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OBJECTIVE To measure functional status, determine risk of functional decline and assess consistency between responses and standardized instruments. DESIGN A mailed survey which measured functional impairment, recent hospitalization and bereavement. A positive response on at least one of these factors indicated that the individual was "at risk" for functional decline. A random sample (n = 73) ...

Copoly(ethylene terephthalate-imide)s (PETIs) were synthesized by the melt copolycondensation of bis(2-hydroxyethyl)terephthalate with a new imide monomer, N,N9-bis[p-(2-hydroxyethoxycarbonyl)phenyl]-biphenyl-3,39,4,49-tetracarboxydiimide (BHEI). The copolymers were characterized by intrinsic viscosity, Fourier transform infrared, H NMR, differential scanning calorimetry, and thermogravimetric ...

The successful treatment of acne still remains problematic. Conventional therapies often prove inconsistent with unacceptable side effects and recurrence rates, leading to patient noncompliance. A thermal phototherapy treatment using a combination of blue light and red light has recently attracted much attention and seems to offer an effective alternative. The objective of this study was to eva...

N are described as frightening dreams that usually awaken the sleeper from rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. It is almost always a long, complicated dream that becomes increasingly frightening toward the end. The long, dreamlike feature is essential in making the clinical differentiation from sleep terror. The element of fright or anxiety is an essential part of the nightmare (1, p. 163). Nightma...

We prove a local existence result for the manoeuvrability control of a submarine. The problem is formulated as an optimal control problem with a nonlinear and highly coupled system of ODEs for the state law, a Lagrange type cost function, and nonlinear controls which take values on a convex and compact subset of R. Finally, the existence of solution for this problem is obtained by applying a re...

estimation. 25. Materials and methods are available as supporting material on Science Online. 26. F. J. Wentz, M. Schabel, Nature 403, 414 (2000). 27. T. M. Smith, R. W. Reynolds, J. Clim.18, 2021 (2005). 28. P. D. Jones, A. Moberg, J. Clim. 16, 206 (2003). 29. HadCRUT2v is the designation for version 2 of the (variance-corrected) Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit surface temperature data se...