Faculty Publications from 2012
Do Dietary Factors Contribute to Medical Cost for Cuban Americans with and without Type 2 Diabetes?, Subrata Debnath, Gianna P. Gomez, Gustavo G. Zarini, Joan A. Vaccaro, Maha Al-Hajeri, and Fatma G. Huffman
Unraveling the Physiological Roles of the Cyanobacterium Geitlerinema sp. BBD and Other Black Band Disease Community Members through Genomic Analysis of a Mixed Culture, Paul A. Den Uyl, Laurie L. Richardson, Sunit Jain, and Gregory J. Dick
Image Guided Biodistribution and Pharmacokinetic Studies of Theranostics, Hong Ding and Fang Wu
Dissolved Black Carbon in Grassland Streams: Is There an Effect of Recent Fire History?, Yan Ding, Youhei Yamashita, Walter K. Dodds, and Rudolf Jaffe´
Social determinants of fruit and vegetable intake and validation of Pro-Children Eating Habits Questionnaire for 3rd and 5th grade children, Zisca Dixon, Frederick L. Newman, Lacey Chapa, Joan Vaccaro, and Fatma G. Huffman
Surprises and Insights from Long-Term Aquatic Data Sets and Experiments, Walter K. Dodds, Christopher T. Robinson, E. E. Gaiser, Gretchen J.A. Hansen, Heather Powell, Joseph M. Smith, Nathaniel B. Morse, Sherri L. Johnson, Stanley V. Gregory, Tisza Bell, Timothy K. Kratz, and William H. McDowell
Prognostic Value of Stress Myocardial Perfusion Positron Emission Tomography: Results From A Multicenter Observational Registry, Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Rob S. Beanlands, Micheal E. Merhinge, Brent A. Williams, Emir Veledar, Benjamin JW Chow, James K. Min, Michael J. Pencina, Daniel S. Berman, and Leslee J. Shaw
Potential for Cell-Transplant Therapy with Human Neuronal Precursors to Treat Neuropathic Pain in Models of PNS and CNS Injury: Comparison of hNT2.17 and hNT2.19 Cell Lines, Mary J. Eaton, Yerko Berrocal, and Stacey Q. Wolfe
Review of the History and Current Status of Cell-Transplant Approaches for the Management of Neuropathic Pain, Mary J. Eaton, Yerko Berrocal, Stacey Q. Wolfe, and Eva Widerström-Noga
Use of Hemoglobin A1C to Detect Haitian-Americans with Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes, Joel C. Exebio, Gustavo G. Zarini, Joan Vaccaro, Cristobal Exebio, and Fatma G. Huffman
Proliferation of Hydroelectric Dams in the Andean Amazon and Implications for Andes-Amazon Connectivity, Matt Finer and Clinton N. Jenkins
Male sexual dysfunction and infertility associated with neurological disorders, Mikkel Fode, Sheila Krogh-Jespersen, Nancy L. Beckett, Dana A. Ohl, Charles M. Lynn, and Jens Sønksen
Seagrass ecosystems as a globally significant carbon stock, James W. Fourqurean, Carlos M. Duarte, Hilary Kennedy, Núria Marbà, Marianne Holmer, Miguel Angel Mateo, Eugenia T. Apostolaki, Gary A. Kendrick, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Karen J. McGlathery, and Oscar Serrano
Carbon and nutrient storage in subtropical seagrass meadows: examples from Florida Bay and Shark Bay, James W. Fourqurean, Gary Kendrick, Rudolph Chambers, Laurel Collins, and Mathew Vanderklift
Interspecific Variation in Life History Relates to Antipredator Decisions by Marine Mesopredators on Temperate Reefs, Alejandro Frid, Jeff Marliave, and Michael R. Heithaus
Canals as Vectors for Fish Movement: Potential Southward Range Expansion of Lepisosteus osseus L. (Longnose Gar) in South Florida, David A. Gandy, Jennifer S. Rehage, Jay W. Munyon, Kelly B. Gestring, and John I. Galvez
Living with Uncertainty: Acting in the Best Interests of Women, Erica Gollub and Zena Stein
