Index Catalog // Emory Theses and Dissertations

1. Assessing Targeted Funding to State Health Departments: Can Federal Funding Develop Capacity for the Prevention of Healthcare-associated Infections?

Student Name:: McCormick, Kelly Jean
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

2. Applying the Collaborative Approach to Requirements Gathering in the Development of a Buruli Ulcer Database in Ghana

Student Name:: Honu, Marian Enyonam Afi
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

3. Designing a Laboratory Information Management System by Using Open-Source Tools OSIRIS: Open Source Integrated Research Information System

Student Name:: Kurtkaya, Serdar
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Information Science
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

4. Constructing Confidence Intervals for Sensitivity Under Controlled Specificity in Medical Tests

Student Name:: Parakati, Isaac
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Statistics, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

5. Identify chromatin state signature and its functional implications in nine cell lines

Student Name:: Wu, Quran
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

6. Red Blood Cell Transfusion as a Predictor of Outcome after Cardiac Surgery in Neonates and Young Infants

Student Name:: Locandro, Christopher
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

7. Improving Precision in Mediation Analysis Through Efficient Use of Case Data

Student Name:: Fang, Xi
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

8. Metabolomic patterns in second-trimester amniotic fluid and maternal serum associated with fetal trisomy 21

Student Name:: Fischer, Taylor
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics, Biology, Bioinformatics, and Environmental Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

9. The Application of Generalized Propensity Score Approaches on Dichotomous, Continuous, and Ordinal Treatment to Analyze the Effect of Total Radiation Dose on Cervical Esophageal Cancer Survival

Student Name:: Aiello, Alexandra Christine
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics and Health Sciences, Oncology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

10. Using Lagged Outpatient Visits to Improve Forecasts of Patient Arrivals at an Inpatient Hospital

Student Name:: Vece, Gabriel R.
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

11. Gestational Diabetes validation data study: an example of testing differences in sensitivity and specificity of two diagnostic methods using non-random sampling in a paired study design

Student Name:: Tian, Ganzhong
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Statistics, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

12. Comparison of Thresholding in QIIME and DADA2 for Analysis of Microbiome Data

Student Name:: Xu, Jiahui
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biology, Microbiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

13. Investigating Heterogeneous Associations in Fear Responses Among PTSD Patients Using Quantile Regression

Student Name:: Mar, Hanna
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Mental Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

14. Projecting Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures and Surgical Site Infections Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Decision Tree for the Years 2020 through 2030

Student Name:: Wolford, Hannah
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

15. Examination of Optimal Culture Methodologies and Conditions for Tuberculosis Treatment Trials

Student Name:: Lee, Keun
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Biology, Molecular
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

16. Latent Trajectory Analysis of Youth at High Risk of Psychosis

Student Name:: Fan, Wenyi
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

17. Comprehensive Analysis Examining Metabolites Associated with Severity of Cystic Fibrosis

Student Name:: Dave, Ishaan
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics, Biology, Bioinformatics, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

18. Evaluating the Utility of Electroconvulsive Therapy Cognitive Assessment during and after Electroconvulsive Therapy

Student Name:: Ye, Zixun
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Mental Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

19. Random Estimating Functions to Accommodate Heterogeneity in Meta-Analysis

Student Name:: Bo, Na
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

20. Retinal Image Classification for Diagnosis of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease

Student Name:: Feng, Haonan
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

21. Mixture Modeling to Determine Population-Specific Cutoffs for Quantitative Diagnostic Tests without Gold Standards

Student Name:: Sullivan, Sarah Mary
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Immunology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

22. Metrics of the Social Contact Networks of Patients and Staff in the Emergency Department

Student Name:: Hill, Eric DuBois
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

23. Closing the Gap in Alzheimer's for African Americans: Analysis of the Forget Me Not Project Questionnaire

Student Name:: Chapman, Christina Elyse
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Aging and Health Sciences, Mental Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

24. A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Detect DifferentiallyMethylated Loci from Bisulfite Sequencing Data

Student Name:: Feng, Hao
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics, Biology, Biostatistics, and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

25. Ambient PM2.5 exposure during pregnancy and the risk of preterm delivery in Georgia, 1999 to 2006

Student Name:: Huang, Meilin
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Environmental Sciences and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

