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Submissions from 2019
Respiratory Deposition Modeling for PM10, PM2.5, and PM1 Exposure in Cotton Farms for Standard and Heavy Workers, Atin Adhikari
Guest Lecture given at Applied Ecology (ENSC 360/540) – Department of Environmental Studies, University of Montana, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Cultural Foods (NTFS 4630), Nutrition and Food Science Program, Health and Kinesiology Department at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Principles of Environmental Health (PUBH 3136), Undergraduate program in (BSPH), Department of Community Health, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Principles of Environmental Health (PUBH 3136), Undergraduate program in (BSPH), Department of Community Health, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Influence of Serum Lutein and Zeaxanthin on Select Cancer Mortality: An 18-Year Follow-Up Cohort Study, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Padmini Shankar, Alicia Brown, and Jian Zhang
Impact of Childhood Asthma in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review, Oyindamola Akinso and Atin Adhikari
Local Health Department Engagement in Access to Mental Health Services and Mental Health Policy or Advocacy Activities, Abraham Ater, Sushma Kurella, Gulzar H. Shah, and Kristie Cason Waterfield
PAH Exposure among Slaughterhouse and Slaughter Slab Workers Who Utilize Scrap Automobile Tires for Meat Singeing in Ghana, Alicia Brown, Caitlyn Grunert, Natalie Johnson, A. Cleve, Inyang Uwak, and M. Wang
PAH Exposure among Slaughterhouse and Slaughter Slab Workers Who Utilize Scrap Automobile Tires to Singe Meat in Ghana, Alicia Brown, Natalie Johnson, A. Cleve, Inyang Uwak, and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Trajectories of Engagement in Leisure Time Physical Activity and Risk of Incident Ischemic Stroke: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Logan Cowan, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Kelly Evenson, Priya Palta, and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
Simultaneous Measurements of Airborne Microorganisms, VOCs, Moisture, Light, Particulate Matter, and Ventilations in Indoor Home Environments, J. E. Dortherow, M. Hizine, C. Grunert, O. Osanyinlusi, S. Smart, E. Riegelman, K. Jones, and Atin Adhikari
VOC and Particle Concentrations in New and Model Automobiles, J. Edward Dotherow, D. Martin, and Atin Adhikari
Utilizing Twitter to Identify Unplanned School Closures during the 2017-2018 Winter Season for Massachusetts and Georgia Public School Districts, Haley Evans, Maya Handberry, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Hai Liang, Jessica S. Schwind, and Isaac Fung
Parameter Estimation using Influential Exponential Tilting in Case of Data Missing at Random and Non-Ignorable Missing Data, Kavita Gohil, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, and Lili Yu
Public Health Inquiry & Youth Participatory Action Research in a High School Biomedical Academy: Association Between Perception of Harm Related to Substance Use/Abuse and Public Health Knowledge, Andrew Ha, Annette Aalborg, Janis Ho, Amy Vang, Jessica S. Schwind, and Daniel Parker
Breastfeeding Initiation and Continuation: Rural-Urban Differences in Georgia, Whitney N. Hamilton and Yelena N. Tarasenko
Microbiological Water Quality at Jekyll Island Beaches, Michela Hizine, Sarah Jillson, Bettye A. Apenteng, Jeffery A. Jones, and Asli Aslan
Public Health Inquiry & Youth Participatory Action Research in a High School Biomedical Academy: an Approach to Foster Positive Youth Development and Resiliency, Janis Ho, Annette Aalborg, Amy Vang, Andrew Ha, Jessica S. Schwind, and Daniel Parker
Incidence of Major Cardiovascular Disease and Subsequent Risk of End-stage Renal Disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Ryan T. Demmer, Pamela L. Lutsey, Morgan E. Grams, Josef Coresh, and Kunihiro Matsushita
Developing a Conceptual Model for Opioid Prevention by Combining Elements of Transtheoretical Model and NIOSH Framework for Combating Opioid-Related Deaths and Injuries at Workplace, P. Joshi and Atin Adhikari
Increasing Steps in Sedentary College Students with Self–Monitoring and Social Feedback, Hafsa Junaid, Monique Benjamin, Talia Wind, Andrew Bulla, and Dziyana Nazaruk
A New Measure of Diagnostic Accuracy with Cut-point Selection Criterion for K-stage Diseases Using Concordance and Discordance, Jing Kersey, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Xinyan Zhang, and Chen Mo
