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Submissions from 2015
Neuroprotective Core Measure 2: Partnering with Families - Effects of a Weighted Maternally-Scented Parental Simulation Device on Premature Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care, Kendra Russell, Barbara Weaver, and Robert L. Vogel
On Inference of Partially Correlated Data, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
On Ranked Set Sampling Variation and Its Applications to Public Health Research, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
On the Inference of Partially Correlated Data with Applications to Public Health Issues, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
Childhood Asthma in Georgia, Hani Samawi, James H. Stephens, Gerald R. Ledlow, and Ren Chunfeng
On Some Nonparametric Tests For Partially Observed Correlated Data: Proposing New Tests, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, and Robert L. Vogel
Occupational Characteristics and Patterns as Risk Factors for Parkinson’s Disease: A Case Control Study, Kelly L. Sullivan, James A. Mortimer, Wei Wang, Theresa A. Zesiewicz, H. J. Brownlee, and Amy R. Borenstein
U.S. Undergraduate Education in Public Health: Hot or Not?, Yelena N. Tarasenko and Joel M. Lee
Joint Modeling of Treatment Effect on Time-to-Event Endpoint and Safety Covariates in Control Clinical Trial Data Analysis, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
Cyber-Attack Risk Low for Medical Devices, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Sheng Xu, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Bradford J. Wood
The Role of Adiposity in the Relationship Between Serum Leptin and Severe Major Depressive Episode, Chinedu C. Ubani and Jian Zhang
The Relationship between Excess Body Weight and the Risk of Death from Unnatural Causes, Wei Wang, Jane C. Obi, Selam Engida, Elizabeth R. Carter, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Perception or Reality of Body Weight: Which Matters the Most to Adolescents’ Emotional Well-Being?, Fei Yan, Asal M. Johnson, Anna Harrell, Adam Pulver, and Jian Zhang
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
Randomized, Controlled Pilot Trial of Solifenacin Succinate for Overactive Bladder in Parkinson's Disease, Theresa A. Zesiewicz, Marian Evatt, Camille P. Vaughan, Israt Jahan, Carlos Singer, Raul Ordorica, Jason L. Salemi, Jessica D. Shaw, Kelly L. Sullivan, and Non-Motor Working Group of the Parkinson Study Group
Longitudinal Study of Gait Dysfunction in Friedreich's Ataxia Using the GAITRite Walkway System, Theresa Zesiewicz, Clifton Gooch, Seok Hun Kim, Jennifer Farmer, Israt Jahan, Yangxin Huang, Jason L. Salemi, Kelly Sullivan, and Jeannie Stephenson
Correlation of GAITRite Walkway System and Biodex Balance System Measures to the FARS Score in Friedreich's Ataxia Patients: A Validation Study, Theresa Zesiewicz, Clifton Gooch, Jeannie Stephenson, Jennifer Farmer, Yangxin Huang, Jason L. Salemi, Israt Jahan, Kelly Sullivan, and Seok Hun Kim
Submissions from 2014
Dustborne and Airborne Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria in High Versus Low ERMI Homes, Atin Adhikari, Eric M. Kettleson, Stephen Vesper, Sudhir Kumar, David L. Popham, Christopher Schaffer, Reshmi Indugula, Kanistha Chatterjee, Karteek A. Allam, and Sergey A. Grinshpun
Glyphosate-Rich Air Samples Induce Strong IL-33, TSLP Expression and Generate IL-13-Dependent Airway Inflammation, Atin Adhikari, Sudhir Kumar, Marat Khodoun, Eric Kettleson, Christopher McKnight, Tiina Reponen, and Sergey A. Grinshpun
Influence of the Extreme Conditions on the Water Quality and Material Exchange Flux in the Strait of Istanbul, Hüsne Altıok, Asli Aslan, Süleyman Övez, Nazli Demirel, Ahsen Yüksek, Nur Kiratli, Seyfettin Taş, and Ahmet Edip Müftüoğlu
Case Study, Hurricane Katrina, Asli Aslan and Joan B. Rose
Detection of Human Pathogenic Ehrlichia muris-like Agent in Peromyscus leucopus, Caroline G. Castillo, Marina E. Eremeeva, Susan M. Paskewitz, Lynne M. Sloan, Xia Lee, William E. Irwin, Stefan Tonsberg, and Bobbi S. Pritt
Research Methods for Environmental Health Science Professionals, Simone M. Charles
