AIM This study evaluated a presumed gradual decline in cognitive function in nursing home residents when the anticholinergic drug scale (ADS) score increased above 3. METHOD The study population was recruited from 21 nursing homes in Norway. Criteria for inclusion were ADS score ≥ 3 and no severe dementia, defined as Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) score < 3. Primary cognitive end points were ...

In this paper, we detect advertisements in French broadcast news by locating both repeated and non-repeated ads. The non-repeated ads are located by using Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) to discriminate between program and ad segments. The repeated ad detection stage first uses features generated by a symmetric KL2 metric to locate repeated 5-sec audio segments. These repeated segments are then ...

We obtain an eight dimensional global flat embedding of the curved RN– AdS space. Our results include the various limiting GEMS geometries of the RN, Schwarzschild–AdS in D = 7, Schwarzschild in D = 6, purely charged space, and universal covering space of AdS in D = 5 through the successive truncation procedure of parameters in the original space. PACS: 04.70.Dy, 04.62.+v, 04.20.Jb

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest that the responsiveness of TrkB receptor to BDNF is developmentally regulated in rats. Antidepressant drugs (AD) have been shown to increase TrkB signalling in the adult rodent brain, and recent findings implicate a BDNF-independent mechanism behind this phenomenon. When administered during early postnatal life, ADs produce long-lasting biochemical and behavi...

BACKGROUND Prescription and use of antidepressants and benzodiazepines are common in the general population. Prescription of psychotropic drugs is a complex process: patient, physician and healthcare characteristics mediate, interact and influence it. The current study aimed to establish the prevalence and factors associated with the use of antidepressants (ADs) and benzodiazepines (BZDs) in Si...

The NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service has become a key component of astronomical research. It provides bibliographic information daily, or near daily, to a majority of astronomical researchers worldwide. We describe the history of the development of the system and its current status. Urania (Boyce 1996), and the ADS role in the emerging electronic astronomical data environment are ...

We consider the AdS5 solution deformed by a non-constant dilaton interpolating between the standard AdS (UV region) and flat boundary background (IR region). We show that this dilatonic solution can be generalized to the case of a non-flat boundaries provided that the metric of the boundaries satisfies the vacuum Einstein field equations. As an example, we describe the case when the four-dimens...