BACKGROUND The adult social care outcomes toolkit (ASCOT) includes a preference-weighted measure of social care-related quality of life for use in economic evaluations. ASCOT has eight attributes: personal cleanliness and comfort, food and drink, control over daily life, personal safety, accommodation cleanliness and comfort, social participation and involvement, occupation and dignity. This pa...

Background: In this study we aimed to examine the discrimination and calibration of a severity characterization of trauma (ASCOT) in our setting to determine whether its usage is appropriate to predict outcome of our trauma patients. Methods: This study was conducted in three hospitals. All patients admitted in studied hospitals were divided randomly into two equal subgroups. In each group, new...

Matrix models for a changeable world: the importance of transient dynamics in population management Thomas H. G. Ezard*, James M. Bullock, Harmony J. Dalgleish, Alexandre Millon, Fanie Pelletier, Arpat Ozgul and David N. Koons Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK; Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8BB, ...

Department of Ecology and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø DK-2100, Denmark, Imperial College London, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems & the Environme...

1 Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK 2 Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón II, 4to. Piso, C1428 EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina 3 Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph...

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Migration of Caenorhabditis elegans (Nematoda : Rhabditidae) larvae towards bacteria and the nature of the bacterial stimulus Parwinder S. GREWAL * and Denis J. WRIGHT ** * Microbiology and Crop Protection Department, Horticulture Research International, Worthing Road, Littlehampton, W. Sussex BN17 6Lp, UK and ** Department of Biology, Imperial Co/lege of Science, Technology and Medicine, Silwo...