This collection includes articles written by the faculty of the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health about environmental health risks including lead poisoning, invasive species, polychlorinated biphenyls (PBCs)
Submissions from 2015
The Effect of High Rates of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections on HIV Incidence in a Cohort of Black and White Men Who Have Sex with Men in Atlanta, Georgia, Colleen F. Kelley, Adam S. Vaughan, Nicole Luisi, Travis H. Sanchez, Laura F. Salazar, Paula M. Frew, Hannah L. F. Cooper, Ralph Diclemente, Carlos del Rio, Patrick S. Sullivan, and Eli S. Rosenberg
Homogeneity Test for Correlated Binary Data, Changxing Ma, Guogen Shan, and Song Liu
Analyzing U.S. Nurse Turnover: Are Nurses Leaving their Jobs or the Profession Itself?, Olena Mazurenko, Gouri Gupte, and Guogen Shan
Reducing the Radiation Dose for Computed Tomography Colonography Using Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction., P J. Millerd, R G. Paden, J T. Lund, A K. Hara, W L. Stiles, M He, Qing Wu, and C D. Johnson
Longitudinal trends in asthma health care use in Southern Nevada, Sheniz Monnie, Joram S. Seggev, Guogen Shan, Brianna Pergola, and Masaru Teramoto
Violence Against Women in Selected Areas of the United States, Brooke E. E. Montgomery, Anne Rompalo, James Hughes, Jing Wang, Danielle Haley, Lydia Soto-Torres, Wairimu Chege, Jessica Justman, Irene Kuo, Carol Golin, Paula M. Frew, Sharon Mannheimer, and Sally Hodder
Personalized medicine in the era of genomics: An Exciting Time for Today's Practice, Michael A. Nasiak, Xiangning Chen, Qing Wu, Mira Han, Justin Zhan, Jingchun Chen, Jenica Abrudan, and Martin R. Schiller
Nevada State Cancer Plan: 2016-2020 Refining Strategies for the Future of Cancer Control in Nevada, Nevada Cancer Coalition, State of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public and Behavioral Health, and Paulo M. Pinheiro
Emission Characteristics of Carbonaceous Particles and Trace Gases from Open Burning of Crop Residues in China, Haiyan Ni, Yongming Han, Junji Cao, L.-W. Antony Chen, Jie Tian, Xiaoliang Wang, Judith C. Chow, John G. Watson, Qiyuan Wang, and Ping Wang
A Comparison of the J-1 Visa Waiver and Loan Repayment Programs in the Recruitment and Retention of Physicians in Rural Nebraska, Samuel T. Opoku, Betty A. Apenteng, Ge L. Kan, Li-Wu Chen, David Palm, and Thomas Rauner
Impact of HIV Testing and Counseling (HTC) Knowledge on HIV Prevention Practices Among Traditional Birth Attendants in Nigeria, Alice Osuji, Jennifer R. Pharr, Uche Nwokoro, Anulika Ike, Christiana Ali, Ogheneaga Ejiro, John Osuyali, Michael Obiefune, Kevin Fiscella, and Echezona E. Ezeanolue
Angiosarcoma of the Scalp and Face: the Mayo Clinic Experience, Samir H. Patel, Richard E. Hayden, Michael L. Hinni, W W. Wong, R L. Foote, S Milani, Qing Wu, S J. Ko, and M Y. Halyard
Ebola Outbreak in Nigeria: Increasing Ebola Knowledge of Volunteer Health Advisors, Unnati Patel, Jennifer R. Pharr, Chidi Ihesiaba, Frances U. Oduenyi, Aaron T. Hunt, Dina Patel, Michael Obiefune, Nkem Chukwumerije, and Echezona E. Ezeanolue
Relationship Between Health Locus of Control and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Nigerian Adolescents, Jennifer R. Pharr and Victor Enejoh
Barriers to HIV testing among young men who have sex with men (MSM): Experiences from Clark County, Nevada, Jennifer R. Pharr, Nancy L. Lough, and Echezona E. Ezeanolue
