In two experiments, we used a temporal integration task to investigate visual mental images based on information in short-term memory or generated from information stored in long-term memory (LTM). We specifically asked whether the two sorts of images rely on depictive representations. If mental images rely on depictive representations, then it should be possible to combine mental images and vi...

The recent patient safety literature has included less of an emphasis on long-term settings than on research in the acute care sector. Recognizing this knowledge gap in our understanding of safety in the long-term care sector, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Capital Health (Edmonton) and CapitalCare (Edmonton) have collaborated to create a research and action agenda for improving residen...

A number of research efforts on Twitter have been contributed towards understanding various factors that are related to retweetability, analyzing retweeting and diffusion patterns, predicting retweets, etc. One fundamental research question remains untackled: given a user and her followers, which of the followers are likely to spread her tweets to the world (the information spreader identificat...

Populations are expected to age rapidly in the Arab countries during the coming few decades. However, the current evidence base indicates that many countries in the region are not paying attention to this demographic phenomenon. This is a particular concern as longevity is often accompanied by many years of ill health and disability and most of the countries in the region continue to rely on th...

Twitter offers an unprecedented advantage on live reporting of the events happening around the world. However, summarizing the Twitter event has been a challenging task that was not fully explored in the past. In this paper, we propose a participant-based event summarization approach that “zooms-in” the Twitter event streams to the participant level, detects the important sub-events associated ...

We prove the existence of a compact random attractor for the stochastic Benjamin-BonaMahony Equation defined on an unbounded domain. This random attractor is invariant and attracts every pulled-back tempered random set under the forward flow. The asymptotic compactness of the random dynamical system is established by a tail-estimates method, which shows that the solutions are uniformly asymptot...

The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine the profile of caregivers of elderly in long-term care facilities. The studied population included 181 randomly selected caregivers, 98 from philanthropic and 83 from private institutions in the city of Belo Horizonte. Data were collected applying structured questionnaires. The variables evaluated were sex, age group, educational level,...

SBR3 is the latest version of a long line of term rewriting based theorem provers aimed at proving theorems in equational logic. The first of them, Reve, was written by P. Lescanne ([Le-83]). It evolved into the Reve2.n family, written and maintained mostly by J. Guttag’s group at MIT [FG-84], and Reve3 for E-term rewriting at Nancy ([KK-85]). The Reve family is mostly concerned with completing...