BACKGROUND The Geriatric Mental State (GMS) is the most widely used psychiatric research assessment for older persons. Evidence for validity comes from the developed world. AIMS To assess the validity of GMS/AGECAT organicity and depression diagnoses in 26 centres in India, China, Latin America and Africa. METHOD We studied 2941 persons aged 60 years and over: 742 people with dementia and t...

In this paper, a challenging power system problem of effectively scheduling generating units for maintenance is presented and solved. The problem of generator maintenance scheduling (GMS) is solved in order to generate optimal preventive maintenance schedules of generators that guarantee improved economic benefits and reliable operation of a power system, subject to satisfying system load deman...

The development of law is inseparable from the society, especially science and technology. impact advances in technology information, namely GMS activities that must be owned by Company holding GMS, this can done through electronic media then each e-GMS result poured into Minutes made a Notary registered with Financial Services Authority based on Law Number 40 2007 Limited Liability Companies. ...

The Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) has an extensive archive of geostationary satellite imagery, which is derived from a number of data sources. Most of this data now exists in a single data format, namely Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS) AREA. The McIDAS system was commissioned in the Bureau in 1985 and used to digitise locally received analogue GMS-3 data as its geostat...

Accurate forest cover mapping is essential for monitoring the status of extent in Southeast Asia. However, tropical areas frequently experience cloud cover, resulting invalid or missing data thematic maps. The initial 2005 and 2010 maps produced by collaboration Greater Mekong Subregion Malaysia (GMS+) economies contain unclassified pixels affected shadow. To enhance usability effectiveness GMS...

A new contract for general practitioners (GPs) was introduced in the UK on 1 April 2004 which has implications for secondary care. In particular, the contract means that GPs can opt out of out-of-hours care, and accident & emergency services have voiced their concern that their workload may increase as a result. The new contract provides the potential for a rise in GPs' salaries by two means: t...

Thesauri can be useful resources for indexing and retrieval on the Semantic Web, but often they are not published in RDF/OWL. To convert thesauri to RDF for use in Semantic Web applications and to ensure the quality and utility of the conversion a structured method is required. Moreover, if different thesauri are to be interoperable without complicated mappings, a standard schema for thesauri i...

BACKGROUND Migrant health is receiving increasing international attention, reflecting recognition of the health inequities experienced among many migrant populations and the need for health systems to adapt to diverse migrant populations. In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) there is increasing migration associated with uneven economic integration and growth, socio-economic vulnerabilities, an...

We have investigated the leukocyte-repopulating-predictive value of granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming unit (CFU-GM) analyses in ex vivo-expanded versus fresh murine bone marrow (BM) grafts. After the transplantation of graded numbers of normal BM cells (from 15 to 5 x 10(3) CFU-GMs/mice), a dose-dependent increase in the recipient leukocytes was observed between the first and third weeks po...