No Increased Risk for Mesothelioma in Relation to Natural-Occurring Asbestos in Southern Nevada., P S. Pinheiro and H Jin
Kinematic Analysis of Wrist Motion During Simulated Colonoscopy in First-Year Gastroenterology Fellows, Shiva K. Ratuapli, Kevin C. Ruff, Francisco C. Ramirez, Qing Wu, Deepika Mohankumar, Marco Santello, and David E. Fleischer
Risk Stratification for Cardiovascular Disease in Women in the Primary Care Setting., R R. Roy, R T. Hurst, S J. Lester, C Kendall, C Baxter, Qing Wu, J Borovansky, J Files, P Panse, and S Wilansky
Feasibility of Ultra-Low Radiation Dose Reduction for Renal Stone CT Using Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction: Prospective Pilot Study, J Scott Kriegshauser, S G. Naidu, R G. Paden, M He, Qing Wu, and A K. Hara
Exact Statistical Inference for Categorical Data, Guogen Shan
Improved Confidence Intervals for the Youden Index, Guogen Shan
Efficient Noninferiority Testing Procedures for Simultaneously Assessing Sensitivity and Specificity of Two Diagnostic Tests, Guogen Shan, Amei Amei, and Daniel Young
Cancer Statistics for Hispanics/Latinos, 2015, Rebecca L. Siegel, Stacey A. Fedewa, Kimberly D. Miller, Ann Goding-Sauer, Paulo S. Pinheiro, Dinorah Martinez-Tyson, and Ahmedin Jemal
Examining the Relationships Between Religiosity, Spirituality, Internalized Homonegativity, and Condom Use Among African American Men Who Have Sex With Men in the Deep South, Stacy W. Smallwood, S Melinda Spencer, Lucy Annang Ingram, Jim F. Thrasher, and Melva V. Thompson-Robinson
Evaluation of an Assertive Continuing Care Program for Hispanic Adolescents, Eric Strunz, Joanna Jungerman, Juliet Kinyua, and Paula M. Frew
Explaining Racial Disparities in HIV Incidence in Black and White Men Who Have Sex with Men in Atlanta, GA: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study, Patrick S. Sullivan, Eli S. Rosenberg, Travis H. Sanchez, Colleen F. Kelley, Nicole Luisi, Hannah L. Cooper, Ralph J. Diclemente, Gina M. Wingood, Paula M. Frew, Laura F. Salazar, Carlos del Rio, Mark J. Mulligan, and John L. Peterson
Improving Evidence-Based Asthma Management in an Urban University Student Health Center, Hedian Swanson, Patricia T. Alpert, Sheniz Moonie, and Susan VanBeuge
Association of Physical Activity and the Risk of Obesity in Adolescents with Physical Disabilities., Masa Teramoto, Timothy J. Bungum, Jerry Landwer, and Dale R. Wagner
Association of Leisure-Time Physical Activity to Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence in Relation to Smoking among Adult Nevadans, Masaru Teramoto, Sheniz Moonie, Chad L. Cross, Michelle Chino, and Patricia T. Alpert
A Biomass Combustion Chamber: Design, Evaluation, and a Case Study of Wheat Straw Combustion Emission Tests, Jie Tian, Junji Cao, Yongming Han, Haiyan Ni, L.-W. Antony Chen, Xiaoliang Wang, Rujin Huang, Hans Moosmueller, and John G. Watson
HIV-infected Men Who Have Sex with Men, before and after Release from Jail: The Impact of Age and Race, Results from a Multi-site Study, Panagiotis Vagenas, Alexei Zelenev, Frederick L. Altice, Angela Di Paola, Alison O. Jordan, Paul A. Teixeira, Paula M. Frew, Anne C. Spaulding, and Sandra A. Springer
Exact Confidence Intervals for the Relative Risk and the Odds Ratio, Weizhen Wang and Guogen Shan
PM2.5 Source Apportionment with Organic Markers in the Southeastern Aerosol Research and Characterization (SEARCH) study, J G. Watson, J C. Chow, D H. Lowenthal, L.-W. Antony Chen, S Shaw, E S. Edgerton, and C L. Blanchard
