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Submissions from 2012
Impact of the 2008–2010 Economic Recession on Local Health Departments, Rachel Willard, Gulzar H. Shah, Carolyn J. Leep, and Leighton Ku
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
Spline Nonparametric Quasi-Likelihood Regression Within the Frame of the Accelerated Failure Time Model, Lili Yu and Karl E. Peace
Extended Quasi-Likelihood in the Generalized Linear Model for Right-Censored Data, Lili Yu, Ruifeng Yu, Liang Liu, and Dinggeng Chen
The Incoherence of China’s National Health Development Strategies, Jian Zhang, Fei Yan, and Shenglan Tang
Submissions from 2011
Vigorous Physical Activity Among Tweens, VERB Summer Scorecard Program, Lexington, Kentucky, 2004-2007, Moya L. Alfonso, Robert J. McDermott, Zachary Thompson, Carol A. Bryant, Anita H. Courtney, Jeffery A. Jones, Jenna L. Davis, and Yiliang Zhu
Use of Outsourced Nurses in Long Term Acute Care Hospitals: Outcomes and Leadership Preferences, Raymona M. Alvarez, Bernard J. Kerr, Joan Burtner, Gerald R. Ledlow, and Larry V. Fulton
Effects of Outsourced Nursing on Quality Outcomes in Long Term Acute Care Hospitals, Raymond Alvarez, Bernard J. Kerr, J. Burtner, Gerald R. Ledlow, and Larry V. Fulton
Comparison of Obesity, Overweight, and Nutritional Patterns of Southeastern College Students to National Norms, Lauren E. Bigham, Bridget F. Melton, and Jody L. Langdon
Fish Consumption and Severe Depressed Mood, Findings from the First National Nutrition Follow-Up Study, Qi Dai, Yanfeng Li, Linda I. Ekperi, Ahmed Dehal, and Jian Zhang
Effects of Sex, Race, and Age on College Students’ Exercise Motivation of Physical Activity, Trevor J. Egli, Helen W. Bland, Bridget F. Melton, and Daniel R. Czech
Anaplasma Phagocytophilum, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Anaplasmataceae as Human Pathogens : Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Epidemic Typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii), Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Rickettsia rickettsii, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Rickettsia rickettsii), Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
The Genus Rickettsia: Microbiology, Diversity and Taxonomy, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Body Mass Index and Death Rate of Colorectal Cancer among a National Cohort of U.S. Adults, Tiatiannia Garrett, Ahmed Dehal, Stuart H. Tedders, Cassandra Arroyo, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, and Jian Zhang
On Inference of Overlapping Coefficients in Two Lomax Populations Using Different Sampling Methods, Amal Helu and Hani M. Samawi
Nonparametric Overlap Coefficient Estimate Using Ranked Set Sampling, Amal Helu, Hani Samawi, and Robert L. Vogel
Sticker Shock: An Exploration of Supply Charge Capture Outcomes, Gerald R. Ledlow, James H. Stephens, and Heidi Hulsey Fowler
Estimating Species Trees from Unrooted Gene Trees, Liang Liu and Lili Yu
A Bayesian Model for Gene Family Evolution, Liang Liu, Lili Yu, Venugopal Kalavacharla, and Zhanji Liu
A Social Network Analysis Approach to Understand Changes in a Cancer Disparities Community Partnership Network, John S. Luque, Dinorah Martinez Tyson, Shalanda A. Bynum, Shalewa A. Noel-Thomas, Kristen J. Wells, Susan T. Vadaparampil, Clement K. Gwede, and Cathy D. Meade
Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening in a Hispanic Migrant Farmworker Community through Faith-Based Clinical Outreach, John S. Luque, Dinorah Martinez-Tyson, Talar Markossian, Ji-Hyun Lee, Rachel Turner, Sara Proctor, Janelle Menard, and Cathy D. Meade
