Cohort studies form a suitable study design to assess associations between multiple exposures on the one hand and multiple outcomes on the other hand. They are especially appropriate to study rare exposures or exposures for which randomization is not possible for practical or ethical reasons. Prospective and retrospective cohort studies have higher accuracy and higher efficiency as their respec...

Foreword In mid 1997, the European Industrial Advisory Group overseeing European participation in the IMS initiative (i.e. an international R&D collaborative scheme on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems), requested a synthetic overview of the competitive and technological Strengths and Weaknesses of manufacturing industry in Europe, as well as the emerging Opportunities and Threats it faces, wit...

objectives: the prospective and retrospective memory questionnaire (prmq) developed by smith (2000) and consists of a series of questions about memory weakness that can be encountered anyone in everyday life. the self-reported questionnaire has 16 items that assessing of prospective and retrospective memory problems in everyday life and the aim of the present research was to examine the investi...