BACKGROUND The substantial increase in life expectancy during recent decades has left all countries with a high number of elderly people that have particular health needs. Health policy-makers must be aware of the most prevalent causes of deaths and DALYs in this age group, as well as geriatric syndromes, in order to provide appropriate care and allocate resources in an equitable manner. METH...

www.thelancet.com Vol 388 October 8, 2016 1453 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been called “senseless, dreamy, garbled”, given that they include 17 goals, 169 targets, and 230 indicators, in contrast to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that focused on eight goals, 18 targets, and 48 indicators. Among the earliest sceptics of the SDGs was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...

Introduction The concept of global burden of disease was first publicized in a landmark report commissioned by the World Bank (1993). The measure developed in that report to operationalize the definition of disease burden was designed to assess the gap in the health of a population, taking into account not only mortality but also the non-fatal consequences of injury and disease. This was accomp...

in this study, the effect of grain size on nitrogen diffusion into ck45 has been investigated. in order to obtain different grain sizes, samples were annealed and normalized at various temperatures and durations.the grain size was determined with clemex vision software. then, the specimens were exposed to dc plasma nitriding treatment and again analyzed by optical microscope ,scanning electron ...

In spite of the extensive literature on graph databases (GDBs), temporal GDBs have not received too much attention so far. Temporal GBDs can capture, for example, the evolution of social networks across time, a relevant topic in data analysis nowadays. We propose a data model and query language (denoted TEG-QL) for temporal GDBs, based on the notion of attribute graphs. This allows a straightfo...

We present a digital signal processing (DSP) scheme that performs hyperparameter tuning (HT) via Bayesian optimization (BO) to autonomously optimize memory tap distribution of Volterra series and adapt parameters used in the synthetization pre-distortion (DPD) filter for optical transmitters. Besides providing time-efficient technique, this work demonstrates self-adaptation DPD hyperparameters ...

Information about urban land use is important for planning and sustainable development. The emergence of geospatial big data (GBD), increased the availability remotely sensed (RS) development new methods integration to provide opportunities mapping types use. However, modes RS GBD are diverse due differences in data, study areas, classifiers, etc. In this context, aims summarize main evaluate t...

Abstract Since the 1990s, Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study is providing a wealth information on health status world's population, at an increasing level detail. The key metric GBD Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY), which allows integrating impact morbidity and mortality into single indicator, thereby more comprehensive basis for evaluating, comparing ranking diseases, injuries, risk fact...