Misclassification Simulation Extrapolation in survival analysis with AFT model, Congjian Liu and Lili Yu
Rainfall and Temperature as Environmental Factors Impacting Beach Water Quality in Coastal Georgia, Joshua Longcoy, X. Zhag, and Asli Aslan
Cluster Analysis of Urinary Tobacco Biomarkers among U.S. Adults: Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Biomarker Study (2013-2014).”, Ban Majeed, Daniel F. Linder, Yelena Tarasenko, Danielle Smith, Yutao Liu, Thomas Eissenberg, and David L. Ashley
Applications of Generalized Kullback-Leibler Divergence as a Measure of Medical Diagnostic and Cut-Point Criterion for K-Stages Diseases, Chen Mo, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Xinyan Zhang, and Jing Kersey
Social Media Use in Emergency Response to Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review with a Public Health Perspective, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Sylvia Ofori, Kadiatou Diallo, Manyun Liu, Jessica S. Schwind, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Health Care Provider Support for Physical Activity in Women, Aged 20-44 Years, in Georgia: A Qualitative Study, Dziyana Nazaruk, Stuart H. Tedders, and Andrew Hansen
The Use of Digital Technology to Improve and Monitor Handwashing Among Children 12 Years or Younger in Educational Settings: a Systematic Review, Sylvia Ofori, Yuen Wai Hung, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Reece J. Kakou, Sunmisola Alade, Kadiatou Diallo, Kelly L. Sullivan, Jessica S. Schwind, Benjamin J. Cowling, and Isaac Fung
Enhancing Diabetes Care in Bulloch County Through Grant Writing and Service-Learning, Maria Olivas, Alan W. Skipper, Cathy Shriver, and Yelena Tarasenko
An Application of Penalized Quasi-likelihood in Variable Selection on Parametric Accelerated Failure Time Models With Frailty, Sarbesh R. Pandeya, Lili Yu, Hani Samawi, and Xinyan Zhang
Regularization in Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) models with frailty parameters, Sarbesh R. Pandeya, Lili Yu, Hani Samawi, and Xinyan Zhang
Overall Microbial Activity on Shopping Carts Handles: Relationship with Ambient Temperature, Relative Humidity, Moisture, and Ultraviolet Radiations, G. Renz and Atin Adhikari
Association Between Accreditation Engagement and Using the Community Guide for Preventive Services by Local Health Departments, Assegid Roba, Brianna Williams, Kristie Cason Waterfield, and Gulzar H. Shah
On Improving the Performance of Logistic Regression Analysis via Extreme Ranking, Hani Samawi
On Kullback-leibler Divergence as a Measure for Medical Diagnostics and Cut-point Selection Criterion, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Xinyan Zhang, Lili Yu, Haresh Rochani, and Robert L. Vogel
One Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Wicked Problems, Jessica S. Schwind
Incorporating EService-Learning Opportunities In Public Health Education Through Partnerships With Local Health Departments, Jessica S. Schwind
Emergency Preparedness Then and Now: Lhds' Activities, Response to Events, Funding, and Volunteer-engagement: 2005, 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2016, Gulzar H. Shah and Kristie Cason Waterfield
Impacting Health Equity and Other Social Determinants of Health: Public Health Workforce Perspectives, Gulzar H. Shah, Jingjing Yin, Jessica L. Owens-Young, and Kristie Cason Waterfield
Brominated Vegetable Oil in Beverages: An Ecological Study, Joana Tome, Prachi Joshi, Logan Cowan, and Asli Aslan
The Relationship between High Consumption of BVO-Contained Beverage, CVD and Stroke, Joana Tome, Prachi Joshi, Logan Cowan, and Asli Aslan
Childhood Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and the Lower Respiratory Tract Microbiome, C. Uebel-Niemeier, P. Ryan, J. Meller, N. Ollberding, and Atin Adhikari
Testosterone Therapy and Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Men Without Hypogonadism, Rob F. Walker, Neil A. Zakai, Richard F. MacLehose, Logan Cowan, Terrence J. Adam, Alvaro Alonso, and Pamela L. Lutsey
Testosterone Therapy and Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Men Without Hypogonadism, Rob F. Walker, Neil A. Zakai, Richard F. MacLehose, Logan Cowan, Terrence J. Adam, Alvaro Alonso, and Pamela L. Lutsey
Leadership Characteristics of Local Health Department Top Executives and Their Impact on Service Provisions, Kristie Cason Waterfield and Gulzar H. Shah