Living with Uncertainty: Acting in the Best Interests of Women, Erica Gollub and Zena Stein
Gen-2 Hand-Held Optical Imager towards Cancer Imaging: Reflectance and Transillumination Phantom Studies, Jean Gonzalez, Manuela Roman, Michael A. Hall, and Anuradha Godavarty
Characterization of Atlantic Cod Spawning Habitat and Behavior in Icelandic Coastal Waters, Timothy B. Grabowski, Kevin M. Boswell, Bruce J. McAdam, R.J. David Wells, and Guđrún Marteinsdóttir
Application of family-based tests of association for rare variants to pathways, Brian Greco, Alexander Luedtke, Allison Hainline, Carolina Alvarez, Andrew Beck, and Nathan L. Tintle
A comparison of some confidence intervals for estimating the population coefficient of variation: a simulation study, Monika Gulhar, B M Golam Kibria, Ahmed N. Albatineh, and Nasar U. Ahmed
Evaluation of the power and type I error of recently proposed family-based tests of association for rare variants, Allison Hainline, Carolina Alvarez, Alexander Luedtke, Brian Greco, Andrew Beck, and Nathan L. Tintle
Genome-Wide Joint Meta-Analysis of SNP and SNP-by- Smoking Interaction Identifies Novel Loci for Pulmonary Function, Dana B. Hancock, Maria Soler Artigas, Sina A. Gharib, Amanda Henry, Ani Manichaikul, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Daan W. Loth, Medea Imboden, Beate Koch, Wendy L. McArdle, Albert V. Smith, Joanna Smolonska, Akshay Sood, Wenbo Tang, Jemma B. Wilk, Guangju Zhai, Jing hua Zhao, Hugues Aschard, Kristen M. Burkart, Ivan Curjuric, Mark Eijgelsheim, Paul Elliott, Xiangjun Gu, Tamara B. Harris, Christer Janson, Georg Homuth, Pirro G. Hysi, and O. Dale Williams
Heterogeneity in Residential Yard Care: Evidence from Boston, Miami, and Phoenix, Edmund M. Harris, Colin Polsky, Kelli L. Larson, Rebecca Garvoille, Jaleila Brumand, and Laura Ogden
Room-temperature Magnetic Ordering in Functionalized Graphene, Jeongmin Hong, Elena Bekyarova, Ping Liang, Walt A. de Heer, Robert C. Haddon, and Sakhrat Khizroev
Carbon Nanotubes Based 3-D Matrix for Enabling Three-Dimensional Nano-Magneto-Electronics, Jeongmin Hong, Eugenia Stefanescu, Ping Liang, Nikhil Joshi, Song Xue, Dmitri Litvinov, and Sakhrat Khizroev
Perceived Stress and Self‑rated Health of Haitian and African Americans with and without Type 2 Diabetes, Fatma G. Huffman, Joan A. Vaccaro, Sahar Ajabshir, Gustavo G. Zarini, Joel C. Exebio, and Zisca Dixon
Relationship of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on C-Reactive Protein and Homocysteine in Haitian and African Americans with and without Type 2 Diabetes, Fatma G. Huffman, Joan A. Vaccaro, Joel C. Exebio, Sahar Ajabshir, Gustavo G. Zarini, and Lemia H. Shaban
Television Watching, Diet Quality, Physical Activity and Diabetes Among Three Ethnicities in the United States, Fatma G. Huffman, Joan A. Vaccaro, Joel C. Exebio, Gustavo G. Zarini, Timothy Katz, and Zisca Dixon
Acculturation and Diabetes Self-management of Cuban Americans: Is Age a Protective Factor?, Fatma G. Huffman, Joan A. Vaccaro, Deva Gundupali, Gustavo G. Zarini, and Zisca Dixon
Inadequacy of Micronutrients, Fat, and Fiber Consumption in the Diets of Haitian-, African- and Cuban-Americans with and without Type 2 Diabetes, Fatma G. Huffman, Joan A. Vaccaro, Gustavo G. Zarini, Daiane Biller, and Zisca Dixon
The Effects of Landscape Variables on the Species-Area Relationship during Late-Stage Habitat Fragmentation, Guang Hu, Jianguo Wu, Kenneth J. Feeley, Gaofu Xu, and Mongjian Yu