Environmental and Occupational Health in Rural Areas, Simone M. Charles and A. J. Cuevas
Bacterial Colonization Increases Daily Symptoms in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Himanshu Desai, Karen Eschberger, Catherine Wrona, Lori Grove, Aarti Agrawal, Brydon Grant, Jingjing Yin, G. Iyer Parameswaran, Timothy Murphy, and Sanjay Sethi
A More Efficient Gibbs Sampler Estimation Using Steady States Simulation: Application to Public Health Studies, Martin Dunbar, Hani Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Lili Yu
Steady State Gibbs Sampler Estimation for Lung Cancer Data, Martin X. Dunbar, Hani Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Lili Yu
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
Rickettsial (Spotted & typhus fevers) & related infections (Anaplasmosis & Ehrlichiosis), Marina Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Rickettsial (Spotted And Typhus Fevers) and Related Infections (Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis), Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Modern Approaches to Laboratory Diagnosis of Rickettsial Diseases, Marina Eremeeva, S. N. Shpynov, and N. K. Tokarevich
Cholera Transmission Dynamic Models for Public Health Practitioners, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Ebola and the Social Media, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Chi-Ngai Cheung, Adriana Miu, and King-Wa Fu
An Open Label Study of Solifenacin Succinate (VESIcare®) for the Treatment of Overactive Bladder in Parkinson’s Disease, Israt Jahan, Camille Vaughan, Marian Evatt, Kelly Sullivan, Carlos Singer, Raul Ordorica, and Theresa Zesiewicz
Association between C-Reactive Protein and Depression: Modulated by Gender and Mediated by Body Weight, Yuexing Liu, Hasan Al-Sayegh, Rajai Jabrah, Wei Wang, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Impaired Verbal Memory is a Significant Predictor of Early Cerebral-Cardiovascular Death, an 18-Year Follow-Up of a National Cohort, Joseph Lowry, Anissa Austin, Hasan Al-Sayegh, Fei Yan, Fengqi Liu, and Jian Zhang
A Phylogenetic Model for Understanding the Effect of Gene Duplication on Cancer Progression, Qin Ma, Jaxk H. Reeves, David A. Liberles, Lili Yu, Zheng Chang, Jing Zhao, Juan Cui, Ying Xu, and Liang Liu
Peak Expiratory Flow in Adults and Changes in Particulate Matter Air Pollution During the Beijing Olympics: A Panel Study, Lina Mu, Furong Deng, Lili Tian, Yanli Li, Jingjing Yin, Richard Browne, Junfeng Zhang, Zuo-Feng Zhang, and Matthew Bonner
A Novel Three Serum Phospholipid Panel Differentiates Normal Individuals from Those with Prostate Cancer, Nima Patel, Robert L. Vogel, Kumar Chandra-Kuntal, Wayne Glasgow, and Uddhav Kelavkar
Impact of School Flu Vaccine Program on Student Absences, Sara S. Plaspohl, Betty T. Dixon, James A. Streater, Elizabeth T. Hausauer, Christopher P. Newman, and Robert L. Vogel
Sylvatic Typhus Associated with Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys volans) in New York State, United States, Melissa A. Prusinski, Jennifer L. White, Susan J. Wong, Maureen A. Conlon, Christina Egan, Cassandra D. Kelly-Cirino, Brian R. Laniewicz, P. Bryon Backenson, William L. Nicholson, Marina Eremeeva, Sandor E. Karpathy, Gregory A. Dasch, and Dennis J. White
Management of Comorbidities in Diabetics With Renal Cell Carcinoma Past Utilization and Current Outcomes, Jonathan L. Rabey, Jingjing Yin, Tammy M. Kublas, Terry Mashtare, and Alice C. Ceacareanu
A More Efficient Nonparametric Test of Symmetry Based on Overlapping Coefficient, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
Notes on Two Sample Tests for Partially Correlated (Paired) Data, Hani Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
On Simple Tests of Diagonal Symmetry for Bivariate Distributions, Hani Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
Lung Flute Improves Symptoms and Health Status in COPD with Chronic Bronchitis: A 26 Week Randomized Controlled Trial, Sanjay Sethi, Jingjing Yin, and Pamela K. Anderson
Modeling the Probability of Second Cancers in Controlled Clinical Trials, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