Salud es Vida: Development of a Cervical Cancer Education Curriculum for Promotora Outreach with Latina Farmworkers, John S. Luque, Mondi Mason, Claudia Reyes-Garcia, Andrea Hinojosa, and Cathy D. Meade
Barbershop Communications on Prostate Cancer Screening Using Barber Health Advisers, John S. Luque, Brian M. Rivers, Clement K. Gwede, Maisha Kambon, B. Lee Green, and Cathy D. Meade
Rickettsia and Coxiella, Robert F. Massung, Marina E. Eremeeva, and Gregory A. Dasch
Utilizing Technology to Improve the Administration of Instructional Physical Activity Programs in Higher Education., Bridget F. Melton
Graduate teaching assistant perceptions of changes development, Bridget F. Melton and Yasar Bodur
Early Cardiac Pacemaker Placement for Life-Threatening Bradycardia in Traumatic Spinal-Cord Injury, Jacob R. Moerman, Benjamin D. Christie, Leon N. Sykes, Robert L. Vogel, Tracy L. Nolan, and Ashley W. Dennis
Anthropological Insights on Effective Community-Based Coalition Practice: An Introduction, Chad T. Morris and John S. Luque
Characteristics of ‘Tween’ Participants and Non-Participants in the VERB™ Summer Scorecard Physical Activity Promotion Program, Jen Nickelson, Moya L. Alfonso, Robert J. McDermott, Elizabeth C. Bumpus, Carol A. Byrant, and Julie A. Baldwin
Case Study in Optimal Dosing in Duodenal Ulcer, Karl E. Peace
Clinically Optimal Dosing in the Treatment of Duodenal Ulcers: A Case Study of a Phase III SNDA Clinical Program, Karl E. Peace
Perceived Job Satisfaction and Job Stress, and Their Effect on Health: A Pilot Study of Women in the Workplace, J. Pinkston and Joanne Chopak-Foss
Dining Out: A Nutrition Activity, Amy Jo Riggs, Bridget F. Melton, and Helen W. Bland
Varied Set Size Ranked Set Sampling with Application to Mean and Ratio Estimation, Hani Samawi
Distribution-Free Runs Test for Conditional Symmetry, Hani M. Samawi and Amal Helu
Nonparametric Test of Symmetry Based on Overlapping Coefficient, Hani M. Samawi, Amal Helu, and Robert L. Vogel
Tests of Homogeneity for Partially Matched-Pairs Data, Hani Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
HIPAA’s Role in E-Mail Communications between Doctors and Patients: Privacy, Security, and Implications of the Bill, James H. Stephens and Anthony V. Parrillo
Low Serum Cholesterol is Associated with Depression among Household US Population, T. Stuart, F. Kunuwo, L. Parker, W. Cholrelia, and Jian Zhang
Low Cholesterol is Associated with Depression among US Household Population, Stuart H. Tedders, Kunuwo D. Fokong, Lindsey E. McKenzie, Cholrelia Wesley, Lili Yu, and Jian Zhang
Genetic Matching: A Better Algorithm for Adjusting Covariate Imbalance for Statistical Data Analysis and Modeling, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
Joint Modeling of the Treatment Effect in Clinical Trials with Time-to-Event Endpoint and Safety Covariates, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis of Low Birth Weight Prevalence in Georgia, Wei Tu, Stuart H. Tedders, and Jie Tian
A Needs Assessment to Develop Community Partnerships: Initial Steps Working with a Major Agricultural Community, Ashley D. Walker, Jill Bezyak, Elizabeth Gilbert, and April Trice
Using Photovoice with NGO Workers in Sierra Leone: A Case for Community Based Research, Ashley D. Walker and Jody Oomen-Early
Access to Emerging Technologies and Telehealth Intervention Modality Preferences in Rural Patients, Jacob C. Warren, K. Bryant Smalley, Jeff J. Klibert, and Jennie Wren Denmark
A Descriptive Study of Relief Behaviors of Persons with Migraine Headaches, K. Welchel, Joanne Chopak-Foss, and Helen W. Bland
Effective Lifestyle Habits and Coping Strategies for Stress Tolerance among College Students, Paul D. Welle and Helen W. Bland
