In this work we start by presenting a possible architecture for MultiCriteria Dynamic Decision Making (MCDDM) problems. Then we focus on contributions for the rating process because it involves two important aspects of any dynamic spatial-temporal decision problem: how to deal with uncertainty in dynamically changing input data and how consider different criteria importance, depending on criter...

BACKGROUND Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common psychiatric diagnosis among preschool children. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine the Risperidone treatment compared to Methylphenidate (MPH) in preschool children with ADHD. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty three outpatient preschool children, aged 3-6 years, diagnosed with ADHD (The diagnosis of ADHD was estab...

The concrete-abstract categorization scheme has guided several research programs. A popular way to classify words into one of these categories is to calculate a word's mean value in a Concreteness or Imageability rating scale. However, this procedure has several limitations. For instance, results can be highly distorted by outliers, ascribe differences among words when none may exist, and negle...

Different proposals have been made in recent years to exploit Social Web tagging data to improve recommender systems. The tagging data was used for example to identify similar users or viewed as additional information about the recommendable items. In this work we propose to use tags as a means to express which features of an item users particularly like or dislike. Users would therefore not on...

BACKGROUND Depression is highly associated with dementia, and this study will compare the frequencies, severity, and symptoms of depression between dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS Frequency of depression was determined according to the DSM-IV criteria for major depression or the National Institute of Mental Health criteria for depression in AD (NIMH-dAD)....

Accident research is highly concerned with the danger to fall asleep at the wheel.. To develop a driver support system that is able to measure the state of the driver a reliable criterion for fatigue has to be found. Several approaches have been made in the past, but the difficulty to operationalise fatigue remains. 75 subjects drove on a monotonous route on highway in a vibro-acoustic simulato...

Background The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) are two norm-referenced scales commonly used to identify the presence of depression and anxiety in clinical research. Unfortunately, several researchers have mistakenly applied index score criteria to raw scores when assigning clinical significance and symptom severity ratings. This study examined the ext...