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Submissions from 2020
Detection of Rickettsia asembonensis in Fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae, Ceratophyllidae) Collected in Five Counties in Georgia, United States, Marina Eremeeva; Danielle Capps; Cynthia Logan McBride; Amanda J. Williams-Newkirk; Gregory A. Dasch; Johanna S. Salzer; Lorenza Beati; and Lance A, Durden
Molecular typing of Rickettsia akari, Marina E. Eremeeva
Rickettsialpox – a Rare but Not Extinct Disease: a Review of the Literature and New Directions, Marina Eremeeva and Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez
SARS-CoV-2 Viral and Serological Testing When College Campuses Reopen: Some Practical Considerations, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Chi-Ngai Cheung, and Andreas Handel
Trends in US Adults With Overweight and Obesity Reporting Being Notified by Doctors About Body Weight Status, 1999–2016, Andrew Hansen, Christopher Rustin, Samuel T. Opoku, Gauri Shevatekar, Jeffery A. Jones, and Jian Zhang
Kernel density estimation based on progressive type-II censoring, Amal Helu, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert Vogel
Epidemiology of Cancers in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM): A Protocol for Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews, Manoj Kumar Honaryar, Yelena Tarasenko, Maribel Almonte, and Vitaly Smelov
Incident Hospitalization with Major Cardiovascular Diseases and Subsequent Risk of ESKD: Implications for Cardiorenal Syndrome, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Ryan T. Demmer, Morgan E. Grams, Pamela L. Lutsey, Juan-Jesus Carrero, Josef Coresh, and Kunihiro Matsushita
Hospitalization With Major Infection and Incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Ryan T. Demmer, Morgan E. Grams, Pamela L. Lutsey, Josef Coresh, and Kunihiro Matsushita
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, Xiaolu Zhou, Dharamendra Kumar, and Isaac Fung
Significant Improvement of Somatic Symptom Disorder With Brief Psychoeducational Intervention by PMHNP in Primary Care, Kim K. Johnson, Carole Bennett, and Haresh Rochani
Evaluating the importation of yellow fever cases into China in 2016 and strategies used to prevent and control the spread of the disease, Chao Li, Dan Li, Shirley JoAnn Smart, Lei Zhou, Peng Yang, Jianming Ou, Yi He, Ruiqi Ren, Tao Ma, Nijuan Xiang, Haitian Sui, Yali Wang, Jian Zhao, Chaonan Wang, Yeping Wang, Daxin Ni, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Dexin Li, Yangmu Huang, and Qun Li
Hypertension and Diabetes Synergistically Strengthen the Association with Cataracts among Chinese: Implications for Clinical Practice and Public Health Policy, Jin-Jin Li, Mo-Dong Li, Jie Li, Xiao Yang, Dan Xia, Yu Li, Wei Wang, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: An Adaptive Hybrid Design for Clinical Development in Rare Diseases, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: A Two-Stage Adaptive Design for Clinical Trials in Patients with COVID-19 High Risks, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: A Two-Stage Adaptive Design for Clinical Trials with Chronic Conditions, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Background, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands (Part I), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands (Part II), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands (Part III), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment (Part I), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment (Part II), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment (Part III), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Impacts on Minimization Randomization and Mitigations, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Impacts on Permuted Block Randomization and Mitigations, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Independent DMC for Blinded Data Monitoring and Analysis, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Integrated Analysis of Efficacy (IAE) with Adaptive Estimands, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Interim Analysis with Adaptive Estimands Based, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis (Part I), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis (Part II), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis (Part III), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Steps for Mitigation, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Unplanned Changes in Estimands with Two-Stage Adaptive Designs, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
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, Thomas Eissenberg, Yelena Tarasenko, Danielle Smith, and David Ashley
