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Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in Developing Countries. [PDF]

, 2004
The paper explores the conceptual and methodological issues entailed in using subjective measures of well-being in developing countries. In the first part I define, situate and contrast subjective quality of life (QoL), subjective well-being (SWB), and ...
Camfield, Laura
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Factors Driving Battery and Solar Purchase Decision of Residents: a Behavioural Choice Experiment Using a Hybrid Discrete Choice and Latent Variable Model

Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
This article explores what drives households to adopt solar PV and battery systems in South East Queensland. Using hybrid discrete choice experiments, it reveals distinct adopter profiles and highlights cost, system size, and energy independence as key motivators.
Mohammad Alipour, Elnaz Irannezhad, Rodney A. Stewart, Oz Sahin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retrospective analysis of the impact of dietary counselling and nutritional assessment on patients undergoing maintenance haemodialysis

Current Medicine Research and Practice
Background: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis (MHD) face considerable nutritional challenges, exacerbate disease progression and affect their quality of life.
Vandana Verma, Vinant Bhargawa, Vasundhara Bengani, Shweta Sharma, Rabiya Rehan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multi‐Site Transfer Classification of Major Depressive Disorder: An fMRI Study in 3335 Subjects

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The study proposes graph convolution network with sparse pooling to learn the hierarchical features of brain graph for MDD classification. Experiment is done on multi‐site fMRI samples (3335 subjects, the largest functional dataset of MDD to date) and transfer learning is applied, achieving an average accuracy of 70.14%.
Jianpo Su, Jian Qin, Hui Shen, Ling‐Li Zeng, Baojuan Li, Jin Liu, Xuemei Song, Li Liu, Weidan Pu, Tongjian Bai, Huaning Wang, Hong Yin, Kai Wang, Lingjiang Li, Dewen Hu   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of nutritional status of patients receiving chemotherapy: sample from European Gaza hospital

BMC Cancer
Background Cancer treatment itself and particularly chemotherapy unavoidably affects host cells, often producing a variety of side effects, e.g., nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever, and further decreases in appetite, physical activity, and body weight.
Samah E. EL-Najjar, Ihab A. Naser, Kanan M. AL-Wahidi, Ashraf J. Shaqalaih   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

OUTCOME AND NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE PATIENTS USING ANTHROPOMETRY AND SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2017
BACKGROUND: Protein-calorie malnutrition is common in chronic liver disease (CLD) but adequate clinical tools for nutritional assessment are not defined. OBJECTIVE: In CLD patients, it was aimed: 1. Characterize protein-calorie malnutrition; 2.
Gonçalo NUNES, Carla Adriana SANTOS, Rita BAROSA, Cristina FONSECA, Ana Teresa BARATA, Jorge FONSECA   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Full Reference Objective Quality Assessment for Reconstructed Background Images

, 2018
With an increased interest in applications that require a clean background image, such as video surveillance, object tracking, street view imaging and location-based services on web-based maps, multiple algorithms have been developed to reconstruct a ...
Karam, Lina, Shrotre, Aditee
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Ecologically‐Valid Emotion Signatures Enhance Mood Disorder Diagnostics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study identifies ecologically‐valid Divergent Emotional Functional Networks (DEFN), derived from dynamic functional connectivity during naturalistic movie watching. The DEFN reliably enhances diagnostic accuracy for mood disorders, including major depressive and bipolar disorders, demonstrating strong reproducibility across demographic factors and
Shuyue Xu, Linling Li, Ting Luo, Gan Huang, Li Zhang, Benjamin Becker, Zhen Liang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nutritional screening through patient-generated subjective global assessment (PG-SGA) in gynecological cancer

O Mundo da Saúde, 2022
Cancer is considered an important cause of morbidity and mortality, and is related to the impairment of nutritional status, which in turn directly affects clinical management and quality-of-life.
Emylle Thais Melo dos Santos, Vanessa Alves Neris, Tatiana Vanessa Nascimento da Silva, Pedrita Mirella Albuquerque Queiroz, Regiane Maio, Maria Goretti Pessoa de Araújo Burgos   +5 more
doaj  

Foundation Model‐Enabled Multimodal Deep Learning for Prognostic Prediction in Colorectal Cancer with Incomplete Modalities: A Multi‐Institutional Retrospective Study

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
FLARE, a multimodal AI framework, combines pathology slides, radiology scans, and clinical reports to predict colorectal cancer outcomes, even when some tests are missing. Evaluated retrospectively in 1679 patients from four medical centers, it consistently achieved the best prognostic accuracy and clearly separated high‐ and low‐risk groups.
Linhao Qu, Chengsheng Zhang, Yingyong Hou, Feng Tang, Weiqi Sheng, Dan Huang, Zhijian Song   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source