26. A Simulation Study on a Fly-healthy Network

Student Name:: Gai, Jiaxiang
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

27. The Effects of Surgical Factors on Post-Operative Astigmatism in Patients Enrolled in the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study (IATS)

Student Name:: Lee, Jason Andrew
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Ophthalmology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

28. Study designs for estimating association between time-varying exposures during pregnancy and preterm birth: a simulation study

Student Name:: Liu, Anran
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

29. Comparison of mean residual life between mental disease patients and healthy population in a national survey

Student Name:: Chen, Xu
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

30. Identification of Significant Metabolites Associated with Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis through Metabolome-wide Association Study

Student Name:: Zhang, Lifan
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

31. Adherence Measure Methods to Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Patients in South Africa

Student Name:: Wu, Peng
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Statistics, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

32. Designing an integrated analytic database for lymphoma patient research using an open source toolset: Design and evaluation of elements for the creation of the Georgia Patient Analytic Lymphoma Registry (GA-PAL).

Student Name:: Harris, Wayne A C
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, General
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

33. Ambient Air Pollution and Birth Weight Quantiles in Atlanta

Student Name:: Lin, Ying
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

34. Comparison of Rotavirus Severity Scoring Systems

Student Name:: Kennedy, Jordan Leigh
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

35. Comparisons of the Response of Chemo/BMT Treatment and Survival Outcomes between African American and Caucasian Patients with Multiple Myeloma

Student Name:: Hu, Zheyu
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Oncology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

36. The Effect of Unclassified Taxa on the UniFrac Distance Measurement

Student Name:: Chen, Jessica Lawanna
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biology, Microbiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

37. Comparative Analysis of Four Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Estimation Methods on Continuous Outcomes in a Survey Study

Student Name:: Wu, Ruoming
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

38. Estimating Genetic Effects When Stratification-Score Matching Is Used to Correct for Confounding by Population Stratification in Case-Control Studies

Student Name:: Sun, Zhe
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

39. Growth Curve Models for Longitudinal Data: Application for Psychiatric Research

Student Name:: Chiodi, Sarah Nicole
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

40. A Spatial Analysis of Malaria and Related Health Outcomes in Pregnant Women in Guatemala

Student Name:: Parish, Alice Elizabeth
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Biology, Parasitology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

41. Time series analysis of air pollution and health accounting for covariate-dependent overdispersion

Student Name:: Pan, Anqi
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Environmental Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

42. Analyzing Batting Patterns of Major League Baseball Players For Advance Scouting Reports: Using R to Generate High-Level Spatial Plots of PITCHf/x Data

Student Name:: Superak, Hillary Margolin
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

43. Assessment of Novel Biomarkers and CHA2DS2-VASc Score in Predicting Stroke and All-cause Death in Patients With and Without Atrial Fibrillation

Student Name:: Chen, Yunyun
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

44. Analyzing Durability and Efficacy of Long-lasting Insecticide-treated Bed Nets: A Longitudinal Monitoring Study at Western Kenya

Student Name:: Yin, Shaoman
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

45. Risk Factors for Infectious Disease Infant Mortality in the United States, 2008-2009

Student Name:: Person, Marissa Kaye
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

46. Associations between Schistosomiasis Intermediate Host Snail's Recent Migration Rates and Geographical Distances in Sichuan, China

Student Name:: Li, Qunna
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

47. The Association of Hormone Levels with the Risk of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Student Name:: Ahn, Ji In
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

48. Simulation of Infectious Disease Transmission in a Hospital Emergency Department

Student Name:: Wang, Yuke
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

49. Evaluation of Significant Biomarkers Associated with Progression Free Survival and Overall Survival in Thyroid Cancer Patients

Student Name:: Lasanajak, Yi
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

50. Estimating Center Effects Using Multiple Methods in a Pediatric Glycemic Control Study

Student Name:: Shepler, Samantha Hastings
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

51. Infant and Maternal Risk Factors Related to Necrotizing Enterocolitis-Associated Infant Death in the United States, 2007-2009

Student Name:: Seeman, Sara Michelle
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

52. Exploratory Factor Analysis of DISC-IV Impairment for ADHD Diagnosis

Student Name:: Deubler, Emily Louise
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

53. Blood Glucose Variability Measures: Going Beyond Traditional Methods

Student Name:: Kelleman, Michael
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