Social Determinants of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Stage at Diagnosis and Survival in Nebraska, Jia Wen, Ge L. Kan, and KM Islam
The Effect of Pre Exercise Carbohydrate Consumption on Cognitive Function, Brian T. Williams, Peter J. Horvath, Harold Burton, John Leddy, Gregory Wilding, Daniel Rosney, and Guogen Shan
Comparison of Unweighted and Weighted Rank Based Tests for an Ordered Alternative in Randomized Complete Block Designs, Hua Zhang, Guogen Shan, and Daniel Young
Spatial Parameterization of Infant Mortality in Anhui Province, China, Tonglin Zhang, Xue Shang, and Ge L. Kan
The Optical Properties of Urban Aerosol in Northern China: A Case Study at Xi’an, Chong-Shu Zhu, Jun-Ji Cao, Kin-Fai Ho, L.-W. Antony Chen, Ru-Jin Huang, Yi-Chen Wang, Hua Li, Zhen-Xing Shen, Judith C. Chow, John G. Watson, Hua Li, and Ru-Jin Huang
Submissions from 2014
Factors Associated with Seasonal Influenza Immunization among Church-going Older African Americans, Sahithi Boggavarapu, Kevin M. Sullivan, Jay T. Schamel, and Paula M. Frew
Development of a New Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for the Rapid Detection of the Oral Pathogenic Bacterium, Selenomonas Noxia, Patrica Cruz-Perez, Arthuro Mehretu, Mark P. Buttner, Katherine M. Howard, and Theresa Trice
Multilevel Factors Influencing Hepatitis B Screening and Vaccination among Vietnamese Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, Paula M. Frew, Brooke Alhanti, Linda Vo-Green, Siyu Zhang, Chang Liu, Tranh Nguyen, Jay Schamel, Diane S. Saint-Victor, and Minh Ly Nguyen
Factors Associated with Maternal Influenza Immunization Decision-making, Paula M. Frew, Lauren E. Owens, Diane S. Saint-Victor, Samantha Benedict, Siyu Zhang, and Saad B. Omer
Recruitment and Retention of Pregnant Women Into Clinical Research Trials: An Overview of Challenges, Facilitators, and Best Practices, Paula M. Frew, Diane S. Saint-Victor, Margaret Brewinski Isaacs, Sonnie Kim, Geeta K. Swamy, Jeanne S. Sheffield, Kathryn M. Edwards, Tonya Villafana, Ouda Kamagate, and Kevin Ault
Socioecological and Message Framing Factors Influencing Maternal Influenza Immunization among Minority Women, Paula M. Frew, Diane S. Saint-Victor, Lauren E. Owens, and Saad B. Omer
Predicting Multiple Myeloma Disease Activity by Analyzing Natural Calcium Isotopic Composition, G Gordon, J Monge, M Channon, Qing Wu, J Skulan, A Anbar, and R Fonseca
Venue-Based Recruitment of Women at Elevated Risk for HIV: An HIV Prevention Trials Network Study, Danielle F. Haley
Retention Strategies and Factors Associated with Missed Visits Among Low Income Women at Increased Risk of HIV Acquisition in the US (HPTN 064), Danielle F. Haley, Jonathan Lucas, Carol E. Golin, Jing Wang, James P. Hughes, Lynda Emel, Wafaa El-Sadr, Paula M. Frew, Jessica Justman, Adaora A. Adimora, Christopher Chauncey Watson, Sharon Mannheimer, Anne Rompalo, Lydia Soto-Torres, Zandraetta Tims-Cook, Yvonne Carter, and Sally L. Hodder
Types of Female Partners Reported by Black Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women (MSMW) and Associations with Intercourse Frequency, Unprotected Sex and HIV and STI Prevalence, N. Harawa, L. Wilton, L. Wang, C. Mao, I. Kuo, T. Penniman, S. Shoptaw, S. Griffith, J. K. Williams, V. Cummings, K. Mayer, and B. Koblin
