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Severe malarial anemia: innate immunity and pathogenesis by Perkins, Douglas J, Were, Tom, Davenport, Gregory C, Kempaiah, Prakasha, Hittner, James B, Ong'echa, John Michael

“…Greater than 80% of malaria-related mortality occurs in sub-Saharan Africa due to infections with Plasmodium falciparum. The majority of P. falciparum-related…”
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Big Five traits interact to predict perceived social support by Swickert, Rhonda J., Hittner, James B., Foster, Aasha

“…Many studies have examined the simple bivariate associations between the Big Five personality traits and perceived availability of social support. The current…”
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Early network properties of the COVID-19 pandemic – The Chinese scenario by Rivas, Ariel L., Febles, José L., Smith, Stephen D., Hoogesteijn, Almira L., Tegos, George P., Fasina, Folorunso O., Hittner, James B.

“…•Classic epidemiological control programs assume that the population is homogeneously distributed in geographical areas also regarded to be…”
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Multi-Cellular Immunological Interactions Associated With COVID-19 Infections by Verma, Jitender S, Libertin, Claudia R, Gupta, Yash, Khanna, Geetika, Kumar, Rohit, Arora, Balvinder S, Krishna, Loveneesh, Fasina, Folorunso O, Hittner, James B, Antoniades, Athos, van Regenmortel, Marc H V, Durvasula, Ravi, Kempaiah, Prakasha, Rivas, Ariel L

“…To rapidly prognosticate and generate hypotheses on pathogenesis, leukocyte multi-cellularity was evaluated in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients treated in India or…”
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Identification of Inflammatory Biomarkers for Pediatric Malarial Anemia Severity Using Novel Statistical Methods by ONG'ECHA, John M, DAVENPORT, Gregory C, VULULE, John M, HITTNER, James B, PERKINS, Douglas J

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Testing the Significance of a Correlation With Nonnormal Data: Comparison of Pearson, Spearman, Transformation, and Resampling Approaches by Bishara, Anthony J., Hittner, James B.

“…It is well known that when data are nonnormally distributed, a test of the significance of Pearson's r may inflate Type I error rates and reduce power…”
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A Monte Carlo Evaluation of Tests for Comparing Dependent Correlations by Hittner, James B., May, Kim, Silver, N. CLAYTON

“…The authors conducted a Monte Carlo simulation of 8 statistical tests for comparing dependent zero-order correlations. In particular, they evaluated the Type I…”
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Reduced Parasite Burden in Children with Falciparum Malaria and Bacteremia Coinfections: Role of Mediators of Inflammation by Ongecha, John M., Perkins, Douglas J., Kempaiah, Prakasha, Hengartner, Nicolas W., Fenimore, Paul W., Mukundan, Harshini, Karim, Zachary, Otieno, Vincent, Hittner, James B., Davenport, Gregory C., McMahon, Benjamin H.

“…Dedicated to our beloved friend and colleague Gregory C. Davenport, Ph.D., PCPH, MLT (ASCP), who passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, 21 August of 2013, at…”
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Confidence intervals for correlations when data are not normal by Bishara, Anthony J., Hittner, James B.

“…With nonnormal data, the typical confidence interval of the correlation (Fisher z' ) may be inaccurate. The literature has been unclear as to which of several…”
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Reducing Bias and Error in the Correlation Coefficient Due to Nonnormality by Bishara, Anthony J., Hittner, James B.

“…It is more common for educational and psychological data to be nonnormal than to be approximately normal. This tendency may lead to bias and error in point…”
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Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Methamphetamine Use and High-Risk Sexual Behavior Among Heterosexuals by Hittner, James B.

