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  • BADGE (Bayesian Analysis of Differential Gene Expression)
    Sebastiani, Paola (2010-01-27)
    A program for analysis of differential gene expression data using Bayesian model averaging.
  • Barriers to Initiation of Antiretroviral Treatment in Rural and Urban Areas of Zambia: A Cross-Sectional Study of Cost, Stigma, and Perceptions about ART
    Fox, Matthew P; Mazimba, Arthur; Seidenberg, Phil; Crooks, Denise; Sikateyo, Bornwell; Rosen, Sydney (BioMed Central, 2010-3-6)
    BACKGROUND While the number of HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-limited settings has increased dramatically, some patients eligible for treatment do not initiate ART even when it is available ...
  • Basis for Treatment of Tuberculosis among HIV-Infected Patients in Tanzania: The Role of Chest X-Ray and Sputum Culture
    Bakari, Muhammad; Arbeit, Robert D; Mtei, Lillian; Lyimo, Johnson; Waddell, Richard; Matee, Mecky; Cole, Bernard F; Tvaroha, Susan; Horsburgh, C Robert; Soini, Hanna; Pallangyo, Kisali; von Reyn, C Fordham (BioMed Central, 2008-3-6)
    BACKGROUND: Active tuberculosis (TB) is common among HIV-infected persons living in tuberculosis endemic countries, and screening for tuberculosis (TB) is recommended routinely. We sought to determine the role of chest ...
  • Bayesian Approaches to Reverse Engineer Cellular Systems: A Simulation Study on Nonlinear Gaussian Networks
    Ferrazzi, Fulvia; Sebastiani, Paola; Ramoni, Marco F; Bellazzi, Riccardo (BioMed Central, 2007-5-24)
    BACKGROUND. Reverse engineering cellular networks is currently one of the most challenging problems in systems biology. Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) seem to be particularly suitable for inferring relationships between ...
  • Bayesian Estimates of Linkage Disequilibrium
    Sebastiani, Paola; Abad-Grau, María M (BioMed Central, 2007-6-25)
    BACKGROUND: The maximum likelihood estimator of D' – a standard measure of linkage disequilibrium – is biased toward disequilibrium, and the bias is particularly evident in small samples and rare haplotypes. RESULTS: This ...
  • Bayesware Discoverer
    Sebastiani, Paola (2010-01-27)
    A program for learning Bayesian networks from data and reasoning using probabilistic inference.
  • Bias Analysis Applied to Agricultural Health Study Publications to Estimate Non-Random Sources of Uncertainty
    Lash, Timothy L (BioMed Central, 2007-11-26)
    BACKGROUND The associations of pesticide exposure with disease outcomes are estimated without the benefit of a randomized design. For this reason and others, these studies are susceptible to systematic errors. I analyzed ...
  • Bias Magnification in Ecologic Studies: A Methodological Investigation
    Webster, Thomas F (BioMed Central, 2007-7-5)
    BACKGROUND: As ecologic studies are often inexpensive to conduct, consideration of the magnitude and direction of ecologic biases may be useful in both study design and sensitivity analysis of results. This paper examines ...
  • Biochemical Markers of Bone Turnover and Their Association with Bone Marrow Lesions
    Hunter, David J; LaValley, Michael; Li, Jiang; Bauer, Doug C; Nevitt, Michael; DeGroot, Jeroen; Poole, Robin; Eyre, David; Guermazi, Ali; Gale, Daniel; Totterman, Saara; Felson, David T (BioMed Central, 2008-8-29)
    INTRODUCTION. Our objective was to determine whether markers of bone resorption and formation could serve as markers for the presence of bone marrow lesions (BMLs). METHODS. We conducted an analysis of data from the Boston ...
  • Breast Cancer Risk and Drinking Water Contaminated by Wastewater: A Case Control Study
    Brody, Julia Green; Aschengrau, Ann; McKelvey, Wendy; Swartz, Christopher H; Kennedy, Theresa; Rudel, Ruthann A (BioMed Central, 2006-10-6)
    BACKGROUND: Drinking water contaminated by wastewater is a potential source of exposure to mammary carcinogens and endocrine disrupting compounds from commercial products and excreted natural and pharmaceutical hormones. ...
