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Bayesian Analysis of Neuroimage Data Using Gaussian Process Priors
(2022)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a foundational tool for medical and academic research. Functional MRI (fMRI) and human brain research, for example, have become nearly synonymous phrases. MRI results in a dense, ...
The Influence of Idiopathic Chronic Neck Pain on Sternocleidomastoid and Upper Trapezius Muscle Activity and Elasticity
(2022)
Approximately half of all adults will experience neck pain. Without early detection and proper treatment, neck pain will likely become chronic. Chronic neck pain is one of the primary causes of disability in the United ...
Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Use in Substance Use Disorder Recovery
(2022)
This dissertation investigates the role technology plays in substance use disorder (SUD) recovery, with the goal of characterizing technology’s potential role in effective recovery care.
The findings in this dissertation ...
Accounting for Human Behavior and Pathogen Transmission in the Sanitation Paradigm: Opportunities for Improving Child Health
(2018)
Access to sanitation reduces pathogen exposure to improve child health by reducing diarrhea and promoting physical growth. Globally, millions of children under five suffer from diarrheal disease and undernutrition, which ...
Pediatric Coronavirus Infection and Immunity: Common Cold Coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2
(2023)
The epidemiology of human coronaviruses (HCoV) is not well understood, particularly among children. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting, ongoing global pandemic highlight our limited understanding. Better ...
Sequential Stratification Methods for Estimating Effects of Time-Dependent Treatments on Multivariate Survival Outcomes.
(2016)
Recurrent events are frequently of interest in observational studies, and serve as a useful means for evaluating treatments. When treatment is initiated after the start of follow-up, traditional methods may be biased or ...
The Particulars of Particulate Matter Induced Myofibroblast Differentiation
(2022)
Particulate matter (PM) has long been appreciated as a biologically significant component of air pollution that has major impacts on public health. Exposure to PM less than 2.5 µm in diameter (PM2.5) is associated with ...
Applied Computational Modeling Approaches in Cigarette Smoking Epidemiology: Expanding Statistical Associations to Convey Theoretical Pathways
(2017)
50 years since the landmark 1964 Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health, cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death and disability in the United States. The success of epidemiology and public ...
Multivariate Functional Regression and Selection
(2020)
With the pervasiveness of sensor data, real-time physiological signals and behavioral data are often collected in many biomedical studies. This thesis is motivated by data collected from a tri-axis accelerometer ActiGraph ...
The Global Profile of Breast Cancer: Exploring the Disease Epidemiology among International & Migrant Populations.
(2013)
Examining the global occurrence and racial disparities in breast cancer is critical to our understanding of the disease etiology. Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer, about which ...