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- MR-Based Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Normal Pelvic Floor in Women
- The objective of this paper was to use a combination of axial MRsource images and three-dimensional (3D) models to describe the anatomy of the normal pelvic floor in young nulliparous women and to measure the volume of the levator ani. In all volunteers, the signal intensity of the puborectalis exceeded...
- White papers
- Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing In The Shadow Of The Regulator
- As part of a trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms to monitor their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily report their own violations. In this paper, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive dataset...
- White papers 2007-06-28
- How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social Responsibility?
- Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "Socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. In one of the first studies to assess these ratings, we examine how well the most widely used ratings - those of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research...
- White papers 2007-06-07
- The Demise Of Cost And Profit Centers
- The Balanced Scorecard offers a previously unrecognized benefit: a new way of looking at the traditional organizational structure of cost and profit centers. Every unit, by contributing to effective strategy execution, has the opportunity to support and create profit. This capability has important implications for specifying objectives and evaluating the...
- White papers 2006-12-08
- When Learning And Performance Are At Odds: Confronting The Tension
- This paper explores complexities of the relationship between learning and performance. Paper starts with the general proposition that learning promotes performance, and then describes several challenges for researchers and managers who wish to study or promote learning in support of performance improvement. Psychological and interpersonal risks of learning behavior are...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Learning Tradeoffs In Organizations
- Learning-curve research has found that rates of learning can vary across similar settings, such that cumulative experience is a necessary but insufficient predictor of learning-curve slope. One explanation for this finding is that how the learning process is managed affects rates of learning. An additional possibility is investigated. At any...
- White papers 2006-05-02
- Resolving Information Asymmetries In Markets: The Role Of Certified Management Programs
- Firms and regulators are increasingly relying on voluntary mechanisms to signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little evidence that they legitimately distinguish adopters as having superior management practices or performance. In...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Creativity - How Can I Get Some?
- Creativity is the lifeblood of innovation and marketing, but where does it come from and how should a company nurture this elusive trait? How does one explore creativity on the job—and use it to one's advantage?
- White papers 2005-04-25
- Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
- Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other health care professionals. The pharmaceutical companies are spending several billion dollars a year to advertise directly to these consumers. Does Direct-To-Consumer Advertising DTCA make health consumers...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Young Leader, Veteran Team
- The more you demonstrate true commitment and honesty, the more people trust you. The better you do your job, the more people respect you. If you are doing your job well by honestly addressing the status quo and having the group design working relationships, that bring out their best. This...
- White papers 2003-07-21
- Performance Issues in Shape Classification
- Shape comparisons of two groups of objects often have two goals: to produce a classifier to separate the two groups and to provide information to show differences between the groups. The researchers examine issues that are important for shape analysis in a study comparing schizophrenic patients to normal subjects. They...
- White papers 2002-11-13
- Recognizing Deviations From Normalcy for Brain Tumor Segmentation
- A framework is proposed for the segmentation of brain tumors from MRI. Instead of training on pathology, the proposed method trains exclusively on healthy tissue. The algorithm attempts to recognize deviations from normalcy in order to compute a fitness map over the image associated with the presence of pathology. The...
- White papers 2002-11-13
- The Male Predisposition to Pharyngeal Collapse: Importance of Airway Length
- Obstructive sleep apnea is an important disorder because of both its prevalence and its cardiovascular and neurocognitive sequelae. Despite the fact that male sex is a major risk factor for this disorder, the mechanisms underlying this predisposition are unclear. To understand the pathophysiologic basis of the male predisposition for pharyngeal...
- White papers 2002-10-31
- Semantic Dysfunction in Women With Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- This paper examined whether early or late processes in semantic networks were abnormal in women with a diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder. The N400 component of the EEG event-related potentials was used as a probe of semantic processes. The finding of a less negative than normal N400 amplitude with the...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Two and 3-Dimensional MRI Comparison of Levator Ani Structure, Volume, and Integrity in Women With Stress Incontinence and Prolapse
- The aim of this paper was to identify imaging markers for genuine stress incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse by using magnetic resonance imaging and reconstructed 3-dimensional models. Both 2-dimensional magnetic resonance images and 3-dimensional models yield findings that differ among asymptomatic subjects compared with those with genuine stress incontinence and...
- White papers 2001-07-01
- Regional MRI Lesion Burden and Cognitive Function in MS: A Longitudinal Study
- The objective of this paper is to investigate the relationship between magnetic resonance imaging MRI regional lesion burden and cognitive performance in multiple sclerosis MS over a four year follow-up period. MS lesions show a propensity for frontal and parietal white matter. Lesion burden in these areas was strongly associated...
- White papers 2001-03-20
- Statistical Shape Influence in Geodesic Active Contours
- A novel method of incorporating shape information into the image segmentation process is presented. This paper introduces a representation for deformable shapes and defines a probability distribution over the variances of a set of training shapes. The segmentation process embeds an initial curve as the zero level set of a...
- White papers 2000-04-18
- Level Set Based Segmentation With Intensity and Curvature Priors
- A method is presented for segmentation of anatomical structures that incorporates prior information about the intensity and curvature profile of the structure from a training set of images and boundaries. Specifically, this paper models the intensity distribution as a function of signed distance from the object boundary, instead of modeling...
- White papers 2000-04-18
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- DJs, CEOs know how to work a room.(Executive Briefing)(Chief executive officers)(disc jockeys)
- What do disc jockeys and CEOs have in common? They love what they do, and they're experts at working a room. Jeff Taylor, founder and CEO of Eons.com, a new networking web site for baby boomers, is also a DJ. Speaking recently at the...
- Articles 2007-09-01
- Up against the ropes: a professional coach may help
- In his book The Art of War, General Sun Tzu taught great leaders to "Plan an advantage by listening. Adjust to situations. Get assistance from the outside and influence events." Clearly this ancient wisdom is being applied today as evidenced by the growing number of professionals employing business and life...
- Articles 2006-12-01
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