Issue of Personal Protective Equipment Compliance Among Wastewater Workers Across the Southeast Region of the United States, T. Wright, Atin Adhikari, J. Yin, R. Vogel, S. Smallwood, and G. Shah
Twitter Users’ Opinion and Reactions Toward Autism Awareness Campaign Message, Jingjing Yin, Sushmita Khan, and Jeffrey P. Kaleta
A Homoscedasticity in the Accelerated Failure Time Model, Lili Yu and Ding-Geng Chen
Submissions from 2018
Wood Dust and Nanoparticle Exposure Among Workers During a New Building Construction, Atin Adhikari, Aniruddha Mitra, Abbas Rashidi, Imaobong B. Ekpo, Jefferson W. Doehling, Alexis Pawlak, Shane Lewis, and Jacob Schwartz
Guest Lecture given at Environmental Health (PUBH 6532), Environmental Health Sciences, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Principles of Environmental Health (PUBH 3136), Undergraduate program in (BSPH), Department of Community Health, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Principles of Environmental Health (PUBH 3136), Undergraduate program in (BSPH), Department of Community Health, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Toxicology (BIOL 5243), Biology Department at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest lecture given for the Global Health (CHBE 9335), Department of Community Health, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Engaging Communities for Health – Environment and Food Safety, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Alicia Brown, Atin Adhikari, and Hani Samawi
Invited speaker, Extreme Affordability: West Africa Conference 2018, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Alicia Brown, Atin Adhikari, and Hani Samawi
Utilization of Scrap Tires Versus Firewood and Liquefied Petroleum Gas as Fuels for Singeing Meat in Ghana: Emission of Pollutants via Smoke, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Alicia Brown, M. Rao, and Hani Samawi
Utilization of Scrap Tires Versus Firewood and Liquefied Petroleum Gas as Fuels for Singeing Meat in Ghana: Chemical Emissions via Smoke, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, A. Brown, M. Rao, Atin Adhikari, and Hani M. Samawi
Food Waste on Georgia Southern Campus, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Rebecca L. Larson, Felix Twum, Cathony Reid, Alicia Brown, and Hani Samawi
Food Waste on Georgia Southern Campus, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Rebecca L. Larson, Felix Twum, Cathony Reid, Alicia Brown, and Hani Samawi
Using Twitter to Track Unplanned School Closures: Georgia Public Schools, 2015-17, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Ngozi Pearl Chukwudebe, Brittany Morgan Buchanan, Jingjing Yin, Xiaolu Zhou, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Gerardo Chowell, Bishwa B. Adhikari, and Isaac Fung
What is in your Water? The state of the private well water quality in Evans County, Asli Aslan
Legionella Occurrence in Hot Water Tanks in Rural Drinking Water Systems, Asli Aslan, S. Barron, and Zachariah A. Coles
Challenges to Remove the Antibiotic Resistant Escherichia coli for Wastewater Reuse, Asli Aslan, Zachariah A. Coles, Anunay Bhattacharya, and Kendell W. Anderson
Monitoring Different Social Media Platforms to Report Unplanned School Closures Due to Wildfires in California, October & December 2017, Brittany Morgan Buchanan, Haley I. Evans, Emily A. Duncan, Jingjing Yin, Xiaolu Zhou, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Bishwa B. Adhikari, Martin I. Meltzer, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Triggering of Coronary Heart Disease by Infection Type: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Logan T. Cowan, Pamela L. Lutsey, Jim S. Pankow, Kunihiro Matsushita, and Junichi Ishigami
Teaching Support—Training and Supporting Teaching Assistants, R. Gregory Evans
The Intersection of Pandemics and Biopreparedness, R. Gregory Evans
The Intersectionality of Biomedical Engineering and Public Health in West Africa, Pascal Felix and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Breast Cancer Survivorship Resources in Bulloch and Surrounding Counties in Georgia, Daneisha Hawkins, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Toyin O. Akomolafe, Swaha Pattanaik, and J. Johns
Identification of Unplanned Closure of K-12 Schools via Twitter and Online Systematic Search: A Pilot Study of Public Schools in Michigan, September 2015 – June 2016, Ashley M. Jackson, Lindsay Mullican, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Dharamendra Kumar, and Isaac Fung
Twitter Sentiment Toward Autism During Autism Awareness Month, Jeffrey P. Kaleta, Jingjing Yin, and Sushmita Khan
