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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 ...
On the Intersection of Race, Stress, and Health.
(2009)
The challenge of eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities has been a daunting task. These disparities are highly multi-factorial in nature, and researchers have been unable to elucidate the exact mechanisms, and ...
Chemometric Methods for the Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds with Microsensor Arrays.
(2008)
This research addresses critical chemometric modeling and data analysis functions needed to guide the design and implementation of novel meso-scale and micro-scale instrumentation that incorporates chromatographic separation ...
Integrating Molecular Typing into Routine Tuberculosis Surveillance: An Assessment of the Strengths and Limitations of Current Approaches.
(2008)
Molecular typing is increasingly integral to tuberculosis (TB) control programs,
providing public health practitioners with a tool to characterize transmission patterns,
track the emergence and spread of strains of ...
Some Problems in Statistical Inference Under Order Restrictions.
(2008)
In this dissertation, we study three problems related to statistical
inference under order restrictions of the unknown parameters. The
first two deal with Cox regression models with missing data, where the baseline cumulative ...
Epidemiologic Characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Vietnam and Implications for Population Vaccination.
(2009)
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of bacterial infections worldwide and causes a range of illness from otitis media to pneumonia and meningitis. Use of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in ...
Urban-Rural Differences of Female Cancers in Gharbiah, Egypt.
(2009)
Breast cancer and hormone receptor positive (HR+) breast cancer incidence vary across the world with higher incidence in developed countries. Most risk factors for breast cancer are environmental and involve increased ...
Advances in Modeling and Inference of Neuroimaging Data.
(2008)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a relatively newly
developed technique used to study neural activity in the human brain.
This
dissertation concerns advances in modeling and inference of neuroimaging
data and ...
Application of Urinary Arsenic Metabolites to Assess Arsenic Exposure in Southeastern Michigan: Advancing Exposure Assessment for Epidemiology Research.
(2009)
Urinary arsenic metabolites are used in epidemiological studies to assess arsenic exposure. However, to ensure reliable application of the biomarker, further development is needed. This research contributes to the validation ...