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Submissions from 2014
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
Local Health Departments and the 2008 Recession: Characteristics of Resiliency, Paul C. Erwin, Gulzar H. Shah, and Glen P. Mays
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
Assessment of Nebraska Division of Public Health: Strategic Development Plan & Results, Brandon L. Grimm, K. Brandert, and Samuel T. Opoku
Generational Shift in Parental Perceptions of Overweight Among School-Aged Children, Andrew R. Hansen, Dustin T. Duncan, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Chapter 4: Readiness and Change Management During Electronic Medical Records Adoption, Renee B. Hotchkiss and J. Cantiello
Engaging Patients and Caregivers in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research on Advanced Stage Lung Cancer: Insights from Patients, Caregivers, and Providers, K. Monirul Islam, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Ann Fetrick, June Ryan, M. Copur, Addison Tolentino, Irfan Vaziri, and Apar K. Ganti
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
Civil Marriage Laws, Jeffery Jones
GLSO Health News: Health Screenings, Jeffery Jones
GLSO Health News: Visits to Physicians, Jeffery Jones
Kenwick: The History of a Lexington Neighborhood, Jeffery Jones
Cross-cultural Models of Suicide Risk, Jeff Klibert, K. Nikki Barefoot, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, K. Bryant Smalley, and Jacob C. Warren
The Relationship between Perceived and Observed Autonomy Support in a Physical Activity Setting, Jody L. Langdon, Robert J. Schlote, and Bridget F. Melton
Athletes’ Perceptions of National Collegiate Athletic Association Mandated Sickle Cell Trait Screening: Insight for Academic Institutions and College Health Professionals, Raymona H. Lawrence and Gulzar H. Shah
Instructors Manual, Test Bank, Presentation Material, and Forty – Four Supplemental files, Gerald R. Ledlow and Nicholas M. Coppola
Southeast Georgia Cancer Alliance Projects Focusing on Colon Cancer, Gerald R. Ledlow, James H. Stephens, Hani Samawi, and David E. Schott
Changes in Public Health Workforce Composition: Proportion of Part-Time Workforce and Its Correlates, 2008-2013, Jonathon P. Leider, Gulzar H. Shah, Brian C. Castrucci, Carolyn J. Leep, Katie Sellers, and James B. Sprague
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
Laying the Groundwork for Evidence-Based Public Health: Why Some Local Health Departments Use More Evidence-Based Decision-Making Practices Than Others, Kay A. Lovelace, Robert E. Aronson, Kelly L. Rulison, Jeffrey D. Labban, Gulzar H. Shah, and Mark Smith
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
Qualitative Systematic Review of Barber-Administered Health Education, Promotion, Screening, and Outreach Programs in African-American Communities, John S. Luque, Levi Ross, and Clement K. Gwede
Recommendations and Administration of the HPV Vaccine to 11-to-12-Year Old Girls and Boys: A Statewide Survey of Georgia Vaccinations for Children Provider Practices, John S. Luque, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Betty T. Dixon, Robert L. Vogel, and Stuart H. Tedders
Effects of Personality Disorder and Impulsivity on Emotional Adaptations in Prison among Women Offenders, Senik T. Mahmood, Micahel G. Vaughn, and Rachel D. Schwartz PhD
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
Application of a Course-Long Health Behavioral Change Project, Bridget F. Melton, Lauren Bigham, and Helen W. Bland
Relationship Between Health Behaviors and Technology Usage Among Late Adolescents, Bridget F. Melton, Lauren E. Bigham, Helen W. Bland, Matthew Bird, and Ciaran Fairman
Diabetes and Colorectal Cancer Screening among Men and Women in the USA: National Health Interview Survey: 2008, 2010, Eric A. Miller, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Jennifer D. Parker, and Kenneth C. Schoendorf
Understanding Masculinity in Undergraduate African American Men: A Qualitative Study, Krista Mincey, Moya L. Alfonso, Amy A. Hackney, and John S. Luque
Being a Black Man: Development of the Masculinity Inventory Scale (MIS) for Black Men, Krista D. Mincey, Moya L. Alfonso, Amy A. Hackney, and John S. Luque
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
Career Satisfaction and Burnout among Ghanaian Physicians, Samuel T. Opoku and Bettye A. Apenteng
Seeking Greener Pastures? The Relationship between Career Satisfaction and the Intention to Emigrate: A Survey of Ghanaian Physicians, Samuel T. Opoku and Bettye A. Apenteng
In the Words of the Medical Tourist: An Analysis of Internet Narratives by Health Travelers to Turkey, Margaret E. Ozan-Rafferty, James Allen Johnson, Gulzar H. Shah, and Attila Kursun
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
Want to Add Some Pizazz to Your Weight Training Program? Try Sport Education!, Tony A. Pritchard, Andrew R. Hansen, and Starla McCollum
The Effect of the Sport Education Tactical Model on Coeducational and Single Gender Game Performance, Tony A. Pritchard, Starla McCollum, Jackie Sundal, and Gavin T. Colquitt
Sylvatic Typhus Associated with Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys Volans), Melissa A. Prunsinski, 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
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
Role of Capsaicin-Sensitive Peripheral Sensory Neurons in Anorexic Responses to Intravenous Infusions of Cholecystokinin, Peptide YY-(3–36), and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 in Rats, Roger Reidelberger, Alvin Haver, Krista Anders, and Bettye A. Apenteng