54. Association between Clinic Characteristics and Positive Low-dose CT outcome among current and Former Smokers

Student Name:: Wu, Mengdi
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Radiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

55. 30-day Hospital Readmission of Georgia Lupus Registry Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients

Student Name:: René, Lexi Ojener
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

56. Efficient Classification for Ultra High Dimensional Variable Selection

Student Name:: Qu, Kexin
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

57. Systems Analysis for a Complex Survey Design Application for Mobile Data Collection in the Context of the Federal Government

Student Name:: Lopez, Gerard William
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Computer Science and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

58. Dose Escalation with Over-dose and Under-dose Controls for Phase I/II Clinical Trials

Student Name:: Li, Zheng
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

59. Propensity Score Matched Analysis to Compare the Effectiveness of Proton Therapy Versus Photon-Based Radiation for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Based on National Cancer Database

Student Name:: OConnell, Kelli A.
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Oncology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

60. Time-Series Analysis of Heat Waves and Emergency Department Visits in Atlanta, 1993 to 2012

Student Name:: Chen, Tianqi
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Environmental Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

61. Apply Group ICA Method into fMRI Analysis Using GIFT Package and Regression Models

Student Name:: Zhang, Tianchi
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

62. Exploring risk factors for reduced physical activity and functional abilities in adults with hemophilia: a cross-sectional survey from a single large hemophilia treatment center

Student Name:: Baumgardner, Jason Lloyd
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

63. Analysis of Socioeconomic Disparities in Receipt of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Stage II Colon Cancer: An Inquiry Based on National Cancer Database

Student Name:: Liang, Wendi
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Oncology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

64. A Predictive Random Forest Model on Hospital 30-Day Readmission using Electronic Health Records

Student Name:: Lin, Xia
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

65. A Bayesian approach for dynamic brain network

Student Name:: Ming, Jin
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Neuroscience
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

66. AN EVALUATION PLAN FOR A PILOT OF CDC EMR ALERTING SERVICE PROTOTYPE

Student Name:: Ye, Ye
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Information Science
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

67. The Development of the CAT Statistical Injury Severity Score Incorporating Comorbidities, Age, and TRISS

Student Name:: Rutkowski, Rachel Elizabeth
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

68. Genome-wide Coexpression Dynamics in Lung Adenocarcinoma

Student Name:: Lin, Pei-Yu
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

69. The Effects of Antithrombotic Medication on Patients Enrolled in the Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) Trial

Student Name:: Hong, Mindy Rui
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

70. Methods in Measuring Surveillance Disease Data Quality, Somalia

Student Name:: Russell, Steven
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

71. Identification of an Effective Diabetes Screening Strategy: Analysis of the Screening for Impaired Glucose Tolerance Study

Student Name:: Vakili, Jessica
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

72. Identification of the Effect of Population Stratification on Association Studies of Rare Variants

Student Name:: Jiang, Yunxuan
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

73. Predicting Low Back Pain Following Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Comparison of Multivariate Model Selection Criteria

Student Name:: Shen, Alessandria Yiduo
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

74. Escalation with Overdose Control using a Toxicity Score for Personalized Maximum Tolerated Dose in Phase I Clinical Trials

Student Name:: Zhuang, Run
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Pharmacy, and Health Sciences, Oncology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

75. Supporting International Collaboration in Public Health: Selection and Implementation of an International Case Management System at Emory University

Student Name:: Roberts, Stephanie R
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Information Science
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

76. Analysis of the Eﬀect of C3 Transferase on Behavioral Outcomes with Informative Right-Censoring

Student Name:: Catevenis, Katherine Antigone
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Statistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

77. Grizzle Linear Model for Analysis of Clinical Trials Using Crossover Designs

Student Name:: Liu, Danni
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

78. Novel and Conventional Biomarkers for Prediction of Myocardial Infarction and Cardiovascular Death

Student Name:: Breen, Gabrielle Ellen Celia
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

79. Between-group comparisons of structural and functional brain connectivity

Student Name:: Fang, Junhan
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Biology, Neuroscience, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

80. Risk Factors for Pneumonia-Associated Infant Death in the United States, 2007-2010

Student Name:: Ramakrishnan, Sharada
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

81. Comparison of Two Survey Method based on Response Distribution: Mail versus Telephone

Student Name:: Zhang, Roy Liu
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Human Development, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

82. Interrupted time series: a comparison of spine surgery and hip replacement outcomes between a general hospital and a specialty orthopaedic center

Student Name:: Sun, Xin
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Health Sciences, General, and Health Sciences, Health Care Management
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

83. The Structure of the Prodrome of Psychosis

Student Name:: Shi, Meng
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

84. Evaluating Scalable Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms for Big Data Problems

Student Name:: Sang, Zhifan
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department:: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

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1. Assessing Targeted Funding to State Health Departments: Can Federal Funding Develop Capacity for the Prevention of Healthcare-associated Infections?

