Works Published in 2017
Displaying works 161 - 180 of 252 in total
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2017 journal article
Two-way principal component analysis for matrix-variate data, with an application to functional magnetic resonance imaging data
Biostatistics (Oxford, England), 18(2), 214–229.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
System Reliability and Component Importance Under Dependence: A Copula Approach
TECHNOMETRICS, 59(2), 215–224.
author keywords: Dependent coherent system; Discrete marginal; Gaussian copula; Multi-state system
TL;DR:
This work characterize the influence of dependence structures on system reliability and component importance in coherent systems with discrete marginal distributions and extends the framework to coherent multi-state system.
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Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Susceptibility of insecticide-resistant bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) to infection by fungal biopesticide
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 73(8), 1568–1573.
author keywords: Beauveria bassiana; Aprehend; Suspend SC; entomopathogenic fungi; insecticide resistance
MeSH headings : Animals; Beauveria / physiology; Bedbugs / microbiology; Insecticide Resistance; Nitriles; Pest Control, Biological / methods; Pyrethrins
TL;DR:
It is demonstrated that Aprehend™ is equally effective against insecticide‐susceptible and insecticides‐resistant bed bugs and could provide pest control operators with a promising new tool for control of bed bug and insecticide resistance management.
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doi.org (publisher)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Soil and Foliar Arthropod Abundance and Diversity in Five Cropping Systems in the Coastal Plains of North Carolina
ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY, 46(4), 771–783.
author keywords: organic farming; conventional farming; clean tillage; reduced tillage; arthropod abundance and diversity
MeSH headings : Animals; Arthropods / physiology; Biodiversity; Crop Production / methods; Crops, Agricultural / growth & development; North Carolina; Plant Leaves; Population Dynamics; Soil
TL;DR:
The results suggest agricultural systems lower in management intensity, whether due to organic practices or reduced levels of disturbance, foster greater arthropod diversity.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Regression models for multivariate count data
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 26(1), 1–13.
TL;DR:
This article studies some generalized linear models that incorporate various correlation structures among multivariate counts and studies the estimation, testing, and variable selection for these models in a unifying framework.
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Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Optimizing delivery of a behavioral pain intervention in cancer patients using a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial SMART
Contemporary Clinical Trials, 57, 51–57.
author keywords: Smart; Novel trial designs; Breast cancer; Pain; Pain coping skills training; Symptom management
MeSH headings : Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Breast Neoplasms / complications; Breast Neoplasms / therapy; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / economics; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / methods; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Female; Humans; Pain Management / economics; Pain Management / methods; Pain Measurement
TL;DR:
This is one of the first trials to use a novel design to evaluate symptom management in cancer patients and in chronic illness; if successful, it could serve as a model for future work with a wide range of chronic illnesses.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Modelling populations of Lygus hesperus on cotton fields in the San Joaquin Valley of California: the importance of statistical and mathematical model choice
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, 11(1), 25–39.
author keywords: Inverse problem; ordinary least squares; generalized least squares; model selection; information content; bootstrapping; residual plots; linear splines; hemiptera; herbivory; pest suppression; pesticide
MeSH headings : Animals; California; Heteroptera / physiology; Models, Biological; Pesticides; Population Dynamics
TL;DR:
The dynamic effects of pesticide treatments on Lygus hesperus, a common pest of cotton in the western United States, are explored and the statistical assumptions often haphazardly made in the process of parameter estimation are investigated.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Modeling bumble bee population dynamics with delay differential equations
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING, 351, 14–23.
author keywords: Population models; Delay differential equations; Non-linear; Non-autonomous; Spline approximations; Bombus terrestris; Reproduction
TL;DR:
A delay differential equation model is proposed that describes multi-colony bumble bee population dynamics and ways in which resource limitation, pesticide exposure and other pressures can be reflected in the model are described.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Median Analysis of Repeated Measures Associated with Recurrent Events in Presence of Terminal Event
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOSTATISTICS, 13(1).
author keywords: recurrent events; quantile regression; informative censoring; estimating equations; survival analysis
MeSH headings : Computer Simulation; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Models, Statistical; Ovarian Neoplasms / economics; Ovarian Neoplasms / therapy; Recurrence; Research Design
TL;DR:
A semiparametric model for assessing the effect of covariates on the quantiles of the point processes is proposed and both the finite sample as well as the large sample properties of the proposed estimators are investigated.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Integrating multiple data sources in species distribution modeling: a framework for data fusion
ECOLOGY, 98(3), 840–850.
author keywords: Brown-headed nuthatch; data fusion; multivariate conditional autoregressive; species distribution modeling
MeSH headings : Ecology; Information Storage and Retrieval; Models, Theoretical; Spatial Analysis
TL;DR:
Three new models that share information in a less direct manner resulting in more robust performance when the auxiliary data is of lesser quality are developed for combining data sources and used in a case study of the Brown-headed Nuthatch in the Southeastern U.S.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Identification of dietary patterns associated with obesity in a nationally representative survey of Canadian adults: application of a priori, hybrid, and simplified dietary pattern techniques
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION, 105(3), 669–684.
author keywords: dietary patterns; partial least squares; simplified dietary pattern; Dietary Guidelines for Americans Adherence Index; obesity; chronic diseases; Canadian
MeSH headings : Adult; Canada; Chronic Disease; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diet / adverse effects; Diet Records; Dietary Fats / administration & dosage; Dietary Fiber / administration & dosage; Energy Intake; Feeding Behavior; Female; Health Surveys; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Mental Recall; Middle Aged; Nutrition Assessment; Nutrition Policy; Obesity / etiology; Obesity, Metabolically Benign / etiology; Odds Ratio; Risk Factors
TL;DR:
Consuming an energy-dense, high-fat, and LFD dietary pattern and lack of adherence to the recommendations of the 2015 DGAI were associated with a significantly higher risk of obesity with and without accompanying chronic diseases.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Identification of Teosinte Alleles for Resistance to Southern Leaf Blight in Near Isogenic Maize Lines
CROP SCIENCE, 57(4), 1973–1983.