Letter to the Editor: Broader trauma: Considerations for COVID-19 psychosocial interventions in Hong Kong, Adriana S. Miu, Chi-Ngai Cheung, Kitty K.Y. Tsang, Benedict S.B. Chan, Lap-Tak Poon, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Doubling Time of the COVID-19 Epidemic by Province, China, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Gerardo Chowell, Chi-Hin Cheung, Dongyu Jia, Po-Ying Lai, Yiseul Lee, Manyun Liu, Sylvia Ofori, Kimberlyn M. Roosa, Lone Simonsen, Cecile Viboud, and Isaac Fung
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Transmission Potential, Iran, 2020, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Isaac Fung, Shayesteh R. Ferdosi, Sylvia Ofori, Yiseul Lee, Amna Tariq, and Gerardo Chowell
Social Media Use in Emergency Response to Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review With a Public Health Perspective, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Sylvia K. Ofori, Lauren C. Bayliss, Jessica S. Schwind, Kadiatou Diallo, Manyun Liu, Jingjing Yin, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Kernel-based estimation of P(X < Y) when X and Y are dependent random variables based on progressive type II censoring, Rola Musleh, Amal Helu, and Hani Samawi
The Use of Digital Technology to Improve and Monitor Handwashing Among Children 12 Years or Younger in Educational Settings: A Scoping Review, Sylvia Ofori, Yuen Wai Hung, Jessica S. Schwind, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Reece Kakou, Sunmisola Alade, Kadiatou Diallo, Kelly L. Sullivan, Benjamin J. Cowling, and Isaac Fung
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Accurate COVID-19 Testing in Clinical Trials, Stephan Ogenstad, Qing Liu, and Karl E. Peace
The Use of Penalized Regression Analysis to Identify County-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic Variables Predictive of Increased COVID-19 Cumulative Case Rates in the State of Georgia, Holly L. Richmond, Joana Tome, Haresh Rochani, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Gulzar H. Shah, and Jessica S. Schwind
On Improving the Performance of Logistic Regression Analysis Via Extreme Ranking, Hani Samawi
Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Medical Diagnostics Accuracy and Cut-point Selection Criterion: How it is related to the Youden Index, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Xinyan Zhang, Lili Yu, Haresh Rochani, Robert Vogel, and Chen Mo
Further Improving the Performance of Logistic Regression Analysis Using Double Extreme Ranking, Hani Samawi, Xinyan Zhang, and Haresh Rochani
Gaps in Public Health Workers' Awareness of Emerging Public Health Trends, Gulzar H. Shah, Kyle Bogaert, Jingjing Yin, Elizabeth Gould, and JP Leider
Informatics and the Covid-19 Crisis: the Role of Information Systems and Clinical Trials Databases, Gulzar H. Shah and Karl E. Peace
The Detrimental Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health, Gulzar H. Shah, Padmini Shankar, Jessica S. Schwind, and Vinoth Sittaramane
Association Between Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Overweight in U.S.-Born Children, Shirley JoAnn Smart, Aurela Nikaj, Lili Yu, Hongxia Li, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Phase 1 Cancer Trials, Michael T. Tirgan, Qing Liu, and Karl E. Peace
Red Blood Cell Folate and Cardiovascular Deaths Among Hypertensive Adults, an 18-year Follow-up of a National Cohort, Felix Twum, Neil Morte, Yudan Wei, Stanley Nkemjika, Fengqi Liu, and Jian Zhang
Interpolation Method to Estimate the Asymptotic Variance-covariance Matrix in EM Algorithm, Lili Yu, Ding-Geng Chen, and Jun Liu
Regression Multiple Imputation for Missing Data Analysis, Lili Yu, Liang Liu, and Karl E. Peace
Efficient Estimation of Cumulative Distribution Function Using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling With Application to Reliability, Ehsan Zamanzade, M. Mahdizadeh, and Hani Samawi
Occurrence of a Human-associated Microbial Source Tracking Marker and Its Relationship With Faecal Indicator Bacteria in an Urban Estuary, Sibel Zeki, Asli Aslan, Selmin Burak, and J.B. Rose
Limited Early Warnings and Public Attention to Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China, January–February, 2020: A Longitudinal Cohort of Randomly Sampled Weibo Users, Yuner Zhu, King-Wa Fu, Karen A. Grépin, Hai Liang, and Isaac Fung
Submissions from 2019
Pet ownership and the risk of dying from lung cancer, findings from an 18 year follow-up of a US national cohort, Atin Adhikari, Naduparambil Jacob, Andrew R. Hansen, Yudan Wei, Kassandra Snook, Fengqi Liu, and Jian Zhang
