BACKGROUND Systems for identifying potentially inappropriate medications in older adults are not immediately transferrable to advanced dementia, where the management goal is palliation. The aim of the systematic review was to identify and synthesise published systems and make recommendations for identifying potentially inappropriate prescribing in advanced dementia. METHODS Studies were inclu...

Cognitive Agent communication is a research field in full development. We propose here an extension and an implementation of the STROBE model, which regards the Agents as Scheme interpreters. These Agents are able to interpret messages in a dedicated environment including an interpreter that learns from the current conversation. These interpreters evolve dynamically, progressively with the conv...

BACKGROUND Population-based serologic studies are a vital tool for understanding the epidemiology of influenza and other respiratory viruses, including the early assessment of the transmissibility and severity of the 2009 influenza pandemic, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. However, interpretation of the results of serologic studies has been hampered by the diversity of approac...

The dynamic aspects of sports often place heavy demands on visual processing. As such, an important goal for sports training should be to enhance visual abilities. Recent research has suggested that training in a stroboscopic environment, where visual experiences alternate between visible and obscured, may provide a means of improving attentional and visual abilities. The current study explored...

The objectives of this research were to analyze the effect on motorists of improving the warning devices at a high-accident, rural grade crossing, from 8-inch flashers to automatic gates and 12-inch flashers activated by a Marquardt speed predictor and having additional strobe lights; to evaluate suitable parameters and to make the analysis; to study accident history and site conditions and rel...

The Combinational circuit designed was glitch free NAND-based digitally controlled delay-lines (DCDL) present a glitching problem which may limit their employ in many applications. The glitch free strobe-control based digitally controlled delay lines overcame this limitation by opening the employ of glitch free NAND-based DCDLs in a wide range of applications. The proposed glitch free strobe-co...

The segregation of geniculo-cortical afferents into ocular dominance columns is an activity-dependent process. It was hypothesized that this process is susceptible to the temporal patterning of the retinal input. Accordingly, asynchronous activation of the two eyes should enhance ocular dominance segregation but synchronous activation should decrease or prevent it. In order to test the second p...

Routinely collected health data, obtained for administrative and clinical purposes without specific a priori research goals, are increasingly used for research. The rapid evolution and availability of these data have revealed issues not addressed by existing reporting guidelines, such as Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE). The REporting of studies Cond...