1187 Sleep Patterns and Mortality in Older Adults—Chen et al INTRODUCTION Sleep disturbance is a prevalent health problem that has substantial consequences for older adults.1,2 Longitudinal studies have shown that sleep difficulties predict several adverse health outcomes.3-7 The quality and quantity of sleep have been associated with coping ability, timely engagement with activities, and resil...

The visual quality assessment approaches and their classification are introduced. Recent developments on both image and video quality metrics, as well as several publicly available databases for both images and videos, are reviewed. Then, we conduct experiments on image and video quality databases to compare the performance of some existing state-ofthe-art visual quality metrics. It is shown th...

AIM This study was undertaken to investigate paediatric clinicians' views on and use of quality of life (QoL) assessment in clinical practice. METHODS A survey was conducted among members of the Dutch Paediatric Association via e-mail. RESULTS Over half of the 303 respondents (57%) believed that it was possible to use QoL questionnaires in clinical practice. The majority indicated that asse...

--Image Quality assessment plays an important role in various image processing applications. It is still an active area of research. A great deal of effort has been made in recent years to develop objective image quality metrics that correlate well with perceived human quality measurement or subjective methods. Most full reference(FR) technique were derived based on pixel to pixel error such as...

Fingerprint quality assessment (FQA) has been a challenging issue due to a variety of noisy information contained in the samples, such as physical defect and distortions caused by sensing devices. Existing studies have made efforts to find out more suitable techniques for assessing fingerprint quality but it is difficult to achieve a common solution because of, for example, different image sett...

water quality assessment provides a scientific basis for water resources development and management. this case study proposes a factor analysis- hopfield neural network model (fhnn) based on factor analysis method and hopfield neural network method. the results showed that the factor analysis (fa) technique was introduced to identify important water quality parameters. results revealed that bio...

Alison Beaney is regional quality assurance specialist based at The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, Anne Black is quality assurance pharmacist and Clare Dobson is a basic grade pharmacist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Steve Williamson is lead pharmacist for cancer services at Northumbria Healthcare Trust. Mark Robinson is a pre registration trainee at Sunderland R...

 Designing and implementing agro-ecosystem intervention decisions is a complex undertaking, outcomes are uncertain and risk of project failure and cost overruns are large.  Sub-optimal intervention decisions are resulting from failure to consider uncertainty, omission of important variables that are difficult to measure, and a lack of frameworks for combining diverse types of information.  W...

Reuse of software components can improve software quality and productivity significantly. This paper mainly concentrates on our approach to reuse assessment, which is a process of identifying and assessing the characteristics of a reusable component based on a set of well-defined reuse guidelines. This paper also proposes a scheme for measuring reuse potential. These techniques have been succes...