Parallel Distributed Processing
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The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons
This study evaluated a modified, timed version of the “Get‐Up and Go” Test (Mathias et al, 1986) in 60 patients referred to a Geriatric Day Hospital (mean age 79.5 years). The p...
APACHE II
This paper presents the form and validation results of APACHE II, a severity of disease classification system. APACHE II uses a point score based upon initial values of 12 routi...
Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology
How should we understand why firms exist? A prevailing view has been that they serve to keep in check the transaction costs arising from the self-interested motivations of indiv...
Global Consequences of Land Use
Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming a force of global importance. Worldwide changes to forests, farmlands, waterways, and air ...
Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States
The prevalence of psychiatric disorders is greater than previously thought to be the case. Furthermore, this morbidity is more highly concentrated than previously recognized in ...
STUDIES OF ILLNESS IN THE AGED. THE INDEX OF ADL: A STANDARDIZED MEASURE OF BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTION.
The Index of ADL was developed to study results of treatment and prognosis in the elderly and chronically ill. Grades of the Index summarize over-all performance in bathing, dre...
Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach
Are you thinking about doing a qualitative study, or currently in the middle of one? If so, Joseph A. Maxwell's Qualitative Research Design is the reliable guide for you. Taking...
Job Burnout
▪ Abstract Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job, and is defined by the three dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism, and ineff...
Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and ener...
The weirdest people in the world?
Abstract Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educa...
Titanium Dioxide Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, Modifications, and Applications
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTTitanium Dioxide Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, Modifications, and ApplicationsXiaobo Chen and Samuel S. MaoView Author Inform...