The prevalence of chronic respiratory disorders has been increasing steadily over the past several years and currently constitutes a serious public health problem. Chronic respiratory disorders (including lung cancer) represent worldwide the second most important cause of mortality and their frequency and diffusion are probably far greater than realized, given that they are often underdiagnosed...

BACKGROUND The number of out-of-hours calls to general practitioners (GPs) has increased steadily during the past 20 years. The proportion of inappropriate calls are reportedly increasing but we know very little about how GPs judge a call to be appropriate or inappropriate. AIM To determine the factors that influence GPs' perceptions of the appropriateness or inappropriateness of out-of-hours...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) was suggested to be an important risk factor for hypertensive vascular complications. Previous studies had also shown that red cell distribution width (RDW) was associated with morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease. However, few have yet investigated possible association between RDW and LVH. The aim of the present study was to evaluate t...

The World Energy Council has consistently formulated useful policies and ranked countries in term of their performances environmental sustainability, energy equity, security. In a novel approach, possibly one the most unique studies Trilemma literature, current study examines interaction efficiency economic growth several top-performing economies (Austria, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, New...

different early stage dementias. Being a clearly insufficient function in frontal patients and possibly accounting for their early symptoms of social inappropriateness, prior evidence of medial prefrontal structures subserving Theory of Mind is supported. In patients with Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment, it is possible that Theory of Mind deficits are secondary to their primar...

This paper discusses issues arising from both practical investigations and conceptual work directed towards applications of three dimensional (3D) audio displays for blind students. These applications fall into two distinct categories: 1. The use of 3D audio to enhance interaction with the computer environment generally and 2. The creation of auditory virtual learning environments. In the first...

Ask, K., & Fransson, N. Mental Representation of Immoral Events: The Effect of Event Typicality on Judgment Time. Göteborg Psychological Reports, 2001, 31, No. 4. The present study tested the idea that immoral events are prototypically represented in memory, and that the identification of an event as immoral depends on its similarity to an event prototype. It was hypothesized that a similarity ...

Non Volatile Memories (NVMs) can undergo different types of disturbances. These disturbances are particular to the technology and the cell structure of the memory element. In this paper, we develop a coupling fault model that appropriately models disturbances in Flash memories that use floating gate transistor as their core memory element. We describe the behavior of faulty cells under differen...

Accurate forecasts of water demand are required for real-time control of water supply systems under normal and abnormal conditions. A methodology is presented for quantifying, diagnosing and reducing model structural and predictive errors for the development of short term water demand forecasting models. The methodology (re-)emphasises the importance of posterior predictive checks of modelling ...