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Social interaction as a heuristic for combinatorial optimization problems

, 2010
We investigate the performance of a variant of Axelrod's model for dissemination of culture - the Adaptive Culture Heuristic (ACH) - on solving an NP-Complete optimization problem, namely, the classification of binary input patterns of size $F$ by a ...
Fontanari, Jose F.
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Precision‐Optimised Post‐Stroke Prognoses

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Current medicine cannot confidently predict who will recover from post‐stroke impairments. Researchers have sought to bridge this gap by treating the post‐stroke prognostic problem as a machine learning problem, reporting prediction error metrics across samples of patients whose outcomes are known.
Thomas M. H. Hope, Howard Bowman, Rachel M. Bruce, Alex P. Leff, Cathy J. Price   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

U.S. Government Manual 2008-2009 Edition: Social Security Administration [PDF]

, 2008
[Excerpt] The Social Security Administration manages the Nation’s social insurance program—consisting of retirement, survivors, and disability insurance programs—commonly known as Social Security.
U.S. Government Printing Office
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Flooding and poverty: Two interrelated social problems impacting rural development in Tsholotsho district of Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe

Jàmbá, 2018
Flooding and poverty are the two social problems that have coexisted within the rural communities of Tsholotsho district. As a result, both problems have negatively affected and disrupted the everyday pattern of lives of people living in the district ...
Ernest Dube, Oliver Mtapuri, Jephias Matunhu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Active Seizures Predict Worse Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Individuals With Normal Cognition and Dementia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Cognitive disorders are common in older persons with seizures (PWS). Cognitive disorders are often associated with impaired Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs). However, the effects of seizures on IADLs remain unexplored.
Ifrah Zawar, Jaideep Kapur, Meghan M. Mattos, Carol Manning, Syeda Amrah Hashmi, Mark Quigg   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive and Patient‐Reported Outcome Measures in LGI‐1‐IgG Autoimmune Encephalitis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Clinical outcome measures for autoimmune encephalitis (AE) are not yet well defined. Cognitive outcome measures (CogOs) and patient‐reported outcomes (PROs) may capture the symptoms of AE, beyond clinician‐reported outcomes (ClinROs) (the Modified Rankin Scale [mRS] and Clinical Assessment Scale in Autoimmune Encephalitis [CASE ...
Tatchaporn Ongphichetmetha, Carol Swetlik, Nicolas Thompson, Albert Aboseif, Vineet Punia, Brittany Lapin, Jeffrey A. Cohen, Rachel Galioto, Amy Kunchok   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing behaviour problems in young people through social competence programmes [PDF]

, 2010
There is a relatively strong relationship between the concepts of behavioural problems and social competence, in that social competence is regarded as one of the most important protective factors in the prevention of behavioural problems.
Gundersen, Knut K.
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From Culture War to Difficult Dialogue: Exploring Distinct Frames for Citizen Exchange about Social Problems

Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2008
While the precise nature of socio-cultural conflict in the United States remains contested, there is growing scholarly agreement that elite (media/governmental) framings may be significantly aggravating public animosities.
Jacob Z. Hess
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Contemporary Social Problems.

Journal of Educational Sociology, 1938
Bibliographies at end of each chapter. ; Mode of access: Internet.
openaire   +2 more sources

Continuous Monitoring of Bladder Dysfunction in People With Multiple Sclerosis: Wearables for the Bladder

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Bladder dysfunction affects over 85% of people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), yet current assessment methods are limited to periodic in‐clinic evaluations or subjective patient reports, failing to capture real‐world symptom fluctuations.
Valerie J. Block, Shane Poole, Leah McIntyre, Nikki Sisodia, Chelyn Park, Gabby Joseph, Michelle E. Van Kuiken, Anne M. Suskind, Riley Bove   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source