Regeneration of Different Plant Functional Types in a Masson Pine Forest Following Pine Wilt Disease, Guang Hu, Xuehong Xu, Yuling Wang, Gao Lu, Kenneth J. Feeley, and Mongjian Yu
Polymethoxy-1-alkenes from Aphanizomenon ovalisporum Inhibit Vertebrate Development in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Embryo Model, Asha D. Jaja-Chimedza, Miroslav Gantar, Patrick D.L. Gibbs, Michael C. Schmale, and John P. Berry
Effects of Cyanobacterial Lipopolysaccharides from Microcystis on Glutathione-Based Detoxification Pathways in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Embryo, Asha D. Jaja-Chimedza, Miroslav Gantar, and Gregory D. Mayer
Science behind management of Shark Bay and Florida Bay, two P-limited subtropical systems with different climatology and human pressures, Gary A. Kendrick, James W. Fourqurean, Mathew A. Fraser, Michael R. Heithaus, Gary D. Jackson, Kim Freidman, and David Hallac
Seagrass sediments as a global carbon sink: Isotopic constraints, Hilary Kennedy, Jeff Beggins, Carlos M. Duarte, James W. Fourqurean, Marianne Holmer, Núria Marbà, and Jack J. Middleburg
Hydrological Conditions Control P Loading and Aquatic Metabolism in an Oligotrophic, Subtropical Estuary, Gregory R. Koch, Dan Childers, Peter A. Staehr, René M. Price, Stephen E. Davis, and Evelyn E. Gaiser
Catalytic Studies of Sodium Hydroxide and Carbon Monoxide Reaction, Sushant Kumar, Vadym Drozd, and Surendra K. Saxena
Benthic diatom assemblages as indicators of water quality in the Everglades and three tropical karstic wetlands, Josette M. La Hée and Evelyn E. Gaiser
Applying stable isotopes to examine food-web structure: an overview of analytical tools, Craig A. Layman, Marcio S. Araujo, Ross Boucek, Caroline M. Hammerschlag-Peyer, Elizabeth Harrison, Zachary R. Jud, Philip Matich, Adam E. Rosenblatt, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Lauren A. Yeager, David M. Post, and Stuart Bearhop
Miami: Leadership in a Global Community, Kenneth Lipartito, Modesto A. Maidique, Mayra Beers, and Candace Atamanik
On-Line Real-Time Service-Oriented Task Scheduling Using TUF, Shuo Liu, Gang Quan, and Shangping Ren
Nonnative African jewelfish are more fit but not bolder at the invasion front: a trait comparison across an Everglades range expansion, D. P. Lopez, A. A. Jungman, and J S. Rehage
Progress towards Elimination of HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission in the Dominican Republic from 1999 to 2011, Osvaldo Lorenzo, Consuelo M. Beck-Sague, Claudia Bautista-Soriano, Mina Halpern, Jose Roman-Poueriet, Nora Henderson, Eddy Perez-Then, Rosa Abreu-Perez, Solange Soto, Luis Martinez, Sarah Rives-Gray, Bienvenido Veras, Maureen Connolly, Greer Brittany Callender, and Stephen W. Nicholas
Application of excitation emission matrix fluorescence monitoring in the assessment of spatial and seasonal drivers of dissolved organic matter composition: Sources and physical disturbance controls, N. Maie, Y. Yamashita, R. M. Cory, Joseph N. Boyer, and Rudolf Jaffe´
A network model of observation and imitation of speech, Nira Mashal, Ana Solodkin, Anthony Steven Dick, E. Elinor Chen, and Steven L. Small
Effects of an extreme temperature event on the behavior and age structure of an estuarine top predator, Carcharhinus leucas, Philip Matich and Michael R. Heithaus
