BACKGROUND We examined whether older adults who had continuity of care with a primary care physician (PCP) had lower mortality. METHODS Secondary analyses were conducted using baseline interview data (1993-1994) from the nationally representative Survey on Assets and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD). The analytic sample included 5,457 self-respondents 70 years old or more who were...

We continue the study of Rokhlin entropy, an isomorphism invariant for p.m.p. actions of countable groups introduced in Part I. In this paper we prove a non-ergodic finite generator theorem and use it to establish subadditivity and semi-continuity properties of Rokhlin entropy. We also obtain formulas for Rokhlin entropy in terms of ergodic decompositions and inverse limits. Finally, we clarify...

Abstract Scoring rules measure the deviation between a forecast, which assigns degrees of confidence to various events, and reality. Strictly proper scoring have property that for any mathematical expectation score forecast p by lights is strictly better than other q . Forecasts need not satisfy axioms probability calculus, but Predd et al. [9] shown given finite sample space additive continuou...

Abstract In the past decades, we learnt that uniform rectifiability is often a right candidate to go Lipschitz boundaries in boundary value problems. If $$\Omega $$ ? an open domain $$\mathbb {R}^n$$ R n with mild topological cond...

We consider the Alugthe transform T̃ = |T |1/2U |T |1/2 of a Hilbert space operator T , where T = U |T | is the polar decomposition of T . We prove that the map T 7→ T̃ is continuous with respect to the norm topology and with respect to the ∗–SOT topology. For T in a tracial von Neumann algebra, we show that the Brown measure is unchanged by the Aluthge transform. We consider the special case whe...