Objectives: To estimate annual changes and trends in the population of informal carers and to investigate transitions to caregiving by age, gender, locus of care, and level of involvement. Design: Longitudinal analysis of data from the British household panel survey, 1991 to 1998, an annual prospective survey of a nationally representative sample of more than 5000 private households in England,...

apolipoprotein a-i is the most abundant protein in cyprinus carpio plasma that plays an important role in lipid transport and protection of the skin by means of its antimicrobial activity. a 527 bp cdna fragment encoding c terminus part of apoa-i from the skin mucosa of common carp was isolated using rt-pcr. after genbank database searching, a partial sequence containing a coding sequence (cds)...

In this paper we present the Landmark Model, a model for time series that yields new techniques for similarity-based time series pattern querying. The Landmark Model does not follow traditional similarity models that rely on pointwise Euclidean distance. Instead, it leads to Landmark Similarity, a general model of similarity that is consistent with human intuition and episodic memory. By tracki...