  • Breast Cancer Risk Factors in Relation to Breast Density (United States)
    Titus-Ernstoff, Linda; Tosteson, Anna N. A.; Kasales, Claudia; Weiss, Julia; Goodrich, Martha; Hatch, Elizabeth E.; Carney, Patricia A. (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2011-12-29)
    OBJECTIVES: Evaluate known breast cancer risk factors in relation to breast density. METHODS. We examined factors in relation to breast density in 144,018 New Hampshire (NH) women with at least one mammogram recorded in a ...
  • Brief Screening for Co-Occurring Disorders among Women Entering Substance Abuse Treatment
    Lincoln, Alisa K; Liebschutz, Jane M; Chernoff, Miriam; Nguyen, Dana; Amaro, Hortensia (BioMed Central, 2006-9-7)
    BACKGROUND. Despite the importance of identifying co-occurring psychiatric disorders in substance abuse treatment programs, there are few appropriate and validated instruments available to substance abuse treatment staff ...
  • Burden of Malaria in Pregnancy in Jharkhand State, India
    Hamer, Davidson H; Singh, Mrigendra P; Wylie, Blair J; Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo; Tuchman, Jordan; Desai, Meghna; Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam; Gupta, Priti; Brooks, Mohamad I; Shukla, Manmohan M; Awasthy, Kiran; Sabin, Lora; MacLeod, William B; Dash, Aditya P; Singh, Neeru (BioMed Central, 2009-9-3)
    BACKGROUND. Past studies in India included only symptomatic pregnant women and thus may have overestimated the proportion of women with malaria. Given the large population at risk, a cross sectional study was conducted in ...
  • The C8 Health Project: Design, Methods, and Participants
    Frisbee, Stephanie J.; Brooks, A. Paul; Maher, Arthur; Flensborg, Patsy; Arnold, Susan; Fletcher, Tony; Steenland, Kyle; Shankar, Anoop; Knox, Sarah S.; Pollard, Cecil; Halverson, Joel A.; Vieira, Verónica M.; Jin, Chuanfang; Leyden, Kevin M.; Ducatman, Alan M. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009-12)
    BACKGROUND. The C8 Health Project was created, authorized, and funded as part of the settlement agreement reached in the case of Jack W. Leach, et al. v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (no. 01-C-608 W.Va., Wood County ...
  • CAGED (Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Dynamics)
    Sebastiani, Paola (2010-01-27)
    Computer program for the analysis of temporal expression profiles of gene expression data
  • Calamitous Climate Change
    Clapp, Richard (2009-10-22)
  • Cancer mortality in IBM endicott plant workers, 1969-2001: An update on a NY production plant
    Clapp, R.W.; Hoffman, K (BioMed Central, 2008-01-01)
    BACKGROUND: In response to concerns expressed by workers at a public meeting, we analyzed the mortality experience of workers who were employed at the IBM plant in Endicott, New York and died between 1969-2001. An epidemiologic ...
  • Cancer Mortality in IBM Endicott Plant Workers, 1969–2001: An Update on a NY Production Plant
    Clapp, Richard W; Hoffman, Kate (BioMed Central, 2008-4-28)
    BACKGROUND: In response to concerns expressed by workers at a public meeting, we analyzed the mortality experience of workers who were employed at the IBM plant in Endicott, New York and died between 1969–2001. An epidemiologic ...
  • The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network
    Harris, Jeffrey R; Brown, Pamela K; Steven, Coughlin; Wilson, Katherine; Fernandez, Maria E; Hebert, James R; Kerner, Jon; Prout, Marianne; Schwartz, Randy; Simoes, Eduardo J; White, Carol (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2004-12-15)
    The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network is a national network recently established to focus on developing new interventions and disseminating and translating proven interventions into practice to reduce cancer ...
  • Can Health Care Databases Be Used to Identify Incident Cases of Osteonecrosis?
    Vlad, Steven C; Felson, David T; Miller, Donald R (BioMed Central, 2009-6-17)
    INTRODUCTION. Osteonecrosis (ON) is a rare disease associated with alcohol and glucocorticoid use. Identifying additional risk factors is difficult as the number of cases at any single center is small. We investigated ...

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