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The convergent validity of the electronic Frailty Index (eFI) with the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)
No full textBackground: Different scales are being used to measure frailty. This study examined the convergent validity of the electronic Frailty Index (eFI) with the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS). Method: The cross-sectional study recruited patients from three regional community nursing teams in the South East of England. The CFS was rated at recruitment, and the eFI was extracted from electronic health records (EHRs). A McNemar test of paired data was used to compare discordant pairs between the eFI and the CFS, and an exact McNemar Odds Ratio (OR) was calculated. Findings: Of 265 eligible patients consented, 150 (57%) were female, with a mean age of 85.6 years (SD = 7.8), and 78% were 80 years and older. Using the CFS, 68% were estimated to be moderate to severely frail, compared to 91% using the eFI. The eFI recorded a greater degree of frailty than the CFS (OR = 5.43, 95%CI 3.05 to 10.40; p < 0.001). This increased to 7.8 times more likely in men, and 9.5 times in those aged over 80 years. Conclusions: This study found that the eFI overestimates the frailty status of community dwelling older people. Overestimating frailty may impact on the demand of resources required for further management and treatment of those identified as being frail.</p
Understanding the recent weakness in broad money growth
No full textThe growth of broad money in the UK economy has slowed dramatically since the start of the recession. In part, that weakness reflects reduced borrowing by households and companies during the recession. But money balances held by asset managers also fell as deposits were used to purchase new equity and long-term debt issued by the banking sector in response to the financial crisis. Offsetting the weakness from these two factors was the programme of asset purchases — so-called ‘quantitative easing’ or QE — conducted by the Bank of England on behalf of the Monetary Policy Committee, which boosted broad money holdings. The evidence from the monetary data suggests that the programme of asset purchases contributed to an increase in asset prices and, ultimately, an increase in nominal demand in the economy, corroborating other evidence from financial market prices.
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No full text(Statement of Responsibility) by Jonathan Broad(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 1997(Electronic Access) RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE(Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references.(Source of Description) This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.(Local) Faculty Sponsor: Berggren, Dougla
Jonathan Graham Interview, December 6, 1999
No full textJonathan Graham discusses working as a mathematics professor at the University of Montana, Missoula, and the friendliness of the staff in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He describes his motivation for pursuing a career in mathematics and the trend toward more broad undergraduate degrees. Graham also describes his favorite parts about teaching.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mathdepartment_oralhistory/1001/thumbnail.jp
Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Proctotrupoidea
No full textThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The attached file is the published version of the article.NHM Repositor
The Death of the Washington Consensus?
No full textRobin Broad; John Cavanagh
World Policy Journal; Fall 1999; 16, 3; Research Library Core pg. 7
Search Strategy and Methods Supplementary appendix Broad Prendergast.docx
No full textSearch strategy for low birthweight, maternal inflammation and infective pathways</p
Jonathan R. Dull. American Naval History, 1607-1865: Overcoming the Colonial Legacy.
No full textJonathan R. Dull's American Naval History, 1607-1865: Overcoming the Colonial Legacy was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2012. The author concedes that although many books have been published on the subject of American Naval History, 'a new survey' is necessary, 'particularly one with a broad perspective' (Dull vii). As a result, the central focus of Dull's study as the title indicates is a survey of the United States Navy, spanning from the early colonial era, right through ..
Visualizing patterns in U.S. Urban population trends
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. January 2009.Major: Geography. Advisor: Robert B. McMaster. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 222 pages, appendix A:pages 212-222. Ill. (some col.)With the completion of the U.S. National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), it is now feasible to assemble a large dataset of historical census tract population statistics and boundary data in order to investigate patterns in long-term urban population trends. The present study makes use of this new resource to achieve a broad but concise overview of population trend patterns throughout major U.S. urban areas since 1950. This work thereby makes both methodological and substantive contributions to multiple fields of research, with much of the work dedicated to the development and assessment of new techniques to address two key methodological challenges.
The first challenge is to construct a time series of census tract data, which requires linking data through time even where tract boundaries have changed. I present a few relatively simple areal interpolation techniques that can be used to address this problem. Two case studies indicate that a novel technique, cascading density weighting, should be effective both in the present setting and potentially elsewhere.
The second methodological challenge is to identify an effective visualization strategy for investigating patterns in long-term trends. I present here a new conceptual framework that identifies a group of mapping techniques--trend summary maps--that should be most useful for visualizing patterns in trends. I provide an overview and assessment of several types of trend summary mapping techniques, and I introduce a novel technique, bicomponent trend mapping, which combines principal component analysis with bivariate choropleth mapping. This technique has several useful advantages not only for visualizing urban population trends but potentially in many other settings of spatio-temporal data visualization as well.
Applying the new techniques to historical census tract data enables the central substantive contribution of this research: an overview of population trend variations throughout major U.S. urban cores. This overview supports the standard narrative of recent urban population dynamics--growth on the outskirts, decline in the cores, and some regrowth in centers--but it also reveals many regionally and locally unique patterns, indicating both divergence among cities and increasing heterogeneity within them.Schroeder, Jonathan Paul. (2009). Visualizing patterns in U.S. Urban population trends. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/48076
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