The Comparability of Men Who Have Sex With Men Recruited From Venue-Time-Space Sampling and Facebook: A Cohort Study, Alfonso C. Hernandez-Romieu, Patrick S. Sullivan, Travis H. Sanchez, Colleen F. Kelley, John L. Peterson, Carlos del Rio, Laura F. Salazar, Paula M. Frew, and Eli S. Rosenberg
Prevalence and Correlates of Knowledge of Male Partner HIV Testing and Serostatus Among African-American Women Living in High Poverty, High HIV Prevalence Communities (HPTN 064), Larissa Jennings, Anne M. Rompalo, Jing Wang, James Hughes, Adaora A. Adimora, Sally Hodder, Lydia E. Soto-Torres, Paula M. Frew, and Danielle F. Haley
Substance Use Patterns and Factors Associated with Changes Over Time in a Cohort of Heterosexual Women at Risk for HIV Acquisition in the United States, Irene Kuo, Carol E. Golin, Jing Wang, Danielle F. Haley, James Hughes, Sharon Mannheimer, Jessica Justman, Anne Rompalo, Paula M. Frew, Adaora A. Adimora, Lydia Soto-Torres, and Sally Hodder
A Formative Evaluation of a Social Media Campaign to Reduce Adolescent Dating Violence, Danielle N. Lambert, Lauren E. Bishop, Stephanie Guetig, and Paula M. Frew
Runner Identity and Sponsorship: Evaluating the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, Nancy L. Lough, Jennifer Pharr, and Jason O. Owen
Microneedle Patches: Usability and Acceptability for Self-vaccination against Influenza, James J. Norman, Jaya M. Arya, Maxine A. McClain, Paula M. Frew, Martin I. Meltzer, and Mark R. Prausnitz
Social Discrimination and Resiliency Are Not Associated With Differences in Prevalent HIV Infection in Black and White Men Who Have Sex With Men, John L. Peterson, Roger Bakeman, Patrick Sullivan, Gregorio Millett, Eli Rosenberg, Laura Salazar, Ralph J. DiClemente, Hannah Cooper, Colleen F. Kelley, Mark J. Mulligan, Paula M. Frew, and Carlos del Rio
Parental Factors That Influence Swimming in Children and Adolescents, Jennifer Pharr, Carol C. Irwin, and Richard L. Irwin
Considering Sport Participation as a Source for Physical Activity Among Adolescents, Jennifer Pharr and Nancy L. Lough
Lack of Awareness of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Problems and Solutions With Self-reported HIV Serostatus of Men Who Have Sex With Men, Travis H. Sanchez, Colleen F. Kelley, Eli Rosenberg, Nicole Luisi, Brandon O'Hara, Rodriques Lambert, Raphael Coleman, Paula M. Frew, Laura F. Salazar, Sijia Tao, William Clarke, Carlos del Rio, and Patrick S. Sullivan
Exact approaches for testing non-inferiority or superiority of two incidence rates, Guogen Shan
A new exact unconditional testing procedure for comparing two independent Poisson rates, Guogen Shan and Changxing Ma
Unconditional tests for comparing two ordered multinomials, Guogen Shan and Changxing Ma
Unconditional Tests for Association in 2 by 2 Contingency Tables in the Total Sum Fixed Design, Guogen Shan and Gregory Wilding
Risk of Multiple Myeloma In Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Meta-Analysis of Case-Control and Cohort Studies, Kaini Shen, Gufeng Xu, Qing Wu, Daobin Zhou, and Jian Li
Watercourse-Upland and Elevational Gradients in Spring Vegetation of a Mojave-Great Basin Desert Landscape, Jessica E. Spencer, Sara L. McPherson, Scott R. Abella, and Jill E. Craig
Understanding Racial HIV/STI Disparities in Black and White Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Multilevel Approach, Patrick S. Sullivan, John Peterson, Eli S. Rosenberg, Colleen F. Kelley, Hannah Cooper, Adam Vaughan, Laura F. Salazar, Paula M. Frew, Gina Wingood, Ralph DiClemente, Carlos del Rio, Mark Mulligan, and Travis H. Sanchez
