conclusions the persian version of dad, during the study, had a very good validity and reliability and can serve as a useful scale in clinical assessment of functional disability in patients with alzheimer’s in the area of activities of daily living. background as dementia progresses in the course of life, one's functions may be reduced regarding to fulfill the activities of daily living. one o...

This document describes the current design of the Solaris IP Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) logic, its problems, and a new design that fixes these problems.

This paper puts forward a reliability estimation method by the Degradation Amount Distribution (DAD) of products, using a composite time series modeling procedure and grey theory based on a random failure threshold. Product DAD data are treated as a composite time series and described using a composite time series model to predict a long-term trend of degradation. The degradation test is proces...

There are few studies describing the functional changes in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and it is not clear which aspects of functionality are affected by the disease. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present investigation was to characterize the functional profile of patients previously diagnosed with bvFTD. METHODS The sample consisted of 31 patients diagnosed with bvFTD, wh...

INTRODUCTION Detecting functional decline from normal aging to dementia is relevant for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. Therefore, the Amsterdam IADL Questionnaire (A-IADL-Q) was developed: a 70-item proxy-based tool with good psychometric properties. We aimed to design a short version while preserving its psychometric quality. METHODS Study partners of subjects (n = 1355), ranging from c...

OBJECTIVE We investigated demographic influences on Korean version of Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD-K) performance and developed normative data for DAD-K. METHODS The DAD-K was administered to 2362 normal controls (NCs), 296 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 293 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). MANOVA and ROC curve analysis were used to compare DAD-K performan...

A review of the evidence on cognitive, functional and behavioral assessment for the diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is presented with revision and broadening of the recommendations on the use of tests and batteries in Brazil for the diagnosis of dementia due to AD. A systematic review of the literature (MEDLINE, LILACS and SCIELO database) was carried out by a panel of exp...

Atmospheric boundary layer winds experience two types of effects due to friction at the ground surface. One effect is the increase of the wind speeds with height above the surface. The second effect, called the Ekman layer effect, entails veering the change of the wind speed direction as a function of height above the surface. In this study a practical procedure is developed within a databaseas...

INTRODUCTION The Frontotemporal Dementia Rating Scale (FTD-FRS) is a tool designed to aid with clinical staging and assessment of the progression of frontotemporal dementia (FTD-FRS). OBJECTIVE Present a multicentre adaptation and validation study of a Spanish version of the FRS. METHODOLOGY The adapted version was created using 2 translation-back translation processes (English to Spanish, ...

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is conducting the first national study of the quality of the Canadian hospital discharge data contained in the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD). The study is aimed at measuring discrepancies, identifying sources of error, and providing users of the study with statistically reliable information about the data quality of the DAD. The study wil...