Salud es Vida: Development of a Cervical Cancer Education Curriculum for Promotora Outreach With Latina Farmworkers in Rural Southern Georgia, Kristen J. Wells, John S. Luque, Branko Miladinovic, Natalia Vargas, Yasmin Asvat, Richard G. Roetzheim, and Ambuj Kumar
Dietary Protein and Protein-Rich Food in Relation to Severely Depressed Mood: A 10 Year Follow-Up of a National Cohort, Allen R. Wolfe, Cassandra Arroyo, Stuart H. Tedders, Yanfeng Li, Qi Dai, and Jian Zhang
Nonparametric Quasi-Likelihood for Right Censored Data, Lili Yu
Epidemiological Link Between Low Cholesterol and Suicidality: A Puzzle Never Finished, Jian Zhang
MentalSquares − A Generic Bipolar Support Vector Machine for Mental Disorder Classification, Diagnostic Analysis, and Neurobiological Data Mining, Wen-Rang Zhang, Anand K. Pandurangi, Karl E. Peace, and Yan-Qing Zhang
Impact of Mass Immunization Campaign in Measles-Endemic Areas: A Case-Study from Guangxi, China, Jiatong Zhuo, Edward J. Hoekstra, Wenkui Geng, Zhigang Zheng, Xiaofeng Liang, and Jian Zhang
Innovatively Using Surveillance Data to Harness Political Will to Accelerate Measles Elimination: Experience from Guangxi, China, Jiatong Zhuo, Edward Hoekstra, Ge Zhong, Wei Lui, Zhigang Zheng, and Jian Zhang
Submissions from 2010
Estimating Odds Using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling, Mohammad F. Al-Saleh and Hani Samawi
Brominated Flame Retardants in Offices in Michigan, USA, Stuart A. Batterman, Sergei Chernyak, Chunrong Jia, and Simone M. Charles
A Qualitative Study of Stressors, Stress Symptoms, and Coping Mechanisms Among College Students Using Nominal Group Process, Helen W. Bland, Bridget F. Melton, and Stephen Patrick Gonzalez
Spatiotemporal Attributes of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, Brian H. Bossak and Mark R. Welford
Drive Alive: Teen Seat Belt Survey Program, Katie M. Burkett, Steve Davidson, Carol Cotton, James Barlament, Laurel Loftin, James H. Stephens, Martin Dunbar, and Ryan Butterfield
Interval-Censoring in Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Clinical Trials, Ding-Geng Chen, Karl E. Peace, Lili Yu, Y. L. Lio, and Yibin Wang
Colorectal Cancer Screening Behavior Including Demographic Characteristics in Five Georgia Counties, Kelley G. Chester, Laura H. Gunn, and Gerald R. Ledlow
Leadership Execution: Perfection vs. Implementation, M. N. Coppola and Gerald R. Ledlow
Application Of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Asset Mapping to Locate Colorectal Cancer Screening Resources in the Tampa Bay Community Cancer Network (TBCCN), Clement K. Gwede, Beverly G. Ward, John S. Luque, Susan T. Vadaparampil, Desiree Rivers, Dinorah Martinez-Tyson, Shalewa A. Noel-Thomas, and Cathy D. Meade
Sources and Migration of VOCs in Mixed- Use Buildings, Chunrong Jia, Christopher Godwin, Stuart A. Batterman, Simone M. Charles, and J. Y. Chin
Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills and Applications, Gerald R. Ledlow and Nicholas M. Coppola
An R Package for Species Tree Analysis, Liang Liu and Lili Yu
A Maximum Pseudo-Likelihood Approach for Estimating Species Trees under the Coalescent Model, Liang Liu, Lili Yu, and Scott V. Edwards
Legume Consumption and Severe Depressed Mood, the Modifying Roles of Gender and Menopausal Status, Yanfeng Li, Qi Dai, Stuart H. Tedders, Cassandra Arroyo, and Jian Zhang
Barbers Against Prostate Cancer: A Feasibility Study for Prostate Cancer Education in an Urban African American Community, John S. Luque, Brian M. Rivers, Maisha Kambon, Ronald Brookins, B. Lee Green, and Cathy D. Meade
Personal Responsibility Among Adolescents, Anne McGuire and Jian Zhang
