Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience have recently developed a keen interest in the phenomenon of mind-wandering. People mind-wander frequently, and mind-wandering is associated with decreased cognitive performance. But why do people mind-wander so much? Previous investigations have focused on cognitive abilities like working memory capacity and attention control. But an individual's...

BACKGROUND Cognitive impairment is highly prevalent among older adults (aged ≥65 years) hospitalized for heart failure and has been associated with poor outcomes. Poor medication self-management skills have been associated with poor outcomes in this population as well. The presence and extent of an association between cognitive impairment and poor medication self-management skills in this popul...

............................................................................. X CHAPTER 1: Elderly Patients with Heart Failure: The Burden of Comorbidities and Physical and Cognitive Impairments..................................................................

In cognitive radio Ad Hoc networks, the events of node failure and link failure maybe happen frequently, especially the primary users will access the authorized channel whenever possible. In order to maintain the connection between cognitive users and resume their communication as soon as possible when the current route is invalid, a reliable routing mechanism CARC is proposed, which employs pr...