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Household air pollution exposure is a risk factor for obstructive lung diseases. We assessed whether early-life exposure to air pollution during rapid lung growth and dev[...]
2025 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 5.1 MB |
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INTRODUCTION: In 2022, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned the federal right to abortion in the United States (U.S.), resulting in increased travel ti[...]
2025 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 2.8 MB |
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Low birth weight has significant etiologic heterogeneity. Risk factors that impact gestational age and fetal growth patterns among LBW infants are not well understood.Usi[...]
Thesis | Graduate thesis | English | 1.7 MB |
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Natural disasters will continue to occur with greater frequency and intensity as climate change accelerates. The combined effects of these events, alongside existing stru[...]
Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 1.7 MB |
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The epidemiology of seasonal influenza is shaped by mechanisms across ecological scales, from molecular interactions to global climate patterns. Misaligned data may great[...]
Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 25.5 MB |
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In recent years, a great deal of biomedical research has been focused on identifying biomarkers that can be used in settings of clinical research and practice to evaluate[...]
2017 | Thesis | Graduate thesis | English | 742.4 kB |
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Cocaine use is an important public health problem in the United States and throughout the world. It is associated with many medical consequences and psychosocial characte[...]
2017 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 555.5 kB |
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Background: Approximately 20 million visits to an ambulatory physician per year are due to the primary complaint of a cough. Observed duration for an acute cough in the l[...]
2018 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 2.3 MB |
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Statement of the problem: Tuberculosis is the one of the leading causes of death among infectious diseases in the world. Although the TB epidemic is generally higher in S[...]
2019 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 1.6 MB |
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Statement of the Problem: Despite expanded pediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage, there is paucity of information on effectiveness of the pediatric ART programs[...]
2017 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 1.1 MB |
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Problem: Globally tuberculosis incidence is decreasing by approximately 1 2% per year. If these trends continue 2050 global targets for tuberculosis control will not be [...]
2017 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 2.7 MB |
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The clinical risk points system makes complex statistical models practical and convenient for clinical use. This risk points system helps clinicians make their decisions [...]
2019 | Thesis | Graduate thesis | English | 715.7 kB |
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Statement of Problem: As opposed to the United States, the epidemiology of TB in Georgia is fueled by recent transmission. If current trends in TB incidence continue, eli[...]
2018 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 883.2 kB |
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In October 2018, the United Nations General Assembly confirmed its commitment to eliminate tuberculosis by 2030. To achieve this goal, it would be required to urgently re[...]
2019 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 3.9 MB |
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Problem: Studies of influenza in the college health population are primarily focused on outbreaks such as H1N1 in 2009. Our goal is to better understand the diagnosis, t[...]
2018 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 2.8 MB |
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Falls are the leading cause of fatal or non-fatal injuries among older adults. Evidence-based falls prevention programs are delivered nationwide for years. This study was[...]
2018 | Thesis | Graduate thesis | English | 330.5 kB |
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We aimed to investigate the associations and to estimate the effects of the parents death, spouses death, and household income on survival time of retired people. We used[...]
2019 | Thesis | Graduate thesis | English | 368.5 kB |
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Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) relies on prolonged contacts with people infected with M. tuberculosis. The Community Health Study of Social [...]
2017 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 1.7 MB |
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The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is designed to have a thorough investigation of retirement policy, health and well-being of the US elderly. The main focus of this t[...]
2019 | Thesis | Graduate thesis | English | 600.6 kB |
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Background: Preterm birth (gestational age less than 37 weeks), the leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality worldwide, disproportionally impacts pregnancies in Pu[...]
2019 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 1.2 MB |
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Statistical methods for evaluating predictive biomarkers' clinical utility, reproducibilityand sample size for specific study designs have been slow to develop in respons[...]
2018 | Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 1.1 MB |
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The conventional clinical trials are usually conducted in one region due to same or similar internal and external factors. However, it has many shortcomings and risks. In[...]
2018 | Thesis | Graduate thesis | English | 245.2 kB |
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This dissertation covers topics from describing factors related to within-host infection outcomes to the population-level effects of disease severity as well as the clini[...]
Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 7.7 MB |
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BACKGROUND: The proportion of active tuberculosis (TB) cases occurring in foreign-born persons has been increasing since 1993 in the United States (U.S.). Foreign born pe[...]
Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 3.4 MB |
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In Aim 1 of the study, I found heterogeneity in processing of WGS data among studies and some areas of consensus especially in recent literature. SNP thresholds are the m[...]
Dissertation | Doctoral dissertation | English | 6.2 MB |
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