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The Impact of Serotonin Transporter Gene Variation on Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Goal-Directed Cognition
(2011)
In order to enable goal-directed behavior in a dynamically changing environment, the human brain must meet two competing requirements: (1) the goal representations must be stably and robustly maintained in the face of ...
Multiple Imputation for Measurement Error Correction Based on a Calibration Sample.
(2010)
In much of applied statistics variables of interest are measured with error. In particular, regression with covariates that are subject to measurement error requires adjustment to avoid biased estimates and invalid inference. ...
The Geographic Context and Black-White Disparities in Hypertension.
(2010)
This dissertation evaluated the contribution of the geographic context to black-white disparities in hypertension. Few studies of area-level factors and hypertension disparities have focused on geographic variation both ...
Environmentally Mediated Transmission Models for Influenza and the Relationships with Meteorological Indices.
(2011)
High public health concerns for future influenza pandemics and ongoing avian influenza emerging outbreaks need extended studies on influenza. In this dissertation, the impact of environmental factors on human influenza ...
Linkages Between Extreme Precipitation, Water Quality, and Gastrointestinal Illness.
(2012)
Background: The frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme weather events are expected to increase based on current climate model projections. Such changes, particularly those associated with extreme precipitation, will ...
Auxology and Environmental Epidemiology: Lead Exposure, Physical Growth and Maturation.
(2010)
The theme of this dissertation is the potential impact of pre- and post-natal lead exposure on child growth and maturation. Maternal bone lead has been inversely associated with physical growth in infants and young children, ...
Life course socioeconomic position, depressive symptoms, and cardiovascular disease mortality in the Alameda County Study 1965-2000.
(2010)
Background: Lower socioeconomic position (SEP) over the life course has been posited as a contributing factor in the development of chronic illnesses, including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and subsequent mortality (CVDM). ...
The Health Consequences of Asian Immigrant Integration.
(2011)
This dissertation consists of three papers that explore contextual influences on the health trajectories of Asian immigrants. Current public health research has largely attributed Asian immigrants’ changing health patterns ...
Metals, Noise, Diet, and Hearing Loss.
(2011)
Hearing loss is one of the most common chronic health disabilities experienced by older adults, and the prevalence of hearing loss tends to increase dramatically with advancing age. Therefore, identification of modifiable ...
Some Novel Spatial Stochastic Models for Functional Neuroimaging Analysis.
(2011)
In this dissertation, we develop some new spatial point process models and discuss their applications to the analysis of functional neuroimaging data. In the first project, we propose a Bayesian spatial hierarchical model ...