Estimating Neighbourhood-Level Socio-Economic Effect on Preterm Births Using a Multilevel Approach: A Case Study in Georgia, USA, Wei Tu, Jun Tu, and Stuart H. Tedders
Rickettsia africae and Candidatus Rickettsia barbariae in Ticks in Israel, Trevor Waner, Avi Keysary, Marina E. Eremeeva, Adi Beth Din, Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu, Roni King, and Yafit Atiya-Nasagi
Overview of Inference about ROC Curve in Medical Diagnosis, Jingjing Yin
Joint Confidence Region Estimation for Area Under ROC Curve and Youden Index, Jingjing Yin and Lili Tian
Joint Inference about Sensitivity and Specificity at Optimal Cut-Off Point Associated with Youden Index, Jingjing Yin and Lili Tian
Optimal Linear Combinations of Multiple Diagnostic Biomarkers Based on Youden Index, Jingjing Yin and Lili Tian
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
URGE-PD: A Multi-Site, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Solifenacin succinate (VESIcare®) for the Treatment of Overactive Bladder in Parkinson’s Disease, Theresa Zesiewicz, Marian Evatt, Israt Jahan, Camille Vaughan, Carlos Singer, Raul Ordorica, and Kelly Sullivan
Treatment of Spinocerebellar Ataxia with Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG), Theresa Zesiewicz, Israt Jahan, Kelly Sullivan, Clifton Gooch, and Tuan Vu
Causality Is Logically Definable-Toward an Equilibrium-Based Computing Paradigm of Quantum Agents and Quantum Intelligence (QAQI), Wen-Ran Zhang and Karl E. Peace
Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies for Annual Influenza Vaccination among Children Aged 6 Months to 14 Years in Four Provinces in China, Lei Zhou, Sujian Situ, Zijian Feng, Charisma Y. Atkins, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Zhen Xu, Ting Huang, Shixiong Hu, and Xianjun Wang
Submissions from 2013
Analysis of Oleanolic Acid and Ursolic Acid, Potential Antifertility Agents in Moringa (Moringa oleifera) Seed, Akwasi Ampofo-Yeboah, Helet Lambrechts, Danie Brink, Fletcher Hilten, and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Evaluation of the Host Specificity of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Alpha-1-6, Mannanase Gene as a Sewer Marker, Asli Aslan and Joan B. Rose
The Biology and Taxonomy of Head and Body Lice— Implications for Louse-Borne Disease Prevention, Denise L. Bonilla, Lance A. Durden, Marina E. Eremeeva, and Gregory A. Dasch
Approximating the Baseline Hazard Function by Taylor Series for Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data, Ding-Geng Chen, Lili Yu, Karl E. Peace, Y. L. Lio, and Yibin Wang
Investigation of an Outbreak of Rickettsial Febrile Illness in Guatemala, 2007, Marina Eremeeva, Elsa Berganza, Gloria Saurez, Lorena Gobern, Erica Dueger, Leticia Castillo, Lissette Reyes, Mary E. Wikswo, Kyle F. Abramowicz, Gregory A. Dasch, and Kim A. Lindblade
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Long, Pickering, and Prober, eds.), Marina Eremeeva and Greogory A. Dasch
Chinese Social Media Reaction to the MERS-Cov and Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Outbreaks, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, King-Wa Fu, Yuchen Ying, Braydon Schaible, Yi Hao, Chung-Hong Chan, and Zion Tsz-Ho Tse
Efficient Use of Social Media During the Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Emergency Response, Isaac Fung and Karen Wong
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
Rickdettsia sp. 364D Causing a Cluster of Eschar-associated Illness, Samantha Johnston, Carol A. Glaser, Kerry Ann Padgett, Debra A. Wadford, Alex Espinosa, Natasha Espinosa, Marina Eremeeva, Karen Tait, Barbara Hobson, Sarit Shtivelman, Charlotte Hsieh, and Sharon L. Messenger
Social Contacts and Depression in Middle and Advanced Adulthood: Findings from a US National Survey, 2005–2008, Lindsey E. McKenzie, Ram N. Polur, Cholrelia Wesley, Jessica D. Allen, Robert E. McKeown, and Jian Zhang
Rates of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Genital Herpes Before and After Spring Break and Homecoming at a Southeastern American University, Macaulay Okwuokenye, Karl E. Peace, Brian Deloach, Paul Ferguson, and Gulzar H. Shah
