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spsurvey: Spatial Sampling Design and Analysis in R

Journal of Statistical Software, 2023
spsurvey is an R package for design-based statistical inference, with a focus on spatial data. spsurvey provides the generalized random-tessellation stratified (GRTS) algorithm to select spatially balanced samples via the grts() function.
Michael Dumelle, Tom Kincaid, Anthony R. Olsen, Marc Weber   +3 more
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Recreational water exposure and waterborne infections in a prospective salivary antibody study at a Lake Michigan beach

Scientific Reports, 2021
In a prospective observational study, seroconversion to a specific pathogen can serve as a marker of an incident infection, whether or not that infection is symptomatic or clinically diagnosed.
Andrey I. Egorov, Reagan Converse, Shannon M. Griffin, Russell Bonasso, Lindsay Wickersham, Elizabeth Klein, Jason Kobylanski, Rebecca Ritter, Jennifer N. Styles, Honorine Ward, Elizabeth Sams, Edward Hudgens, Alfred Dufour, Timothy J. Wade   +13 more
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Latent Toxoplasma gondii infections are associated with elevated biomarkers of inflammation and vascular injury

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that infects cats as definitive hosts and other warm-blooded animals including humans as intermediate hosts.
Andrey I. Egorov, Reagan R. Converse, Shannon M. Griffin, Jennifer N. Styles, Elizabeth Sams, Edward Hudgens, Timothy J. Wade   +6 more
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The Bacterial Community Diversity of Bathroom Hot Tap Water Was Significantly Lower Than That of Cold Tap and Shower Water

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Microbial drinking water quality in premise plumbing systems (PPSs) strongly affects public health. Bacterial community structure is the essential aspect of microbial water quality.
Chiqian Zhang, Ke Qin, Ian Struewing, Helen Buse, Jorge Santo Domingo, Darren Lytle, Jingrang Lu   +6 more
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Assessing residential activity in a home plumbing system simulator: monitoring the occurrence and relationship of major opportunistic pathogens and phagocytic amoebas

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) have been detected in buildings’ plumbing systems causing waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States.
Vicente Gomez-Alvarez, Hodon Ryu, Min Tang, Morgan McNeely, Christy Muhlen, Megan Urbanic, Daniel Williams, Darren Lytle, Laura Boczek   +8 more
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Mountaintop removal coal mining impacts on structural and functional indicators in Central Appalachian streams

Frontiers in Water, 2023
Mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) has been a major source of landscape change in the Central Appalachians of the United States (US). Changes in stream hydrology, channel geomorphology and water quality caused by MTR coal mining can lead to severe ...
Roger A. Burke, Ken M. Fritz, Brent R. Johnson, Rachel Price   +3 more
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Annual PM2.5 and cardiovascular mortality rate data: Trends modified by county socioeconomic status in 2,132 US counties

Data in Brief, 2020
This article contains data on county-level socioeconomic status for 2132 US counties and each county's average annual cardiovascular mortality rate (CMR) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration for 21 years (1990–2010).
Lauren H. Wyatt, Geoffrey Colin L. Peterson, Tim J. Wade, Lucas M. Neas, Ana G. Rappold   +4 more
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The contribution of improved air quality to reduced cardiovascular mortality: Declines in socioeconomic differences over time

Environment International, 2020
Major improvements in air quality since 1990, observed through reductions in fine particulate matter (PM2.5), have been associated with reduced cardiovascular mortality rates (CMR). However, it is not well understood whether the health benefit attributed
Lauren H. Wyatt, Geoffrey C.L. Peterson, Timothy J. Wade, Lucas M. Neas, Ana G. Rappold   +4 more
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Recent Nitrogen Storage and Accumulation Rates in Mangrove Soils Exceed Historic Rates in the Urbanized San Juan Bay Estuary (Puerto Rico, United States)

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021
Tropical mangrove forests have been described as “coastal kidneys,” promoting sediment deposition and filtering contaminants, including excess nutrients. Coastal areas throughout the world are experiencing increased human activities, resulting in altered
Cathleen Wigand, Autumn J. Oczkowski, Benjamin L. Branoff, Meagan Eagle, Alana Hanson, Rose M. Martin, Rose M. Martin, Stephen Balogh, Kenneth M. Miller, Evelyn Huertas, Joseph Loffredo, Elizabeth B. Watson   +11 more
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Novel text analytics approach to identify relevant literature for human health risk assessments: A pilot study with health effects of in utero exposures

Environment International, 2020
Background: Systematic reviews involve mining literature databases to identify relevant studies. Identifying potentially relevant studies can be informed by computational tools comparing text similarity between candidate studies and selected key (i.e ...
Michelle Cawley, Renee Beardslee, Brandy Beverly, Andrew Hotchkiss, Ellen Kirrane, Reeder Sams, II, Arun Varghese, Jessica Wignall, John Cowden   +8 more
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