Search Results - "Ellis, Esther"
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Vocal Fatigue Experiences and Mitigation Strategies in the Sacred Harp Singing Community
Published in Journal of voice (25-01-2024)“…Sacred Harp singers sing at a high volume for sustained periods of time without collective warm-up or cool-down exercises, ostensibly putting them at elevated…”
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Virtual Community Singing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in American scientist (2022)“…When the COVID-19 pandemic became a major public health concern in the spring of 2020, the pandemic threatened not just the people's physical well-being, but…”
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Small Area Estimation of Subdistrict Diabetes Prevalence in the US Virgin Islands, 2021–2022
Published in Preventing chronic disease (07-11-2024)“…SAE is a technique that leverages multiple population and health data sources available at multiple geographic units (eg, territory, district, subdistrict) to…”
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"Like Pieces in a Puzzle": Online Sacred Harp Singing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in Frontiers in psychology (19-03-2021)“…Sacred Harp singers the world over gather weekly to sing out of , a collection of shape-note songs first published in 1844. Their tradition is highly…”
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COVID-19 and Participatory Music-Making
Published in Encyclopedia (Basel, Switzerland) (27-04-2024)“…Participatory music-making is any music-making activity in which individuals engage for the sake of the activity itself. It can be contrasted with…”
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Population-based denominators matter: Bias in U.S. Virgin Islands COVID-19 vaccination coverage under changing population counts
Published in Annals of epidemiology (01-07-2024)“…The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) receives an updated population count once every 10 years and used 2010 decennial census population counts to estimate COVID-19…”
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Community Assessments for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPERs)-US Virgin Islands, 2017-2018
Published in American journal of public health (1971) (01-09-2019)“…To assess preparedness levels of communities to help public health and others plan for disasters or emergencies and tailor messaging to increase community…”
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Persistent Arthralgia Associated with Chikungunya Virus Outbreak, US Virgin Islands, December 2014-February 2016
Published in Emerging infectious diseases (01-04-2017)“…After the 2014-2015 outbreak of chikungunya virus in the US Virgin Islands, we compared the prevalence of persistent arthralgia among case-patients and…”
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Estimating the cost of illness and burden of disease associated with the 2014-2015 chikungunya outbreak in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-07-2019)“…Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus that causes fever and severe polyarthralgia, swept through the Americas in 2014 with almost 2 million suspected or…”
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Acceptability of a Chikungunya Virus Vaccine, United States Virgin Islands
Published in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene (01-02-2023)“…Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne alphavirus, causes acute febrile illness with polyarthralgia. Groups at risk for severe disease include neonates, people…”
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Rational design of a live attenuated dengue vaccine: 2'-o-methyltransferase mutants are highly attenuated and immunogenic in mice and macaques
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-08-2013)“…Dengue virus is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and infects at least 100 million people every year. Progressive urbanization in Asia and South-Central America…”
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“Making the many-minded one”: Community Singing at the Peabody Prep in 1915
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A household serosurvey to estimate the magnitude of a dengue outbreak in Mombasa, Kenya, 2013
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-04-2015)“…Dengue appears to be endemic in Africa with a number of reported outbreaks. In February 2013, several individuals with dengue-like illnesses and negative…”
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Assessing rodents as carriers of pathogenic Leptospira species in the U.S. Virgin Islands and their risk to animal and public health
Published in Scientific reports (21-01-2022)“…Leptospirosis is a global zoonotic disease caused by pathogenic bacteria of the genus Leptospira . We sought to determine if rodents in U.S. Virgin Islands…”
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Incidence and Risk Factors for Developing Dengue-Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Puerto Rico, 2008 - 2013
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (24-08-2016)“…Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare, potentially fatal disorder characterized by fever, pancytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly, and increased serum…”
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Seroprevalence, distribution, and risk factors for human leptospirosis in the United States Virgin Islands
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-11-2022)“…The first documented human leptospirosis cases in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) occurred following 2017 Hurricanes Irma and Maria. We conducted a…”
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Learning Habits and Attitudes in the Revivalist Old-Time Community of Practice
Published in Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education (01-07-2019)“…The revivalist musicians who participate in the old-time music scene constitute what Lave and Wenger (1991) term a “community of practice. ” This study seeks…”
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Mediated Community and Participatory Blackface in Gillette Original Community Sing (CBS, 1936–1937)
Published in Music & letters (08-02-2023)“…ABSTRACT In the United States, sing-along radio programmes became common in the 1930s. These programmes aired locally, regionally, and nationally, and they…”
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Emergence and diversification of dengue 2 cosmopolitan genotype in Pakistan, 2011
Published in PloS one (08-03-2013)“…Major dengue epidemics have been observed in the Indian subcontinent since the 1980s and have occurred with increased hospitalizations and mortality. In 2011,…”
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The First Reported Outbreak of Chikungunya in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 2014-2015
Published in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene (05-10-2016)“…The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) epidemic in the Americas is of significant public health importance due to the lack of effective control and prevention…”
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