Recent Publications

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2016 Publications

Higgins, M.J., Sävje, F., and Sekhon, J.S. (2016). Improving massive experiments with threshold blocking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(27), 7369-7376.

Jiang, Y., Huang, Y., Du, Y. gs, Zhao, Y., Ren, J. gs, Ma, S. and Wu, C.* (2016). Identification of prognostic genes and pathways in lung adenocarcinoma using a Bayesian approach. Cancer Informatics . (Accepted)Peralta N., Assefa Y., Du J., Barden C. and Ciampitti, I.(2016), Mid-Season High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Forecasting Site-Specific Corn Yield. Remote Sensing, Accepted.

Furrer, R, Bachoc, F, and Du, J. (2016), Asymptotic properties of multivariate tapering for estimation and prediction. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 149, 177-191.

Obeidat, M.S., Rys, M., Du, J. and Alshraideh, H.(2016), Selecting the Optimal Sheeting Font Combination to Increase the Visibility of Roadway Guide Signs in the Presence of Glare. IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, 4, 247-252.

Obeidat, M.S., Rys, A. and Du, J. (2016), Evaluation of Overhead Guide Sign Sheeting Materials to Increase Visibility and Safety for Drivers. Applied Ergonomics Journal. 56, 136-143.

Demel, S. and Du, J. (2015), Spatio-temporal models for some data sets in continuous space and discrete time. Statistica Sinica. 25, 81-98

Forrest R. Miller and James W. Neill. Lack of Fit Tests for Linear Regression Models with Many Predictor Variables Using Minimal Weighted Maximal Matchings, Journal of Multivariate Analysis 150 (2016) 14-26.

Huang, Y.-J., Hettenbach, S.M, Harbin, J.N., Park, S.L., Higgs, S., Barrett, A.D.T., Hsu, W.-W., Cohnstaedt, L.W., Vanlandingham, D.L. (2016). Differential Infectivities among Different Japanese Encephalitis Virus Genotypes in Culex quinquefasciatus Mosquitoes. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 10(10): e0005038. (DOI) 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005038.

Han, L., Hsu, W.-W., Todem, D., Osuch, J.R., Hungerink, A., and Karmaus, W. (2016). In utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls is associated with decreased fecundability in daughters of Michigan female fisheaters: a cohort study. Environmental Health. 15:92 (DOI) 10.1186/s12940-016-0175-3.

Park, SL, Huang, Y.-J., Hsu, W.-W., Hettenbach, S.M., Higgs, S., Vanlandingham, D.L. (2016). Virus-specific thermostability and heat inactivation profiles of alphaviruses. Journal of Virological Methods. 152-5. (DOI) 10.1016/j.jviromet.2016.04.004.

Hsu, W.-W., Todem, D. and Kim, K. (2016). A sup-score test for the cure fraction in mixture models for long-term survivors. Biometrics. In Press. (DOI) 10.1111/biom.12514.

Todem, D., Kim, K. and Hsu, W.-W. (2016). Marginal mean models for zero-inflated count data. Biometrics. In Press. (DOI) 10.1111/biom.12492.

Obaro S.K., Daniel Y., Lawson J.O., Hsu W.-W., Dada J., Essen U., Ibrahim K., Akindele A., Brooks K., Olanipekun G., Ajose T., Stewart C.E. and Inusa B.P.D. (2016). Sickle-Cell Disease in Nigerian Children: Parental Knowledge and Laboratory Results. Public Health Genomics 19:102-107. (DOI) 10.1159/000444475.

Zapolski, T., Fisher, S., Hsu, W.-W. and Barnes-Najor, J. (2016). What can parents do? Examining the role of parental support on the negative relationship between racial discrimination, depression, and drug use among African American youth. Clinical Psychological Science. In Press. (DOI) 10.1177/2167702616646371.

C.L. Van Bibber-Krueger, K.A. Miller, C.C. Aperce, C.A. Alvarado-Gilis, J.J. Higgins, J.S. Drouillard. Effects of crystalline menthol on blood metabolites in Holstein steers and in vitro volatile fatty acid and gas production. J. Anim. Sci. 2016.94:1-9.

Williams, P.J., M.B. Hooten, J.N Womble, G.G Esslinger, M.R. Bower, T.J. Hefley. (In press) An integrated data model to estimate spatio-temporal occupancy, abundance, and colonization dynamics. Ecology

Hefley, T.J, M.B. Hooten, J.M. Drake, R.E. Russell, D.P. Walsh (2016) When can the cause of a population decline be determined? Ecology Letters 19:1353-1362

Hefley T.J., M.B. Hooten. (2016) Hierarchical species distribution models. Current Landscape Ecology Reports 1:87-97

Bello*, N. M., M. Kramer, R. J. Tempelman, W. W. Stroup, N. St-Pierre, B. A. Craig, L. J. Young and E. E. Gbur. 2016. “On recognizing the proper unit of experimental replication in animal studies in the dairy sciences”. Journal of Dairy Science 99(11): 1-9. doi: 10.3168/jds.2016-11516.

