A. Articles and Book Chapters

Frank D'Amico

"The comfort of family physicians with health care of patients of the opposite gender", (with SA Paluska). Family Medicine, vol 32(9):612-7, (October 2000).

Abhay Gaur

"Spectra in Banach and locally convex algebras", Portugaliau Mathematica, 64(1):11-19. (2007).

"Commutativity modulo radical and spectra in L.M.C. algebras", Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 15(1), 48-54 (2003).

"Banach Valued Probability Measures", Applied Math Letters 15(7), 913-916 (2002).

"Maximal and minimal seminorms and g-bounded operators on L.M.C. algebras", International J. of Nonlinear Sci. and Simulation, 2(3), 283-288 (2001).

"Norm one projections on Banach Spaces", Quaestiones Mathematicaes 24(4), 491-492 (2001).

John Kern

"Total Curvature and Total Torsion of Knotted Polymers", (with Patrick Plunkett, Michael Piatek, Akos Dobay, Kenneth C. Millett, Andrzej Stasiak, and Eric J. Rawdon), Macromolecules, 40(10):3860-3867, (2007).

"Pig Data and Bayesian Inference on Multinomial Probabilities", Journal of Statistics Education, 14(3), (electronic-only journal, http: //www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v14n3/datasets.kern.html), (2006).

Doug Landsittel

"Reciprocal influence of concurrent walking and cognitive testing on performance in older adults" (with Faulkner KA, Redfern MS, Rosano C, Newman AB, SA Studenski, JM Zmuda, Cauley JA, Kritchevsky SB, Simonsick EM), Gait and Posture, 24:182-189 (October 2006).

"Higher 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 concentrations associated with lower fall rates in older community-dwelling women" (with Faulkner KA, Cauley JA, Zmuda JM, Newman AB, Studenski SA, Redfern MS, Ensrud KE, Fink HA, Lane NE, Nevitt MC), Osteoporosis International, 17(9):1318-1328 (September 2006).

"Effect of Lipodystrophy on Quality of Life Changes during the HAART Era", (with Steel J, Calhoun B, Wieand S, Kingsley L), AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 20(8):565-575, (August 2006).

"Circulating IL-8 and anti-IL-8 autoantibody in patients with ovarian cancer", (with Lokshin AE, Winans M, Marrangoni AM, Velikokhatnaya L, Mudugno F, Nolen BM, Gorelik E), Gynecological Oncology, 102(2):244-251. (August 2006).

"Biomonitoring of exposure in farmworker studies" (with Barr DB, Thomas K, Curwin B, Raymer J, Lu C, Donnelly KC, Acquavella J), Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(6):936-942, (June 2006).

"Laboratory and statistical issues related to farmworker exposure studies" (with Barr DB, Nishioka M, Thomas K, Curwin B, Raymer J, Donnelly KC, McCauley L, Ryan B), Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(6):961-968, (June 2006).

Stacey Levine

"Variable Exponent, Linear Growth Functionals in Image Restoration" (with Chen, Y and Rao, M.), SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 66(4):1383-1406, (2006).

"An Adaptive Variational Model for Image Decomposition", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Rangarajan, Anand; Vemuri, Baba; Yuille, Alan L. (Eds.), 3757:382-397, (2005).

"The Existence of the Heat Flow of H-Systems" (with Y. Chen), Journal of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 8:1 219-236 (2002).

"Diffusion Tensor and Continuous Approach of Neural Networks in Image Processing" (with Y. Chen), Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 13, 156-175 (2002).

"Anisotropic Diffusion Driven by Diffusion Tensors" (with Y. Chen). Proceedings of SPIE, Mathematical Modeling, Estimation and Imaging 4121:148-157, (2000).

B. Software

Stacey Levine

"JDiffuse" (with Jon Stanich), August, 2003.

C. Presentations

Frank D'Amico

"A Retrospective Analysis of HealthCare Utilization by Somali Bantu refugees in Pittsburgh", (with Harris, Drew (presenter)), Pennsylvania Academy Family Practice Research Day Conference, Philadelphia, PA, (April 13, 2007).

"Access and Availability of the Internet as a patient education tool", (with Vikram Arora, MD (presenter)), Pennsylvania Academy Family Practice Research Day Conference, Philadelphia, PA, (April 13, 2007).

"Assessment of Intefrnet Usage and Applicability of Internet Based Patient Communication", (with Vikram Arora, MD (presenter)), Northeast Regional Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Conference, Boston, MA, (October 21-23, 2006).

"Clinical Epidemiological Concepts in Research", Invited three hour workshop to faculty and residents at Johnstown Hospital, Johnstown, Pa. (April 25, 2001).

