Introduction: This meta-analysis aimed to characterize the nature and magnitude of amyloid (Ab)-related cognitive impairment and decline in cognitively normal (CN) older individuals. Method: MEDLINE Ovid was searched from 2012 to June 2016 for studies reporting relationships between cerebrospinal fluid or positron emission tomography (PET) Ab levels and cognitive impairment (cross-sectional) an...

Most work on unsupervised entailment rule acquisition focused on rules between templates with two variables, ignoring unary rules entailment rules between templates with a single variable. In this paper we investigate two approaches for unsupervised learning of such rules and compare the proposed methods with a binary rule learning method. The results show that the learned unary rule-sets outpe...

‎for a given measure space $(x,{mathscr b},mu)$ we construct all measure spaces $(y,{mathscr c},lambda)$ in which $(x,{mathscr b},mu)$ is embeddable‎. ‎the construction is modeled on the ultrafilter construction of the stone--v{c}ech compactification of a completely regular topological space‎. ‎under certain conditions the construction simplifies‎. ‎examples are given when this simplification o...

usd7 is one of the steel products of isfahan steel company. it is cast in continuous casting moulds and rolled up to a rod of 5 mm diameter. finally, it is wire drawn up to 3 mm and used as welding electrodes. this steel contains 0.05 to 0.09 wt. % carbon. the acceptable limit of the aluminium in this class of steel is less than 0.003 wt%. therefore, it is categorized as rimmed steel. during fo...

in this paper, we use the concept of graph convergence of h(.,.)-co-accretive mapping introduced by [r. ahmad, m. akram, m. dilshad, graph convergence for the h(.,.)-co-accretive mapping with an application, bull. malays. math. sci. soc., doi: 10.1007/s40840-014-0103-z, 2014$] and define an over-relaxed proximal point method to obtain the solution of a generalized variational inclusion problem ...

In the method of successive sampling, a sample of n distinct units is drawn from a population of N units one at a time. Each unit i is drawn with a fixed selection probability pi and any repeated units are ignored. When the pi are proportional to a given size measure, this is called probability proportional to size without replacement (PPSWOR). The first order inclusion probabilities πi of each...

There is an increasing awareness that the inclusion of quality of life as an outcome measure is important in ensuring a client-centred and holistic assessment. This review outlines the benefits of quality of life as an outcome measurement in the field of prosthetics. It introduces the key concepts and challenges in the definition and assessment of quality of life post-amputation, including the ...