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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...
Modularity and community structure in networks
Many networks of interest in the sciences, including social networks, computer networks, and metabolic and regulatory networks, are found to divide naturally into communities or...
Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents
An analogy with the way ant colonies function has suggested the definition of a new computational paradigm, which we call ant system (AS). We propose it as a viable new approach...
Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids. Solvents for Synthesis and Catalysis
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTRoom-Temperature Ionic Liquids. Solvents for Synthesis and CatalysisThomas WeltonView Author Information Department of Chemistry, Imp...
WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
Part 1 The lexical database: nouns in WordNet, George A. Miller modifiers in WordNet, Katherine J. Miller a semantic network of English verbs, Christiane Fellbaum design and imp...
The SIESTA method for<i>ab initio</i>order-<i>N</i>materials simulation
An efficient method is described to handle mesh indexes in multidimensional\nproblems like numerical integration of partial differential equations, lattice\nmodel simulations, a...
Molecular Classification of Cancer: Class Discovery and Class Prediction by Gene Expression Monitoring
Although cancer classification has improved over the past 30 years, there has been no general approach for identifying new cancer classes (class discovery) or for assigning tumo...
Cancer statistics, 2014
Abstract Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths that will occur in the United States in the current year and compiles the mo...
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
Crossing the boundaries in global sustainability The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safe...
Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome
The metabolic syndrome has received increased attention in the past few years. This statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood I...