AIM This paper is a report of an analysis of the concept of forgetfulness as it applies to older adults. BACKGROUND Perceived increases in forgetfulness cause much distress for older adults due to the stigma associated with memory loss and dementia. The difference between forgetfulness in a healthy ageing state and memory loss associated with cognitive impairment requires clarification for nu...

Companies and managers are apt to forget information, yet game theory assumes that all players have perfect recall. This paper expands the literature by examining how introducing forgetfulness into a multi-player game-theoretic framework can help or hinder cooperative behavior. We distinguish between forgetting histories and forgetting strategies, and explain how classic game theory models and ...

Martin Heidegger’s National Socialist political sympathies are plainer and more troubling to contemporary readers than ever before. This paper examines the relation of leader society he uses ground his account state in 1930s. But breakthroughs previous decade, Being Time particular, make ontology endorses less compelling. positions incompatible with ontological difference. The power or she lead...

OBJECTIVES we measured subjective memory impairment (SMI) across the whole adult age range in a representative, national survey. Age is the strongest risk factor for dementia and SMI may be a precursor of objective cognitive impairment. We therefore hypothesised that SMI prevalence would rise with age in a non-demented population. METHOD we analysed data from the English 2007 Adult Psychiatri...

Many, especially elderly people, are worried about their diminishing memory. In order to be able to improve health education activities about forgetfulness and aging processes, nearly 2000 healthy Dutch people, aged 25-85 years, participated in a postal survey into the determinants of subjective forgetfulness. As expected, there was a systematic increase in the prevalence of forgetfulness with ...

2. Productivity at this level means that the production costs of H 2 (expressed as the cost in US dollars per joule of calorific value contained in the molecule) are two to three times higher than for natural gas 4,5. However, taking into account the transportation and distribution costs of natural gas, and how pure you want the H 2 to be, the comparative cost of H 2 production can vary. Biomas...