Delph, K., E. G. Davis*, N. M. Bello, K. Hankins, M. J. Wilkerson, C. Ewen. “Comparison of immunologic responses following intranasal and oral administration of a USDA-approved, live-attenuated Streptococcus equi vaccine”. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science. Accepted for publication

Raithel, S., L. Johnson, M. Galliart, S. Brown, J. Shelton, N. Herndon and N. M. Bello*. 2016. “Inferential considerations for low-count RNA-seq transcripts: a case study of dominant prairie grass Andropogon gerardii”. BMC Genomics 17(1):140. doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-2442-7

Ou, Z., R. J. Tempelman, J. P. Steibel, C. W. Ernst, R. O. Bates and N. M. Bello*. 2016. “Genomic prediction accounting for residual heteroskedasticity”. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics 6(1): 1-13. doi: 10.1534/g3.115.02287

Goncalvesgs, M. A. D., N. M. Bello*, S. S. Dritz, M. D. Tokach, J. M. DeRouchey, J. C. Woodworth and R. D. Goodband. 2016. “An update on modeling dose-response relationships: accounting for correlated data structures and heterogeneous variances in linear and non-linear mixed models” Journal of Animal Science 94(5): 1940-1950. doi:10.2527/jas.2015-0106.

Kivett, J. M., R. A. Cloyd* and N. M. Bello. 2016. “Evaluation of entomopathogenic fungi against Western flower thrips (Thysanoptera: thripidae) under laboratory conditions”. Journal of Entomological Science. Accepted for publication.

Goncalves, M. A. D., K. M. Gourley, S. S. Dritz*, M. D. Tokach, N. M. Bello, J. M. DeRouchey, J. C. Woodworth and R. D. Goodband. 2016. “Effects of amino acids and energy intake during late gestation of high-performing gilts and sows on litter and reproductive performance under commercial conditions”. Journal of Animal Science. Early view April 2016. doi: 10.2527/jas.2015-0087

Martin, E. C., K. Gido*, N. M. Bello, W. K. Dodds and A. Veach. 2016. “Increasing fish taxonomic and functional richness affects ecosystem properties of small headwater prairie streams”. Freshwater Biology. Early online view April 2016. DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12752.

Becker*, M. W., R. P. Sundar, N. M. Bello, R. Alahabi, L. Weatherspoon and L. Bix*. 2016. “Assessing attentional prioritization of front-of-pack nutritional labels using change detection”. Journal of Applied Ergonomics 54:90-99. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2015.11.014.

2015 Publications

D. A. Drew, G. Goh, A. Mo, J. J. Grady, F. Forouhar, G. Egan, H. Swede, D. W. Rosenberg, R. G. Stevens and T. J. Devers (2015). Colorectal polyp prevention by daily aspirin use is abrogated among active smokers. Cancer Causes & Control (online: 28 October 2015) DOI: 10.1007/s10552-015-0686-1

Bix*, L., R.P. Sundargs, N.M. Bello, C. Peltier, L. Weatherspoon and M. Becker. 2015. “To see or not to see: Do front of pack nutrition labels affect attention to overall nutritional information”. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0139732. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139732.

Becker*, M., N. M. Bello, R. Sundargs, C. Peltiergs and L. Bix*. 2015. “Front of package labels enhance attention to nutritional information in novel and commercial brands”. Food Policy 56:76-86. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.08.001.

Huang, Y.-J., Hsu, W.-W., Higgs, S. and Vanlandingham, D. (2015). Temperature Tolerance and Inactivation of Chikungunya Virus. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 15(11), 674-677.

Lu, Y., M. J. Vandehaar, D. M. Spurlock, K. A. Weigel, L. E. Armentano, C. R. Staples, E. E. Connor, Z. Wang, N. M. Bello and R. J. Tempelman*. 2015. “An alternative approach to modeling genetic merit of feed efficiency in dairy cattle”. Journal of Dairy Science 98(9): 6535-6551.

Kivettgs, J. M., R. A. Cloyd* and N. M. Bello. 2015. “Insecticide rotation programs with entomopathogenic organisms for suppression of Western flower thrips (Thysanoptera thripidae) populations under greenhouse conditions”. Journal of Economic Entomology 108(4): 1936-1946. DOI: 10.1093/jee/tov155.

Gardhouserd, S. M., D. Eshar*, N. M. Bello and D. Mason. 2015. “Venous blood gasanalytes during isoflurane anesthesia in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)”. Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine Association 247(4): 404-408.

DeHenaugs, C., M. W. Becker, N. M. Bello, S. Liu and L. Bix*. 2015. "Tallman lettering as a strategy for differentiation in look-alike sound-alike drug names: the role of familiarity in differentiating drug dopplegangers" Journal of Applied Ergonomics 52:77-84.

