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Submissions from 2013
Disconnected Colors in Generalized Gallai-Colorings, Shinya Fujita, András Gyárfás, Colton Magnant, and Ákos Seress
Forbidden Rainbow Subgraphs that Force Large Highly Connected Monochromatic Subgraphs, Shinya Fujita and Colton Magnant
Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations for Bose-Einstein Condensates, Luigi Galati and Shijun Zheng
Sexual Dimorphism in the Alligator Lizard Gerrhonotus infernalis (Sauria: Anguidae): Implications for Sexual Selection, Margarita García-Bastida, David Lazcano, Lance D. McBrayer, and Roberto Mercado-Hernández
Perception or Reality of Body Weight: Which Matters to the Depressive Symptoms, Jaynie L. Gaskin, Adam J. Pulver, Kiswana Branch, Ahmed Kabore, Tabitha James, and Jian Zhang
Lahaina Groundwater Tracer Study – Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, Craig R. Glenn, Robert B. Whittier, Meghan L. Dailer, Henrieta Dulaiova, Aly I. El-Kadi, Joseph Fackrell, Jacque L. Kelly, Christine A. Waters, and Jeff Sevadjian
Work-in-Progress: The Impact of MatLab Marina - A Virtual Learning Environment on Student Learning in a Computing for Engineers Course, Priya T. Goeser, Wayne M. Johnson, S. L. Bernadin, and Delana A. Gajdosik-Nivens
Determining Socioeconomic Drivers of Urban Forest Fragmentation With Historical Remote Sensing Images, Chongfeng Gong, Shixiao Yu, Heather M. Joesting, and Jiquan Chen
Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Csp3-H Functionalization of Methyl Azaarenes with α-Trifluoromethyl Carbonyl Compounds, Vincent B. Graves and Abid Shaikh
They Just Don’t Make Storms Like This One Anymore: Analyzing the 1959 Record Snowfall Season at Mt. Shasta CA, Cassandra Hansen, Michael L. Kaplan, Scott A. Mensing, S. Jeffrey Underwood, John M. Lewis, K. C. King, and Jake E. Haugland
Salt Marsh Elevation and Habitat Mapping Using Hyperspectral and LIDAR Data, Christine M. Hladik, Merryl Alber, and John F. Schalles
Exponential Kleisli Monoids as Eilenberg-Moore Algebras, Dirk Hofmann, Frédéric Mynard, and Gavin J. Seal
Polynitroxylated Pegylated Hemoglobin (PNPH) A Nanomedicine for Critical Care and Transfusion, Carleton J. C. Hsia, Frances M. Thompson, Dong Wang, and Li Ma
Exponentiated Kumaraswamy-Dagum Distribution with Applications to Income and Lifetime Data, Shujiao Huang and Broderick O. Oluyede
Discrete Fourier Restriction Associated with KdV Equations, Yi Hu and Xiaochun Li
Temporal Variation in End-member Chemistry and its Influence on Runoff Mixing Patterns in a Forested, Piedmont Catchment, Sherman Inamdar, Gurbir Dhillon, Shatrughan Singh, Sudarshan Dutta, Delphis F. Levia, Durelle Scott, Myron J. Mitchell, John T. Van Stan II, and Patrick McHale
Spatio-temporal Analysis of Shoreline Change of the Georgia Coast 1857 to 2006, Chester W. Jackson, David M. Bush, and Clark R. Alexander
Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Community Responses to Drought Conditions in a Coastal Plains Floodplain, Erica L. Johnson and Jose Checo Colón-Gaud
Re-examination of the Interstate-5 Dust Storm of November 1991: Alternate Interpretation of Governing Dynamics, Michael L. Kaplan, Ramesh K. Vellore, John M. Lewis, S. Jeffrey Underwood, Patricia M. Pauley, Jonathan E. Martin, and R. Krishnan
Polar Jet Interactions in Southern Plains Dust Storms, Michael L. Kaplan, Ramesh K. Vellore, John M. Lewis, S. Jeffrey Underwood, Patricia M. Pauley, Jonathan E. Martin, Robert M. Rabin, and R. Krishnan
