A selection of faculty publications from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University.

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Submissions from 2024

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Snow Spheres and Ice Cubes, John Adam

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Snow Spheres and Ice Cubes: Solutions for Fermi Questions, February 2024, John Adam

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Plasma Protein Signatures of Adult Asthma, Gordon J. Smilnak, Yura Lee, Abhijnan Chattopadhyay, Annah B. Wyss, Julie D. White, Sinjini Sikdar, Jianping Jin, Andrew J. Grant, Alison A. Motsinger-Reif, Jian-Liang Li, Mikyeong Lee, Bing Yu, and Stephanie J. London

Submissions from 2023

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Another Angle on Perspective, John Adam

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Another Angle on Perspective: Solutions for Fermi Questions, May 2023, John Adam

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"Density" of Light and Pi, John Adam

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Dental Floss, Calculus, and Jail, John Adam

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Dental Floss, Calculus, and Jail: Solutions for Fermi Questions, October 2023, John Adam

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Ellipses, Leaves, and Solar Crescents, John Adam

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Exploding Haystacks, John Adam

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Exploding Haystacks: Solutions for Fermi Questions, March 2023, John Adam

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Not Your Typical Tower of Sauron, John Adam

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Not Your Typical Tower of Sauron: Solutions for Fermi Questions, September 2023, John Adam

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Oscillating Icebergs, John Adam

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Application of Mixture Models for Doubly Inflated Count Data, Monika Arora and N. Rao Chaganty

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Prediction of Rapid Early Progression and Survival Risk with Pre-Radiation MRI in WHO Grade 4 Glioma Patients, Walia Farzana, Mustafa M. Basree, Norou Diawara, Zeina Shboul, Sagel Dubey, Marie M. Lockheart, Mohamed Hamza, Joshua D. Palmer, and Khan Iftekharuddin

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Generalized Sparse Bayesian Learning and Application to Image Reconstruction, Jan Glaubitz, Anne Gelb, and Guohui Song

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Adjusting for Gene-Specific Covariates to Improve RNA-seq Analysis, Hyeongseon Jeon, Kyu-Sang Lim, Yet Nguyen, and Dan Nettleton

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The Managerial Factors Influencing the Retention of Firms' IT Capability, With Some Global Implications, Jinho Kim, Kayoung Park, Timothy Komarek, and Li Xu

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Fitting Time Series Models to Fisheries Data to Ascertain Age, Kathleen S. Kirch, Norou Diawara, and Cynthia M. Jones

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Population Variations of Cheiloscopy Patterns: A Cross-Sectional Observation Pilot Study, Emily Smith Regan, Brenda T. Bradshaw, Ann M. Bruhn, Walter Melvin, and Sinjini Sikdar

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Fast Multiscale Functional Estimation in Optimal EMG Placement for Robotic Prosthesis Controllers, Jin Ren, Guohui Song, Lucia Tabacu, and Yuesheng Xu

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Modeling the Spread of COVID-19 in Spatio-Temporal Context, S.H. Sathish Indika, Norou Diawara, Hueiwang Anna Jeng, Bridget D. Giles, and Dilini S.K. Gamage

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Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Analyses Improve Resolution of Genes and Pathways Influencing Lung Function and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Risk, Nick Shrine, Abril G. Izquierdo, Jing Chen, Richard Packer, Robert J. Hall, Anna L. Guyatt, Chiara Batini, Rebecca J. Thompson, Chandan Puvuluri, Vidhi Malik, Brian D. Hobbs, Matthew Moll, Wonji Kim, Ruth Tal-Singer, Per Bakke, Katherine A. Fawcett, Catherine John, Kayesha Coley, Noemi Nicole Piga, Sinjini Sikdar, Martin D. Tobin, and Et al.

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Dental Hygiene and Dental Assistant Students' Simulated DVI Radiographic Match Accuracy: A Pilot Study, Samantha C. Vest, Brenda T. Bradshaw, Marsha A. Voelker, Ann M. Bruhn, Tara L. Newcomb, and Sinjini Sikdar

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Evaluation of WIC Online Ordering During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From an Oklahoma Grocery Store Chain, Qi Zhang, Junzhou Zhang, Kayoung Park, and Chuanyi Tang

Submissions from 2022

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A Drop in the Bucket?: Solutions for Fermi Questions, December 2022, John Adam

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Cloud Ripple Pattern, John Adam

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Drop in the Bucket?, John Adam

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Horizontal Air Mass: Solutions for Fermi Questions, November 2022, John Adam

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Rock Paintings, John Adam

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Rock Paintings: Solutions for Fermi Questions, September 2022, John Adam

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Solutions for Fermi Questions, October 2022 Cloud Ripple Pattern, John Adam

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Deeply Learning Deep Inelastic Scattering Kinematics, Markus Diefenthaler, Abdullah Farhat, Andrii Verbytskyi, and Yuesheng Xu