Alterations in Glutathione Levels and Apoptotic Regulators Are Associated with Acquisition of Arsenic Trioxide Resistance in Multiple Myeloma, Shannon M. Matulis, Alejo A. Morales, Lucy Yehiayan, Kelvin P. Lee, Yong Cai, and Lawrence H. Boise
Training hydrologists to be ecohydrologists and play a leading role in environmental problem solving, Michael E. McCalin, L. Chícharo, N. Fohrer, M. Gaviño Novillo, W. Windhorst, and M. Zalewski
Segregation of Palaemonid Shrimp Along an Everglades Estuarine Gradient: Do Multiple Species Have Similar Trophic Function?, Lauren C. Mccarthy, William F. Loftus, and Jennifer S. Rehage
Transcriptional Response of Two Core Photosystem Genes in Symbiodinium spp. Exposed to Thermal Stress, Michael P. McGinley, Matthew D. Aschaffenburg, Daniel D. Pettay, Robin T. Smith, Todd C. LaJeunesse, and Mark E. Warner
Insights into Migration and Development of Coral Black Band Disease Based on Fine Structure Analysis, Aaron Miller, Patricia Blackwelder, Husain Al-Sayegh, and Laurie L. Richardson
Lower Aptian ammonite and carbon isotope stratigraphy in the eastern Prebetic Domain (Betic Cordillera, southeastern Spain), J. A. Moreno-Bedmar, M. Company, J. Sandoval, J. M. Tavera, T. Bover-Arnal, R. Salas, G. Delanoy, Florentin J. Maurrasse Dr., and R. Martinez
On Developing Ridge Regression Parameters: A Graphical investigation, Gisela Muniz, B.M. Goam Kibria, and Ghazi Shukur
Oxidative Unzipping and Transformation of High Aspect Ratio Boron Nitride Nanotubes into ?White Graphene Oxide? Platelets, Pranjal Nautiyal, Archana Loganathan, Richa Agrawal, Benjamin Boesl, Chunlei Wang, and Arvind Agarwal
Cholesterol Derivatives Based Charged Liposomes for Doxorubicin Delivery: Preparation, In Vitro and In Vivo Characterization, Yu Nie, Hong Ding, Li Xie, Li Li, Bin He, Yao Wu, and Zhongwei Gu
American Alligator Digestion Rate of Blue Crabs and Its Implications for Stomach Contents Analysis, James C. Nifong, Adam E. Rosenblatt, Nathan A. Johnson, William Barichivich, Brian R. Silliman, and Michael R. Heithaus
Effect of Forest Fragmentation on Tick Infestations of Birds and Tick Infection Rates by Rickettsia in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil., Maria Ogrzewalska, Alexandre Uezu, Clinton N. Jenkins, and Marcelo B. Labruna
Public Response to Disaster Response: Applying the “5C+A” Framework to El Salvador 2001 and Peru 2007, Sarah Paggione, Vincent T. Gawronski, Gabriela Hoberman, and Richard S. Olson
Socioeconomic Status and Survival of People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection before and after the Introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: A Systematic Literature Review, Elena Pavlova-McCalla, Mary Jo Trepka, Gilbert Ramirez, and Theophile Niyonsenga
Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems, Linwood Pendleton; Daniel C. Donato; Brian C. Murray; Stephen Crooks; W. Aaron Jenkins; Samantha Sifleet; Christopher Craft; James W. Fourqurean; J. Boone Kauffman; Núria Marbà,; Patrick Megonigal; Emily Pidgeon; Dorothee Herr; David Gordon; and Alexis Baldera
Institution-Based Weaknesses Behin Emergin Multinationals, Mike W. Peng and Ronaldo C. Parente
Pedagogical Methods to Promote S.T.E.M. Literacy with Case-Study, Dharam Persaud
Mechanical Properties and Tensile Failure Analysis of Novel Bio-absorbable Mg-Zn-Cu and Mg-Zn-Se Alloys for Endovascular Applications, Dharam Persaud, Noah Budiansky, and Anthony J. McGoron
