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Inflammation and white matter degeneration persist for years after a single traumatic brain injury by JOHNSON, Victoria E, STEWART, Janice E, BEGBIE, Finn D, TROJANOWSKI, John Q, SMITH, Douglas H, STEWART, William

“…A single traumatic brain injury is associated with an increased risk of dementia and, in a proportion of patients surviving a year or more from injury, the…”
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Audit-Firm Tenure and the Quality of Financial Reports by Johnson, E., Khurana, Inder K., Reynolds, J. Kenneth

“…This study examines whether the length of the relationship between a company and an audit firm (audit‐firm tenure) is associated with financial‐reporting…”
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TOX expression and role in CTCL by McGirt, L.Y., Degesys, C.A., Johnson, V.E., Zic, J.A., Zwerner, J.P., Eischen, C.M.

“…Background Cutaneous T‐cell lymphomas (CTCL) are skin malignancies including mycosis fungoides (MF) and CD30+ lymphoproliferative disorders (LPD). In early…”
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Bayes factors based on test statistics by Johnson, Valen E.

“…Traditionally, the use of Bayes factors has required the specification of proper prior distributions on model parameters that are implicit to both null and…”
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TU‐C‐12A‐02: Development of a Multiparametric Statistical Response Map for Quantitative Imaging by Bosca, R, Mahajan, A, Johnson, VE, Brown, PD, Dong, L, Stafford, RJ, Jackson, EF

“…Purpose: Quantitative imaging biomarkers (QIB) are becoming increasingly utilized in early phase clinical trials as a means of non‐invasively assessing…”
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Segmentation, registration, and measurement of shape variation via image object shape by Pizer, S.M., Fritsch, D.S., Yushkevich, P.A., Johnson, V.E., Chaney, E.L.

“…A model of object shape by nets of medial and boundary primitives is justified as richly capturing multiple aspects of shape and yet requiring representation…”
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A hierarchical model for estimating the early reliability of complex systems by Johnson, V.E., Moosman, A., Cotter, P.

“…We describe a hierarchical Bayesian model for assessing the early reliability of complex systems, for which sparse or no system level failure data are…”
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Bayesian reconstruction and use of anatomical a priori information for emission tomography by Bowsher, J.E., Johnson, V.E., Turkington, T.G., Jaszczak, R.J., Floyd, C.E., Coleman, R.E.

“…A Bayesian method is presented for simultaneously segmenting and reconstructing emission computed tomography (ECT) images and for incorporating…”
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An Alternative to Traditional GPA for Evaluating Student Performance by Johnson, Valen E.

“…In response to the growing problem of grade inflation in American undergraduate institutions, alternatives to GPA and GPA-based student assessment are…”
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Bayesian Analysis of Rank Data With Application to Primate Intelligence Experiments by Johnson, Valen E, Deaner, Robert O, van Schaik, Carel P

“…A model for analyzing rank data obtained from multiple evaluators, possibly using different ranking criteria, is proposed. The model is specified…”
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Edge-Preserving Smoothers for Image Processing: Comment by Johnson, Valen E.

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Fully Bayesian estimation of Gibbs hyperparameters for emission computed tomography data by Higdon, D.M., Bowsher, J.E., Johnson, V.E., Turkington, T.G., Gilland, D.R., Jaszczak, R.J.

“…In recent years, many investigators have proposed Gibbs prior models to regularize images reconstructed from emission computed tomography data. Unfortunately,…”
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Tumors of the peripheral nerves and plexuses by Huang, Jason H, Johnson, Victoria E, Zager, Eric L

“…Peripheral nerve tumors are a diverse group of lesions histologically and in their clinical behavior. The genetic disorders neurofibromatosis type 1 and 2 and…”
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Incorporation of correlated structural images in PET image reconstruction by Xiaolong Ouyang, Wong, W.H., Johnson, V.E., Xiaoping Hu, Chin-Tu Chen

“…Reports on a new method in which spatially correlated magnetic resonance (MR) or X-ray computed tomography (CT) images are employed as a source of prior…”
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A note on stopping rules in EM-ML reconstructions of ECT images by Johnson, V.E.

“…The use of the expectation-maximization algorithm to obtain pseudo-maximum likelihood estimates (i.e. the EM-ML algorithm) of radiopharmaceutical distributions…”
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Image restoration using Gibbs priors: boundary modeling, treatment of blurring, and selection of hyperparameter by Johnson, V.E., Wong, W.H., Hu, X., Chen, C.-T.

“…The authors propose a Bayesian model for the restoration of images based on counts of emitted photons. The model treats blurring within the context of an…”
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Sensor fusion in image reconstruction by Chen, C.-T., Ouyang, X., Wong, W.H., Hu, X., Johnson, V.E., Ordonez, C., Metz, C.E.

“…A Bayesian method for ECT (emission computed tomography) image reconstruction has been developed to incorporate a priori information derived from the spatially…”
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Sex and the aging process by Masters, W H, Johnson, V E

“…The elderly tend to be victims of "age-ism," a false concept that discourages consideration of sexual activity in old age. Geriatric sexual activity is a vital…”
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Bayesian image reconstruction in positron emission tomography by Chen, C.-T., Johnson, V.E., Wong, W.H., Hu, X., Metz, C.E.

“…A Bayesian method that incorporates a priori information to improve the resulting image quality in positron emission tomography is described. This approach…”
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Personnel Reform in Consolidated Metropolitan Governments: Executive Responsibility and Neutral Competence by Johnson, Victoria E., Sink, David

“…Metropolitan governmental mergers and consolidations are distinctly structural reforms which suggest administrative reforms of similar disposition. For the…”
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