Pet Ownership and the Risk of Dying From Lung Cancer, Findings From an 18 Year Follow-up of a US National Cohort, Atin Adhikari, Naduparambil Jacob, Andrew Hansen, Yudan Wei, Kassandra R. Snook, Fengqi Liu, and Jian Zhang
Association between pet ownership and the risk of dying from colorectal cancer: an 18-year follow-up of a national cohort, Atin Adhikari, Yudan Wei, Naduparambil Jacob, Andrew R. Hansen, Kassandra Snook, Chad E. Burleson, and Jian Zhang
Association Between Pet Ownership and the Risk of Dying From Colorectal Cancer: An 18-year Follow-up of a National Cohort, Atin Adhikari, Yudan Wei, Naduparambil Jacob, Andrew Hansen, Kassandra R. Snook, Chad E. Burleson, and Jian Zhang
Pilot survey of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from southeastern Georgia, USA for Wolbachia and Rickettsia felis (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae), Matthew Anderson, R. Christopher Rustin, and Marina Eremeeva
Temporal distribution of opportunistic pathogens in household systems in Evans County, Asli Aslan, J. Edward Dotherow, and Robert Vogel
Pet ownership and risk of dying from cancer: observation from a nationally representative cohort, Brian Buck, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Sarah H. Jillson, Li-Ting Huang, Atin Adhikari, Naduparambil Jacob, Yudan Wei, and Jian Zhang
Pet Ownership and Risk of Dying From Cancer: Observation From a Nationally Representative Cohort, Brian Buck, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Sarah Jillson, Li-Ting Huang, Atin Adhikari, Naduparambil Jacob, Yudan Wei, and Jian Zhang
Cancer Control in Ukraine: Country visit report and recommendations, Marilys Corbex, Catherine Lam, Vitaly Smelov, Rolando Camacho, and Yelena Tarasenko
Cervical cancer control in Uzbekistan: Country visit report and recommendations, Marilys Corbex, Jos Luttjeboer, Vitaly Smelov, Yelena Tarasenko, Rimma Velikanova, and Karene Hoi Ting Yeung
Trajectories of Engagement in Leisure-time Physical Activity and Risk of Incident Ischemic Stroke: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Logan Cowan, Yelena Tarasenko, Kelly Evenson, Priya Palta, and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
VOC and particle concentrations in new and old model automobiles, J. Edward Dotherow, Deonte Martin, and Atin Adhikari
Land Use and Environmental Variables Influence Tetracycline-Resistant Bacteria Occurrence in Southeastern Coastal Plain Streams, Jason A. Duff, Asli Aslan, and Risa A. Cohen
Adopting YouTube to Promote Health: Analysis of State Health Departments, Carmen H. Duke, Jingjing Yin, Xinyan Zhang, Elizabeth Blankenship, Sewuese Akuse, Gulzar H. Shah, Chung-Hong Chan, King-Wa Fu, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse, and Isaac Fung
Molecular Survey for Pathogens and Markers of Permethrin Resistance in Human Head Lice (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) from Madagascar, Marina E. Eremeeva; Shamta Warang; Matthew Anderson; Danielle Capps; Sarah Zohdy; and Lance A, Durden
Public Health Implications of Image-Based Social Media: A Systematic Review of Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Flickr, Isaac Fung, Elizabeth Blankenship, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Lacey K. Cooper, Carmen H. Duke, Stacy Carswell, Ashley M. Jackson, Jimmy C. Jenkins III, Emily A. Duncan, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, and Zion Tsz Ho Tse
Pedagogical Demonstration of Twitter Data Analysis: A Case Study of World AIDS Day, 2014, Isaac Fung, Jingjing Yin, Keisha D. Pressley, Carmen Duke, Chen Mo, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, and Su-I Hou
Presence of Antibiotic Resistant Escherichia Coli in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents Utilized as Water Reuse for Irrigation, Tiong Gim Aw, Mano Sivaganesan, Shannon Briggs, Erin Dreelin, Asli Aslan, Samuel Dorevitch, Abhilasha Shrestha, Natasha Isaacs, Julie Kinzelman, Greg Kleinheinz, Rachel Noble, Rick Rediske, Brian Scull, Susan Rosenberg, Barbara Weberman, Tami Sivy, Ben Southwell, Shawn Siefring, Kevin Oshima, and Richard Haugland
Breastfeeding Practices in Georgia: Rural‐Urban Comparison and Trend Analyses Based on 2004‐2013 PRAMS Data, Whitney N. Hamilton and Yelena Tarasenko
Notice of Retraction and Replacement. Hawkins et al. Trends in weight loss efforts among US adolescents with overweight and obesity. JAMA Pediatr. 2018;172(8):782-784, Andrew Hansen, Samuel T. Opoku, Alicia Brown, Samuel Tawiah Opoku, and Jian Zhang
Health Behaviors in Rural Appalachia, Aasha I. Hoogland, Charles Hoogland, Shoshana H. Bardach, Yelena Tarasenko, and Nancy Schoenberg