Cullgs, C. A., D. G. Renter*, N. M. Bello and A. H. Babcock. 2015. “Performance and carcass characteristics of commercial feedlot cattle from a study on vaccine and direct-fed microbial effects on E.coli O157:H7 fecal shedding”. Journal of Animal Science 93: 3144-3151.

Johnson*, L., J. T. Olsenug, H. Tetreaultgs, R. K. Goad, M. M. Mendola, A. DeLaCruz, H. Bryant, T. Morgan, M. Knapp, N. M. Bello, S. Baer* and B. Maricle*. 2015.“Intraspecific variation of a dominant grass and local adaptation in reciprocal garden communities along a US Great Plains’ precipitation gradient: Implications for grassland restoration with climate change”. Evolutionary Applications 8:705-723. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12281.

Higbierd, C. T., D. Eshar* and N. M. Bello. 2015. “Evaluation of three point-of-care meters and a portable chemistry analyzer for measurement of blood glucose concentrations in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)”. American Journal of Veterinary Research 76(6): 532-539.

Horne*, E. A., S. Foulksus, N. M. Bello. 2015. "Visual display in Blanchard's cricket frogs (Acris blanchardi)". The Southwestern Naturalist 59(3): 409-413.

Wendel, S.O., Menon, S., Alshetaiwi, H., Shrestha, T.B., Chlebanowski, L., Hsu, W.-W., Bossmann, S.H., Narayanan, S., Troyer, D.L. (2015). Cell Based Drug Delivery: Micrococcus luteus loaded Neutrophils as chlorhexidine delivery vehicles in a mouse model of liver abscesses in cattle. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0128144. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128144

Hsu, W.-W., Todem, D. and Kim, K. (2015). Adjusted Supremum Score-Type Statistics for Evaluating Non-Standard Hypotheses. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 42: 746–759. (DOI) 10.1111/sjos.12134.

Keyla Lopez, Kelly J.K. Getty, Christopher I. Vahl (2015). Validation of washing treatments to reduce Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp. on the surface of green leaf lettuce and tomatoes. Food Protection Trends. Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 377-394.

Vahl, C. I. & Kang, Q. (2015). Equivalence criteria for the safety evaluation of a genetically modified crop – A statistical perspective. The Journal of Agricultural Science. DOI: S0021859615000271.

Krauthammer,K., Kong, Y., Evans,P., Bacchiocchi, A., Pornputtapong, N., Wu, C., McCusker, J., Ma, S., Cheng, E., Straub, R., Ariyan, S., Narayan, D., Sznol, M., Kluger, H., Mane, S. Lifton, R., Schlessinger, J. and Halaban,R. (2015) A large exome screen establishes the role of NF1 in sun-exposed melanoma, and provides insights into melanoma driver genes and impact on drug response. Nature Genetics. (Accepted)

Wu, C., Shi X.J., Cui, Y.H. and Ma, S.G. (2015) A penalized robust semiparametric approach for gene-environment interactions. Statistics in Medicine (Accepted)

Wu, C. and Ma, S. (2015). A selective review of robust variable selection with applications in bioinformatics. Briefings in bioinformatics, 16(5), 873--883.

Demel, S.* and Du, J. (2015), Spatio-temporal models for some data sets in continuous space and discrete time. Statistica Sinica, 25, 81-98.

Lili Yue, Weixing Song, and Jianhong Shi. A parametric bootstrap approach for two-way error component regression models. (2015). Accepted by Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation.

Juan Li, Weixing Song, and Jianhong Shi. Parametric bootstrap simultaneous confidence intervals for differences of means from several two-parameter exponential distributions. (2015). Statistics and Probability Letters, 106, 39-45.

Jianhong Shi, Weixing Song. Asymptotic Results in Gamma Kernel Regression Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods. DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2014.890225

Higbierd, C. T., D. Eshar* and N. M. Bello. 2015. “Evaluation of three point-of-care meters and a portable chemistry analyzer for measurement of blood glucose concentrations in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)”. American Journal of Veterinary Research 76(6): 532-539

Horne*, E. A., S. Foulksus, N. M. Bello. 2015. "Visual display in Blanchard's cricket frogs (Acris blanchardi)". The Southwestern Naturalist 59(3): 409-413.

Yuan Chen, Wei Zhou, Haiyan Wang & Zheming Yuan (2015). Prediction of O-glycosylation sites based on multi-scale composition of amino acids and feature selection. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 2015 Mar 10. DOI 10.1007/s11517-015-1268-9

Moore, M. C., R.D. Davis, Q. Kang, C.I. Vahl, R.M. Wallace, C.A. Hanlon, and D.A. Mosier (2015). Comparison of anamnestic responses to rabies vaccination in dogs and cats with current and out-of-date vaccination status. JAVMA, Vol 246:205-211 ​

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