Electro and Magneto-Electropolished Surface Micro-Patterning on Binary and Ternary Nitinol, Dharam Persaud, Norman Munroe, and Anthony McGoron
Multiple predator effects and native prey responses to two non-native Everglades cichlids, Ashley E. Porter-Whitaker, Jennifer S. Rehage, Shawn E. Liston, and William F. Loftus
Explaining the increase in coronary heart disease mortality in Syria between 1996 and 2006, Samer Rastam, Radwan AL Ali, Wasim Maziak, Fawaz Mzayek, Fouad M. Fouad, Martin O'Flaherty, and Simon Capewell
Epidemiologic Features of Vulvovaginal Candidiasis among Reproductive-Age Women in India, Sujit D. Rathod, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Karl Krupp, Arthur R. Rhinegold, and Purnima Madhivanan
Epidemiologic features of Vulvovaginal Candidiasis among reproductive-age women in India, Sujit Rathod, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Karl Krupp, Arthur L. Reingold, and Purnima Madhivanan
Interactive Effects of Morphine on HIV Infection: Role in HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder, Pichili Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Sudheesh P. Kanthikeel, Shailendra K. Saxena, and Madhavan P.N. Nair
Arnfried Antonius, coral diseases, and the AMLC, Laurie L. Richardson
A Quantitative Assay for the Juvenile Hormones and Their Precursors Using Fluorescent Tags, Crisalejandra Rivera-Perez, Marcela Nouzova, and Fernando G. Noriega
Impact of equity models and statistical measures on interpretations of educational reform, Idaykis Rodriguez, Eric Brewe, Vashti Sawtelle, and Laird Kramer
Regional Variation on Rates of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Associated Risk Factors, Maria Ximena Rojas, Mario Augusto Rojas, Juan Manuel Lozano, Martin Alonso Rondon, and Laura Patricia Charry
Slow Isotope Turnover Rates and Low Discrimination Values in the American Alligator: Implications for Interpretation of Ectotherm Stable Isotope Data, Adam E. Rosenblatt and Michael R. Heithaus
Effect of leaf-cutting ant nests on plant growth in an oligotrophic Amazon rain forest, Amartya K. Saha, Karine S. Carvalho, Leonel da S.L. Sternberg, and Paulo Moutinho
A Hydrological Budget (2002–2008) for a Large Subtropical Wetland Ecosystem Indicates Marine Groundwater Discharge Accompanies Diminished Freshwater Flow, Amrtya K. Saha, Christopher S. Moses, René M. Price, Victor Engel, Thomas J. Smith III, and Gordon Anderson
Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking and Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking Among Young Adults in the United States, 2012?2013, Ramzi G. Salloum, M. Rifat Haider, Tracey E. Barnett, Yi Guo, Kayla R. Getz, James F. Thrasher, and Wasim Maziak
A complex multilevel attack on Pseudomonas aeruginosa algT/U expression and AlgT/U activity results in the loss of alginate production, Robert Sautter, Damaris Ramos, Lisa Schneper, Oana Ciofu, Tina Wassermann, Arne Heydron, Morton Hentzer, Niels Hoiby, Arsalan Kharazmi, Soren Molin, Caroline A. DeVries, Dennis E. Ohman, and Kalai Mathee
Controls on Ecosystem Carbon Dioxide Exchange in Short- and Long-Hydroperiod Florida Everglades Freshwater Marshes, Jessica L. Schedlbauer, Jay W. Munyon, Steven F. Oberbauer, Evelyn E. Gaiser, and Gregory Starr
Biomarkers of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and DNA damage: a cross-sectional pilot study among roofers in South Florida, Berrin Serdar, David Lee, and Zihong Dou