Social Ecological Factors Affecting Substance Abuse in Ghana (West Africa) Using Photovoice, Ahmed Kabore, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, James Awuah, Andrew R. Hansen, Ashley Walker, Melissa Hester, Moussa Aziz Wonadé Sié, Dhruv Medarametla, and Nicolas Meda
Chapter 3 - Case study: Does PM2.5 contribute to the incidence of lung and bronchial cancers in the United States?, Jing Kersey and Jingjing Yin
Mixture Ranked Set Sampling for Estimation of Population Mean and Median, Zahid Khan, Mahammad Ismail, and Hani Samawi
How did Ebola information spread on twitter: broadcasting or viral spreading?, Hai Liang, Isaac Fung, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Chung-Hong Chan, Laura E. Pechta, Belinda J. Smith, Rossmary D. Marquez-Lameda, Martin I. Meltzer, Keri M. Lubell, and King-Wa Fu
Mental Health and Gun Violence: A Link Held by Misperception, Neil Morte and Kelly L. Sullivan
Association Between Serum Folate and Cardiovascular Deaths Among Adults With Hypertension, Stanley Nkemjika, Emeka Ifebi, Logan Cowan, Isaac Fung, Felix Twum, Fengqi Liu, and Jian Zhang
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Among People With Cardiovascular Diseases in Southeast Georgia, Chimuanya Okoli, Stacy Carswell, Sewuese Akuse, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Adaptive Design and the Estimand Framework, Macaulay Okwuokenye and Karl E. Peace
Closest Similar Subset Imputation for Missing Data Analysis, Macaulay Okwuokenye and Karl E. Peace
On Kernel-Based Mode Estimation Using Different Stratified Sampling Designs, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert L. Vogel
Twitter Conversations and English News Media Reports on Poliomyelitis in Five Different Countries, January 2014 to April 2015, Braydon J. Schaible, Kassandra R. Snook, Jingjing Yin, Ashley M. Jackson, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Muhling Chong, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, and Isaac Fung
Association Between Earthquake Exposures and Mental Health Outcomes in Phulpingdanda Village After the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes, Jessica S. Schwind, Stephanie A. Norman, Rebecca Brown, Rebecca Hoffmann Frances, Elisabeth Koss, Dibesh Karmacharya, and Susan L. Santangelo
Employee Perceptions about Public Health Agencies’ Desired Involvement in Impacting Health Equity and Other Social Determinants of Health, Gulzar H. Shah, Jingjing Yin, Jessica L. Owens-Young, and Kristie Cason Waterfield
Standardized Data Quality Acceptance Criteria for a Rapid E. Coli Qpcr Method (Draft Method C) for Water Quality Monitoring at Recreational Beaches, Mano Sivaganesan, Tiong Gim Aw, Shannon Briggs, Erin Dreelin, Asli Aslan, Samuel Dorevitch, Abhilasha Shrestha, Natasha Isaccs, Julie Kinzelman, Greg Kleinheinz, Rachel Noble, Rick Rediske, Brian Scull, Susan Rosenberg, Barbara Weberman, Tami Sivy, Ben Southwell, Shawn Siefring, Kevin Oshima, and Richard Haugland
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Insufficient Sleep up to 50 Years Later, Kelly L. Sullivan, Haresh Rochani, Li-Ting Huang, Diane K. Donley, and Jian Zhang
Hancock County Community Based Participatory SWOT Analysis: Physical Activity Strategy, Thomas P. Sweeney, John Peden, Angela H. Peden, Linda G. Kimsey, Deborah Harvey, Michela Hizine, and Stephanie Riddle
Association of Testosterone Therapy With Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Men With and Without Hypogonadism, Rob F. Walker, Neil A. Zakai, Richard F. MacLehose, Logan Cowan, Terrence J. Adam, Alvaro Alonso, and Pamela L. Lutsey
Impacts of a Changing Earth on Microbial Dynamics and Human Health Risks in the Continuum Between Beach Water and Sand, Chelsea Weiskerger, Joao C. S. Brandão, Warish Ahmed, Asli Aslan, Lindsay Avolio, Brian Badgley, Alexandria Boehm, Thomas A. Edge, Jay Fleisher, Christopher Heaney, Luisa Jordao, Julie Kinzelman, James S. Klaus, Greg Kleinheinz, Päivi Meriläinen, Jean-Pierre Nshimyimana, Mantha Phanikumar, Alan Piggot, Tarja Pitkänen, Clare Robinson, Michael Sadowsky, Chris Staley, Zachery Staley, Erin Symonds, Laura Vogel, Kevan Yamahara, Richard Whitman, Helena Solo-Gabriele, and Valerie J. Harwood
Issue of Compliance with Use of Personal Protective Equipment among Wastewater Workers across the Southeast Region of the United States, Tamara L. Wright, Atin Adhikari, Jingjing Yin, Robert L. Vogel, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Gulzar H. Shah
Social Media Usage and Influenza Beliefs, Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions Among Students at a University in Southeastern US, Jingjing Yin, Pei-Ling Tseng, Kotwoallama Reine Zerbo, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Levi Ross, and Isaac Fung
