Abstract Objective Anxiety is reportedly prevalent in older adults with dementia living care homes and, within this population, most often assessed through caregiver reports. Heart rate variability (HRV) a physiological indicator of autonomic function, whereby reduced vagally-mediated HRV associated variety anxiety symptoms and disorders. This study evaluates the feasibility collecting data pre...

Correspondence: [email protected] Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract As cities grow, certain neighborhoods experience a particularly high demand for housing, resulting in escalating rents. Despite far-reaching socioeconomic consequences, it remains difficult to predict when and where urba...

Field studies of pesticide effects on birds often utilize indicator species with the purpose of extrapolating to other avian taxa. Little guidance exists for choosing indicator species to monitor the presence and/or effects of contaminants that are labile in the environment or body, but are acutely toxic, such as anticholinesterase (anti-ChE) insecticides. Use of an indicator species that does ...

objective: there has been a growing interest in finding plants with biological active ingredients for medicinal application. materials and methods: three colors of petals of althaea officinalis (a. officinalis) flowers, i.e., pink, reddish pink, and white were examined for total antioxidant activity and flavonoids content. results: the reddish pink flowers of a. officinalis have more antioxidant...

To simultaneously optimize multiple objective functions, several evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) algorithms have been proposed. Nowadays, often set quality indicators are used when comparing the performance of those algorithms or when selecting “good” solutions during the algorithm run. Hence, characterizing the solution sets that maximize a certain indicator is crucial—complying...

introduction: emergency department is one of the most important hospital wards that offers emergency services to unstable patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. however, the way the services are offered reflects the general status of the hospital since patients with the most serious problems frequently refer to the emergency department. emergency department waiting time is one of the indices u...