“…A large body of research has found that nonheterosexual methamphetamine users engage in substantially higher levels of risky sex compared to nonusers…”
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Connecting network properties of rapidly disseminating epizoonotics by Rivas, Ariel L, Fasina, Folorunso O, Hoogesteyn, Almira L, Konah, Steven N, Febles, José L, Perkins, Douglas J, Hyman, James M, Fair, Jeanne M, Hittner, James B, Smith, Steven D

“…To effectively control the geographical dissemination of infectious diseases, their properties need to be determined. To test that rapid microbial dispersal…”
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Acquisition of Hemozoin by Monocytes Down-Regulates Interleukin-12 p40 (IL-12p40) Transcripts and Circulating IL-12p70 through an IL-10-Dependent Mechanism: In Vivo and In Vitro Findings in Severe Malarial Anemia by Keller, Christopher C, Yamo, Ouma, Ouma, Collins, Ong'echa, John Michael, Ounah, David, Hittner, James B, Vulule, John M, Perkins, Douglas J

“…Severe malarial anemia (SMA) is a primary cause of morbidity and mortality in immune-naïve infants and young children residing in areas of holoendemic…”
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Role of Monocyte-Acquired Hemozoin in Suppression of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor in Children with Severe Malarial Anemia by Awandare, Gordon A, Ouma, Yamo, Ouma, Collins, Were, Tom, Otieno, Richard, Keller, Christopher C, Davenport, Gregory C, Hittner, James B, Vulule, John, Ferrell, Robert, Ong'echa, John M, Perkins, Douglas J

“…Severe malarial anemia (SMA), caused by Plasmodium falciparum infections, is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Although…”
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Feedback-based, system-level properties of vertebrate-microbial interactions by Rivas, Ariel L, Jankowski, Mark D, Piccinini, Renata, Leitner, Gabriel, Schwarz, Daniel, Anderson, Kevin L, Fair, Jeanne M, Hoogesteijn, Almira L, Wolter, Wilfried, Chaffer, Marcelo, Blum, Shlomo, Were, Tom, Konah, Stephen N, Kempaiah, Prakash, Ong'echa, John M, Diesterbeck, Ulrike S, Pilla, Rachel, Czerny, Claus-Peter, Hittner, James B, Hyman, James M, Perkins, Douglas J

“…Improved characterization of infectious disease dynamics is required. To that end, three-dimensional (3D) data analysis of feedback-like processes may be…”
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Sensation seeking and alcohol use: A meta-analytic review by Hittner, James B., Swickert, Rhonda

“…A meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the association between sensation seeking and alcohol use. Analysis of 61 studies revealed a small to moderate…”
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Ezekiel's classic estimator of the population squared multiple correlation coefficient: Monte Carlo-based extensions and refinements by Hittner, James B.

“…Ezekiel's adjusted R 2 is widely used in linear regression analysis. The present study examined the statistical properties of Ezekiel's measure through a…”
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Statistical methods for comparing test positivity rates between countries: Which method should be used and why? by Hittner, James B., Fasina, Folorunso O.

“…•The Test Positivity (TP) rate is an important measure of COVID-19 illness burden.•Pairs of countries with similar versus discrepant TP rates were…”
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Functional Promoter Haplotypes of Interleukin-18 Condition Susceptibility to Severe Malarial Anemia and Childhood Mortality by ANYONA, Samuel B, KEMPAIAH, Prakasha, ONG'ECHA, John M, PERKINS, Douglas J, RABALLAH, Evans, OUMA, Collins, WERE, Tom, DAVENPORT, Gregory C, KONAH, Stephen N, VULULE, John M, HITTNER, James B, GICHUKI, Charity W

“…Classifications Services IAI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Functional haplotypes of Fc gamma (Fcγ) receptor (FcγRIIA and FcγRIIIB) predict risk to repeated episodes of severe malarial anemia and mortality in Kenyan children by Ouma, Collins, Davenport, Gregory C., Garcia, Steven, Kempaiah, Prakasha, Chaudhary, Ateefa, Were, Tom, Anyona, Samuel B., Raballah, Evans, Konah, Stephen N., Hittner, James B., Vulule, John M., Ong’echa, John M., Perkins, Douglas J.

“…Development of protective immunity against Plasmodium falciparum is partially mediated through binding of malaria-specific IgG to Fc gamma (γ) receptors…”
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