The Growing Problem in College Students: Obesity, Bridget F. Melton, Yasar Bodur, and R. C. Clouse
Addressing the Childhood Obesity Epidemic in Southeastern Georgia through a Community Coalition - An Applied Approach, Bridget F. Melton, Daniel R. Czech, Amy Jo Riggs, Starla McCollum, Marlo Rouse-Arnett, A. Barry Joyner, Elaine S. Marshall, and Melinda L. Czech
Trends in Physical Activity Interest in the College and University Setting, Bridget F. Melton, Andrew R. Hansen, and Jonathon Gross
The Relation between Adolescent Self Assessment of Health and Risk Behaviors: Could a Global Measure of Health Provide Indications of Health Risk Exposures?, Stephen Nkansah-Amankraa and Ashley D. Walker
Foreword by Karl E. Peace, Karl E. Peace
Improve Membership in the APHA Statistics Section, Karl E. Peace
Letter to the Editor, Re: Make a Plan and Follow it, Karl E. Peace
Stratified Ranked Set Sample, Hani M. Samawi
An Optimal Sing Test for One-sample Bivariate Location Model Using an Alternative Bivariate Ranked Set Sample, Hani M. Samawi, Mohammed Al-Haj Ebrahem, and Noha Al-Zubaidin
On the Optimality of Bivariate Ranked Set Sample Design for Matched Pairs Sign Test, Hani M. Samawi and Mavis Pararai
On Distribution-Free Runs Test for Symmetry Using Extreme Ranked Set Sampling with an Application Involving Base Deficit Score, Hani M. Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Christopher K. Senkowski
Children Insurance Disparity in Georgia: In Comparison With Other States Using Data from the National Survey of Children’s Health, Hani Samawi and James H. Stephens
Characteristics of Problem Drinking in an Urban South American Indigenous Population, Paul J. Seale, Sylva Shellenberger, Neila Sanchez, Robert L. Vogel, Elibeth Villalobos, Fred S. Girton, Dana M. Seale, and Ike S. Okosun
Canceling the Radiologist Contract, James H. Stephens
Real Healthcare Reform: Focus on Primary Care Access, James H. Stephens and Gerald R. Ledlow
Real Healthcare Reform: Focus on Primary Care Access, James H. Stephens and Gerald R. Ledlow
We Have to Do Something for Ourselves": Using Photovoice and Participatory Action Research to Assess the Barriers to Abandoned Child and Orphan Caregiving in Sierra Leone, Ashley D. Walker and Jody Oomen-Early
HIV and Hepatocellular and Esophageal Carcinomas Related to Consumption of Mycotoxin-Prone Foods in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jonathan H. Williams, Jessica A. Grubbs, Jerry W. Davis, Jia-Sheng Wang, Pauline E. Jolly, Nii-Ayi Ankrah, William O. Ellis, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Natalie M. Johnson, Abraham G. Robinson, and Timothy D. Phillips
Body Image Perceptions Among Sorority and Non-Sorority Women at a Rural Southeastern University, Kiley Winston-Morgan, Joanne Chopak-Foss, and Laura H. Gunn
On the Eigenstructures of Functional K-Potent Matrices and Their Integral Forms, Yan Wu and Daniel F. Linder
Submissions from 2009
Concentrations and Emissions of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers from U.S. Houses and Garages, Stuart A. Batterman, Sergei Chernyak, Chunrong Jia, Christopher Godwin, and Simone M. Charles
Did Medieval Trade Activity and a Viral Etiology Control the Spatial Extent and Seasonal Distribution of Black Death Mortality?, Brian H. Bossak and Mark R. Welford
Incorporating Weight Management Curriculum into Physical Activity Courses, K. Hice, Bridget F. Melton, Helen W. Bland, Stephen J. Rossi, and Daniel R. Czech
Valuing Volunteers: The Impact of Volunteerism on Hospital Performance, Renee B. Hotchkiss, Myron D. Fottler, and Lynn Unruh
Coalescent methods for estimating multilocus phylogenetic trees, Liang Liu, Lili Yu, Laura S. Kubatko, Dennis K. Pearl, and Scott V. Edwards
