Smoothness and Rate of a.e. Convergence for Some Convolution Operators, Alexander M. Stokolos and Walter Trebels
Comparison of Up-Converted Emissions in Yb3+, Er3+ Co-Doped Gd2(WO4)3 and Gd2WO6 Phosphors, M. Sun, Li Ma, B. J. Chen, F. Stepongzi, F. Liu, Z. W. Pan, M. K. Lei, and Xiao-Jun Wang
Evaluating Relationships between Mercury Concentrations in Air and in Spanish Moss, Kathryn T. Sutton, Risa A. Cohen, and Stephen P. Vives
Extremal Values of Ratios: Distance Problems vs. Subtree Problems in Trees, László A. Székely and Hua Wang
Special Issue in Honor of Professor Kees Roos' 70th Birthday, Tamas Terlaky, Etienne de Klerk, Goran Lesaja, and Dick den Hertog
A Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Low Birth Weight Prevalence in Georgia, USA, Jia Tian, Wei Tu, Stuart H. Tedders, and Dongmei Chen
Electrospun SnO2/TiO2 Composite Nanofibers for Lithium Ion Batteries, Toan Tran, Amber Lott, Jianlin Li, and Ji Wu
Evaluation of an Instrumental Method to Reduce Error in Canopy Water Storage Estimates via Mechanical Displacement, John T. Van Stan, Kael Martin, Jan Friesen, Matthew T. Jarvis, Jessica D. Lundquist, and Delphis F. Levia
A Novel Microwave-Assisted Carbothermic Route for the Production of Copper-Carbon Nanotube Metal Matrix Composites Directly from Copper Oxide, Danny Vennerberg, Rafael L. Quirino, and Michael R. Kessler
Distance-Based Graph Invariants of Trees and the Harary Index, Stephan G. Wagner, Hua Wang, and Xiao-Dong Zhang
Wavelength Switchable High-Power Diode-Side-Pumped Rod Tm: YAG Laser around 2µm, Caili Wang, Shi-Feng Du, Yanxiong Niu, Zhichao Wang, Chao Zhang, Qi Bian, Chuan Guo, Jialin Xu, Qinjun Peng, Da-fu Cui, Jing-Yuan Zhang, Wenqiang Lei, and Zuyan Xu
High-power diode-side-pumped rod Tm:YAG laser at 2.07 μm, Caili Wang, Yanxiong Niu, Shi-Feng Du, Chao Zhang, Zhichao Wang, Fangqin Li, Jialin Xu, Yong Bo, Qinjun Peng, Da-fu Cui, Jingyuan Zhang, and Zuyan Xu
Full Nesterov-Todd Step Feasible Interior-Point Method for the Cartesian P *(Κ)-SCLCP, G. Q. Wang and Goran Lesaja
Binary Words, N-Color Compositions and Bisection of the Fibonacci Numbers, Hua Wang, Alex Collins, and Charles Dedrickson
Mathematical Model of Dynamic Protein Interactions Regulating p53 Protein Stability for Tumor Suppression, Hua Wang and Guang Peng
Physical Geography Bibliography, Mark R. Welford
Is Neotropical Conservation Sold-Short: Diminishing Returns for Birding Suggest Ecolodges Could Encourage Longer Stays, Mark R. Welford and Anthony G. Barilla
Disease-Driven Amphibian Declines Alter Ecosystem Processes in Tropical Streams, Matt R. Whiles, Robert O. Hall Jr., Walter K. Dodds, Piet Verburg, Alex D. Huryn, Catherine M. Pringle, Karen R. Lips, Susan Kilham, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Amanda T. Rugenski, Scot D. Peterson, and Scott Connelly
Global Asymptotic Stability of Wavelet Network Adaptive Control of A Single-Loop Thermosyphon, Yan Wu
Qualitative Properties of A System of Differential Equations Involving Kronecker Product of Matrices, Yan Wu, Kanuri N. Murty, K. V. K. Viswanadh, and P. Ramesh
Bio-based Thermosetting Polymers from Vegetable Oils, Ying Xia, Rafael L. Quirino, and Richard C. Larock
Sequence Combining of Pulsed Lasers Using Refraction-Beam-Displacement, Jian Xu, Hongwei Gao, Yiting Xu, Yong Bo, Qinjun Peng, Jing-Yuan Zhang, Da-fu Cui, and Zuyan Xu
High Efficiency and High Peak Power Picosecond Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Amplifier Based on a New Crystal BaGa4Se7, Feng Yang, Ji-Yong Yao, Hong-Yan Xu, Kai Feng, Wen-Long Yin, Fang-Qin Li, Jing Yang, Shi-Feng Du, Qin-Jun Peng, Jing-Yuan Zhang, Da-Fu Cui, Yi-Cheng Wu, and Zu-Yan Xu
Pulse Broadening of Deep Ultraviolet Femtosecond Laser from Second Harmonic Generation in KBe2BO3F2 Crystal, Jing Yang, Feng Yang, Jing-Yuan Zhang, Da-Fu Cui, Qin-Jun Peng, and Zu-Yan Xu
