Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy and Gestational Weight Gain in South Carolinian Mothers, 2009-2011, LaQuenta Latreese Weldon
Exploring the Association between Network, Cognitive, Structural Social Capital and the Risk of Clinical Depression in Taiwan, Yun-Hsuan Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Hepatitis B, C Virus and HIV Co-infection Among Reported Female Cases in South Carolina, 2004 - 2011: An Epidemiological Analysis of Pregnancy Outcomes, Afiba Manza-Azele Agovi
Examining the Influence of Healthy Eating Identity on Shopping Behaviors, Jordan Brittingham
Exploring the Association Between Depression and Obesity Among Alzheimer's Patients, Stephanie Clugstone
Simulation Based Evaluation of Multiscale Small Area Health Models, Purbasha Dasgupta
Investigating Differences in Risk Behaviors Among Rural, Suburban, and Urban Adolescents, Heather Dubendris
PREDICTION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE WITHIN THE AEROBICS CENTER LONGITUDINAL STUDY POPULATION, Jennifer Carol Gander
Effect of Primary Care Physician Density on Late Stage Cervical Cancer Diagnosis, Emily Haanschoten
LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN THE INFLAMMATORY POTENTIAL OF DIET AND RISK OF CANCER IN WOMEN, Fred KinyuyTabung
Effect of Brassica Vegetable Intake on the 2:16α Estrogen Metabolite Ratio in Postmenopausal European American and African American Women, Kendrea Knight
GESTATIONAL WEIGHT GAIN AND THE RISK OF OBESITY AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN: IS THIS MEDIATED THROUGH BIRTH WEIGHT?, Nomathamsanqa Louise Mgutshini
Periodontal Microorganisms, Obesity, Chronic Inflammation, and Type 1 Diabetes, Georges Joseph Nahhas
Methods for Identifying Regions of Brain Activation Using FMRI Meta-Data, Meredith A. Ray
Mixture Cure Models: Simulation Comparisons of Methods in R and SAS, Myra Robinson
Comparison of Confidence Intervals of Intracluster Correlation Coefficient Estimates for Binary Variables, Ashok Varma Samantapudi
DIETARY INFLAMMATORY INDEX AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH INFLAMMATION, METABOLIC BIOMARKERS AND MORTALITY, Nitin Shivappa
Association of Serum Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies against Periodontal Bacteria in Type 2 Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes and Cardiovascular risk factors, Deepika Shrestha
Antibiotic Usage in Relation to Resistant Bacterial Infections and Liver and Kidney Cancer Outcomes in South Carolina, Prea Thathiah
Discovery and Characterization of Multi-Target Directed Ligands as Inhibitors of Amyloid-β Aggregation and Regulators of Alzheimer's Disease, Jui-Heng Tseng
Gestational Weight Gain, Pregnancy Outcomes, and Use of Perinatal Health Services, Lujing Zhan
A Multiple Imputation Approach For Semiparametric Cure Model With Interval Censored Data, Jie Zhou
ROLE OF ALLERGIC SENSITIZATION, FILAGGRIN VARIANTS, AND DNA, Ali H. Ziyab
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Associations Between the Perceived and Built Food Environment, Timothy L. Barnes
Advanced Methodology Developments in Mixture Cure Models, Chao Cai
Heaped Data In Count Models, Tammy Harris
BMI at Diagnosis and its Association With Markers of HIV Disease Progression and Cardiovascular Disease Risk., Kelly Deshon Johnson
Food Environment and Birth Outcomes In South Carolina, Xiaoguang Ma
Illness-Related Diabetes Social Support and Glycemic Control Among Middle Aged and Older Adults, Favel Leah Mondesir
Models and Software Development For Interval-Censored Data, Chun Pan
A New Method For the Comparison Of Survival Distributions, Jaymie Shanahan
Association Between Breastfeeding and Infant Growth: A Probable Reverse Causality, Shraddha Vyas
Selection and Clustering for Disease Associated Genetic Variants, Yubo Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Joint Modeling of Tumor Size and Time-to-Event, Weichao Bao
Maternal Serum and Whey Immune Markers and Eczema Among Infants, Keith Levi Boyd
Suicide Seasonality In South Carolina, Murali Krishna Gangadaram
Comparison of Intracluster Correlation Coefficient Estimates For Binary Variables, Yang Gao
Flavonoid Intake and Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness In African Americans and European Americans, Rebecca George
Random Effects Selection In Bayesian Accelerated Failure Time Model With Correlated Interval Censored Data, Nusrat Harun
Semi-Parametric Testing of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Effects On Continuous Outcome, Hong He
Measuring Trust In Community-Based and Congregation-Based Groups In South Carolina: A Psychometric Analysis and Exploration of Trust, Group Characteristics, and Health, Margaret Chandlee Miller
Variable Selection for DNA Methylation Data Using Model-Based Clustering, Genevieve Ray
Self-Concept and Perceived Parental Relations Among Children With and Without Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Lindsay Chanel Robinson
Associations of Fish Consumption During Pregnancy with Birth Outcomes, Alysa Joy Sampson
Exploration of Differences in Food Environment Perceptions and Shopping Behaviors among Residents of Low Food Access Versus High Food Access Areas, Inderbir Singh Sohi