Evaluation of Composts from Agricultural Wastes with Fish Pond Sediment as Bulking Agent to Improve Compost Quality, Tanmoy Karak, Pradip Bhattacharyya, Ranjit K. Paul, Tapati Das, and Subhrajit Saha
High-Resolution Aerial Infrared Mapping of Groundwater Discharge to the Coastal Ocean, Jacque L. Kelly, Craig R. Glenn, and Paul G. Lucey
Dual Basis Functions in Inner Product Spaces, Scott N. Kersey
Ecological Epigenetics, Holly J. Kilvitis, Mariano Alvarez, Christy M. Foust, Aaron W. Schrey, Marta Robertson, and Christina L. Richards
Some Applications of Equimeasurable Rearrangements, Anatolii A. Korenovskii and Alexander M. Stokolos
Approach to Investigation of Dissolved Organic Matter Adsorptive Fractionation and Competitive Displacement on Minerals, David I. Kreller, Samantha L. McGunigale, Eladio A. Mendez, and Lawrence G. Wolfe
Stereoselective Synthesis of α-Fluoro-β-Trifluromethyl-α-β- Unsaturated Esters by Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Coupling, Shainaz M. Landge and Béla Török
Multiple Solutions of a p(x)-Laplacian Equation Involving Critical Nonlinearities, Yuan Liang, Xianbin Wu, Qihu Zhang, and Chunshan Zhao
Patterns of DNA Methylation Throughout a Range Expansion of an Introduced Songbird, Andrea L. Liebl, Aaron W. Schrey, Christina L. Richards, and Lynn Martin
Polarization-Dependent Third-order Optical Nonlinearity of BaAlBO3F2 Crystal, Fang-Qin Li, Nan Zong, Yin-Chao Yue, Feng Yang, Qin-Jun Peng, Da-Fu Cui, Jing-Yuan Zhang, Zhang-Gui Hu, and Zu-Yan Xu
Genetic and Morphometric Divergence of an Invasive Bird: The Introduced House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in Brazil, Marcos R. Lima, Regina H. F. Macedo, Thaís L. F. Martins, Aaron W. Schrey, Lynn Martin, and Staffan Bensch
Fast, Optically Controlled Kerr Phase Shifter for Digital Signal Processing, R. B. Li, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Marvin G. Payne, J. C. Bienfang, and Z. H. Levine
A Multiphase Strategy for Realizing Green Cathodoluminescence in 12CaO·7Al2O3–CaCeAl3O7:Ce3+,Tb3+ Conductive Phosphor, Xiuling Liu, Yuxue Liu, Duanting Yan, Hancheng Zhu, Chunguang Liu, Weizhen Liu, Changshan Xu, Yichun Liu, Hong Zhang, and Xiao-Jun Wang
Luminescence and Energy Transfer in Ca3Sc2Si3O12:Ce3+,Mn2+ White LED Phosphors, Yongfu Liu, Xia Zhang, Zhendong Hao, Yongshi Luo, Xiao-Jun Wang, Li Ma, and Jiahua Zhang
Effects of Encaged Anions on the Optical and EPR Spectroscopies of RE Doped C12A7, Y. X. Liu, Li Ma, D. T. Yan, H. C. Zhu, X. L. Liu, H. Y. Bian, and Xiao-Jun Wang
Frequency Up-Conversion Imaging with 60 dB Gain Using Picosecond Optical Parametric Amplifier, Xiaoqing Li, Jing Yang, Xinzhi Sheng, Jing-Yuan Zhang, Da-Fu Cui, Qin-Jun Peng, and Zu-Yan Xu
New Yellow Ba0.93Eu0.07Al2O4, Xufan Li, John D. Budai, Feng Liu, Jane Y. Howe, Jiahua Zhang, Xiao-Jun Wang, Zhanjun Gu, Chengjun Sun, Richard S. Meltzer, and Zhengwei Pan
Polynitroxylated Hemoglobin as a Multifunctional Therapeutic for Critical Care and Transfusion Medicine, Li Ma and Carleton J. C. Hsia
Development and Testing of a Snow Interceptometer to Quantify Canopy Water Storage and Interception Processes in the Rain/Snow Transition Zone of the North Cascades, Washington, USA, Kael Martin, John T. Van Stan, Susan E. Dickerson-Lange, James A. Lutz, Jeffrey W. Berman, Rolf Gersonde, and Jessica D. Lundquist
A Comparison of Student Academic Motivations across Three Course Disciplines, Trent W. Maurer, Deborah Allen, Delena Bell Gatch, Padmini Shankar, and Diana Sturges
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