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Robust Testing of Paired Outcomes Incorporating Covariate Effects in Clustered Data with Informative Cluster Size, Sandipan Dutta

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On the Geometry of the Multiplier Space of ℓpA, Christopher Felder and Raymond Cheng

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On the Implementation and Further Validation of a Time Domain Boundary Element Method Broadband Impedance Boundary Condition, Fang Q. Hu and Douglas M. Nark

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Pulmonary Function and Blood DNA Methylation: A Multiancestry Epigenome-Wide Association Meta-Analysis, Mikyeong Lee, Tianxiao Huan, Daniel L. McCartney, Geetha Chittoor, Maaike de Vries, Lies Lahousse, Jennifer N. Nguyen, Jennifer A. Brody, Juan Castillo-Fernandez, Natalie Terzikhan, Cancan Qi, Roby Joehanes, Josine L. Min, Gordon J. Smilnak, Jessica R. Shaw, Chen Xi Yang, Elena Colicino, Thanh T. Hoang, Mairead L. Bermingham, Hanfei Xu, Anne E. Justice, Cheng-Jian Xu, Stephen S. Rich, Simon R. Cox, Judith M. Vonk, Ivana Prokić, Nona Sotoodehnia, Pei-Chien Tsai, Joel D. Schwartz, Janice M. Leung, Sinjini Sikdar, Rosie M. Walker, Sarah E. Harris, Diana A. van der Plaat, David J. Van Den Berg, Traci M. Bartz, Tim D. Spector, Pantel S. Vokonas, Riccardo E. Marioni, Adele M. Taylor, Yongmei Liu, R. Graham Barr, Leslie A. Lange, Andrea A. Baccarelli, Ma'en Obeidat, Myriam Fornage, Tianyuan Wang, James M. Ward, Alison A. Motsinger-Reif, Gibran Hemani, Gerard H. Koppelman, Jordana T. Bell, Sina A. Gharib, Guy Brusselle, H. Marike Boezen, Kari E. North, Daniel Levy, Kathryn L. Evans, Josée Dupris, Charles E. Breeze, Ani Manichaikul, and Stephanie J. London

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Opioid Medication Use And Blood DNA Methylation: Epigenome-Wide Association Meta-Analysis, Mikyeong Lee, Roby Joehanes, Daniel L. McCartney, Minjung Kho, Anke Hüls, Annah B. Wyss, Chunyu Liu, Rosie M. Walker, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Thomas S. Wingo, Adam Burkholder, Jiantao Ma, Archie Campbell, Aliza P. Wingo, Tianxiao Huan, Sinjini Sikdar, Amena Keshawarz, David A. Bennett, Jennifer A. Smith, Kathryn L. Evans, Daniel Levy, and Stephanie J. London

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A Super Fast Algorithm for Estimating Sample Entropy, Weifeng Liu, Ying Jiang, and Yuesheng Xu

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Modeling Joint Survival Probabilities of Runs Scored and Balls Faced in Limited Overs Cricket Using Copulas, Lochana K. Palayangoda, Hasika W. Senevirathne, and Ananda B. Manage

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Robust Meta-Analysis for Large-Scale Genomic Experiments Based on an Empirical Approach, Sinjini Sikdar

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Facial Landmark Feature Fusion in Transfer Learning of Child Facial Expressions, Megan A. Witherow, Manar D. Samad, Norou Diawara, and Khan M. Iftekharuddin

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Early-Life Farm Exposures and Eczema Among Adults in the Agricultural Lung Health Study, Annah B. Wyss, Thanh T. Hoang, Hilde K. Vindenes, Julie D. White, Sinjini Sikdar, Marie Richards, Laura E. Beane-Freeman, Christine G. Parks, Mikyeong Lee, David M. Umbach, and Stephanie J. London

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Recent Analytic Development of the Dynamic Q-Tensor Theory for Nematic Liquid Crystals, Xiang Xu

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The Online Ordering Behaviors among Participants in the Oklahoma Women, Infants, and Children Program: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, Qi Zhang, Kayoung Park, Junzhou Zhang, and Chuanyi Tang

Submissions from 2021

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Statistical Analysis and Comparison of Optical Classification of Atmospheric Aerosol Lidar Data, Mohammed Alqawba, Norou Diawara, Kwasi G. Afrifa, Mohamed I. Elbakary, Mecit Cetin, and Khan Iftekharuddin

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A Class of Copula-Based Bivariate Poisson Time Series Models with Applications, Mohammed Alqawba, Dimuthu Fernando, and Norou Diawara

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Numerical Simulations of Capsule Deformation Using a Dual Time-Stepping Lattice Boltzmann Method, Charles Armstrong and Yan Peng

