BACKGROUND Over the years, a plethora of frailty assessment tools has been developed. These instruments can be basically grouped into two types of conceptualizations - unidimensional, based on the physical-biological dimension - and multidimensional, based on the connections among the physical, psychological, and social domains. At present, studies on the comparison between uni- and multidimens...

The paper analysis students’ evaluation issues in case teaching mode. The evaluation indexes were selected by expert experience and fuzzy prioritization method. Thus the students’ grade evaluation as a multidimensional index system of case teaching is established as a reasonable method based on Analytic Hierarchy Process, AHP. It can raise the equity of score and the enthusiasm of students from...

A cross-reactive colorimetric sensor array composed of solvatochromic dyes in semi-liquid matrices was used to successfully discriminate among eleven common solvents. The multidimensional array response is attributed to both chemical (i.e., analyte-dye interactions) and physical (i.e., spot blooming and refractive index alteration) changes in the sensor spot.

Abbreviations: ABB: Aggregated Biomedical-information Browser; OLAP: On-Line Analytical Processing; DW4TRL: Data Warehouse for Translational Research; MOLAP: Multidimensional On-Line Analytical Processing; CBCP: Clinical Breast Care Project; IRB: Institutional Review Board; EAV: Entity Attribute Value; ISIV: Individual Subject Information Viewer; BMI: Body Mass Index; ER: Estrogen Receptor; PR:...

Recently, a lot of indexing methods were developed for multidimensional spaces and for image feature vector spaces in particular. This paper introduces an implementation of a vantage point tree method. The goal is to define dependencies between method's parameters and index efficiency criteria in the context of the content-based image retrieval task.

Reducing poverty has been the cornerstone of several development policies. Yet, reducing it on income level not yielded much result, as income-based fails to capture other dimensions deprivations. This study, using data from 7th DHS survey, constructs a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 38 districts rural Bihar and its correlates. The extent multidimensional is very high, varying 0.19 in...

We propose a new approach, based on the Conley index theory, for the detection and classification of critical regions in multidimensional data sets. The use of homology groups makes this method consistent and successful in all dimensions and allows to generalize visual classification techniques based solely on the notion of connectedness which may fail in higher dimensions.

The objective of this study is to investigate an approach for dynamic construction of Electronic Roads. We envision Electronic Roads spanning a virtual multidimensional space, a distributed digital information repository, comprising primarily of video data of cultural heritage. A visitor (user) will be able to travel in this multidimensional space along different, semantically related historica...

Index numbers of prices and quantities are estimated in the framework of a two-way analysis of variance, based on the ideas of H. Theil and K. Banerjee. Topics include aggregation, multidimensional indices, and non-spherical errors. The method is applied to the commodity exports of developing nations. Copyright (c) 1997 Eric Blankmeyer

BACKGROUND In health research, indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) are often used interchangeably and often lack theoretical foundation. This makes it difficult to compare results from different studies and to explore the relationship between SES and health outcomes. To aid researchers in choosing appropriate indicators of SES, this article proposes and tests a theory-based selection of SE...