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The Human Gestational Membranes as a Site of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Toxicity.
(2009)
Preterm birth is a major public health concern impacting one in eight babies born in the U.S.A. Although a precise cause for preterm birth cannot be established in most cases, one of the most promising predictors of preterm ...
Physical Activity in Relation to Depressive Symptoms in Black U.S. Adults: Results from the National Survey of American Life.
(2009)
A report of the Surgeon General revealed Blacks are underrepresented in mental health research (USDHHS, 2001). The purpose of the current study is to investigate the relation between physical activity (PA) and depressive ...
HIV on the Move: Sex Differences in Patterns of Migration and HIV in South Africa.
(2008)
This dissertation advances knowledge of an under-investigated aspect of gender and health: what are women’s unique migration patterns, and how do they contribute to health risks such as HIV/AIDS in southern Africa? Empirical ...
Statistical Methods in Surrogate Marker Research for Clinical Trials.
(2008)
A surrogate marker (S) is often an intermediate physical or
laboratory indicator in a disease progression process. It can be
measured earlier and cost less than the true endpoint (T). A
surrogate marker may be able to ...
An Alternative Outpatient Scheduling System: Improving the Outpatient Experience.
(2008)
Patient wait time has long been a recognized problem in modern outpatient health care delivery systems. Despite all the efforts to develop appointment rules and solutions, the problem of long patient waits persists. ...
The Effect of Lifecourse Socioeconomic Position and Health on Trajectories of Cognitive Function in Older Adults.
(2008)
Recent studies suggest that socioeconomic position (SEP) across the lifecourse may influence health, and more specifically cognitive health, through several pathways. However, few studies examining the effect of SEP on ...
Inhalability and Personal Sampler Performance for Aerosols at Ultra-Low Windspeeds.
(2009)
Inhalability is the efficiency with which people inhale airborne particles through the nose or mouth during breathing. Most previous studies used to set criteria for this were based on high-speed wind tunnels, using breathing ...
Methods for Large-Scale Genetic Association Studies.
(2008)
With the increasing availability and decreasing costs of high-throughput genotyping, contemporary genetic association studies now incorporate vast quantities of information. Major advances in genotyping technology have ...
Social and Biological Predictors of Blood Pressure in Hypertensives.
(2009)
Hypertension affects 1 in 4 adults in the United States and is a major contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Blood pressure (BP) control is observed in slightly less than two-thirds of those on antihypertensive ...
Social Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Black MSM.
(2009)
In this multi-method, interdisciplinary dissertation I contribute to the growing literature on HIV/AIDS in Black men who have sex with men (MSM) through accomplishing the following. In my first dissertation paper, I use ...