2. Applying the Collaborative Approach to Requirements Gathering in the Development of a Buruli Ulcer Database in Ghana

3. Designing a Laboratory Information Management System by Using Open-Source Tools OSIRIS: Open Source Integrated Research Information System

4. Constructing Confidence Intervals for Sensitivity Under Controlled Specificity in Medical Tests

5. Identify chromatin state signature and its functional implications in nine cell lines

6. Red Blood Cell Transfusion as a Predictor of Outcome after Cardiac Surgery in Neonates and Young Infants

7. Improving Precision in Mediation Analysis Through Efficient Use of Case Data

8. Metabolomic patterns in second-trimester amniotic fluid and maternal serum associated with fetal trisomy 21

9. The Application of Generalized Propensity Score Approaches on Dichotomous, Continuous, and Ordinal Treatment to Analyze the Effect of Total Radiation Dose on Cervical Esophageal Cancer Survival

10. Using Lagged Outpatient Visits to Improve Forecasts of Patient Arrivals at an Inpatient Hospital

11. Gestational Diabetes validation data study: an example of testing differences in sensitivity and specificity of two diagnostic methods using non-random sampling in a paired study design

12. Comparison of Thresholding in QIIME and DADA2 for Analysis of Microbiome Data

13. Investigating Heterogeneous Associations in Fear Responses Among PTSD Patients Using Quantile Regression

14. Projecting Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures and Surgical Site Infections Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Decision Tree for the Years 2020 through 2030

15. Examination of Optimal Culture Methodologies and Conditions for Tuberculosis Treatment Trials

16. Latent Trajectory Analysis of Youth at High Risk of Psychosis

17. Comprehensive Analysis Examining Metabolites Associated with Severity of Cystic Fibrosis

18. Evaluating the Utility of Electroconvulsive Therapy Cognitive Assessment during and after Electroconvulsive Therapy

19. Random Estimating Functions to Accommodate Heterogeneity in Meta-Analysis

20. Retinal Image Classification for Diagnosis of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease

21. Mixture Modeling to Determine Population-Specific Cutoffs for Quantitative Diagnostic Tests without Gold Standards

22. Metrics of the Social Contact Networks of Patients and Staff in the Emergency Department

23. Closing the Gap in Alzheimer's for African Americans: Analysis of the Forget Me Not Project Questionnaire

24. A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Detect DifferentiallyMethylated Loci from Bisulfite Sequencing Data

25. Ambient PM2.5 exposure during pregnancy and the risk of preterm delivery in Georgia, 1999 to 2006

26. A Simulation Study on a Fly-healthy Network

27. The Effects of Surgical Factors on Post-Operative Astigmatism in Patients Enrolled in the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study (IATS)

28. Study designs for estimating association between time-varying exposures during pregnancy and preterm birth: a simulation study

29. Comparison of mean residual life between mental disease patients and healthy population in a national survey

30. Identification of Significant Metabolites Associated with Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis through Metabolome-wide Association Study

31. Adherence Measure Methods to Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Patients in South Africa

32. Designing an integrated analytic database for lymphoma patient research using an open source toolset: Design and evaluation of elements for the creation of the Georgia Patient Analytic Lymphoma Registry (GA-PAL).