The Efficiency of Ranking Count Data with Excess Zeros, Deborah A. Kanda and Jingjing Yin
The Impact of PM 2.5 on Lung and Bronchial Cancers: Regression and Time Series Analysis in the U.S. from 1999 to 2014, Jing Kersey, Jingjing Yin, Atin Adhikari, Xiaolu Zhou, Weitian Tong, and Lixin Li
Applying Survival Analysis and Count Models to Twitter Data, Congjian Liu, Jingjing Yin, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Lindsay A. Mullican
Nanoparticle Exposure Levels in Indoor and Outdoor Demolition Sites, Aniruddha Mitra, Abbas Rashidi, Shane Lewis, Jefferson W. Doehling, Alexis Pawlak, Jacob Schwartz, Imaobong B. Ekpo, and Atin Adhikari
Application of Regression Analysis on Text-Mining Data Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder from Twitter: A Pilot Study, Chen Mo, Jingjing Yin, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Zion Tsz Ho Tse
Health Care Provider Support for Physical Activity in Women, Aged 20-44 Years, in Georgia: A Qualitative Study, Dziyana Nazaruk, Stuart H. Tedders, and Andrew R. Hansen
Sensitivity Analysis for Non-ignorable Missing Data With Misclassification Error, Haresh Rochani, Hani Samawi, and Lili Yu
Correction of Misclassification Error in Presence of Non-Ignorable Missing Data, Haresh Rochani, Lili Yu, and Hani Samawi
On Quantiles Estimation Based on Different Stratified Sampling with Optimal Allocation, Hani M. Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Arpita Chatterjee, and Haresh Rochani
Notes on Kernel Based Mode Estimation Using More Efficient Sampling Designs, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Arpita Chatterjee, and Haresh Rochani
The Effects of Stoke’s Drag, Electrostatic Force and Charge on Penetration of Nanoparticles Through N95 Respirators, Jacob Schwartz, Maxim Durach, Aniruddha Mitra, Abbas Rashidi, Glen Sage, and Atin Adhikari
Enhancing Social Epidemiology Education Through the Development Of a Service-learning Project in a Rural Community, Jessica S. Schwind
The Role of the Media and the Health Professional in Risk Communication, Jessica S. Schwind
Influence of Serum B-cryptoxanthin on Lung Cancer Mortality: An 18-year Follow-up Cohort Study, Padmini Shankar, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, and Jian Zhang
BRFSS: Bridging Teaching and Research, Kelly L. Sullivan
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Insufficient Sleep: Persistent Association Through Life, Kelly L. Sullivan and Diane Donaly
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Insufficient Sleep up to 50 Years Later, Kelly L. Sullivan and Diane K. Donley
Effects of a Changing Earth on Predicting Microbial Dynamics and Human Health Risks in the Beach Water/Sand Continuum, Chelsea Weiskerger, Joao C. S. Brandão, Claire Robinson, Chris Staley, Greg Kleinheinz, Jean-Pierre Nshimyimana, Julie Kinzelman, Meredith Nevers, Michael Sadowsky, Mantha Phanikumar, Richard Whitman, Tom Edge, Alan Piggot, Alexandria Boehm, Asli Aslan, Brian Badgley, Christopher Heaney, Erin Symonds, Helena Solo-Gabriele, Jay Fleisher, Jody Harwood, Kevan Yamahara, Laura Vogel, Maria Luisa Jordao, Lindsay Avolio, Paivi Merilainen, Tarja Pitkanen, Warish Ahmed, Zachery Staley, and James Klaus
New Applications of Kullback-Leibler Information as a Measure of Diagnostic Accuracy and Its Relation to Common ROC Indices, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, Xinyan Zhang, Lili Yu, Haresh Rochani, and Robert L. Vogel
Misclassification Simulation Extrapolation Procedure for Log-Logistic Survival Data, Lili Yu, Varadan Sevilimedu, Hani Samawi, and Haresh Rochani
Generational Shift of Weight Related Social Norms Causes, Impacts and Solutions, Jian Zhang
Submissions from 2017
A Pilot Study on Nanoparticle Levels and Field Evaluation of N95 Respirator Masks in Construction Sites, Atin Adhikari, Abbas Rashidi, Jacob Schwartz, Imaobong B. Ekpo, Alexis Pawlak, Jefferson W. Doehling, Shane Lewis, and Aniruddha Mitra
World Pneumonia Day 2011-2016: Twitter Contents and Retweets, Md Mohiuddin Adnan, Jingjing Yin, Ashley M. Jackson, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, Nitin Saroha, Benjamin M. Althouse, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Guest Lecture given at Cultural Foods (NTFS 4630), Nutrition and Food Science Program, Health and Kinesiology Department at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Environmental Health (PUBH 6532), Environmental Health Sciences, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
