Can FAO's measure of chronic undernourishment be strengthened?

Evaluation of Small Business Innovation Research Can Be Strengthened

How Superadditive Can a Risk Measure Be?

In this paper, we study the extent to which any risk measure can lead to superadditive risk assessments, implying the potential for penalizing portfolio diversification. For this purpose we introduce the notion of extreme-aggregation risk measures. The extreme-aggregation measure characterizes the most superadditive behavior of a risk measure, by yielding the worst-possible diversification rati...

How can Alzheimer's Patients be Helped?

پرستاری از بیمار مبتلا به بیماری آلزایمر چندان ساده نیست. حتی اگر از این امر که اختلال رفتاری فرد نشانه ای از بیماری اوست، آگاه باشید، اکثر مواقع نمی دانید که چگونه باید با او رفتار کنید. در این مقاله روشهای مناسبی ارائه گردیده تا خانواده بیمار بتواند با ۱۰ اختلال رفتاری شایع در بیماران مبتلا بدون احساس ناامیدی و خشم سازگاری یابند. 

EBP in psychiatric OT should be strengthened.

475 Evidence-based practice recently has been an important theme in health care services. Literature in the area of psychiatry has proliferated. Beginning with the January issue of Psychiatric Services in 2001, a regular column has run on evidence-based practices in different aspects of psychiatry. Themes of the column have been severe mental illness (Torrey et al., 2001), routine mental health...

Non-native memory traces can be further strengthened by short term phonetic training

Learners of a second language go through many proficiency levels during language learning. University language students can be considered advanced learners, who behaviourally perceive the language at least nearly similarly as native speakers. It can also be assumed that memory traces for the second language phonemes have developed for these learners and their MMN responses for foreign contrasts...