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Submissions from 2015
Profile of the Public Health Workforce: Registered TRAIN Learners in the United States, Jeffery A. Jones, Lois Banks, Ilya Plotkin, Sunny Chanthavongsa, and Nathan Walker
Serum Lycopene Levels and Fatality Among Prostate Cancer Patients/Victims: An 18 Year Follow-up Study, Deborah Kanda, Jian Zhang, and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Therapeutic Physical Activities for Individuals with Cerebral Palsy, Kristina L. Kendall, Gavin T. Colquitt, and Parker Hyde
Key Determinants of the Fungal and Bacterial Microbiomes in Homes, Eric Kettleson, Atin Adhikari, Stephen Vesper, Kanistha Coombs, Reshmi Indugula, and Tiina Reponen
The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Conditions of Trust among Leaders at the Kentucky Department for Public Health, Jennifer Redmond Knight, Heather M. Bush, William A. Mase, Martha Cornwell Riddell, Meng Liu, and James W. Holsinger
Efficacy of Delayed-Release Dimethyl Fumarate vs Glatiramer Acetate on a Novel Composite Outcome Measure of Inflammatory Disease Activity: Post-Hoc Analysis of the CONFIRM Study, Marcelo Kremenchutzky, Robert J. Fox, J. Theodore Phillips, Mariko Kita, Karl E. Peace, James B. Lewin, Annie Zhang, Macaulay Okwuokenye, Michael R. Edwards, and Jing L. Marantz
High Red Blood Cell Folate Is Associated With an Increased Risk of Death Among Adults With Diabetes, a 15-year Follow-up of a National Cohort, Brittany Kyte, Emeka Ifebi, Sambridhi Shrestha, S. Charles, F. Liu, and Jian Zhang
Social and Behavioral Implications of National Collegiate Athletic Association Sickle Cell Trait Screening: The Athletes' Perspective, Raymona H. Lawrence, Alison Scott, Carlton Haywood Jr., Kayin Robinson, and Mondi Mason
The Proof's in the Partnerships: Are Affordable Care Act and Local Health Department Accreditation Practices Influencing Collaborative Partnerships in Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning?, Barbara Laymon, Gulzar H. Shah, Carolyn J. Leep, Julia Joh Elligers, and Vibha Kumar
High Prevalence and Genetic Heterogeneity of Rodent-Borne Bartonella Species on Heixiazi Island, China, Dong-Mei Li, Yong Hou, Xiu-Ping Song, Ying-Qun Fu, Gui-Chang Li, Ming Li, Marina E. Eremeeva, Hai-Xia Wu, Bo Pang, Yu-Juan Yue, Ying Huang, Liang Lu, Jun Wang, and Qi-Yong Liu
On Stratified Bivariate Ranked Set Sampling for Regression Estimators, Daniel F. Linder, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, Arpita Chatterjee, Yisong Huang, and Robert L. Vogel
Coalescent Methods for Estimating Species Trees from Phylogenomic Data, Liang Liu, Shaoyuan Wu, and Lili Yu
Comparison of Practice Based Research Network Based Quality Improvement Technical Assistance and Evaluation to Other Ongoing Quality Improvement Efforts for Changes in Agency Culture, William Livingood, Angela Peden, Gulzar H. Shah, Nandi A. Marshall, Ketty M. Gonzales, Russell B. Toal, Dayna Alexander, Alesha Wright, and Lynn D. Woodhouse
More Overweight Adolescents Think They Are Just Fine: Generational Shift in Body Weight Perceptions Among Adolescents in the U.S., Hui Lu, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Farrah C. Asgari-Majd, Cherell Cottrell-Daniels, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Addressing Obesity and Associated Medical Conditions in Latino Immigrant Communities in Southeast Georgia, John S. Luque, Moya L. Alfonso, Yelena N. Tarasenko, and Lisa C. Watson
Feasibility Study of Engaging Barbershops for Prostate Cancer Education in Rural African-American Communities, John S. Luque, Siddhartha Roy, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Levi Ross, Jarrett Johnson, and Clement K. Gwede
Cultural Beliefs and Understandings of Cervical Cancer Among Mexican Immigrant Women in Southeast Georgia, John S. Luque, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Jonathan N. Maupin, Moya L. Alfonso, Lisa C. Watson, Claudia Reyes-Garcia, and Daron Ferris
Cultural Beliefs and Understandings of Cervical Cancer among Mexican Immigrant Women in Southeast Georgia, John S. Luque, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Jonathan N. Maupin, Moya L. Alfonso, Lisa C. Watson, Claudia Reyes-Garcia, and Daron G. Ferris
Introducing Biospecimen Science to Communities: Tools from Two Cities, Cathy D. Meade, Elisa M. Rodriguez, Mariana Arevalo, John S. Luque, Narseary Harris, Gloria San Miguel, Clement K. Gwede, and Deborah O. Erwin