Picosecond Widely Tunable Deep-Ultraviolet Laser for Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy, Feng-Feng Zhang, Feng Yang, Shen-Jin Zhang, Zhi Xu, Zhi-Min Wang, Feng-Liang Xu, Qin-Jun Peng, Jing-Yuan Zhang, Xiao-Yang Wang, Chuang-Tian Chen, and Zu-Yan Xu
Detection of ∼1 Atto-Joule Signal Pulse at 532 nm Using a Picosecond Collinear BBO Optical Parametric Amplifier, Jing Zhang, Qiulin Zhang, Kangsheng Qiu, Dongxiang Zhang, Bao-Hua Feng, and Jing-Yuan Zhang
Existence, Uniqueness and Blow-Up Rate of Large Solutions of Quasi-Linear Elliptic Equations with Higher Order and Large Perturbation, Qihu Zhang and Chunshan Zhao
Synthesis and Surface Properties of PDMS-Containing Latexes by Emulsion Polymerization Using AIBN as the Initiator, Quanyuan Zhang, Julian M. Galvan-Miyoshi, Fabio Pezzotti, and Weihua Ming
The Number of Subtrees of Trees with Given Degree Sequence, Xiu-Mei Zhang, Xiao-Dong Zhang, Daniel Gray, and Hua Wang
Identify Key Links in the DNA Repair Network Regulated by Tumor Suppressors PTEN and BRCA1 through Maximum Flow Analysis, Yiran Zhang, Hua Wang, and Guang Peng
On q-Analogs of Wostenholme Type Congruences for Multiple Harmonic Sums, Jianqiang Zhao
Sum Formula of Multiple Hurwitz-Zeta Values, Jianqiang Zhao
Triple-Scale Structured, Superhydrophobic and Highly Oleophobic Surfaces, Jie Zhao, Boxun Leng, Zhengzhong Shao, Gijsbertus de With, and Weihua Ming
Acrylic Coatings with Surprising Antifogging and Frost- Resisting Properties, Jie Zhao, Anthony Meyer, Li Ma, and Weihua Ming
Acrylic Coatings with Surprising Antifogging and Frost-Resisting Properties, Jie Zhao, Anthony Meyer, Li Ma, and Weihua Ming
Anti-Bioadhesion on Hierarchically Structured,Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Jie Zhao, Lingjie Song, Jinghua Yin, and Weihua Ming
Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations for Bose-Einstein Condensates, Shijun Zheng
A Generalized l₁ Greedy Algorithm for Image Reconstruction in CT, Jiehua Zhu and Xiezhang Li
Fractions as a Foundation for Algebra within a Sample of Prospective Teachers, L. R. Zientek, R. Younes, K. Nimon, Kathleen Cage Mittag, and Sharon E. Taylor
Hypoxia Inducible Factor Pathway Inhibitors as Anticancer Therapeutics, Sarah Zingales, Stefan Kaluz, D. Wang, K. Wang, E. G. Van Meir, and B. Wang
Submissions from 2012
Special Issue in Honor of Professor Florian A. Potra's 60th Birthday, Mihai Anitescu and Goran Lesaja
Generalized Diamond-Alpha Dynamic Opial Inequalities, Nuriye Atasever, Billûr Kaymakçalan, Goran Lesaja, and Kenan Taş
Influence of Repeated Canopy Scorching on Soil CO2 Efflux, Doug P. Aubrey, Behzad Mortazavi, Joseph J. O'Brien, Jason D. McGee, Joseph J. Hendricks, Kevin A. Kuehn, Robert O. Teskey, and Robert J. Mitchell
Local Self-Concordance of Barrier Functions Based on Kernel Functions, Y. Bai, Goran Lesaja, H. Mansouri, C. Roos, and M. Zangiabadi
Luciferase Inhibition by a Novel Naphthoquinone, Rebecca Bedford, Daniel LePage, Rachel Hoffmann, Steven Kennedy, Tyler Gutschenritter, Lauran Bull, Nanthiya Sujijantarat, John C. DiCesare, and Robert J. Sheaff
Using Biocatalysis to Integrate Organic Chemistry into a Molecular Biology Laboratory Course, Mande Beers, Crystal Archer, Brent D. Feske, and Scott C. Mateer
Proper Connection of Graphs, Valentin Borozan, Shinya Fujita, Aydin Gerek, Colton Magnant, Yannis Manoussakis, Leandro Montero, and Zsolt Tuza
Cotorsion Pairs in C(R-Mod), Diego Bravo, Edgar E. Enochs, Alina Iacob, Overtoun M. G. Jenda, and Juan Rada
Linker Free, Silica Bound Olefin Metathesis Catalysts: Applications in Heterogeneous Catalysis, Jose Cabrera, Robin Padilla, Miriam Bru, Ronald Linder, Takeharu Kageyama, Kristina Wilckens, Shawna L. Balof, Hans-Joerg Schanz, Richard Dehn, Henrique J. Teles, Stephan Deuerlein, Kevin Muller, Frank Rominger, and Michael Limbach
A 171.4 W Diode-Side-Pumped Q-Switched 2 μm Tm: YAG Laser with a 10kHz Repetition Rate, Dong Cao, Shi-Feng Du, Qin-Jun Peng, Yong Bo, Jia-Lin Xu, Ya-Ding Guo, Jing-Yuan Zhang, Da-Fu Cui, and Zu-Yan Xu
