In the present study, we aimed to validate the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) for routine nutritional screening in the radiation oncology setting, thus enabling timely and adequate referrals of patients at risk for individualised or advanced intervention. Towards this objective, we conducted a prospective cross-sectional study in 450 non-selected cancer patients (18-95 years) refe...

Background: Falls amongst elderly people are often associated with fractures. Training of balance and physical performance can reduce fall risk; however, it remains a challenge to identify individuals at increased risk of falling to whom this training should be offered. It is believed that fall risk can be assessed by testing balance performance. In this study a test battery of physiological pa...

Our study analyzes the determinants of investors’ risk taking behavior. We find that investors’ risk taking behavior is affected by their subjective risk attitude in the financial domain and by the risk and return of an investment alternative. Our results also suggest that, consistent with previous findings in the literature, objective or historical return and volatility of a stock are not as g...

It is important to detect and treat malnutrition in hospital patients so as to improve clinical outcome and reduce hospital stay. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a nutrition screening tool with a simple and quick scoring system for acute hospital patients in Singapore. In this study, 818 newly admitted patients aged above 18 years old were screened using five parameters that c...

This longitudinal and prospective study aimed at investigating the influence of some parameters,including nasal cytology and clinical findings (such as asthma, atopy, acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) sensitivity, ASA associated with asthma), as risk factor of post-surgical relapse of nasal-sinus polyps. One hundred sixty-one consecutive patients (92 males and 69 females, mean age 47 years), affected ...

We consider in this paper a class of risk-sensitive stochastic nonzero-sum differential games with parameterized nonlinear dynamics and parameterized cost functions. The parametrization is such that if all or some of the parameters are set equal to some nominal values, then the differential game either becomes equivalent to a risk-sensitive stochastic control (RSSC) problem, or decouples into s...

Several spatial voting models allowing to locate voters or legislators on latent dimensions have been developed, giving rise to an important number of studies in the literature on representation. These techniques assume that actors choose between alternatives by comparing their corresponding utilities; all utilities being defined as a function of the ideological distances between the voter and ...

Background: Falls amongst elderly people are often associated with fractures. Training of balance and physical performance can reduce fall risk; however, it remains a challenge to identify individuals at increased risk of falling to whom this training should be offered. It is believed that fall risk can be assessed by testing balance performance. In this study a test battery of physiological pa...

Zoonotic microorganisms present perhaps the greatest past, present, and future risks to the safety of ambient water and drinking-water. Their worldwide distribution varies and is affected by climate and numerous natural and anthropogenic factors, and some microorganisms are emerging or re-emerging as disease risks. Some of the most significant risk factors include transboundary movements of peo...