The Impact of Health Behaviors on Perceived Physical, Mental, and Social Health Status Among College Students, Bridget F. Melton, Jared Russell, Helen W. Bland, Kevin Casebolt, Kristin A. Chandler, and Jazmin Williamson
The Influence of Masculinity on Coping in Undergraduate Black Men, Krista Mincey, Moya L. Alfonso, Amy A. Hackney, and John Luque
The Applied Anthropology of Obesity, Chad T. Morris and Alexandra G. Lancey
A Comparison of Size and Power of Tests of Hypotheses on Parameters Based on Two Generalized Lindley Distributions, Macaulay Okwuokenye and Karl E. Peace
A SASR Algorithm for Imputing Discrete Missing Outcomes Based on Minimum Distance, Macaulay Okwuokenye and Karl E. Peace
Size and Power of Tests of Hypotheses on Survival Parameters from the Lindley Distribution with Covariates, Macaulay Okwuokenye and Karl E. Peace
Inequalities and Approximations of Weighted Distributions by Lindley Reliability Measures, and the Lindley-Cox Model with Applications, Broderick O. Oluyede, Macaulay Okwuokenye, and Karl E. Peace
Health Care Cost and Hospital Length of Stay in Nebraska, Samuel T. Opoku
A Comparison of the J‐1 Visa Waiver and Loan Repayment Programs in the Recruitment and Retention of Physicians in Rural Nebraska, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Ge Lin, Li-Wu Chen, David Palm, and Thomas Rauner
Evaluation of Myocardial Structure and Function in Patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia, A. A. Patel, Kelly Sullivan, D. Dasner, C. Pearsall, Theresa Zesiewicz, and A. Labovitz
Monitoring for Adverse Events Post Marketing Approval of Drugs, Karl E. Peace and Macaulay Okwuokenye
The State of Accreditation Readiness in Georgia: A Case Study, Angela Peden, Gulzar H. Shah, Russell B. Toal, Dayna S. Alexander, Alesha Wright, Ashton Anderson, Nandi A. Marshall, Scott Uhlich, and Jeffery A. Jones
Impact of 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic on Mortality Rates in Savannah, GA, and Implications for Future Epidemic Prevention, Sara S. Plaspohl and Betty T. Dixon
Effect of the Personalized System of Instruction on Health-Related Fitness Knowledge and Class Time Physical Activity, Steven Prewitt, James Hannon, Gavin T. Colquitt, Timothy A. Brusseau, Maria Newton, and Janet Shaw
Implementation of a Personal Fitness Unit Using the Personalized System of Instruction, Steven Prewitt, James Hannon, Gavin T. Colquitt, Timothy A. Brusseau, Maria Newton, and Janet Shaw
Effectiveness of the Sport Education Fitness Model on Fitness Levels, Knowledge, and Physical Activity, Tony A. Pritchard, Andrew R. Hansen, Shot Scarboro, and Irina Melnic
State Law Mandates for Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infections in Hospitals, Julie Reagan, Carolyn T. A. Herzig, Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, Andrew Dick, Patricia W. Stone, and JD Divya Srinath
How Long Does that 10-Year Smoke Alarm Really Last? A Survival Analysis of Smoke Alarms Installed through the SAIFE Program in Rural Georgia, Haresh Rochani, Valamar Malika Reagon, and Steve Davidson
Correction of Verication Bias using Log-Linear Models for a Single Binaryscale Diagnostic Tests, Haresh Rochani, Hani M. Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Jingjing Yin
Healthcare Coordination and Transition for Individuals with Genetic Conditions, Sharon Romelczyk, Sharon Homan, Joseph Telfair, Gaurav Dave, Alisha Keehn, Deborah Maiese, and NCC Evaluation Workgroup
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
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
Patient and Provider Perspectives on the Relationship Between Multiple Morbidity Management and Disease Prevention, Nancy E. Schoenberg, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Shoshana H. Bardach, and Steven T. Fleming
Answering the Call to Integrate: An Editorial, Gulzar H. Shah
Social Media and Alcohol Use: Adverse Impact of Facebook and Twitter on College Students, Gulzar H. Shah, Moya L. Alfonso, and Nina Jolani
Knowing Where Public Health Is Going: Levels and Determinants of Workforce Awareness of National Public Health Trends, Gulzar H. Shah and Kusuma Madamala
Implementation of Electronic Disease Reporting Systems by Local Health Departments, Gulzar H. Shah, Karmen S. Williams, and Bushra G. Shah
Local Health Departments' Approaches to Deal With Recession: What Strategies Are Used to Minimize the Negative Impact on Public Health Services to Community?, Gulzar H. Shah, Jiali Ye, Carolyn J. Leep, and Jonathon P. Leider
Implementing a Community Empowerment Center to Build Capacity for Developing, Implementing, and Sustaining Interventions to Promote Community Health, Stacy W. Smallwood, Darcy Freedman, Ronald Pitner, Patricia Sharpe, Jennie Ann Cole, Shanna Hastie, and Brittney Hunter