Submissions from 2013
Understanding the Relationship between Social Support and Physical and Mental Well-Being among Jail Detainees Living with HIV, Kimberly J. Arriola, Anne C. Spaulding, Cristina A. Booker, Chyvette Williams, Ann Avery, Norma J. Porter, Alison O. Jordan, Helen Loewenthal, and Paula M. Frew
Prevention of type 2 diabetes in urban American Indian/Alaskan Native communities: The Life in BALANCE pilot study, Daniel C. Benyshek, Michelle Chino, Carolee Dodge-Francis, Toricellas O. Begay, Hongbin Jin, and Celeste Giordano
Diet, acculturation and BMI in Hispanics living in Southern Nevada, Anne L. Bolstad and Timothy J. Bungum
Awareness and beliefs regarding intimate partner violence among first-year dental students, Rhonda J. Everett, Karl Kingsley, Christina A. Demopoulos, Edward E. Herschaft, Christine Lamun, Sheniz Moonie, Timothy J. Bungum, and Michelle Chino
Enrollment in YFV Vaccine Trial: An Evaluation of Recruitment Outcomes Associated with a Randomized Controlled Double-Blind Trial of a Live Attenuated Yellow Fever Vaccine, Paula M. Frew, Eve T. Shapiro, Lu Lu, Srilatha Edupuganti, Harry L. Keyserling, and Mark J. Mulligan
From (Un)Willingness to InvolveMENt: Development of a Successful Study Brand for Recruitment of Diverse MSM to a Longitudinal HIV Research, Paula M. Frew, Victoria A. Williams, Eve T. Shapiro, Travis Sanchez, Eli S. Rosenberg, Vincent L. Fenimore, and Patrick S. Sullivan
Influenza Vaccination Acceptance Among Diverse Pregnant Women and its Impact on Infant Immunization, Paula M. Frew, Siyu Zhang, Diane S. Saint-Victor, Ashley C. Schade, Samantha Benedict, Maral Banan, Xiang Ren, and Saad B. Omer
Identifying and reconstruction common cold misconceptions among developing K-12 educators, Marcus L. Johnson and Timothy J. Bungum
Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor-Induced Macrophage Differentiation Influences Myotube Elongation, Sara Keeling, Nadia Deashinta, Katherine M. Howard, Sara Vigil, Sheniz Moonie, and Barbara St Pierre Schneider
Message Framing Strategies to Increase Influenza Immunization Uptake Among Pregnant African American Women, Heather A. Marsh, Fauzia Malik, Eve Shapiro, Saad B. Omer, and Paula M. Frew
Measurement of Polypectomy Rate Using Administrative Claims Data with Validation Against the Adenoma Detection Rate, N. C. Patel, R. S. Islam, Qing Wu, S. R. Gurudu, F. C. Ramirez, M. D. Crowell, and D. O. Faigel
Accessible Medical Equipment for Patients with Disabilities in Primary Care Clinics: Why is it Lacking?, Jennifer Renee Pharr
Accommodations for patients with disabilities in primary care: a mixed methods study of practice administrators, Jennifer Renee Pharr
Predicting Barriers to Primary Care for Patients with Disabilities: A Mixed Methods Study of Practice Administrators, Jennifer Renee Pharr and Michelle Chino
Environmental, Human and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Pedestrian Injury and Death in Las Vegas, NV, Jennifer Renee Pharr, Courtney Coughenour, and Timothy J. Bungum
A note on exact conditional and unconditional tests for Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Guogen Shan
Exact unconditional testing procedures for comparing two independent Poisson rates, Guogen Shan
More Efficient Unconditional Tests for Exchangeable Binary Data with Equal Cluster Sizes, Guogen Shan
