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Melissa A Meeker

Drexel University
Verified email at drexel.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Relief-based feature selection: Introduction and review

RJ Urbanowicz, M Meeker, W La Cava… - Journal of biomedical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Feature selection plays a critical role in biomedical data mining, driven by increasing feature
dimensionality in target problems and growing interest in advanced but computationally …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking relief-based feature selection methods for bioinformatics data mining

RJ Urbanowicz, RS Olson, P Schmitt, M Meeker… - Journal of biomedical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Modern biomedical data mining requires feature selection methods that can (1) be applied
to large scale feature spaces (eg 'omics' data),(2) function in noisy problems,(3) detect …

Neighborhood socioeconomic environment and risk of type 2 diabetes: associations and mediation through food environment pathways in three independent study …

LE Thorpe, S Adhikari, P Lopez, R Kanchi… - Diabetes …, 2022 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE We examined whether relative availability of fast-food restaurants and
supermarkets mediates the association between worse neighborhood socioeconomic …

International research agency perspectives on potable water reuse

J Burgess, M Meeker, J Minton… - … Science: Water Research …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
As the demand for potable quality water increases, driven by increasing human populations
and economic development, the drivers for indirect and direct potable reuse of water also …

Mediation of an association between neighborhood socioeconomic environment and type 2 diabetes through the leisure-time physical activity environment in an …

KA Moon, CM Nordberg, SL Orstad, A Zhu… - BMJ Open Diabetes …, 2023 - drc.bmj.com
Introduction Inequitable access to leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) resources may
explain geographic disparities in type 2 diabetes (T2D). We evaluated whether the …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of land use and food environment on risk of type 2 diabetes: A national study of veterans, 2008–2018

S India-Aldana, R Kanchi, S Adhikari, P Lopez… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Large-scale longitudinal studies evaluating influences of the built environment
on risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) are scarce, and findings have been inconsistent. Objective …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of associations between estimates of particulate matter exposure and new onset type 2 diabetes in the REGARDS cohort

TP McAlexander, SSA De Silva, MA Meeker… - Journal of exposure …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Studies of PM2. 5 and type 2 diabetes employ differing methods for exposure
assignment, which could explain inconsistencies in this growing literature. We hypothesized …

Comparing competing geospatial measures to capture the relationship between the neighborhood food environment and diet

PE Rummo, Y Algur, T McAlexander, SE Judd… - Annals of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To examine how the choice of neighborhood food environment definition impacts
the association with diet. Methods Using food frequency questionnaire data from the …

Assessing measurement invariance of a land use environment construct across levels of urbanicity

MA Meeker, BS Schwartz, K Bandeen‐Roche… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in the land use environment (LUE) impacts the continuum of walkability to car
dependency, which has been shown to have effects on health outcomes. Existing objective …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between PM2. 5 and O3 exposures and new onset type 2 diabetes in regional and national samples in the United States

TP McAlexander, V Ryan, J Uddin, R Kanchi… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Exposure to particulate matter≤ 2.5 μm in diameter (PM 2.5) and ozone (O 3)
has been linked to numerous harmful health outcomes. While epidemiologic evidence has …