TL;DR:
This study identified teosinte alleles that, when present in a temperate maize background, confer a significant level of resistance to SLB, and an allele at the QTL in bin 2.04 was shown to confer resistance to both SLB and a second maize foliar disease, gray leaf spot.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
2. Zero Hunger
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Functional Architectures of Local and Distal Regulation of Gene Expression in Multiple Human Tissues
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS, 100(4), 605–616.
MeSH headings : Anxiety / genetics; Computer Simulation; Depression / genetics; Gene Expression Regulation; Humans; Linkage Disequilibrium; Organ Specificity; Quantitative Trait Loci; Regression Analysis; Twins / genetics
TL;DR:
This work leveraged all variants (not just those that pass stringent significance thresholds) to analyze the functional architecture of local and distal regulation of gene expression in 15 human tissues by employing an extension of stratified LD-score regression that produces robust results in simulations.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Evaluating Relationships Between Hunting and Biodiversity Knowledge among Children
WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN, 41(3), 530–536.
author keywords: biodiversity; children; education; ethnicity; gender; hunting; knowledge
TL;DR:
Past participation in hunting among elementary age children in North Carolina, USA, surveyed during 2014 was high and a positive predictor of student's ability to name native wildlife species after controlling for gender, ethnicity, and grade level.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Efficient Estimation for Accelerated Failure Time Model under Case-Cohort and Nested Case-Control Sampling
BIOMETRICS, 73(1), 114–123.
author keywords: Accelerated failure time model; Case-cohort; Efficient estimation; Kernel smoothing; Nested case-control
MeSH headings : Algorithms; Case-Control Studies; Computer Simulation; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis / statistics & numerical data; Humans; Likelihood Functions; Models, Statistical; Regression Analysis; Wilms Tumor / diagnosis; Wilms Tumor / pathology
TL;DR:
An efficient likelihood-based estimation method for the accelerated failure time model under case-cohort and nested case-control designs is proposed and it is shown that the proposed estimators for the regression coefficients are consistent and asymptotically normal.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Dynamic Modeling of Problem Drinkers Undergoing Behavioral Treatment
BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY, 79(6), 1254–1273.
author keywords: Mathematical psychology; Inverse problems; Iterative weighted least squares; Behavior change; Personalized medicine
MeSH headings : Alcohol Drinking; Alcoholism / therapy; Decision Making; Humans; Models, Theoretical
TL;DR:
This work uses dynamical systems modeling to help understand how selected intra-personal factors interact to form mechanisms of behavior change in problem drinkers and suggests that this is a promising direction in research in alcohol use disorders as well as other behavioral sciences.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Convex Biclustering
BIOMETRICS, 73(1), 10–19.
author keywords: Clustering; Convex optimization; Fused lasso; Gene expression; Reproducible research; Structured sparsity
MeSH headings : Algorithms; Cluster Analysis; Computational Biology / methods; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Databases, Genetic; Gene Expression Profiling / methods; Gene Regulatory Networks; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
TL;DR:
This work presents a convex formulation of the biclustering problem that possesses a unique global minimizer and an iterative algorithm, COBRA, that is guaranteed to identify it and demonstrates the advantages of the approach, which includes stably and reproducibly identifying biclusterings, on simulated and real microarray data.
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Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Circulant Embedding of Approximate Covariances for Inference From Gaussian Data on Large Lattices
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS, 26(1), 88–97.
author keywords: Conditional simulation; Fast Fourier transform; Gaussian process; Kriging
TL;DR:
This work proposes the use of a discrete spectral approximation to allow for the implementation of Markov chain Monte Carlo and Monte Carlo expectation–maximization methods on smaller embedding lattices, and demonstrates that the approximate methods are also faster to compute.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
2. Zero Hunger
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
An epidemiological model of internet worms with hierarchical dispersal and spatial clustering of hosts
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, 418, 8–15.
author keywords: Network models; Malicious software
MeSH headings : Computer Security; Internet; Models, Theoretical; Software
TL;DR:
This work measured the distribution of potentially susceptible hosts in the space of Internet addresses to determine their clustering and constructed a full-size simulated Internet with 232 hosts to show that local preference scanning greatly increases the chances for an infected host to locate and infect other susceptible hosts.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
A small-sample multivariate kernel machine test for microbiome association studies
GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY, 41(3), 210–220.
author keywords: Bray-Curtis; kernel association test; multivariate outcomes; small sample; UniFrac
MeSH headings : Adenomatous Polyposis Coli / genetics; Adenomatous Polyposis Coli / microbiology; Case-Control Studies; Computer Simulation; Genetic Association Studies; Genetic Markers / genetics; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Humans; Microbiota / genetics; Models, Genetic; Mucous Membrane / microbiology; Phylogeny; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics; Sample Size
TL;DR:
The multivariate microbiome regression‐based kernel association test (MMiRKAT) is proposed for testing association between multiple continuous outcomes and overall microbiome composition, where the kernel used in MMiKAT is based on Bray‐Curtis or UniFrac distance.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
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