33. Ambient Air Pollution and Birth Weight Quantiles in Atlanta

34. Comparison of Rotavirus Severity Scoring Systems

35. Comparisons of the Response of Chemo/BMT Treatment and Survival Outcomes between African American and Caucasian Patients with Multiple Myeloma

36. The Effect of Unclassified Taxa on the UniFrac Distance Measurement

37. Comparative Analysis of Four Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Estimation Methods on Continuous Outcomes in a Survey Study

38. Estimating Genetic Effects When Stratification-Score Matching Is Used to Correct for Confounding by Population Stratification in Case-Control Studies

39. Growth Curve Models for Longitudinal Data: Application for Psychiatric Research

40. A Spatial Analysis of Malaria and Related Health Outcomes in Pregnant Women in Guatemala

41. Time series analysis of air pollution and health accounting for covariate-dependent overdispersion

42. Analyzing Batting Patterns of Major League Baseball Players For Advance Scouting Reports: Using R to Generate High-Level Spatial Plots of PITCHf/x Data

43. Assessment of Novel Biomarkers and CHA2DS2-VASc Score in Predicting Stroke and All-cause Death in Patients With and Without Atrial Fibrillation

44. Analyzing Durability and Efficacy of Long-lasting Insecticide-treated Bed Nets: A Longitudinal Monitoring Study at Western Kenya

45. Risk Factors for Infectious Disease Infant Mortality in the United States, 2008-2009

46. Associations between Schistosomiasis Intermediate Host Snail's Recent Migration Rates and Geographical Distances in Sichuan, China

47. The Association of Hormone Levels with the Risk of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

48. Simulation of Infectious Disease Transmission in a Hospital Emergency Department

49. Evaluation of Significant Biomarkers Associated with Progression Free Survival and Overall Survival in Thyroid Cancer Patients

50. Estimating Center Effects Using Multiple Methods in a Pediatric Glycemic Control Study

51. Infant and Maternal Risk Factors Related to Necrotizing Enterocolitis-Associated Infant Death in the United States, 2007-2009

52. Exploratory Factor Analysis of DISC-IV Impairment for ADHD Diagnosis

53. Blood Glucose Variability Measures: Going Beyond Traditional Methods

54. Association between Clinic Characteristics and Positive Low-dose CT outcome among current and Former Smokers

55. 30-day Hospital Readmission of Georgia Lupus Registry Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients

56. Efficient Classification for Ultra High Dimensional Variable Selection

57. Systems Analysis for a Complex Survey Design Application for Mobile Data Collection in the Context of the Federal Government

58. Dose Escalation with Over-dose and Under-dose Controls for Phase I/II Clinical Trials

59. Propensity Score Matched Analysis to Compare the Effectiveness of Proton Therapy Versus Photon-Based Radiation for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Based on National Cancer Database

60. Time-Series Analysis of Heat Waves and Emergency Department Visits in Atlanta, 1993 to 2012

61. Apply Group ICA Method into fMRI Analysis Using GIFT Package and Regression Models

62. Exploring risk factors for reduced physical activity and functional abilities in adults with hemophilia: a cross-sectional survey from a single large hemophilia treatment center

63. Analysis of Socioeconomic Disparities in Receipt of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Stage II Colon Cancer: An Inquiry Based on National Cancer Database

64. A Predictive Random Forest Model on Hospital 30-Day Readmission using Electronic Health Records

65. A Bayesian approach for dynamic brain network

66. AN EVALUATION PLAN FOR A PILOT OF CDC EMR ALERTING SERVICE PROTOTYPE

67. The Development of the CAT Statistical Injury Severity Score Incorporating Comorbidities, Age, and TRISS

68. Genome-wide Coexpression Dynamics in Lung Adenocarcinoma

69. The Effects of Antithrombotic Medication on Patients Enrolled in the Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) Trial

70. Methods in Measuring Surveillance Disease Data Quality, Somalia

71. Identification of an Effective Diabetes Screening Strategy: Analysis of the Screening for Impaired Glucose Tolerance Study

72. Identification of the Effect of Population Stratification on Association Studies of Rare Variants

73. Predicting Low Back Pain Following Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Comparison of Multivariate Model Selection Criteria

74. Escalation with Overdose Control using a Toxicity Score for Personalized Maximum Tolerated Dose in Phase I Clinical Trials

75. Supporting International Collaboration in Public Health: Selection and Implementation of an International Case Management System at Emory University

76. Analysis of the Eﬀect of C3 Transferase on Behavioral Outcomes with Informative Right-Censoring

77. Grizzle Linear Model for Analysis of Clinical Trials Using Crossover Designs

78. Novel and Conventional Biomarkers for Prediction of Myocardial Infarction and Cardiovascular Death