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EM Estimation for Zero- and k-Inflated Poisson Regression Model, Monika Arora and N. Rao Chaganty

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Physical Activity, Dietary Patterns, and Glycemic Management of Active Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes: An Online Survey, Sheri Colberg, Jihan Kannane, and Norou Diawara

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Stable and Convergent Difference Schemes for Weakly Singular Convolution Integrals, Wesley Davis and Richard D. Noren

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Novel Statistical Analysis in the Context of a Comprehensive Needs Assessment for Secondary STEM Recruitment, Norou Diawara, Sarah Ferguson, Melva Grant, and Kumer Das

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A Semiparametric Modeling Approach for Analyzing Clinical Biomarkers Restricted to Limits of Detection, Sandipan Dutta and Susan Halabi

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Multivariate Distributions of Correlated Binary Variables Generated by Pair-Copulas, Huihui Lin and N. Rao Chaganty

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Time Domain Boundary Element Method Prediction of Noise Shielding by a NACA 0012 Airfoil, Douglas M. Nark and Fang Q. Hu

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Morphology-Dependent Resonances in Two Concentric Spheres with Variable Refractive Index in the Outer Layer: Analytic Solutions, Umaporn Nuntaplook and John A. Adam

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Predicting the Winning Percentage of Limited-Overs Cricket Using the Pythagorean Formula, Hasika K. W. Senevirathne and Ananda B.W. Manage

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Joint Modeling of RNAseq and Radiomics Data for Glioma Molecular Characterization and Prediction, Zeina A. Shboul, Norou Diawara, Arastoo Vossough, James Y. Chen, and Khan M. Iftekharuddin

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Interaction between Genetic Risk Scores for Reduced Pulmonary Function and Smoking, Asthma and Endotoxin, Sinjini Sikdar, Annah B. Wyss, Mi Kyeong Lee, Thanh T. Hoang, Marie Richards, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Christine Parks, Peter S. Thorne, John L. Hankinson, David M. Umbach, Alison Motsinger-Reif, and Stephanie J. London

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Representer Theorems in Banach Spaces: Minimum Norm Interpolation, Regularized Learning and Semi-Discrete Inverse Problems, Rui Wang and Yusheng Xu

Submissions from 2020

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What's Your Sphericity Index? Rationalizing Surface Area and Volume, John A. Adam

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Classification Models of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients, Mohammed Alqawba, Luis R. Rodriguez, Norou Diawara, Rebecca T. Beuschel, Maryann Kaler, Amisha V. Barochia, Stewart J. Levine, Steven D. Nathan, and Geraldine Grant

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Boundary Vortex Formation in Polarization-Modulated Orthogonal Smectic Liquid Crystals, Carlos J. García-Cervera, Tiziana Giorgi, and Sookyung Joo

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Computing the Newton Potential in the Boundary Integral Equation for the Dirichlet Problem of the Poisson Equation, Wenchao Guan, Ying Jiang, and Yuesheng Xu

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Comparative Survival of Asian and White Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Men Treated With Docetaxel, Susan Halabi, Sandipan Dutta, Catherine M. Tangen, Mark Rosenthal, Daniel P. Petrylak, Ian M. Thompson Jr., Kim N. Chi, Johann S. De Bono, John C. Araujo, Christopher Logothetis, Mario A. Eisenberger, David I. Quinn, Karim Fizazi, Michael J. Morris, Celestia S. Higano, Ian F. Tannock, Eric J. Small, and William Kevin Kelly

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Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science, Christian Jansen, Manfred Krafczyk, and Li-Shi Luo

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Statistical Analysis of fNIRS Data: Consideration of Spatial Varying Coefficient Model of Prefrontal Cortex Activity Changes During Speech Motor Learning in Apraxia of Speech, Rachel Johnson, Jennifer Matthews, Norou Diawara, and Rachel Carroll

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Residual Control Chart for Binary Response with Multicollinearity Covariates by Neural Network Model, Jong-Min Kim, Ning Wang, Yumin Liu, and Kayoung Park

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Numerical Modeling of Submicron Particles for Acoustic Concentration in Gaseous Flow, Jizhou Liu, Xiaodong Li, and Fang Q. Hu

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Multiplicative Noise Removal: Nonlocal Low-Rank Model and It's Proximal Alternating Reweighted Minimization Algorithm, Xiaoxia Liu, Jian Lu, Lixin Shen, Chen Xu, and Yuesheng Xu

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Investigating the Numerical Stability of Using an Impedance Boundary Condition to Model Broadband Noise Scattering With Acoustic Liners, Michelle E. Rodio, Fang Q. Hu, and Douglas M. Nark

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Quantifying the Varying Predictive Value of Physical Activity Measures Obtained from Wearable Accelerometers on All-Cause Mortality Over Short to Medium Time Horizons in NHANES 2003-2006, Lucia Tabacu, Mark Ledbetter, Andrew Leroux, Ciprian Crainiceanu, and Ekaterina Smirnova