Maternal Immune Markers In Serum During Late Gestation and In Breast Milk and the Risk of Asthma-Like Symptoms At Ages 6 and 12 Months: A Longitudinal Study, Nelís Del Carmen Soto-Ramírez
Cardiometabolic Diseases and HIV Infection: The Impact of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, Avnish Tripathi
Extending Sample Size Calculation for the Cox Proportional Hazards Model, Songfeng Wang
Simulation Comparisons of Semi-Parametric Accelerated Failure Time Model With Different Bandwidths, Yinding Wang
Evaluating Social Capital Effects On Adolescent Sexual Health Behaviors, Drew Anne Westmoreland
Risk Factors Associated with New Sexually Transmitted Disease Acquisition in HIV- positive Males in South Carolina, Yohance Omar Whiteside
Breast Cancer and Cortisol Secretion in Relation to the Per3 Vntr, Chronotype, and Sleep, Michael David Wirth
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Semiparametric Bayesian Joint Model With Variable Selection, Haikun Bao
Hospital Infection Control Practice: Preventing, Identifying, and Measuring Healthcare-Associated Infections in an Ever-Changing Environment, Anna Lang Cass
Excessive Weight, Inflammation, Diabetes, and Cancer: Relationships and Differences by Race, Philip Patrick Cavicchia
Association Between Periodontitis and Hyperglycemia and Metabolic Syndrome Components, Youn Hee Choi
A Retrospective Cohort Study of the Timing of Anxiety and Depression Diagnosis and the Onset of Hypertensive Syndromes In Pregnancy, Sheena Christine Cretella
Influenza Modeling, New York City, January 2000 to March 2010, Debjani Das
Diet and Bone Mass In British Children: An Examination of theInfluence of Breastfeeding, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Protein Consumption, Alexa Ellen Gallagher
Organized Sports Participation In Children With and Without Adhd: The Roles of Self-Perceived Peer Relations and Physical Abilities, Jennifer Carol Gander
Incidence and Factors For Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (Ben): A Follow-Up Study, Kesinee Hanjangsit
Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Its Association With Gestational Weight Gain Among South Carolina Mothers, 2009, Shericka Terisha Harris
Percentiles of Traditional and New Measures of Physical Activity Based On Accelerometry, Rahnuma Muneer Hassan
Persistence of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Functional Impairment From Childhood Through Adolescence, Joseph R. Holbrook
Folic Acid Intake, Maternal Obesity and Neural Tube Defects, Daria M. McMahon
Association Between Low Vitamin D Status and Colorectal Cancer, Tanishah Nellom
Inferential Methods For Quantile Regression With Applications to Infant Birth Weight, Andrew Ortaglia
The Censored Heterogeneous Negative Binomial Model, Candace N. Porter
Relationship Between Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Cancer: A Nested Retrospective Longitudinal Cohort Study, Gowtham Rao
Demonstrating Long-Term Primary Care Need For Medically Vulnerable Populations Post-Disaster, Jennifer Davis Runkle
Racial and Ethnic Differences In Correlates of Medication Use Among Youth With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Kristina Storck
Clustering Analysis of Zernike Coefficients Through Quantile Regression, Xin Tong
Methods For Constructing Confidence Intervals For Quantile Regression Coefficients, Junlong Wu
Causal Web of Association for Influence of Early Life Factors on Pubertal Timing and Adult Lung Volume at Age 18 Years, Mitra Yousefi
Cardiovascular Diseases Factors in Women Enrolled in the Wisewoman Program, Lujing Zhan
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Modes of Feeding and Eczema In Infancy, Saroochi Agarwal
Extending Space-Time Putative Hazard Models to Detect Latent Risk Features, Ahmed Yahya Al-Hadhrami
Clustering Analysis of Zernike Coefficients From High Order Aberration Patients, Weichao Bao
The Role of Fto-Gene In Adiposity and Insulin Resistance: Interaction With Diet and Physical Activity, Andrey Bortsov
The Relationship Between Sports Participation and Adolescent Obesity, Wright Culpepper
Bayesian Measurement Error Modeling, Jianjun Gan
Associations of Built Food Environment with Dietary Intake and Adiposity Among Youth with Diabetes, Archana Pande Lamichhane
Cancer Disability Adjusted Life Years in South Carolina, Sarah Leighann Lashley
Exploring the Relationships Between Measures of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Adiposity, and Blood Pressure, Andréa Lynn Maslow
Factors Associated With Maternal Gestational Hypertension and Weight Gain Among Latinas Living In South Carolina, Courtney Mazzoli
The Relationship of Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution With Breast Cancer Incidence, Stage, and Histological Grade In South Carolina Women, Shana Lynn Nehls Bogenschneider
Estimations of Relative Risk: Simulation Comparisons of Popular Methods In Sas and R, Han Sun
Epidemiology of Hiv-Infection In Incarcerated Women In South Carolina, Eren Q. Youmans
Conditional Quantile Estimation With Ordinal Data, Li Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dairy Product Intake and Racial Differences In Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness, Amanda Ayers
Laplace Regression For Censored Data, Andrew Ortaglia
A Study of Shift Working Police Officers from Buffalo, Michael David Wirth