Getting lost (GL) is a serious problem for people living with Alzheimer's disease (PwAD), causing psychological distress in both PwAD and caregivers, and increasing the odds of being institutionalized. It is thus important to identify risk factors for the GL events in PwAD. Between April 2009 and March 2012, we invited 185 community-dwelling PwAD and their caregivers to participate in this stud...

The study figures out the potential of CASI airborne hyperspectral imagery for the fine segmentation and characterization of small size landscape units, the hedges, essential for hydrologists and landscape planners. The segmentation strategy consists in computing every hedge discriminating feature : radiometry, texture and linear shape. Original methods taking into consideration the full spectr...

To safeguard the goals of flood protection and nature development, a river manager requires detailed and up-to-date information on vegetation structures in floodplains. In this study, remote sensing data on the vegetation of a semi-natural floodplain along the river Waal in the Netherlands was gathered by means of a Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI; spectral information) and LiDAR (...

A new technique to estimate the characteristic length scales (CLSs) of real ecological systems provides an objective means to identify the optimal scale(s) of observation to best detect underlying dynamical trends. Application of the technique to natural systems has focused on identifying appropriate scales to measure the dynamics of species as descriptors of community and ecosystem dynamics. H...

Abstract- The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI) has been commonly used in dementia research and clinical practice to evaluate a subject's cognitive abilities and to follow-up possible progression of dementia. It has a detailed manual for test administration and scoring in order to minimize testing errors. The Chinese version of CASI (CASI C-2.0) has been used in many clinical and ...

introduction: designing a tool that can differentiate those at risk of child abuse with great diagnostic accuracy is of great interest. the present study was designed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of escape instrument in triage of at risk cases of child abuse presenting to emergency department (ed). methods: the present diagnostic accuracy study performed on 6120 of the children under 16 ...

CONTEXT Screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) in health care settings has been recommended by some professional organizations, although there is limited information regarding the accuracy, acceptability, and completeness of different screening methods and instruments. OBJECTIVE To determine the optimal method for IPV screening in health care settings. DESIGN AND SETTING Cluster rand...

Objective. To understand older primary care patients' perceptions of the risks and benefits of dementia screening and to measure the association between attitudes and screening behaviors. Methods. Eligible patients completed the Perceptions Regarding Investigational Screening for Memory in Primary Care (PRISM-PC) questionnaire and then were asked to undergo dementia screening by a telephone scr...

OBJECTIVE Pathological worry is considered to be a defining feature for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) is an instrument for assessing pathological worry. Two earlier studies demonstrated the suitability of the PSWQ as screening instrument for GAD in outpatient and non-clinical samples. This study examined the suitability of the PSWQ as a screening ...