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Nonparametric False Discovery Rate Control for Identifying Simultaneous Signals, Sihai Dave Zhao and Yet Tian Nguyen

Submissions from 2019

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Linear Difference Equations: Integrated- Environmentalist Approach For Teaching Mathematics, John A. Adam

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Sustainability in Higher Education: Perceptions of Social Responsibility Among University Students, Younghan Jung, Kayoung Park, and Junyong Ahn

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Acute Systemic Inflammatory Response to Lipopolysaccharide Stimulation in Pigs Divergently Selected for Residual Feed Intake, Haibo Liu, Kristina M. Feye, Yet T. Nguyen, Anoosh Rakhshandeh, Crystal L. Loving, Jack C. M. Sekkers, Nicholas K. Gabler, and Christopher K. Tuggle

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The Predictive Performance of Objective Measures of Physical Activity Derived From Accelerometry Data For 5-Year All-Cause Mortality in Older Adults: National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey 2003-2006, Ekaterina Smirnova, Andrew Leroux, Quy Cao, Lucia Tabacu, Vadim Zipunnikov, Ciprian Crainiceanu, and Jacek Urbanek

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Dynamic Attribute-Level Best Worst Discrete Choice Experiments, Amanda Working, Mohammed Alqawba, and Norou Diawara

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Sparsity Promoting Regularization for Effective Noise Suppression in SPECT Image Reconstruction, Wei Zheng, Si Li, Andrzej Krol, C. Ross Schmidtlein, Xueying Zeng, and Yuesheng Xu

Submissions from 2018

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Dimensional Analysis: Physical Insight Gained Through Algebra, John A. Adam

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The Beauty of Numbers in Nature: Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World [Book Review], John A. Adam

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New Approaches to Model Simulated Spatio-Temporal Moran's Index, Nhan Bu, Jennifer Lorio, Norou Diawara, Kumar Das, and Lance Waller

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Switching Mechanism in the B-1revtilted Phase of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals, Carlos J. García-Cervera, Tiziana Giorgi, Sookyung Joo, and Xin Yang Lu

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The Use of Item Response Theory in Survey Methodology: Application in Seat Belt Data, Mark K. Ledbetter, Norou Diawara, and Bryan E. Porter

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Density Estimation of Spatio-Temporal Point Patterns Using Moran’s Statistics, Jennifer L. Lorio, Norou Diawara, and Lance A. Waller

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Shape Resonances of the Transverse Magnetic Mode in a Spherically Stratified Medium, Umaporn Nuntaplook and John A. Adam

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Incorporating Diegetic Elements to Increase Engagement in Games for Engineering Education, Katherine Smith, Yuzhong Shen, and Anthony W. Dean

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Numerical Simulation for a Rising Bubble Interacting With a Solid Wall: Impact, Bounce, and Thin Film Dynamics, Changjuan Zhang, Jie Li, Li-Shi Luo, and Tiezheng Qian

Submissions from 2017

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An Example of Nature's Mathematics: The Rainbow, John A. Adam

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Measuring Space Radiation Shielding Effectiveness, Amir Bahadori, Edward Semones, Michael Ewert, James Broyan, and Steven Walker

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Multipliers of Sequence Spaces, Raymond Cheng, Javad Mashreghi, and William T. Ross

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On a Time Domain Boundary Integral Equation Formulation for Acoustic Scattering by Rigid Bodies in Uniform Mean Flow, Fang Q. Hu, Michelle E. Pizzo, and Douglas M. Nark

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A Wasserstein Gradient Flow Approach to Poisson-Nernst-Planck Equations, David Kinderlehrer, Leinard Monsaingeon, and Xiang Xu

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Fire, Ice, Water, and Dirt: A Simple Climate Model, John Kroll

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Multiplicative Noise Removal with a Sparsity-Aware Optimization Model, Jian Lu, Lixin Shen, Chen Xu, and Yuesheng Xu

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Testing a Novel 3D Printed Radiographic Imaging Device for Use in Forensic Odontology, Tara L. Newcomb, Ann M. Bruhn, Bridget Giles, Hector M. Garcia, M. Arch, and Norou Diawara

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Supervised Classification Using Finite Mixture Copula, Sumen Sen and Norou Diawara

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Overview of Game and Content Design for a Mobile Game that Will Prepare Students in Calculus and Physics Prerequisites to the Engineering Curriculum, Katherine Smith, John Shull, Patrick Sean Heaney, Yuzhong Shen, Anthony W. Dean, and Jennifer G. Michaeli

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Fast Multipole Method Using Cartesian Tensor in Beam Dynamic Simulation, He Zhang, He Huang, Rui Li, Jie Chen, and Li-Shi Luo