BACKGROUND Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) provides detailed information on clinical, functional and cognitive aspects of older patients and is especially useful for assessing frail individuals. Although a large proportion of hospitalized older adults demonstrate a high level of complexity, CGA was not developed specifically for this setting. Our aim was to evaluate the application of ...

The objective of the research was to determine effect educational intervention based on Bandura’s Social Cognitive Learning Theory care dependency and symptom management after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
 Methods. This randomized controlled trial conducted between January 2019 February 2020 at Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center. All patients were randomly divided i...

All natural languages allegedly tend to minimize the length (and thus, the number of crossings) of syntactic dependencies by arranging words into an adequate linear order. Focusing on Ancient Greek as a case of study, this paper demonstrates that this tendency is far from constant. The method consists in inducing a pair of networks from a text representing a given diachronic variety, using lemm...

Of 62 males admitted for treatment in Turkey in 2008 with a diagnosis of volatile substance misuse (VSM) dependency, half were randomly allocated to receive a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based brief intervention and an education program and half participated only in the education program. One year after treatment, 38.2% of the experimental group and 58.1% of the control group had continu...

This research aims at developing a redesign problem solver which proposes suitable modifications of a given artifact for a new requirement or an inconvenience. We concentrate on the two issues, capturing design rationales of the given artifact and organizing general redesign strategies. For the former issue, we propose an ontology of functional concepts, which enables the redesign system to ide...

Amongst the large number of write-and-throw-away-spreadsheets developed for one-time use there is a rather neglected proportion of spreadsheets that are huge, periodically used, and submitted to regular update-cycles like any conventionally evolving valuable legacy application software. However, due to the very nature of spreadsheets, their evolution is particularly tricky and therefore error-p...