2012 International Cancer Education Conference Proceedings, Levi Ross
2013 International Cancer Education Conference Proceedings, Levi Ross
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
Lessons for US Public Health from China’s SARS Response, Rachel D. Schwartz and Jonathan Schwartz
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
Editorial Comment: Temporal Trends in Preparedness Capacity, Gulzar H. Shah
Profile-IQ: Web-Based Data Query System for Local Health Department Infrastructure and Activities, Gulzar H. Shah, Carolyn J. Leep, and Dayna Alexander
Public Health Agencies' Level of Engagement in and Perceived Barriers to PHAB National Voluntary Accreditation, Gulzar H. Shah, Carolyn J. Leep, Jiali Ye, Katie Sellers, Rivka Liss-Levinson, and Karmen S. Williams
Public Health Services Most Commonly Provided by Local Health Departments in the United States, Gulzar H. Shah, Huabin Luo, and Sergey Sotnikov
Public Health Services Most Commonly Provided by Local Health Departments in the United States, Gulzar H. Shah, Huabin Luo, and Sergey Sotnikov
Self-Reported Transition Readiness among Young Adults with Sickle Cell Disease, Amy Sobota, Akinlonu Adeola, Maria Champigny, Megan Eldridge, Lillian McMahon, Joseph Telfair, and Philippa Sprinz
Leadership in Practices, James H. Stephens
Real Healthcare Reform: Focus on Primary Care Access, James H. Stephens and Gerald R. Ledlow
Strategic Planning in Public Health, James H. Stephens and Gerald R. Ledlow
A Twist on Oliver: Ten Lessons to Transform Healthcare Performance, James H. Stephens, Karl B. Manrodt, Gerald R. Ledlow, Richard Wilding, and Christopher A. Boone
The Relationship between Perceived Burden of Chronic Conditions and Colorectal Cancer Screening among Appalachian Residents, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Steven T. Fleming, and Nancy E. Schoenberg
Children’s, Their Guardians’, and Health Care Professionals’ Perceptions of Child Overweight in Relation to Children’s Weight Loss Attempts, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Lauren M. Rossen, and Kenneth C. Schoendorf
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
Do You See What I See? Using Photovoice to Teach Health Education Students the Value of Using Community-Based Participatory Methods, Ashley D. Walker and Jody Oomen-Early
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
Development and Validation of the Biobanking Attitudes and Knowledge Survey (BANKS), Kristen J. Wells, Mariana Arevalo, Cathy D. Meade, Clement K. Gwede, Gwendolyn P. Quinn, John S. Luque, Gloria San Miguel, Dale Watson, Rebecca Phillips, Carmen Reyes, Margarita Romo, Jim West, and Paul B. Jacobsen
Development and Validation of the Biobanking Attitudes and Knowledge Survey (BANKS), Kristen J. Wells, Mariana Arevalo, Cathy D. Meade, Clement K. Gwede, Gwen P. Quinn, John S. Luque, Gloria San Miguel, Dale Watson, Rebecca Phillips, Margarita Romo, Jim West, and Paul B. Jacobsen
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
The Association of State Legal Mandates for Data Submission of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection in Neonatal Intensive Care Units with Process and Outcome Measures, Philip Zachariah, Julie Reagan, E. Yoko Furuya, Andrew Dick, Hangsheng Liu, Carolyn T. A. Herzig, Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, Patricia W. Stone, and Lisa Saiman
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
Assessing a Quality Improvement Project in a Georgia County Health Department, Dayna S. Alexander, William C. Livingood, Nandi A. Marshall, Angela Peden, Russell B. Toal, Gulzar H. Shah, Alesha Wright, Purity Cummings, Ketty Gonzalez, and Lynn D. Woodhouse
Self-Injury Among Early Adolescents: Identifying Segments Protected and at Risk, Moya L. Alfonso and Rayneet Kuar
Consumer-Based Approaches to Creating Social Change, Moya L. Alfonso and Mary Martinasek
VERB™ Summer Scorecard: Increasing Tween Girls’ Vigorous Physical Activity, Moya L. Alfonso, Zachary Thompson, Gavin T. Colquitt, Robert J. McDermott, Jeffery A. Jones, Carol A. Bryant, Courtney H. Anita, Jenna L. Davis, and Yiliang Zhu
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
An Ecological Examination of Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes by the Presence of Community Health Centers in Local Health Department Jurisdictions, Priscilla A. Barnes, Melody Goodman, Arlesia Mathis, Gulzar H. Shah, and Xuemei Si
The Feasibility of Using Video Journaling to Collect Ecological Momentary Assessment Data: Application to Health Behavior Change Interventions, Lauren Bigham, Helen W. Bland, and Bridget F. Melton
Measuring Exercise Self-Efficacy in Pregnant Women: Psychometric Properties of the Pregnancy-Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale (P-ESES), Helen W. Bland, Bridget F. Melton, Elaine S. Marshall, and Jacquelyn Nagle
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
Race-Related Disparities in Infant Mortality in the United States, Shannon M. Cearley, Gulzar H. Shah, Padmini Shankar, and Bushra G. Shah
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
Tailoring a Physical Activity Promotion Program for a Rural Area, Gavin T. Colquitt, Moya L. Alfonso, Ashley D. Walker, and Vanessa Dunmore
The Impact of the PEP Grant on Elementary School Physical Education, Steven Elliott, Starla McCollum, Gavin T. Colquitt, and Tony A. Pritchard
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
The Resilient Local Health Department: Surviving the 2008 Economic Crisis, Paul C. Erwin, Gulzar H. Shah, and Glen P. Mays