Optimal Trees for Functions of Internal Distance, Alex Collins, Fedelis Mutiso, and Hua Wang
Structure of Colored Complete Graphs Free of Proper Cycles, Vincent E. Coll, Colton Magnant, and Kathleen Ryan
Lecture Hall Sequences, q-Series, and Asymmetric Partition Identities, Sylvie Corteel, Carla D. Savage, and Andrew Sills
Getting a Head Start: The Benefits of Starting Undergraduate Research as a Freshman, Stephen N. Crooke, C. Michele Davis McGibony, and Christine R. Whitlock
A General Synthesis of Bis-indolylpiperazine-2,5-diones, Stephen N. Crooke and Christine Whitlock
Characterization of Aquaporin 4 Protein Expression and Localization in Tissues of the Dogfish (Squalus acanthias), Christopher P. Cutler, Sheena Harmon, Jonathan Walsh, and Kia Burch
Aquaporin 4 is a Ubiquitously Expressed Isoform in the Dogfish (Squalus acanthias) Shark, Christopher P. Cutler, Bryce MacIver, Gordon Cramb, and Mark L. Zeidel
Vivo-Morpholino Knockdown of Aquaporin 1 (AQP1) Protein Expression in American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) Gastrointestinal Tract, Christopher P. Cutler and Denyia Smith
Energy Flux Streamlines versus Acoustic Rays for Modeling Interaction with Rigid Boundaries: A Lloyds Mirror Experiment, Cleon E. Dean and James P. Braselton
A Ray Model of Sound Focusing with a Balloon Lens: An Experiment for High School Students, Cleon Dean and Kendez Parker
Structure of Planar Integral Self-Affine Tilings, Da-Wen Deng, Tao Jiang, and Sze-Man Ngai
A Bijection between Two Classes of Restricted Compositions, James D. Diffenderfer
Self-Replenishing Surfaces, T. Dikić, Weihua Ming, Rolf A.T.M van Benthem, A. C.C. Esteves, and Gijsbertus de With
Generalized Borcea-Voisin Construction, Jimmy Dillies
On Some Order 6 Non-Symplectic Automorphisms of Elliptic K3 Surfaces, Jimmy J. Dillies
Transforming Fabry-Pérot Resonances into a Tamm Mode, Maxim Durach and Anastasia Rusina
Approximate Mean-field Equations of Motion for Quasi-two-dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates, Mark Edwards, Michael Krygier, Hadayat Seddiqi, Brandon Benton, and Charles W. Clark
Balance with Unbounded Complexes, Edgar E. Enochs, Sergio Estrada, and Alina Iacob
Gorenstein Projective and Flat Complexes over Noetherian Rings, Edgar E. Enochs, Sergio Estrada, and Alina Iacob
Distributing Vertices on Hamiltonian Cycles, Ralph J. Faudree, Ronald Gould, Michael S. Jacobson, and Colton Magnant
Claw-Free Graphs and Separating Independent Sets On 2-Factors, Ralph J. Faudree, Colton Magnant, Kenta Ozeki, and Kiyoshi Yoshimoto
K-Rainbow Domatic Numbers, Shinya Fujita, Michitaka Furuya, and Colton Magnant
Proper Connection with Many Colors, Shinya Fujita, Aydin Gerek, and Colton Magnant
Extensions of Gallai–Ramsey results, Shinya Fujita and Colton Magnant
An Unexpected Stereochemical Insignificance Discovered in Acinetobacter baumannii Quorum Sensing, Amanda L. Garner, Sook Kyung Kim, Jie Zhu, Anjali Kumari Struss, Richard Watkins, Brent D. Feske, Gunnar F. Kaufmann, and Kim D. Janda
Keto Furanylidene Building Blocks from Silyl Ethers of Monoalkynylated β- Keto Carbonyls with Iron(III) Chloride Hexahydrate-Iodine, Brittany Garner, Kristina Deveaux, Laura Gessner, Julia Trossarello, Shuting Dai, James W. Morgan, and Karelle Aiken
Cycles, the Degree Distance, and the Wiener Index, Daniel Gray and Hua Wang
Trees with the Most Subtrees: An Algorithmic Approach, Daniel Gray, Hua Wang, Xiao-Dong Zhang, and Xiu-Mei Zhang
Transference of Weak Type Bounds of Multiparameter Ergodic and Geometric Maximal Operators, Paul Hagelstein and Alexander M. Stokolos
On Distance Between Graphs, Alexander Halperin, Colton Magnant, and Daniel M. Martin
Synoptic-scale Weather Patterns and Large Slab Avalanches at Mt. Shasta California, Cassandra Hansen and S. Jeffrey Underwood