The role of recharge and evapotranspiration as hydraulic drivers of ion concentrations in shallow groundwater on Everglades tree islands, Florida (USA), Pamela L. Sullivan, René M. Price, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Michael S. Ross, Leonard J. Scinto, Thomas W. Dreschel, Fred H. Sklar, and Eric Cline
Macroalgae Decrease Growth and Alter Microbial Community Structure of the Reef-Building Coral, Porites astreoides, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Deron E. Burkepile, Adrienne M.S. Correa, Andrew R. Thurber, Andrew A. Schantz, Rory Welsh, and Catharin Pritchard
Patterns of Soil Bacteria and Canopy Community Structure Related to Tropical Peatland Development, Tiffany Troxler-Gann, Makoto Ikenaga, Leonard Scinto, Joseph N. Boyer, Richard Condit, Rolando Perez, George D. Gann, and Dan Childers
Age Differences among Female Sex Workers in the Philippines: Sexual Risk Negotiations and Perceived Manager Advice, Lianne A. Urada, Robert M. Malow, Nina C. Santos, and Donald E. Morisky
Medical Advice and Diabetes Self-Management Reported by Mexican-American, Black- and White-Non-Hispanic Adults Across the United States, Joan A. Vaccaro, Daniel J. Feaster, Sandra L. Lobar, Marianna K. Baum, Marcia Magnus, and Fatma G. Huffman
Gender Differences in Medical Advice and Health Behavior of Obese African Americans With and Without Type 2 Diabetes, Joan A. Vaccaro and Fatma G. Huffman
Reducing Health Disparities: Medical advice and health behavior of minorities with diabetes, Joan A. Vaccaro and Fatma G. Huffman
Relationship of Lifestyle Medical Advice and Non-HDL Cholesterol Control of a Nationally Representative US Sample with Hypercholesterolemia by Race/Ethnicity, Joan A. Vaccaro and Fatma G. Huffman
The role of intersensory redundancy in the emergence of social referencing in 5 1/2-month-old infants, Mariana Vaillant-Molina and Lorraine E. Bahrick
Across-taxa incongruence in patterns of collecting bias, Mariana M. Vale and Clinton N. Jenkins
Pooling/bootstrap-based GWAS (pbGWAS) identifies new loci modifying the age of onset in PSEN1 p.Glu280Ala Alzheimer's disease, J. I. Velez, S. C. Chandrasekharappa, E. Henao, A. F. Martinez, U. Harper, M. Jones, B. D. Solomon, L. Lopez, G. Garcia, D. C. Aguirre-Acevedo, N. Acosta-Baena, J. C. Correa, C. M. Lopera-Gomez, M. C. Jaramillo-Elorza, D. Rivera, K. S. Kosik, N. J. Schork, and J. M. Swanson
Early Developmental Responses to Seedling Environment Modulate Later Plasticity to Light Spectral Quality, Eric JB von Wettberg, John R. Stinchcombe, and Johanna Schmitt
Contributions of humic substances to the dissolved organic carbon pool in wetlands from different climates, Akira Watanabe, Kunio Moroi, Hiromu Sato, Kiyoshi Tsutsuki, Nagamitsu Maie, Lulie Melling, and Rudolf Jaffe´
Measuring Empathizing and Systemizing with a Large US Sample, Daniel B. Wright and Elin M. Skagerberg
Fasting Insulin Level Is Positively Associated With Incidence of Hypertension Among American Young Adults, Pengcheng Xun, Kiang Liu, Wenhong Cao, Stephen Sidney, O. Dale Williams, and Ka He
Factors Influencing Chinese Male's Willingness to Undergo Circumcision: A Cross-Sectional Study in Western China, Xiaobo Yang, Abu S. Abdullah, Bo Wei, Junjun Jiang, Wei Deng, Bo Qin, Weili Zhang, Qianqiu Wang, Chaohui Zhong, Qian Wang, Yuhua Ruan, Yunfeng Zou, Peiyan Xie, Fumei Wei, Na Xu, and Hao Liang
Perinatal and Pediatric Issues in Palliative and End-of-Life Care from the 2011 Summit on Compassionate Care, JoAnne M. Youngblut and Dorothy Brooten