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Exposures and Health Risks Due to Traffic Congestion.
(2010)
Traffic congestion has increased significantly in urban areas over the past several decades and is associated with significant environmental and health impacts. This research characterizes air pollutant emissions, exposures ...
Clinical and Cost Consequences of Non-Adherence in the End-Stage Renal Disease Population.
(2011)
Results from this study indicate that non-adherence in hemodialysis (HD) sessions marginally affects health care costs and does not significantly increase the likelihood of kidney transplantation failure.
This dissertation ...
Business Risk and the Tradeoff Theory of Capital Structure: Predicting the Use of Long-Term Debt in the Healthcare Sector.
(2010)
In an effort to understand the appropriate capital structure for healthcare firms, a two-stage approach to predict the use of long-term debt can provide valuable insight into the determinants of leverage. As evidenced by ...
Stochastic Dynamic Models for Functional Data.
(2010)
Functional data arise frequently in many fields of biomedical research as sequential observations over time. The observations are generated by an unknown dynamic mechanism. This dynamic process has an unspecified mean ...
The Genetic Architecture of Leukoaraiosis and Cognitive Function.
(2011)
Uncontrolled hypertension gives rise to arteriosclerotic target organ damage of the brain, heart, and kidneys. Ischemic brain injury due to hypertension is associated with clinical endpoints such as stroke and dementia. ...
Sexual Volatility and the Spread of HIV.
(2011)
The stability of sexual risk behavior over time is a common assumption in models of HIV transmission. In this thesis I show that this assumption does not hold in a population of gay men at risk of HIV infection and that ...
Narrowing the Gap: Chronic Illness Information as Experienced in Everyday Life and Healthcare Contexts.
(2011)
This research examines the information experience of people with chronic health conditions in everyday life and as shaped by the healthcare context in order to understand informational aspects of patient-provider disconnects. ...
Multi-Continental Multimedia Model of Pollutant Intake and Application to Impacts of Global Emissions and Globally Traded Goods.
(2011)
Decision-makers seeking to more comprehensively assess and mitigate the environmental health impacts of products and chemicals require a tool to quantify the impacts associated with global emissions, global supply chains, ...
A Gene-environment Study of Metallothionein Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Mercury Biomarker Levels and Peripheral Nerve Function.
(2011)
Mercury (Hg) is a potent neurotoxicant. Recent studies have suggested that several genes that mediate mercury metabolism are polymorphic in humans. We hypothesized that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in metallothionein ...
Exploring Socioeconomic Disparities in Posttraumatic Stress in an Urban Population.
(2011)
Although studies have shown that persons with low socioeconomic position (SEP) are more likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than those with high SEP, there has been no systematic attempt to explain this ...