Efficient tests for one sample correlated binary data with applications, Guogen Shan and Changxing Ma
Randomized two- stage phase II clinical trial designs based on Barnard’s exact test, Guogen Shan, Changxing Ma, Alan D. Hutson, and Gregory E. Wilding
Some tests for detecting trends based on the modified Baumgartner-Weiβ-Schindler statistics, Guogen Shan, Changxing Ma, Alan D. Hutson, and Gregory E. Wilding
ExactCIdiff: An R Package for Computing Exact Confidence Intervals for the Difference of Two Proportions, Guogen Shan and Weizhen Wang
Using Logistic Regression to Investigate Self-Efficacy and the Predictors for NCLEX® Success for Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Linda A. Silvestri, Michele Clark, and Sheniz Moonie
Tricyclic Antidepressant Use and Risk of Fractures: a Meta-Analysis of Cohort and Case-Control Studies, Qing Wu, W Qu, M. D. Crowell, J. G. Hentz, and K. A. Frey
Submissions from 2012
Linkage to HIV Care for Jail Detainees: Findings From Detention to the First 30 Days After Release, Cristina A. Booker, Christopher T. Flygare, Liza Solomon, Sarah W. Ball, Meredith R. Pustell, Lauri B. Bazerman, Dominique Simon-Levine, Paul A. Teixeira, Jacqueline Cruzado-Quinones, Ryan N. Kling, Paula M. Frew, and Anne C. Spaulding
Perceived environmental physical activity correlates among Asian Pacific Islander Americans, Timothy J. Bungum, Merrill Russen Landers, Maria Azzarelli, and Sheniz Moonie
Efforts to Identify At-Risk Children for Blood Lead Screening in Pediatric Clinics – Clark County, Nevada, Mackenzie Suzanne Burns, Lopa H. Shah, Erika R. Marquez, Scott L. Denton, Beverly A. Neyland, Diana Vereschzagin, David A. Gremse, and Shawn Gerstenberger
Asthma severity in children and the quality of life of their parents, Noelle S. Cerdan, Patricia T. Alpert, Sheniz Moonie, Dianne J. Cyrkiel, and Shona Rue
Type 2 Diabetes Science and American Indian / Alaska Native Culture: Creating a National K-12 Curriculum Prevention Strategy for Native Youth, Carolee Dodge Francis and Michelle Chino
Factors Mediating Seasonal and Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine Accepting among Ethnically Diverse Populations in the Urban South, Paula M. Frew, Julia E. Painter, Brooke Hixson, Carolyn Kulb, Kathryn Moore, Carlos del Rio, Alejandra Esteves-Jaramillo, and Saad B. Omer
Assessment of a Microbicide Candidate among a Diverse Cohort of Urban Southern US Women and their Male Sexual Partners, Paula M. Frew, Kimberly Parker, Takeia Horton, Brooke Hixson, Lisa Flowers, Frances Priddy, Lisa Grohskopf, Christine Mauck, and Kimberly Workowski
Measuring Population Transmission Potential for HIV: An Alternative Metric of Transmission Risk in Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in the US, Colleen F. Kelley, Eli S. Rosenberg, Brandon M. O'Hara, Paula M. Frew, Travis Sanchez, John L. Peterson, Carlos del Rio, and Patrick S. Sullivan
Health Effects Associated with Foreclosure: A Secondary Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data, Nancy N. Menzel, Sheniz Moonie, and Melva Thompson-Robinson
Application of field portable-XRF to the analysis of desert varnish samples in areas impacted by coal-fired power plants, Piotr Nowinski, Vernon F. Hodge, and Shawn Gerstenberger
Health Disparities Experienced by People with Disabilities in the US: A Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Study, Jennifer Renee Pharr and Timothy J. Bungum