Health and Personal Resources in Older Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy, Claire Robb
Daily Walking and Life Expectancy of Elderly People in the Iowa 65+ Rural Health Study, Hani M. Samawi
Valid Estimation of Odds Ratio Using Two Types of Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling, Hani M. Samawi and Mohammad Al-Saleh
Childhood Asthma in Georgia: Comparison against the Nation, Hani Samawi, James H. Stephens, Gerald R. Ledlow, and Ren Chunfeng
More Efficient Approximation of Multiple Integration Using Steady State Ranked Simulated Sampling, Hani Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
A Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Low Birth Weight Prevalence in Georgia, USA, Jia Tian, Wei Tu, Stuart H. Tedders, and Dongmei Chen
Analysis of Subgroup Data of Clinical Trials, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
A Merged Model of Quality Improvement and Evaluation: Maximizing Return on Investment, Lynn D. Woodhouse, Russ Toal, Trang Nguyen, DeAnna Keene, Laura H. Gunn, Andrea Kellum, Gary Nelson, Simone M. Charles, Stuart H. Tedders, Natalie Williams, and William C. Livingood
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
Weighted Least-Squares Method for Right-Censored Data in Accelerated Failure Time Model, Lili Yu, Liang Liu, and Dinggeng Chen
Body Mass Index and Suicidal Behaviors: A Critical Review of Epidemiological Evidence, Jian Zhang, Fei Yan, Yanfeng Li, and Robert E. McKeown
Revealing the Ubiquitous Effects of Quantum Entanglement-Toward a Notion of God Logic, Wen-Ran Zhang and Karl E. Peace
Submissions from 2012
Rickettsia felis in Cat Fleas, Ctenocephalides felis Parasitizing Opossums, San Bernardino County, California, Kyle F. Abramowicz, J. W. Wekesa, C. N. Nwadike, Maria L. Zambrano, Sandor E. Karpathy, D. Cecil, J. Burns, R. Hu, and Marina E. Eremeeva
Bias and its Remedy in Interval Censored Time-to-Event Applications, Ding-Geng Chen, Lili Yu, Karl E. Peace, and Jianguo Sun
Health Insurance Coverage Diabetic Adults from Three Major Ethnic Groups in the United States, Linda I. Ekperi, Shamola Greene, Ahmed Dehal, and Jian Zhang
Rickettsial (Spotted & typhus fevers) & related infections (Anaplasmosis & ehrlichiosis), Marina Eremeeva
Molecular Epidemiology of Rickettsial Diseases in North America, Marina E. Eremeeva
Rickettsial (Spotted And Typhus Fevers) and Related Infections (Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis), Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Tick-borne Agents: Can You Predict Whether a New Rickettsia Is a Human Pathogen?, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Two Pathogens and One Disease: Detection and Identification of Flea-Borne Rickettsiae in Areas Endemic for Murine Typhus in California, Marina Eremeeva, Sandor E. Karpathy, Laura Krueger, Erica K. Hayes, Ashley M. Williams, Yamitzel Zaldivar, Stephen Bennett, Robert Cummings, Art Tilzer, Robert K. Velten, Nelson Kerr, Gregory A. Dasch, and Renjie Hu
The Effect of Music Listening Interventions on the Volume, Fat Content and Caloric Content of Breast Milk Produced by Mothers of Premature and Critically Ill Infants, Douglas R. Keith, Barbara S. Weaver, and Robert L. Vogel
Bartonella and Bartonella Infections in China: From the Lab to the Clinic, Qiyong Liu, Marina Eremeeva, and Dongmei Li
Association Between Increased BMI and Severe School Absenteeism Among US Children and Adolescents: Findings from a National Survey, 2005–2008, Yanfeng Li, Swati Raychowdhury, Stuart H. Tedders, Rodney S. Lyn, Ana López-De Fede, and Jian Zhang
One Country, Two Worlds – Health Disparity in China, Qingue Meng, Jian Zhang, Fei Yan, Edward J. Hoekstra, and Jiatong Zhuo
Mercury and Environmental Justice Issues, J. Nriagu, R. Charles, and Simone M. Charles
A Comparison of Two Methods for Generating Data That Follow The Lindley Distribution, Macaulay Okwuokenye and Karl E. Peace
An Assessment of America’s Tobacco-Free Colleges and Universities, Sara S. Plaspohl, Anthony V. Parrillo, Robert L. Vogel, Stuart H. Tedders, and Andrew Epstein