"Meta-Analysis in Clinical Practice", Invited one hour workshop (Part II) to UPMC family practice residents. Pittsburgh, PA, (April 23, 2001).

"Clinical Decision Making Research Tools", Invited 90 min workshop to faculty, residents and medical students at Annual Pa. Academy Research Day Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., (April 6, 2001).

"Designing the Clinical Question", Invited 2 hour workshop to Ph.D. health science students at University of Pittsburgh, (March 16, 2001).

"Meta-Analysis in Clinical Practice" Invited one hour workshop (Part I) to UPMC family practice residents. Pittsburgh, Pa., (October 25, 2000).

"Name that Study - Diagnosis: A unique approach to examining the evidence on journal articles on diagnosis", Three hour workshop presented at the National Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference, Orlando, Florida, (May 5, 2000).

"A Comparison of Continuity of Care Between Traditional and Longitudinal Family Practice Residency Curriculums", Co-presenter with Dr. Merenstein of Alexandria, Va., at the National Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference, Orlando, Florida, (May 6, 2000).

John Fleming

"Analysis of the Convergence of Fourier Coefficients Using a Variational Approach", 2006 Fall Central Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Cincinatti, Cincinatti, OH, (October 22, 2006).

John Kern

"A Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Longitudinal Frequency Data Using Piecewise Linear Regression", Joint Statistical Meeting, Seattle, WA, (August 8, 2006).

Doug Landsittel

"Associations of physical function and fall frequency in older Caucasian women", (with Faulkner, KA (presenter), Cauley JA, Zmuda JM, Cummings AR, Studenski SA, Nevitt MC), Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society, Seattle, WA, (May 2007).

"CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 mRNA levels are not affected by mild chronic hepatitis C liver disease", (with Zgheib NK (presenter), Buch S, Steele A, Shaw-Stiffel TA, Romkes M, Branch RA), American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Annual meeting, Anaheim, CA, (March 2007).

"Model complexity for the AIC statistic with neural networks", (with Ferris D), North American Biometrics Meeting, Atlanta, GA, (March 2007).

Stacey Levine

"PDE and variational based methods for image processing: image decomposition, segmentation, registration, inpainting", New Directions in Complex Data Analysis for Emerging Applications, Breckenridge, CO, (March 2007).

"Variational Methods in Image Decomposition", Symposium on Vision by Brains and Machines, Montevideo, Uruguay, (November 2006).

"Nonstandard Diffusion in Image Restoration" (invited), Mathematical Methods in Imaging and Vision Workshop, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, (January 2004).

Y. Chen and S. Chastain (presenter). "Image Recovery via Diffusion Tensors and Time-Delay Regularization", presented at the National Joint Mathematics Meeting, New Orleans, LA, (January 2001).

D. Grants

John Fleming

"Efficient Computation of Electrostatic Potential for use in Molecular Dynamic Simulations", Duquesne Faculty Development Fund, May 2007-June 2008.

Amount awarded: $9,972.

John Kern

Faculty/Student Research Grant, McAnulty College, Spring 2007.

Amount awarded: $500.

Doug Landsittel

Undergraduate student support, Centers for Disease Control - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 8/28/06 - 12/13/06.

Amount awarded: $1,596.

Faculty/Student Research Grant, McAnulty College, Spring 2007.

Amount awarded: $500.

"Quantifying Model Complexity with Neural Networks", Duquesne University Faculty Development Fund, 2005-2006.

Amount awarded: $7,759

Stacey Levine

"Variational and PDE based methods for image processing", National Science Foundation, August 2005-July 2008.

Amount awarded: $139,900.

"Fire Scar Detection and Analysis: Assessing Future Fire and Flood Hazards via Partial Differential Equations" Duquesne University Faculty Development Grant, May 2004-May 2005.

"Diffusion Based Models for Image Processing", 2001 Duquesne University Faculty Development Grant, May 2001-May 2002.

Amount awarded: $6113.

E. Scholarly Service and Activities

George Bradley

Recipient of the MAA Allegheny Mountain Section Award for Distinguished Service (Spring 2004).

Member, MAA Committee on Professional Development.

Member, MAA Coordinating Council on Meetings.

Member, MAA Committee on Sections.

Doug Landsittel

Ad Hoc Member (Grant Reviewer), National Cancer Institute Study Section for 'Small Grants in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention', 2002-present.

Ad Hoc Member (Grant Reviewer), National Institute of Diabetic and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (of the National Institutes of Health) Study Section on 'Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes Epidemiology', 2005-present.

Member of the Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Special Emphasis Panel on 'National Mesothelioma Virtual Registry and Tissue Bank', 2006.

Stacey Levine

National Project Next Fellow - Mathematics Association of America, 2000-2001.

Mark Mazur

Associate of the Center for Philosphy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.