Impact of Laws Aimed at Healthcare-Associated Infection Reduction: A Qualitative Study, Patrica W. Stone, Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, Julie Reagan, Jacqueline A. Merrill, Brad Sperber, Catherine Cairns, Matthew Penn, Tara Ramanathan, Elizabeth Mothershed, and Elizabeth Skillen
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 Tarasenko and Joel M. Lee
Acceptability and Feasibility of Physical Activity Assessment Methods for an Appalachian Population, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Britteny M. Howell, Christina R. Studts, Scott J. Strath, and Nancy E. Schoenberg
U.S. Undergraduate Education in Public Health: Hot or Not?, Yelena N. Tarasenko and Joel M. Lee
Review of Association of Hospital and Provider Types on Sickle Cell Disease Outcomes by Jan, S., Slap, G., Smith-Whitley, K., et al., Joseph Telfair
Development of a Sickle Cell Disease Readiness for Transition Assessment, Marsha Treadwell, Shirley Johnson, India Sisler, Matthew Bitsko, Ginny Gildengorin, Rogelio Medina, Fernando Barreda, Kimberly Major, Joseph Telfair, and Wally R. Smith
Self-Efficacy and Readiness for Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care in Sickle Cell Disease, Marsha Treadwell, Shirley Johnson, India Sisler, Matthew Bitsko, Ginny Gildengorin, Rogelio Medina, Fernando Barreda, Kimberly Major, Joseph Telfair, and Wally R. Smith
Use of Facebook by Local Health Departments: Usage and Activity Area, Rakhi Trivedi, Gulzar H. Shah, and Ankit Bangar
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
A Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Effect on Preterm Births in Georgia, USA, Wei Tu, Jun Tu, and Stuart H. Tedders
The Role of Adiposity in the Relationship Between Serum Leptin and Severe Major Depressive Episode, Chinedu C. Ubani and Jian Zhang
Relationships among Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines and Health Risk Behaviors, Ashley D. Walker, Jody L. Langdon, and Krystina Johnson
Georgia Department of Public Health Community Health Forums: A Summary Report, Ashley Walker-Colquitt, Angela Peden, Stuart H. Tedders, John S. Barron, Aaron Jackson, Nicholas Williams, and Bethrand Ugwu
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
Differences in Health Literacy Knowledge and Experiences among Senior Nursing Students, Sharon S. Williamson and Joanne Chopak-Foss
Evaluation of Diverse Community Asthma Interventions: Balancing Health Outcomes with Developing Community Capacity for Evidence-Based Program Measurement, Lynn D. Woodhouse, William C. Livingood, Russell B. Toal, DeAnna Keene, Stuart H. Tedders, Simone M. Charles, Raymona H. Lawrence, Laura H. Gunn, Natalie Williams, and Andrea Kellum
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
Employee Influenza Vaccination in Residential Care Facilities, Bettye A. Apenteng and Samuel T. Opoku
Differences in Definitions of EBPH and Evidence: Implications for Communication with Practitioners, Robert E. Aronson, Kay Lovelace, Mark Smith, and Gulzar H. Shah
Differences in Definitions of EBPH and Evidence: Implications for Communication with Practitioners, Robert Aronson, Kay Lovelace, Mark Smith, and Gulzar H. Shah
Case Study, Hurricane Katrina, Asli Aslan and Joan B. Rose
Final Report of the Georgia Southern University Ad Hoc Committee on Student Ratings of Instruction, Helen W. Bland, James Harris, James Jupp, William B. Levernier, Nan S. LoBue, Trent W. Maurer, James S. Reichard, Sonya S. Shepherd, and Rebecca Ziegler
Quantifying the Impact of Physical Activity on Stress Tolerance in College Students, Helen W. Bland, Bridget F. Melton, Lauren Bigham, and Paul D. Welle
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
Patterns of Referral for, and Utilization of, Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT) by Race, Alyssa Clay, Brittany Peoples, Levi Ross, Kirsten Moysich, Yali Zhang, Philip McCarthy, and Theresa Hahn
Becoming the Physical Activity Champion: Empowerment through Social Marketing, Gavin T. Colquitt, Moya L. Alfonso, and Ashley D. Walker
Adapting a Community-Based Physical Activity Promotion Program for Rural, Diverse Youth, Gavin Colquitt, Ashley Walker, and Moya L. Alfonso
Engaging Diverse Populations about Biospecimen Donation for Cancer Research, Julie H. Dang, Elisa M. Rodriguez, John S. Luque, Deborah O. Erwin, Cathy D. Meade, and Moon S. Chen Jr.
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
